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The toughest job in corporate America, says Oracle CEO Mark Hurd, is the CIO’s.

The management, staff and sales team of Ceylinco Life planted approximately 4,000 trees in one week in January 2016 to kick off a year dedicated by Sri Lanka’s life insurance leader to ‘Going Green.’

A major tragedy is unfolding in the villages in the North Central Province and in particular in the Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa Districts due to the outbreak of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKDu), which has claimed many lives in the area over the past several years.

The Sri Lanka National Visually Handicapped Cricket Team was recently privileged to have been invited by the Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI) to participate in the first-ever T20 Asia Cup Tournament dedicated to visually handicapped cricketers.

Anuradha Roy has been announced as the winner of the prestigious DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2016 for her novel, Sleeping on Jupiter at the Fairway Galle Literary Festival in Sri Lanka.

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has announced that an on-going initiative to make its branches island wide accessible to differently abled customers has passed the half way mark.

Pakistan’s Minister‬ for ‪Commerce‬ – Hon. Khurram Dastgir Khan and Sri Lanka’s Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade – Hon. Malik Samarawickrama and Minister of Industry and Commerce – Hon. Rishad Bathiudeen, together with a host of other dignitaries including the High Commissioner of Pakistan in Sri Lanka, HE Maj Gen (R) Syed Shakeel Hussain, CEO of Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP), S. M. Muneer, High Commissioner of Pakistan in the Maldives – Vice Admiral Khawar Ali and TDAP Secretary, Ms Rabiya Javeri Agha today (15th January) formally inaugurated the Pakistan Single Country Exhibition 2016.

Expert financial planner NDB Wealth has kicked off the new year by winning a coveted international award, presented by the prestigious Global Banking & Financial Review magazine.

Emirates announced the expansion of its operation in Switzerland with the addition of a second daily service to Geneva effective 1st June 2016.

Social Entrepreneurs trained in Sri Lanka

Thursday, 14 January 2016 10:11

Social Enterprise Lanka successfully concluded a series of unique workshops for a selected group of social entrepreneurs.