When it comes to Sri Lanka’s national security and sovereignty, nothing seems more guaranteed to generate heated discussion than the spectre of foreign involvement in seaport developments. After years of wrangling, Sri Lanka, India and Japan finall

Sri Lanka’s peace dividend that was taken for granted didn’t last long. As the country geared up to celebrate a decade since the end of the 30-year ethnic war came the Easter attacks that shook the nation.

The most poignant scene in final episode of Game of Thrones was the discourse of Westeros leaders on future leaders of seven kingdoms. With Cersei, Jamie and Daenerys gone and Jon Snow jailed, it would not be an easy task. Probably as the former hand

Reiterating its commitment to consumer-centric approach, OPPO has introduced its new brand identity that focuses on quality, craftsmanship and uniqueness in every detail.

(Beijing) AFP: Twitter has apologised for suspending a number of accounts critical of China, days before the politically sensitive 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.

(Paris) AFP: Global efforts to impose a unified tax policy on Google, Facebook and other internet giants have cleared a major hurdle ahead of a G20 summit in Japan, officials said Friday.

Daraz, an Alibaba Company, the pioneer of e-commerce in South Asia has announced the appointment of Rakhil Fernando as Managing Director of Daraz Sri Lanka, effective 1 June 2019.

(London) AFP: British mobile phone operator EE on Thursday became the first in the country to launch a high-speed 5G service, but without smartphones from controversial Chinese technology giant Huawei.

AFP: Apple Inc last week publicly defended its App Store from mounting criticism over its treatment of rivals in a new blog post detailing its functions and guidelines.

The Bank of Ceylon (BOC) has been awarded a third party Greenhouse Gas (GHG) verification statement by The Sustainable Future Group (Pvt) Ltd., after verifying that the bank’s scope 1 and 2 Greenhouse Gas emissions for the reporting period of 1st S

The leadership team of Fairfirst Insurance met up with Pastor Roshan Maheshan on May 14th.

Galenbindunuwewa, a remote area in North Central Sri Lanka, in the Anuradhapura district, home to a community of about 120 families, was the most recent beneficiary of the ‘Munchee Samaga Gamata Sarana’ community programme designed to uplift the

Striving to promote the use of ‘Preventive platforms’ rather than a ‘Curative platforms’– the brand philosophy of Samahan, a product of Link Natural Products (Pvt) Ltd launched a holistic programme themed ‘Asiri Surakimu Samanola’, to s

Mukesh Ambani (born April 19, 1957) is an Indian business magnate and the largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), which is a Fortune Global 500 company.

Cigarette taxation in Sri Lanka is much in need of more professional management. This is not surprising – much of the government is in need of the same.

World No Tobacco Day falls today (May 31), with the global campaign converging to combat the harmful impacts of tobacco use and second-hand smoke.

Measures to prevent criminals and terrorists from exploiting the global financial system often have unintended consequences in the form of less access to credit for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in vulnerable regions like the Pacific.

The Sri Lankan government is currently in the rather confused state of having lost track of the number of State enterprises it runs. While the Ministry of Finance tracks the financials of 55 key SOEs, the government does not have an official number f

It has been 17 years since I last visited Vietnam. I had planned my revisit to this easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula long before the Easter bombing disasters, so it was a trip I had to take.

If current marine plastic pollution trends continue, the ocean will contain more plastic than fish by 2050, predicts the World Economic Forum report The New Plastics Economy. The Ocean Conservancy estimates that over 150 million metric tons of plasti

A photo showing a ‘cop’ checking the sack of ‘terrorist suspect’ for ‘explosives’ went viral over past weeks. The ‘cop’ was a boy of about 17 years old in his all white school uniform, conspicuously displaying the badge of a prefect.

Today is Menstrual Hygiene Day. Most of you might not be aware of it because in Sri Lanka, we pretend that women don’t bleed. Poor menstrual hygiene is caused by a lack of education on the issue, persisting taboos and stigma, limited access to hygi

After being de-sensitised for many years by virtually zero interest rates, one can suddenly earn a positive yield on cash again in many major currencies.

Thursday saw general elections results for 543 seats of the 17th lower house of India’s national Parliament re-enforcing most of the preceding Exit Poll predictions that had already set television screens on fire since Monday morning.

If there was one characteristic that could define the four and a half years of the ‘Yahapalanaya’ government, it would be ‘Inconsistency in Policy’.

Eva Yi-Hwa Chen, usually referred to as Eva Chen, is a Taiwanese businessperson and the co-founder and CEO of Trend Micro, the world’s largest security firm.Currently she is graded as one of the top 100 most influential executives in the industry a

Sri Lanka’s apparel industry led by the Joint Apparel Association Forum Sri Lanka (JAAF) recently rolled out an image-building media campaign aiming to transform the negative stereotypes on the female employees in the apparel industry, with a view

For centuries, human beings have waged a relentlessbattle againsta litany of diseases that have ravaged countless generations.

The escalation of tit-for-tat tariffs between the United States and China is now in the danger zone. Surely, reason will ultimately prevail. At least that is the common refrain in the echo chamber, especially in light of the dark history of earlier t