Taking a step forward in its drive to offer customers the convenience and assurance of digitally enabled travel journeys, Emirates will require most passengers departing Dubai to use a mobile boarding pass instead of a printed paper version, from 15 May onwards. Passengers checking in at Terminal 3 will receive their mobile boarding pass via…
Ambassador Dr. Palitha Kohona attended the Belt and Road International Tea Trading Forum in Hefeng County, Hubei Province as a guest speaker. Hubei has over 700,000 hectares of immaculately tended tea gardens. Addressing the gathering of tea experts (including many academics), senior government and party officials, tea traders and diplomats, Ambassador Kohona, as an invited…
Reuters – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday said it would delete accounts that had remained unused for two years starting December, in a bid to prevent security threats including hacks. The company said that if a Google account had not been used or signed into for at least two years, it might delete the account and content across…
Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT) has announced the maiden call of a new service to the Port of Colombo that will connect Sri Lanka with the East Coast of the United States via Asia, strengthening another important trade route for exporters and importers and making Sri Lanka more accessible to global markets. Launched on 16th…
Port City Colombo (PCC), the ground-breaking infrastructure project aimed at reshaping Sri Lanka’s economic landscape, celebrated a momentous milestone as its infrastructure development phase nears completion and commercialization is set to begin. The occasion was marked by a moment of unity with a multi-religious ceremony, invoking blessings on the nation and the project’s success. The…
Sri Lanka Insurance (SLIC) entered in to a Bancassurance partnership with Seylan Bank PLC with the objective of promoting insurance products through mutually agreed Seylan Bank branches. The partnership focuses on offering customers of Seylan Bank a range of insurance solutions catering to their respective needs. The signing of the MOU took place at the…
The Government of Japan provides $ 4.6 million through FAO to boost paddy production in the dry and intermediate zones of Sri Lanka The Government of Japan through the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is providing USD 4,629,629 to strengthen the production capacity of smallholder paddy farmers in identified districts of…
Relating to recent views expressed on People Bank’s non-performing loan write-offs, as shared in certain social media groups, the Bank’s Management hereby wishes to categorically deny such statements as being true. To save any future doubt, none of the loans so discussed in the said forums have been written off.
– Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Board states at the Sectoral Oversight Committee The Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Board stated in the Sectoral Oversight Committee on Energy and Transport that if all activities go as planned, the first nuclear power plant can be built in Sri Lanka by 2032 with Russian technical support. This fact came…
Many centuries ago, Chinese people developed a talent to convert Celadon ware into musical instruments. It was basically shaving a Celadon to the thickness where it emits sounds when touched or rubbed. The sounds depended on the curvature of the bowl’s edge and the overall thickness. The Chinese civilization has produced many thousands of eminent…
