Source:–www.ft.lk ASPI crosses 8,000 points and turnover tops Rs. 6 b as bourse gains to 5-month high  Active investor play on Expolanka sees stock generating Rs. 40% of turnover or Rs. 2.5 b; share price gains Rs. 8.30 (15.23%) to close at Rs. 62.80 The Colombo stock market yesterday lived ...

WASHINGTON (AFP): Chinese electronics firm Xiaomi has overtaken Apple as the number two global smartphone maker in a sizzling market with consumers emerging from lockdowns, a new survey showed. The Canalys survey of second-quarter sales released showed worldwide smartphone sales up 12%, with South Korea’s Samsung holding its top position with ...

Softlogic Life Managing Director Iftikar Ahamed Source:-www.ft.lk Sri Lanka’s fastest-growing life insurance company Softlogic Life, was recently honoured among the Top 100 Best Global MDRT companies in the world by the premier global association for finance professionals, Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT).  Softlogic Life produced 170 MDRT members, strictly taking ...

  Source:Ft Sri Lanka last week launched the Submarine Cable Protection and Resilience Framework at a stakeholder meeting chaired by Secretary to the President Dr. P.B. Jayasundera. Sri Lanka is the first country in Asia to come up with such a framework, and this was possible with the generous support ...

Source:Ft Ambassador Ameer Ajwad presents the logo pin issued by the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Oman to mark the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Sri Lanka and the Sultanate of Oman, to OCCI Chairman Eng. Redha Al Saleh. Embassy of Sri Lanka First Secretary Dilini Abeysekara accompanied the ...

  Source:Island   One winter morning in 1998, as a part of the SIA crew while planning a departure from Kimpo (Gimpo) International Airport Seoul South Korea, in our Airbus A 340 aircraft, we realised that it had snowed all night and the runway surface was ‘contaminated’ with melting snow ...