A G20 refugee agenda
DHAKA – Every day, an average of some 34,000 people are forced to flee natural or man-made disasters. In the last six months alone, more than 2,000 lives have been lost in the Mediterranean; over the last weekend in June, 12,600 migrants arrived in Italy by sea. Financial and political pressures are overwhelming the countries [...]
Int’l healthcare exhibition, and medical symposium like no other
A three-day ‘monumental’ International Healthcare Exhibition and Medical Symposium will be held by the Ceylon College of Physicians (CCP) from July 14 to 16 at the BMICH in Colombo. Titled ‘Mahajana Suwa-Dhana 2017’ (‘Health+Wealth 2017’), the exhibition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the CCP, the oldest professional body of Consultant Physicians, is being conducted [...]
Pera Uni 57 batch holds 60th anniversary get-together today
The Peradeniya University 1957 Batch will hold its 60th Anniversary get-together today, Sunday July 9, from 10 a.m. onwards at the Police Family Welfare Association Hall, No. 07 Joseph Frazer Road, Colombo 05 (next to the police senior officers mess in Bambalapitiya.)
Prime Minister to deliver Dudley Senanayake oration
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will deliver the 17th Dudley Senanayake oration in memory of former Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake on July 27, 2017 at 5 p.m. at the Reception Hall at Temple Trees. The oration is organised by the Dudley Senanayake Memorial Foundation and the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung. The vote of thanks will be given [...]
Don’t miss the Nawa Kalakaruwo exhibition
The Goerge Keyt Foundation’s Nawa Kalakaruwo –‘Emerging Young Artists’ exhibition will be held from Tuesday, July 11, to Sunday, July 16, at the JDA Perera Gallery, University of Visual and Performing Arts, No. 46, Horton Place, Colombo 7. This is the 21st exhibition in this series. The artists are drawn from all parts of the [...]
AAC holds workshop for members of The All Ceylon Driving School Owners’ National Association
“Don’t Hit & Run”, an awareness programme was conducted by the Automobile Association of Ceylon (AAC) under the “M” Project in collaboration with the Federation Internationale de L’Automobile (FIA) on Tuesday, June 13 in the Association Auditorium. The programme was addressed by Chairman, National Road Safety Council Dr. Sisira Kodagoda, Assistant Commissioner, Department of Motor [...]
Historic Ceylon Tea Party makes its way across the globe to New York
Diplomats, journalists, business owners, traders and buyers flocked to the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in New York on Thursday to become a part of history as Sri Lanka celebrates 150 years of the Ceylon tea industry. The global tea party spanning more than fifty cities in the world was held in collaboration with the [...]
Discovering his celtic roots through Hindu drawings
By Joshua Surendraraj Knowing your heritage and where you come from is an essential part of being a human being. If you know where you belong, it allows you to open to other people and take an interest in their roots, a form of reopening to the world. This is what artist Padrig Morin believes [...]
Feature – ‘Sri Lankans’ who hold sway in UN staff unions
If the United Nations in Geneva goes on strike – as threatened by staff unions – that proposed work-stoppage will be virtually led by Ian Richards, whose family hails from Moratuwa.Richards is president of the 60,000-strong Coordinating Committee of International Staff Unions and Associations (CCISUA), described as one of the most powerful staff unions in [...]
An honest and generous man with farsighted vision – Appreciations
Sports or games historically evolved in many cultures. Most western countries readily gave national recognition to sports, while in the east, most countries did not treat sports as priority and therefore government assistance to uplift, promote, encourage or popularise sports was wanting. During the British colonial period in Ceylon, sports clubs were formed and public [...]