The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) welcomes the progressive capital market related proposals presented to parliament by Hon. Prime minister Mahinda Rajapaksa at the 2021 Budget Proposals Speech made on 17th November 2020.
CIPM Sri Lanka – the Nation’s leader in human resource management, has expanded the solutions portfolio of its consultancy and HR services division recently which was set up to provide an array of consultancy and HR services to businesses.
Kia’s all-new 2020 Sorento, as yet unseen on Sri Lanka’s roads, has won the illustrious German automobile prize ‘Das Goldene Lenkrad’ or the ‘Golden Steering Wheel’ awarded to new car models annually by the tabloids ‘Auto Bild’ and ‘Bild am Sonntag.’
Huawei, the global smartphone brand recently launched Y7a – a mid-range smartphone with one of the largest screens that would undoubtedly be craved by heavy social media users and mobile gamers in Sri Lanka.
With the initial Minuwangoda COVID-19 cluster growing in different parts of the country, and ad hoc curfews being put in place, on the 2nd of November the government imposed a curfew for the entire Western province.
Ocean Lanka Pvt Ltd, Sri Lanka’s largest weft knitted fabric manufacturer, announced that it has entered into a partnership with Cotton made in Africa (CmiA), one of the world’s leading standards for sustainably produced cotton.
Dr. Mikel J Harry Six Sigma Management Institute Asia (SSMI Asia), completed the world largest virtual Lean Six Sigma Black Belt & Green Belt class ever to be conducted comprising of 132 participants from 19 countries.
The tea estates of Sri Lanka’s leading plantations company, Hayleys Plantations achieved another unprecedented milestone after the company’s estates secured all of the Top 10 positions for highest Gross Sales Average (GSA) at the auction for Western High Grown tea in September 2020.
Gains from government securities, foreign exchange (FX) swap trading and FX trading activities have enabled the Commercial Bank of Ceylon Group to mitigate to some extent the severity of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on profits in a period of reduced interest income and substantially higher impairment provisioning compared to the corresponding quarter of the last year.
Dr Rela Institute & Medical Centre, a leading multi-speciality quaternary care hospital in Chennai, and one of the largest liver transplant units in the country, saved the life of a Sri Lankan professor by mobilising a team of competent surgeons to perform a liver transplant surgery on him, amid strict lockdown restrictions - even as the original donor prospect, who was the patient’s wife, turned out to be medically unfit to donate her organ.
