Snapchat’s Live story made its way to Colombo two days ago and it was equal parts exciting and disappointing. Since they announced their arrival the day before, the twitter sphere started picking up, not without a few conspiracies though. Hahaha ppl started thanking us for tomorrows #colombo_live @SakilaB … @snapchat pic.twitter.com/ey5B3UuzUJ — Ijaz ♔ (@hypr_mnky) July 27, 2015 After everyone ...
Crawling out of bed to watch Monkey Kingdom, airing at Savoy at 9am, was absolutely worth the sleep deprivation. This docu-drama was special for more than one reason: it wasn’t just the right mix between entertainment and education about the social structures and hierarchies of our fellow primates – the cherry on the cake is that it was filmed in ...
You are a budding entrepreneur who specialises in fashion for geeks. Geek is the new black and you want to reach anyone who may be looking to buy your latest Captain America t-shirt. You do some market research and learn that your target demographics spend a lot of time online. So you decide the best place to sell your t-shirts ...
Drones, drones everywhere. Okay, not really, but almost every high profile event in Colombo these days, from concerts to beach parties to political rallies, seems to be literally buzzing with the unmistakable sound of radio controlled flying machines hovering ominously above the crowds. These machines often come with a GoPro (or similar) camera mounted at the front, for a bird’s ...
A while back we did a story on things only Sri Lankans living abroad would understand – the response was immense! As an aftermath, one reader, Navin, came forward with a most peculiar story which we felt was absolutely worth publishing: while it isn’t exactly about things only Sri Lankans abroad would understand, it has the words “Sri Lankans” and ...
Finding a job is hard. Finding the right job is even harder. You may have all the qualifications in the world but if you don’t have any real world experience, an impressive CV or contacts that can hook you up with a halfway decent employer, you’re left with very few choices. CareerMe.org is a first-of-its-kind non-profit initiative that aims to ...
Local newspapers, in recent times, have been carrying a disturbing number of reports on child rape and sexual harassment. Just today, (August 10) it was reported that two suspects were arrested for the alleged sexual abuse of at least nine young girls in Hanthana in the Kandy district. The two suspects had allegedly conducted a six-month study camp for female ...
Gay rights is in the news again, what with the Cabinet notoriously rejecting a move to decriminalise homosexuality in the country. Social networking sites were abuzz with the news yesterday, with members of the public ‒ those with an online presence at least ‒ showing mixed reactions to the controversial yet unsurprising decision by the Yahapalana Government. A provision under ...
Sri Lanka’s main International Airport ‒ the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) ‒ is under scheduled renovation for three months from January 5, 2017 to April 7, 2017. According to the Civil Aviation Authority, all airlines were informed last year of the maintenance work that would require closure of the BIA’s main runway from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. everyday over ...
The day is humid, but overcast. We arrive an hour earlier than intended and stand outside the tall, white, colonial-style building. It looks every bit like an ordinary, government hospital ‒ and it is. Contrary to popular opinion fuelled by misconceptions of mental health, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) located at Angoda is clean, calm, serene, and well ...
The country gears up this week to hear the reading of the 2017 Budget, which is to be presented in Parliament on Thursday (November 10). In the light of the many economic concerns Sri Lanka is currently faced with, the upcoming budget remains vital in outlining the Government’s plans for the next year. It goes without saying, then, that this ...
The World Health Organisation has said, 'the whole world needs to be on alert now. The whole world needs to take action and be ready for any cases that come from the epicentre or epicentres that are established'.
It would seem that Sri Lanka is inherently sexist. And there is data to back this up. According to the 2015 Global Gender Gap Index of the Word Economic Forum, Sri Lanka ranks 84 out of 145 countries, with a score of 0.686. This means that women still lag behind men when it comes to economic participation, education, and political ...
The H1N1 influenza virus has reared its head again, with 400 patients reported from the North alone earlier this month. In January, two deaths were reported from Kandy. Moreover, authorities have been on alert since the number of patients tested positive for the H1N1 influenza virus in the Maldives rose to 176; the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) quarantine division has ...
The Colombo skies are known for a lot of things: dramatic sunsets, double rainbows, doomsday clouds and, of course, the ever expanding Colombo skyline. What better way to capture their beautiful intensity than a timelapse video? Last week, the folks at Mathawaada, one of Sri Lanka’s pioneering blogs turned digital media collective, set out to do exactly that. This is ...
In September 2016, export prices for Ceylon Tea peaked, and total exports were 3% higher than the previous September. However, all was not well for Sri Lanka’s tea sector: according to brokers, it was failing to keep its share of the most important overseas markets for black tea – with the important exception of China. There are reasons to believe this ...
