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vivo Topped China’s Smartphone Market in Q1 2022, According to Counterpoint

Sri Lanka, May <Date>, 2022: According to Counterpoint Research’s Monthly Market Pulse Service, considering a downward trend in China Q1 2022 smartphone market, vivo ranked first with a leading market share of 20 percent[1]. The position during the quarter was…

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SLIM calls authorities to exercise utmost care during the nation’s critical hour

Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM) believes that sudden eruption of violence witnessed at the beginning of the week that changed the nature of peaceful protests, could tarnish the long held reputation of Sri Lanka as a liberal market country…

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Tourist arrivals for Sri Lanka drop by 43.3% in April

Sri Lanka has reported nearly a 43.3% drop in tourist arrivals for the month of April. According to the Tourism Ministry, 60,359 tourists have arrived in April 2022. It is a drop of 46,141 tourists from the 106,500 tourist arrivals…

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කුඩා පරිමාණ ජල, සුළං, සූර්ය සහ ජෛව ස්කන්ධ බලශක්ති සංවර්ධකයින් ඇතුළත් පුනර්ජනනීය බලශක්ති සංගම්  සහ ලංකා සූර්ය බලශක්ති කර්මාන්ත කරුවන්ගේ සංගමය එක්ව පසුගියදා පවත්වන ලද මාධ්‍ය සාකච්චාවකදී පවසා සිටියේ, 2021 වර්ෂයේ අගෝස්තු මස සිට ඔවුන් විසින් සපයන ලද විදුලිබලය සඳහා…

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EXcubed wins coveted UK Financial Services Tech Award

EXcubed, a provider of business-led technology solutions in fund management, received the award for Digital Transformation Project of the Year at the UK FSTech Awards 2022 in London. The award was received for the customisation of EXcubed’s proprietary platform to…

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National Grid Risks Losing 1200MW as CEB defaults on payments to renewable energy operators

Renewable Energy Associations that include Small Hydro, Wind, Solar, and Biomass power developers, and also Solar Industries Association of Sri Lanka, jointly announced at a press conference held recently that the national grid of Sri Lanka risks losing 1250.9 Megawatts…

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Teachers on token strike

Teachers’ and Principals’ unions are on an island wide token strike on Monday (25). This island wide strike is staged considering the difficulties faced by teachers, students and parents due to the increase of transport fares including bus fares, etc….

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Wheat flour price up

Wheat flour price has been increased by Prima Ceylon (Pvt) Ltd. The company said that the price of 1kg wheat flour has been increased by Rs. 40 with effective from today. Earlier, there were price hikes of Rs. 17.50 for…

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Sri Lanka yet to decide on hosting Asia Cup 2022

Sri Lanka, with the hosting rights of Asia Cup 2022 have  been given time till July 27 to confirm whether they would be able to the host the tournament amid the widespread protests across the country. The Asia cup has…

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Heavy rain alert for 14 Districts

A weather advisory for heavy rains has been issued for 14 districts by the Meteorology department till 11.00 am tomorrow (12). According to the Meteorology department, the prevailing showery condition is expected to continue, due to the low-level atmospheric disturbance…

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