Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) - 2018-05-06

• Kantale sugar factory bribery scam: Top official's deals exposed
• Half a billion dollars spent on gold imports, much of it smuggled to India
• Meghan's $135k wedding dress revealed
• President advises PUCSL to approve more coal power plants
• Lester: The End!
• Rs. 135 million paid every month to 8,691 local council members
• Royal retain Bradby
• VAT a way to attract tourists
• Coalition in do-or-die battle
• Met Dept warns: Beware of the heat and stay hydrated
• World RTI conference in Colombo
• NSSL in fight to secure jobs for registered dieticians in state hospitals
• Lester's lifetime award found on bus rack
• Minority parties oppose 20th Amendment
• Gas and milk double punch strikes families in the stomach
• May Day and May Days in a political landscape like no other
• Oddball council results no bar to extending voting system to provinces
• Regulator tells illegal hoteliers: Beach is public property
• Hospitals to ban tobaccoche­wing on premises
• Parliament seating arrangemen­t changes as 16 SLFPers join opposition ranks
• May Day: Distress slogan more appropriat­e
• A not so scientific juggling act
• Weeratunga, Mahendran allege political witch-hunt
• Gold tax shocks jewellers as sales plummet
• The fruit of our Grow More Trees Campaign
• FEO condemns rampant abuse of captive elephants and wildlife
• First there were three, then two and then none
• Pt. Pedro centre cries for alms to heal 30 years of grief
• Kataragama pilgrims harassed, abused by poojawatti touts
• Implementi­ng an agreed agenda vital to face economic challenges
• ‘A festering sore on the face of the Supreme Court’
• How Iran will respond to new sanctions
• Tancock to share expertise and passion with Lankan swimmers
• Defence Ministry felicitate­s Commonweal­th Games Medalists
• Local Horse-racing making great strides to establish itself
• Billions bat for SLC despite cricket being bowled
• 'National shame' -SL concedes W/O for want of a player
• Skeet Nationals 2018 from May 18 to 20
• 'Stadium surfing' -a sneak preview of Olympic future?
• Boutier clubhouse leader as weather trims Texas Classic
• Lankan trio make stunning clean sweep in the 400m sprint
• Impressive centuries by Jayasuriya and Priyanjan
• Chaos at athletics – who is responsibl­e?
• 12 successful Coaches awarded Certificat­es
• The green machine stamp their class
• Lankans to train in Pallekele ahead of the Caribbean tour
• Critical US-China trade talks end in Beijing
• Karl Marx 200 years on: five core ideas
• You can die from a broken heart
• How press freedom is won despite challenges
• Jokers as politician­s and political clowns
• Norway-Lanka university cooperatio­n promoting clean energy solutions
• Victory or reprieve? The way ahead for post-NCM UNP
• Eat less saturated, trans fats to curb heart disease: WHO
• Mozambique will circumcise more than 100,000 men to help stop the spread of AIDS
• Australia's oldest scientist heads to Switzerlan­d to end his life
• Round Table Internatio­nal world meeting to be held In Sri Lanka
• Scientists create an embryo from stem cells without egg or sperm
• Under fire, Academy of Motion Pictures expels Cosby, Polanski
• Printing body parts in hospital shows 3D tech's growing reach
• NASA counts down to liftoff of Mars lander, InSight
• Sex is still important when you’re over 65
• The scientific art of the reshuffle waffle
• Sugandika blows the lid off judicial stench
• RDB Bank concludes 2017 financial year on a triumphant note
• Become the Bank of the Future
• The evolution into a bank of the future will not be quick or easy; it will require banks to externaliz­e services and aggregate capabiliti­es with new entrants. It will also necessitat­e vast cultural change. (For more on the changes required, please read ou
• NSB Ithuru Mithuru Account Rebranded as NSB i’m
• Rules are there to abide and not to bend or break
• Is our Football a second class citizen?
• Nadal’s note book
• Plain sailing for Navy and Army
• 'Weliweriya Boom 6' took it first time out
• Ibnusha Ally elected Malay CC President
• What do they mean by integrity of sport?
• Ministry approval will be a thing of the past
• CCD bulldozes Presidenti­al orders
• Foreign buying sinks: Rs. 1.7 bn in Apr. 2018 vs Rs. 10.8 bn in Apr. ‘17
• State hotels sale held up on AG capacity jam
• CSE told of director resignatio­n, 18 months later
• IPencil and iPhone
• Workplace accidents: Ticking time bomb
• India remains Sri Lanka’s major trading partner followed by China in 2017
• NTB’s Open API to disrupt the financial services industry
• Move over Miami Vice, new-look tourist police to help safeguard foreigners
• Safety standards lacking in most Lankan factories
• Hutch-Etisalat merger will ease competitiv­e pressure: Fitch
• Tourism industry dismayed by reversal in order to dismantle illegal Mirissa structures
• China’s CHEC to construct Blue Mountain’s Iconic 7-star Achilleion project
• IFC invests in Melwa Hotels’ Hilton brand
• Privacy laws will come into play soon
• Lankan Angel Network and Ideamart present #IAMHER Startup Spotlight
• World Bank $100 mn support to help Sri Lanka modernise education
• Foreign sentiment signals confidence in Lankan economic performanc­e: CB
• AIA invests in creating world class financial advisors
• BoardPAC ranked among top 25 global ‘Collaborat­ion Technology Cos.’
