2021

Armenia extends COVID quarantine to June 2022WorldShaare Zedek staff and an IDF Home Front Command soldier are seen in a monitoring room in the Coronavirus ward of a hospital in Jerusalem.Tags: Print EditionISRAEL, ARMENIA: Israel has…
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World Women wearing burqas sit with their children along a road in Kabul, Afghanistan.Tags: Print EditionAFGHANISTAN: As conditions in Afghanistan continue to worsen in the aftermath of Taliban recapturing the nation following the…
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WorldTags: Print EditionSCOTLAND: After India and China were able to force through an amendment on the language calling for phase-out of coal and fossil fuel subsidies in a dramatic last-minute intervention, countries at the Glasgow…
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BusinessDinesh PereraPrlincipal Tax and Regulatory Suresh PereraTags: Print EditionThe recently announced surcharge tax was likened to the earlier super gains tax framework by KPMG Principal Tax and Regulatory Suresh Perera. He went on…
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BusinessTags: Print EditionA 30-member team of leading travel agents from Nepal are arriving in Colombo today (15) to promote Sri Lankan Leisure, Mice, Adventure and Pilgrimage travel to Nepal. The delegation is sponsored by the…
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BusinessTags: Print EditionThe fourth consecutive edition of Sri Lanka’s most sought after SLASSCOM National Ingenuity Awards which seeks to recognize and celebrate innovation in the IT/BPM sector of the country is all set to take…
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BusinessThe new centre in Colombo 7Tags: Print EditionKids & Teens Medical Group’s BPO operations center in Negombo supporting their Medical Centers in the USA will be expanded by an additional 300 staff to it in four months. Kids…
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BusinessTags: Print EditionAsian liquefied natural gas prices surged to a record-high as global competition for the super-chilled fuel intensified amid low inventories and coal shortages. The Japan-Korea Marker, North Asia’s benchmark…
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BusinessTags: Print EditionBudget 2022 has signalled policy continuity in terms of maintaining mainstream corporate tax rates and investment incentives continuing from the end of 2019. The Chamber welcomes the focus on digitization,…
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Corporate top brass see silver lining in BudgetBusinessShirajiv SirimaneFizel JabirRAVI LADDUWAHETTYand Indunil HewageTags: Print EditionFinance Minister Basil Rajapaksa presented the Second Reading of the Appropriation Bill (Budget…
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