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Emirates, the world’s largest international airline has announced three new weekly flights between Dubai and Cairo, commencing on 1st January 2016.

STARFRIENDS®, Sri Lanka’s official digital celebrity portal connecting across mobile, web and social media, unveiled a nature inspired celebrity photo collection on 21st December 2015 at Park Street Mews.

Life insurance leader Ceylinco Life has commenced construction of a new branch building in Horana, adopting the new eco-friendly model developed by the company for branches being constructed on company-owned land.

The Jayanta Jayaratna Gold Medal Award for Excellence in Performance in the prestigious PQHRM course conducted by The Nation’s leader in human resources management - IPM Sri Lanka – was awarded to Chamari Lalanthi Edirisinghe at the IPM’s 2015 Graduation Awards Ceremony recently.

IPM Sri Lanka - the Nation’s leader in human resource management - announced that its Past President, Fellow and Council Member – Chris Obeyesekere has been awarded the very first Asia Pacific HR Professional of the Year Award 2015 by the Asia Pacific Federation of Human Resource Management (APFHRM) recently.

Medical professionals in Sri Lanka had an opportunity to learn from case studies conducted by four renowned international specialists in adult asthma, via a live webcast of a medical seminar conducted recently by GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals (GSK).

Commercial Credit's Men's and Women's teams emerged winners in the recently concluded 25th Mercantile Services Basketball Association League Tournament 2015 held at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium.

The National Mobile Service Provider SLT Mobitel has partnered with Microsoft yet again for a special seasonal promotion.

The Asiri Group of Hospitals, which has a history of introducing several ‘firsts’ to Sri Lanka’s healthcare sector, recently announced the successful completion of the country’s first dextrocardia surgery that was performed at Asiri Surgical using the ‘Minimally Invasive Coronary Surgery’ method.

Emirates has announced it will deploy its highly-popular A380 to even more destinations across its network in 2016 – reinforcing its commitment to provide an enhanced onboard experience for its passengers.