Lanka Mahila Samiti annual handicraft exhibition and sale
Lanka Mahila Samiti will hold their annual handicraft sale, which has become a customary and well attended event, to display and popularize their products. The samiti from its inception took a keen interest in reviving and promoting traditional cottage crafts of the country’s rural areas. These products are designed to inspire everyone, with innovative art, [...]
SL HC to Kenya meets Commonwealth Sec-Gen
Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Kenya Kana Kananathan met with Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland at lunch during her visit to Nairobi to attend Kenya’s Innovation Week – Commonwealth edition. It was Kenya’s invitation for innovators, investors, government officials and foreign participants to experience “Kenya’s innovative spirit” as they called it, and invest in the country’s [...]
Water tanks and dry rations for Ampara, Jaffna
HelpAge Sri Lanka (HASL) recently distributed water tanks and dry rations worth Rs 16 million to 900 underprivileged needy families living at Mahaoya, Dehiaththakandiya and Pothuwil in Ampara District, and Delft, Kytes and Chunnakam in Jaffna Distict. HASL distributed 60 (2,000 letre capacity) water tanks and 1500 ten litre water cans and 900 dry ration [...]
SL Ambassador meets Japan PM
Sri Lanka’s Ambassador Rodney Perera met Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the Akasaka Imperial Gardens in Tokyo. In a brief discussion, Ambassador Perera conveyed Sri Lanka’s deepest appreciation for Japan’s leadership on the stabilisation of Sri Lanka’s economy in the international financial arena.
Buy a HelpAge card to fund free cataract surgeries
HelpAge Sri Lanka (HASL), has released its annual seasonal greeting c ards to help fund free cataract surgeries for less privileged seniors above the age of 55. With the theme ‘Give the Gift of Sight with HelpAge Greeting Cards!’ the 2023 campaign highlights the transformative power of a simple gesture. Every card purchase, becomes [...]
82nd AGM of Sri Lanka Federation of University Women
The 82nd AGM of the Sri Lanka Federation of University Women was held on Saturday, November 25 at its headquarters in Colombo. Colonel Dr Udula Krishnaratne, was unanimously re-elected President for 2023/24. So were the office bearers and the large majority of the council members of the previous year. The complete list is given below: [...]
Screening of Sumitra’s last film
Veteran film director Sumitra Peries’s last film Vaishnavee (Tree Goddess) – will be screened at the National Film Corporation on Tuesday, December 5 at 6 pm at the National Film Corporation (Tharangani Theatre), Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 7. The film will have English subtitles. Entrance is free and open to all. The screening of this film [...]
The legacy of Henry Kissinger
By Richard Haass, exclusive to the Sunday Times, Sri Lanka NEW YORK – It is difficult to imagine the world without Henry Kissinger, not simply because he lived to be 100 years old, but because he occupied an influential – and sometimes dominant – place in American foreign policy and international relations for more than [...]
She came from London and founded many Buddhist girls’ schools in Sri Lanka
Hilda Muriel Westbrook Kularatne: 128th birth anniversary Born 128 years ago, on November 28, 1895, in Dulwich, South London, Hilda Muriel Westbrook was one of Sri Lanka’s preeminent 20th-century educationists. She was the daughter of W. Francis Westbrook, later Chief Registrar of the Colonial Office, and Jessie Duncan, a Scottish poet and scholar, and the sister [...]
Lankans gather to mark UN Day of Solidarity with Palestinians
Sri Lankans marked the United Nations Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People on Wednesday by holding events countrywide to express their solidarity with the Palestinians’ struggle for freedom. One such event was held at the BMICH in Colombo by the Sri Lanka Committee for Solidarity with Palestinians (SLCSP). The guest speaker was Apoorva Gautham, a [...]
Korean donation for Kahatana KV
On our events page last week, we published a photograph of an event to mark the Korean Government’s donation of a fully-fledged IT Room to the Kahatana Kanishta Vidyalaya. Our caption erroneously identified the school as Katana Junior School. The error is regretted. Korean Ambassador Miyon Lee is seen here taking part in the event. [...]
What Google and Facebook owe news publishers
By Haaris Mateen, Haris Tabakovic and Patrick Holder HOUSTON/CAMBRIDGE/SAN FRANCISCO – It’s the same story around the world. Faced with an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation online, declining trust in media and government, and the proliferation of “news deserts,” governments, philanthropists, and publishers are desperately looking for ways to fund quality journalism. In 2021, Australia [...]