Businesscafe - The Event Management Association of Sri Lanka applauded the government’s decision to allocate Rs 500 million in the next year’s (2022) budget to compensation for losses incurred during the pandemic.
Businesscafe - The Stop Child Cruelty Trust (SCC) hosted the Grand Finale of the #JustANumber Child Protection Month on November 18th, 2021 at a virtual event with live performances from the Kumaratunga Munidasa Studio of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC), with participants joining the event remotely.
Businesscafe - Wheelchair tennis, a sport that has consistently earned international recognition for Sri Lanka, recently received more support from Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT) and China Merchants Foundation (CMF) in the form of a donation of US$ 30,000 (about Rs 6 million at current exchange rates).
Businesscafe - The outbreak of the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Sri Lanka has created unprecedented challenges to many people across the country.
Businesscafe - Advantis Projects and Engineering, a subsidiary of Hayleys Advantis Limited, has successfully completed its share of construction work on the New Kelani Bridge project.
Businesscafe - In a brand new initiative, under the working title ‘Project 72’, Roar Media and author Sarah Kabir are set to take a deep dive into Sri Lanka’s past since gaining Independence in 1948, entertainingly and educationally covering some of the most defining years in the nation’s history.
Businesscafe - Sri Lankan tech startup incubator and accelerator StartupX Foundry recently launched its entrepreneurship initiative, “Vyawasayakayanta Athwelak,” a knowledge sharing platform that aims to bridge the gap in entrepreneurial knowledge pertaining to startups, particularly in underserved communities to both guide and encourage rural entrepreneurship.
Businesscafe - The Board Secretaries Forum a joint initiative of The Sri Lanka Institute of Directors (SLID) and Institute of Chartered Corporate Secretaries of Sri Lanka; hosted a webinar and panel discussion on the Role of the FIU and Obligations of Directors and Company Secretaries in complying with Anti-Money Laundering (AML)/Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) Requirements recently.
Businesscafe - Uber today announced a partnership with local NGO Voice for Voiceless Foundation to donate dry ration kits worth LKR 6 Million to some of Sri Lanka’s most underserved communities.
Businesscafe - KILINOCHCHI – Representatives of the European Union (EU) ceremoniously handed over homes to owners under the ‘Homes not Houses’ project, a EUR 14 million EU funded project, implemented in the North and East of Sri Lanka.
Businesscafe - Eco Spindles (Private) Limited, a subsidiary of BPPL Holdings PLC, which is Sri Lanka’s largest plastics recycler equipped with one of only two plants in the world capable of creating polyester yarn directly from recycled PET plastic flakes, is the only company from Asia to have won a global IFS Change for Good Sustainability Award in the ‘Most Innovative Solution for Sustainability’ category this year.
