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UK: Britain’s Government is facing growing criticism over how it awarded contracts for virus-related goods and services during the pandemic, its detractors alleging a “chumocracy” in which politically connected companies got priority.…
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PERU: Classified as a “variant of interest” by the World Health Organization (WHO) on June 17, the lambda, or C.37, variant of the coronavirus has already been detected in 29 nations — seven of them in Latin America. In Peru, where it…
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UN: The COVID-19 pandemic has rolled back years, or even decades, of progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a UN report shows. The effects of the pandemic have reversed much of the progress made in reducing…
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An unprecedented increase in air freight rates to almost all destinations have badly affected the local Floriculture industry. “Cut leaves, which accounts for over 50% of the local exports, were the worst affected and saw an…
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The ‘Speaker in You’ programme, designed to help corporate executives and higher education students improve their public speaking and presentation skills, will begin its next intake with a free introductory session on July 8, at 7 p.m.…
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A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), has been signed between the Chairman of Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI), and President of the National Chamber of Commerce in Sri Lanka. “On the sidelines of the Oman-Sri Lanka…
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SriLankan Airlines will resume flights to the Russian capital, Moscow. SriLankan’s new service will operate a weekly scheduled flight between Colombo’s Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) and Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport (DME)…
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