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UK: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that he wanted to get the travel industry moving again with a simple user-friendly system of rules to allow for trips abroad. "We need to get people, get the travel industry…
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US: The United States has distributed more than 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses overseas, President Joe Biden said Tuesday as he touted his record on countering the Delta variant cutting a deadly swath across the planet. The…
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FRANCE: Half of the European Union’s (EU) population has now been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Agency reports showed yesterday. The highly contagious Delta variant has been driving surging infections across the world, even…
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CHINA: China has imposed massive travel restrictions, including temporary closure of airports and travel alerts for citizens to other places across the country, to contain the spread of the Delta variant. All 31 provincial-level…
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UK: Vaccines targeting the highly transmissible Delta variant may now be needed, given its ability to infect people with fading immunity and potentially increased severity, researchers leading a large English study of COVID shots said.…
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Despite the initial uptick in the main ASPI index escorted by price gains in value counters, the market took a slight dive during the latter hours of trading and settled in the red territory amidst profit takings. Thus, the All Share…
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The Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CASL) announced that applications would be open for the 56th Annual Report Awards competition on August 15. Last year’s awards were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The awards are…
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CHEC Port City Colombo (Pvt) Ltd says that remarks made by the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Alaina B. Teplitz, while addressing a group of journalists last week are misleading. She was quoted as saying, “The United States does…
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The Civil Aviation Training Centre -Sri Lanka, the training division of AASL was rebranded as the “Sri Lanka Airport & Aviation Academy” yesterday at the institution premises at Ratmalana. The chief guest is the State Minister for…
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