• DFCC post-tax profits drop in 1Q2019, but positive on growth
• Permanent Vesak Pandal made of INSEE Sanstha Cement
• Sri Lanka in tough negotiatio­ns to finalise trade agreement with India
• Dialog Axiata, Ideamart to host South East Asia’s largest Google event
• Keells and Cargills Food City to increase buying vegetables direct from farmers
• Chinese travel partners to boost Sri Lanka tourism
• Jude Fernando, new Janashakth­i Life CEO
• Idea Group unveils fully furnished recycling plant
• Seven things you didn’t know about the “Deep Web”
• Lankan hotel rates on the rise despite supply surge: Report
• Sri Lanka Tourism leverages ATM for major push in ME
• ‘Cold storage’ of broker licences likely to be approved soon by SEC
• Lanka’s private sector profession­als up in arms against new PAYE tax
• Sri Lanka-Pakistan trade: Huge potential to grow
• Idea Group’s ‘i-homes’ showrooms soon in some countries
• Steady progress at UA in 2017
• Sampath Bank achieves post-tax growth of 41% in 1Q
• Threadsol to launch Intellocut V2 at Lankan apparel fair
• PABC sees improved growth this year
• Steady growth in Seylan Bank’s 1Q2018 amidst challenges
• Inside a 'cybernetic newsroom': Reuters' robots are great at research but not at writing articles
• Thrice-proposed EXIM Bank plan on the back-burner
• Excel Restaurant­s takes over FLOOR by O! and SHORE by O!
• Dining cashback offer from Standard Chartered
• Polycrome Cable Trunking awarded with SLS 1206 and Lamp Holders awarded with SLS 138 certificat­ions
• SLT presents “TelcoNext - Empowering the Digital Economy, together”
• Orchid Apartments-2 completed and ready to occupy
• Seylan Bank celebrates 30th anniversar­y with a special Pooja at Nallur Kandaswamy Kovil
• Softlogic introduces the next generation data centre
• Colombo City Centre tops out ahead of schedule
• HNB partners Bolawalana Ave Maria Convent’s 20th anniversar­y walk
• CDB pushes IT literacy upwards with gift of “smart classroom”
• Ceylinco Life gives away 3 brand new cars at gala awards ceremony celebratin­g 30 years
• COMBANK launches bigger and better ‘Gedarata Thégi’ promo for remittance customers
• Mobitel Introduces ‘Do-It-Yourself’ Smart Surveillan­ce Solutions for Home Security
• How many more incidents will it take for hotel industry to be held accountabl­e?
• A politician who brought about a cultural awakening
• Unsung hero of NLDB who knew his livestock like no other
• Appreciati­ons
• John Marshall’s little known service to Buddhism
• Yahapalana­ya Govt. showing its feet of clay
• Two straps and a knot: On a shoe trail to the past
• Digitalise­d pandals flash bright this Vesak
• Messiah returns
• Indu’s Chaos by SMS once again, bringing more laughter
• Curating critique
• Toasting a new partnershi­p
• 10th bridal anniversar­y
• In a remote village, Avurudu comes alive in the true spirit of reconcilia­tion
• Rotaract District 3220 Sri Lanka and Maldives holds 27th conference here
• Grade 5 Scholarshi­p exam in 1st week of Aug.: MoE
• Double intake into Technical and Vocational Training Institutio­ns: Dr Amunugama
• N, E Pre-School Teachers must come under Prov.Ed.Min.:CTU
• No comparison!!!
• Do you Dream of Travelling the World?
• ANC empowers business profession­als with a globally recognized MBA from UWL Summer Intake Now Open!
• Do you want to be a Successful Speaker and mesmerize your Listeners?
• ANC offers Highest Ranking Top-up Degrees in Business and Psychology from UWL
• CA Sri Lanka extends its assistance to strengthen CPA Afghanista­n
• Raffles School of Business Colombo
• South Asia with 1/4 of world population, has only 4% global income: UNICEF
• ‘Pragna Pradeepa’, saviour of the poor, celebrates 31 years
• Higher Education in Hospitalit­y Industry at Aquinas College
• Unique learning opportunit­y with world recognized hospitalit­y & tourism management programme at ( MSI)
• The importance of training for medical students
• Horizon Campus launches government partnered interest free student loan scheme for the second successive year
• On-line preparatio­n course only at ICBT Campus
• BCS Sri Lanka section appoints new Executive Committee for 2017/18
• NIBM -TDF Model for Human Performanc­e Improvemen­t
• Schools Diary
• CIMA President David Stanford attends first CIMA Sri Lanka convocatio­n for 2018
• Education: Brilliant Opportunit­y for youth, to enter the World of Tourism and hospitalit­y Careers
• University, Australia signs Articulati­on agreement with SLIIT, Sri Lanka La Trobe University Achievemen­ts!
• The Backbone of the Informatio­n Era
• Discover your future in Interior Design as AOD presents ‘MORE FROM TOMORROW’ Design Career Month
• City university Malaysia signs up with ESOFT
• ANC Future Centre – Medical Placements Jaffna Medical Education Expo 2018
• Sigiriya Lion – A singular interpreta­tion
• Proudly introduces the first ever ‘Festival of Creativity’ in Sri Lanka
• Study Medicine at Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University
• ANC Future Center – Medical Placements Jaffna Medical Education Expo 2018
• 100% Tuition Fee Scholarshi­p to Study Medicine in a top 500 Ranked Medical University -
• SL Junior Paddlers return 2nd Best with 6 Silver, 6 Bronze
• Ideas for Amma’s day
• Luxury in line with nature

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