If you have ever wired money abroad through a third-party company that is not a licensed bank or a financial institution, chances are that you’ve committed a crime. Sending money abroad itself is not a crime. But using the informal undiyal or hawala system that bypasses legal systems, makes it one. What makes it more problematic is that these transactions ...
If you have ever wired money abroad through a third-party company that is not a licensed bank or a financial institution, chances are that you’ve committed a crime. Sending money abroad itself is not a crime. But using the informal undiyal or hawala system that bypasses legal systems, makes it one. What makes it more problematic is that these transactions ...
It’s been a rough four years for the wedding industry to contend with. In 2018, Sri Lanka was voted the best country in the world to visit, and the industry geared up for an influx of destination weddings. Months later, the Easter Attacks in April 2019 brought on mass cancellations, resulting in a huge loss of revenue. Less than a ...
It’s been a rough four years for the wedding industry to contend with. In 2018, Sri Lanka was voted the best country in the world to visit, and the industry geared up for an influx of destination weddings. Months later, the Easter Attacks in April 2019 brought on mass cancellations, resulting in a huge loss of revenue. Less than a ...
It’s 2022, and Sign Language still isn’t a legally recognised language in Sri Lanka. How long will it take for deaf and hearing impaired people to finally have a standardised, legally-recognised language? And what do they stand to lose in the meantime? #SignLanguageDay #SignLanguageUnitesUs #lka #SriLankaThe post It’s 2022, And Sri Lankan Sign Language Still Isn’t Legally Recognised first appeared ...
It’s 2022, and Sign Language still isn’t a legally recognised language in Sri Lanka. How long will it take for deaf and hearing impaired people to finally have a standardised, legally-recognised language? And what do they stand to lose in the meantime? #SignLanguageDay #SignLanguageUnitesUs #lka #SriLanka The post It’s 2022, And Sri Lankan Sign Language Still Isn’t Legally Recognised appeared ...
Sri Lanka’s electrical needs took a hard hit this year. With daily islandwide power cuts as a result of the ongoing economic crisis, as well as power plants repeatedly breaking down, you wouldn’t think a country that established its first public electricity supply more than a hundred years ago would be so prone to collapse. Sri Lanka has a long ...
Sri Lanka’s electrical needs took a hard hit this year. With daily islandwide power cuts as a result of the ongoing economic crisis, as well as power plants repeatedly breaking down, you wouldn’t think a country that established its first public electricity supply more than a hundred years ago would be so prone to collapse. Sri Lanka has a long ...
Did you know that, even today, some communities in Sri Lanka lack proper access to clean drinking water? In episode one of our brand new series Strong Foundations, Sade Greenwood takes us into a remote village in Anuradhapura where a life-saving project by the Tokyo Cement Group is putting an end to a water crisis that has caused decades of ...
Did you know that, even today, some communities in Sri Lanka lack proper access to clean drinking water? In episode one of our brand new series Strong Foundations, Sade Greenwood takes us into a remote village in Anuradhapura where a life-saving project by the Tokyo Cement Group is putting an end to a water crisis that has caused decades of ...
17 year-old Dewmini Parindya, a technology student, runs her father’s garage in Thambuttegama. “If your determination is strong enough, you can get anything done with whatever small resources you have,” she says. “Girls can do anything.” Her goal is to one day establish her own garage. The post “The Garage Is My Life.” | How A 17-Year-Old Runs A Garage first appeared on Roar Media.
17 year-old Dewmini Parindya, a technology student, runs her father’s garage in Thambuttegama. “If your determination is strong enough, you can get anything done with whatever small resources you have,” she says. “Girls can do anything.” Her goal is to one day establish her own garage. The post “The Garage Is My Life.” | How A 17-Year-Old Runs A Garage appeared first on Roar Media.
“Our main focus is on bringing out the technical aspect by breaking some of the traditional barriers that have kept this art a secret from the world.” Thanks to a colonial-era ban lifted only in 2019, #angampora — a traditional Sri Lankan martial art — is struggling to gain popularity with younger generations. Outside of the island, the practice is ...
Sri Lanka faced questioning at the 51st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on 12 September on the root causes of its economic crisis, human rights abuses under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and the ongoing question of post-war reconciliation, among other concerns. In a statement, Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Sabry reconfirmed Sri Lanka’s commitment to ...
“This is a moment in history where we are witnessing the rise of extreme nationalisms in many parts of the world, whereas the reality is that what we identify as our own is often a composite of flows that perhaps even predate written history,” says Colomboscope 2021 curator Anushka Rajendran, explaining the relevance of this year’s festival concept: Language is Migrant.
Two things stood out to me in the locale known as ‘Paradise Place'. The first is the massive kovil, tucked away in what could easily be mistaken for a part of Jaffna but is in fact in the middle of Kotahena and Panchikawatte.
A 130-km protrusion of land on Sri Lanka’s north-western coast has received a fair amount of local and international press in the past few months. Mannar Island, connected to the mainland by a causeway, has been identified as a rich source of the mineral ilmenite, which the Perth-based Australian company, Titanium Sands Ltd., hopes to mine.
Colombo Fort has, for over a century, been the centre of Sri Lanka’s economic activity; and being strategically located to facilitate international travel, it is not surprising that colonisers, be it the Portuguese, Dutch, or the British, chose to consolidate their control over the city.
