By Dr. Harold Gunatillake – FRCS, FACS, AM (Sing) Health Writer Gone are the days when patients underwent major open-heart surgery for blocked coronary arteries when one, two or three main arteries were partially or totally blocked. Today, such major surgery is replaced by a minor procedure — angioplasty and stent placement — to unblock [...]
During their service to the nation over the last 25 years, Suren Cooke Agencies has introduced many ‘firsts’ in Sri Lanka, of which the “Termite Detection Camera” is the latest. Many households and business premises have been spared from damage and destruction, due to the timely detection of termites with this camera. The camera was [...]
By S. Ramya Devi, B.Sc Replacing white rice with brown rice reduces risk of Type 2 diabetes, a study has found. Replacing white rice in your diet with brown rice may reduce the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, according to the new study. The study is published in the online journal Archives of Internal [...]
By Antoinette Thiruppathy Dr. Patricia Juliet Alailima entered into God’s glory on 29 June 2008. On this, the second anniversary of her death, I join with family and friends in a paean of praise and thanksgiving for her life and work. For those of us who called her friend, these past two years has been [...]
Amba, a financial research firm for regional and global investment banks and asset management companies plans to recruit 100 finance professionals for their Colombo operations this year due to increased business opportunities. Kemal de Soysa (34), Amba’s Colombo Country Head attributed this to a combination of the world getting out of recession and the actions [...]
England bid to seal their first one-day series in head-to-head competition against Australia since 1997 when match three begins at Old Trafford today (27). After two four-wicket wins in day/night matches, there will be a morning start in Manchester as England seek to avenge a 6-1 loss to the Australians in 2009. “That was an [...]
Boring Beauty… Robert Pattison Takes Out His Vampire Fangs In Remember Me By Sumaya Samarasinghe Robert Pattison is acting in a part other than the love struck and brooding vampire from the Twilight saga. This is an event we can genuinely get excited about! In Remember Me, Pattison has unfortunately not let go of the [...]
Consumers Burdened With Crippling Price Hikes By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema Sweeping in change, the government last week did not pause as it increased prices on a large number of food items and other essential goods and soundly punched consumers hard in the guts. The government’s decision to remove certain duty waivers and grant permission for [...]
Hermawan Karthajaya who has co-authored several books with Prof. Philip Kotler was made an Honorary Fellow of the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing at a recent Board meeting of the Asian Marketing Federation (AMF) in Bali, Indonesia in appreciation of his outstanding contribution to Marketing. Accepting the status, Karthajaya said that he was deeply honored [...]
The GSP Plus Situation In the latest twist of the GSP plus ruckus the government just announced in no uncertain terms that it will not be complying with the new EU conditions for the reinstating of the GSP plus concessions. The concessions have been extended for six months and are set to expire in August [...]
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