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TikTok is an entertainment platform powered by the creativity, self-expression, and heart that creators put into making authentic content. In order to support creators on the platform, TikTok announced an updated system for account enforcement, which aims to facilitate a smoother experience on TikTok while creating content. TikTok’s Community Guidelines establish and explain the behaviours…
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Love is a many-splendored thing at Emirates this February 14, as passengers are set to enjoy sweet treats onboard, a range of love-themed decadent desserts in the lounges, exquisite rosé champagne, tempting gift-giving offers, and an array of romantic movies and music. This February, love is in the air on ice as Emirates passengers can immerse themselves…
The Hemas Outreach Foundation (HOF) launched a coffee table book in celebration of 20 years of its flagship project, Piyawara, a national initiative focusing on Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) in Sri Lanka by nurturing young children with good care, in order to provide a solid foundation for a lifelong journey. The coffee table…
Athula Kathriarachchi, Senior Creative Director at Publicis Groupe Sri Lanka has been selected to join the most prestigious awarding body for creative excellence, Spikes Asia 2023 as a member of one of the jury panels. Athula completes a world-class collective of 110 regional industry experts from the APAC region at Spikes Asia, the region’s oldest…
Every year at Galaxy Unpacked, Samsung Electronics unveils a new era of mobile innovation — and this year was no exception. Together in person for the first time in three years, Samsung unveiled at its latest Unpacked event in San Francisco its exciting new range of additions to the Galaxy family — including the Galaxy…
Committed to removing the stigma around menstruation, the latest Fems TVC uses red colour to depict period blood for the first time ever in the advertising of the sanitary napkin category in Sri Lanka. A leading feminine hygiene care brand owned by Hemas Consumer Brands, Fems is establishing a benchmark for others in the category…
Norlanka Manufacturing Trincomalee was recently awarded the prestigious LEED Gold Certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). Norlanka, one of Sri Lanka’s largest sustainable exporters of baby and kidswear, has an extensive ESG (Environmental/Social/Governance) strategy and understands the responsibility it has concerning the future of a sustainable apparel industry. Therefore, ethical sourcing, in particular working…
Kamal Dole, the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Celcius Solutions (PVT) Ltd. was recently awarded with the Dynamic Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the CEO Awards 2022. Launched by the CEO Magazine of Sri Lanka, the CEO Awards is a platform to recognize top performing leaders and achievers in 12 distinguished categories which are…
Kala Pola, Sri Lanka’s annual open-air art fair, will celebrate 30 years of enhancing livelihoods of Sri Lankan artists in an enthralling atmosphere along Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, also known as Green Path, on 19th February 2023. As Sri Lanka’s pioneering and best-known visual art fair inspired by the world-famous outdoor art fairs in Montmartre Paris…
Have you ever wondered what a perfect world might look like? Utopia – defined as an imagined place in which everything is perfect – would be a world of perfect happiness, health, equality and abundance. This Independence Day, Ayesha Ratnayake launches her latest book – a book that envisions such a Utopia. The Utopia Playbook…
Presence in 6 countries, centers in 3 cities, provides technology-enabled RCM solutions to US healthcare providers The 1300 strong team at HealthRecon Connect’s global delivery center in Colombo, part of a three-city global team which provides technology-enabled Revenue Cycle Management solutions to healthcare providers in the USA, reunited its team in Colombo in a much-needed…
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Mercia Rubber Products, Colombo 02 was founded by the late Sam Wijesekera in 1910. During the British Raj on one occasion the Galle Face hotel had not allowed the late Muhammad Macan-Markar of Galle to enter the hotel as he was clad in a sarong. That day Mr. Macan-Markar had decided to build a building…
The Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB), recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Printcare Digital Solutions Pvt Ltd, one of Sri Lanka’s leading printing and packaging solutions providers. The partnership aims to facilitate the upliftment of exporters by introducing them the most cutting-edge printing and packaging techniques to improve the competitiveness of their…
On 27 January, ultramarathon trail runner Hyun Chang Chung crossed the finish line at the Ceylon Tea Museum in Hanthana, cheered on by new fans from the surrounding local community and his elated family. He had just achieved the superhuman feat of becoming the first person to run the entire 300 km length of The…
Deputy Secretary General and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce Mrs. Alikie Perera has been appointed to the prestigious General Council of the World Chambers Federation (WCF) of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Counting over 30 years of service at the Ceylon Chamber Secretariat, Mrs. Perera is a veteran of…
SLVA urges the government to follow protocol and import eggs strictly from DAP&H-approved nations. As eggs imported from DAP&H-approved countries may come with a higher price point SLVA urges the government to intervene and minimize costs to the consumer. SLVA urges the government to not move forward with policy decisions that may further hamper the…
Tim Draper found an unreceptive audience for his idea Island nation is still trying to calm financial markets Bloomberg – A billionaire cryptocurrency evangelist may have gotten a tougher reception than he expected when proposing widespread adoption of Bitcoin to a bankrupt country. Silicon Valley investor Tim Draper was in Sri Lanka to shoot an…
Sri Lanka’s bondholders have told the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that they are prepared to engage with the island nation’s authorities in debt restructuring talks consistent with the parameters of the global lender’s program. The Ad Hoc Group of Sri Lanka Bondholders conveyed its stance in a letter directed to IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva…
Cruise ships Artania, Coral Geographer, and The World visited Hambantota International Port (HIP) in January 2023. More than 1000 passengers disembarked to visit popular tourist destinations in the South. Amongst the sights were the Mulkirigala Temple, Ruhuṇu Kataragama Devalaya, Udawalawe National Park, Yala National Park, and the bird park in Hambantota. They also visited the…
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Mercia Rubber Products, Colombo 02 was founded by the late Sam Wijesekera in 1910. During the British Raj on one occasion the Galle Face hotel had not allowed the late Muhammad Macan-Markar of Galle to enter the hotel as he was clad in a sarong. That day Mr. Macan-Markar had decided to build a building…
Highlights Earnings from exports remained resilient during 2022 recording the highest ever exports, while expenditure on imports declined significantly in 2022, compared to 2021. Merchandise trade deficit recorded the lowest in 2022, since 2010. Foreign investments in the government securities market and Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) recorded a notable net inflow during 2022 compared to…
The mercury refuses to budge in the midst of a growing number of economic sensitivities In its mid-January Global Economic Prospects publication, the World Bank revised its forecast for Sri Lanka’s economic contraction in 2022 to 9.2 percent and projected that the nation will face another year of negative growth estimated at 4.2 percent in…
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