
Ramping up efforts to encourage a flourishing savings habits among young Sri Lankans, premier retail bank, HNB PLC, celebrated the opening of a fully revamped Student Savings Unit at the most respected public school in the island, Royal College, Colombo.

Axiata Digital Labs announced today that they have signed a partnership with the local chapter of the UK based Chartered Institute for IT professionals BCS Sri Lanka, to sponsor National ICT Awards (NBQSA) 2020 as the Exclusive Innovation Partner.

Business leaders pledged to continue their advocacy, in the national interest, on behalf of Sri Lanka’s beleaguered palm oil industry with the re-election of the founder office bearers and committee of the Palm Oil Industry Association (POIA) for a second two-year term at the apex body’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) last week.

WSO2, the open source API-first integration company, today announced that Tass Melissinos has joined the company as the Vice President and General Manager for Australia and New Zealand.

Munchee, the flagship brand of Ceylon Biscuits Limited (CBL), in acknowledging the importance of volleyball as the country’s national sport, is sponsoring the annual National Volleyball Championship for the 13th consecutive year.

Watawala Plantations PLC (CSE: WATA), Sri Lanka’s leading diversified agribusiness company, has reached the next milestone in its development of sustainable oil palm plantations, achieving the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) certification for the palm oil mill and concessions in Galle District.

The Bangladesh operations of Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC achieved another milestone in 2020 with the assignment of an ‘AAA’ (Triple A) long term credit rating for the 10th consecutive year by Credit Rating Information and Services Ltd. (CRISL).

MAS Holdings, the largest and leading design-to-delivery apparel solutions provider in South Asia renewed its commitment today to empower more of its employees by extending its original undertaking to provide health and wellbeing education and services focusing on sexual and reproductive health; and awareness on gender-based violence, to its employees and the communities adjacent to their manufacturing locations.

Stop Child Cruelty Trust (SCC), an organization committed to ending cruelty to children especially corporal punishment is the sole organization registered with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and is a key stakeholder of the periodic review team of the United Nations Committee of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

Kelsey Homes, the pioneering real estate developer in Sri Lanka, is set to launch the Second Phase of their latest project CENTRAL PARK, JA-ELA following the resounding success of the First Phase.