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Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours, Facebook says. It blamed an internal technical issue, which not only affected Facebook's services, but…
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The Taliban killed at least 13 members of the Hazara ethnic group, including a 17-year-old girl, in the central province of Daykundi, shortly after they took power in Afghanistan, according to a new report from Amnesty International.…
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New Zealand has become the latest country to abandon a zero Covid strategy, with the virus proving much harder to stop now the highly infectious delta variant is dominant. After adopting one of the world’s strictest approaches to…
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Millions of teenage girls across Afghanistan are anxiously waiting to return to the classroom, as high schools continue to remain closed, raising fears about the future of female education under Taliban rule. The country’s new…
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World leaders thanked India for its help and support in combating the coronavirus pandemic through "early and meaningful" shipments of COVID-19 vaccine doses, as they addressed the high-level UN General Assembly session this year.…
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Since the first announcement in June 2020, expectations have been high on the potential of the Eravur Fabric Processing Park to catalyze a new era for Sri Lankan textile and apparel manufacture. Supported through the Ministry of…
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Association for Social and Cultural Cooperation (ASLCSCC) hosted a webinar on Social and Economic Development of China to celebrate the 72nd National Day of the People’s Republic of China recently through Zoom Technology. Aruna…
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The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has announced it is now accepting digitally signed documents from business customers using LankaSign operated by LankaClear, the commercially operating Certification Authority in the country which complies…
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HNB will bestow a bonanza of valuable prizes on more than 100 lucky customers sending remittances to Sri Lanka every week through HNB as their money transfer service. Customers remitting funds between August 15 and January 2022…
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One of South Asia’s leading e-commerce marketplace, Daraz, is introducing Sri Lanka’s first in-app Livestream feature to give users the ultimate shopping experience. With this Livestream technology, real-time content from Daraz…
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