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Ranil De Silva

Leo Burnett Sri Lanka’s globe-trotting Managing Director “truly” lives up to his BIG personality, although he is “in fact” tone deaf
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innovation

Sexy and volatile: The Unicorns are here

New generation tech firms are dislodging the old guard, but can these startups justify their lofty valuations?
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New Eco Warrior Lodgings

The bar is already high and rising to earn the title of an eco hotel. Here are some new hotels around Sri Lanka that have marked eco characteristics in one or more critical areas
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public-policy

Risk-based broker capital in three months, DVP in a year

The Colombo Stock Exchange is introducing risk-based capital requirements for stockbrokers within months and a new, lower-risk stock trade settlement system in early 2017. It expects these and other initiatives to help boost market liquidity and the exchange’s league status
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features

Prospects for location-based marketing locally

How does it compare with current marketing methods?
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features

Kissinger’s World: Libya and Syria

America’s ‘expert’ wakes from dreams of ‘world order’
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features

Colombo’s New Deep- Water Container Terminal Worsens Productivity At Government-Owned JCT

A new Chinese-owned terminal at the Colombo port capable of handling the largest container ships in the world is taking market share from a government-owned terminal where utilization is already half of the available capacity
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Colombo Port volume growth

The new container terminal CICT saw volumes surge because of its ability to accommodate mega shipping vessels driving up overall volume at the Port of Colombo. The older terminals state-run JCT and private SAGT lost some volume to the new operator
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innovation

Local Apparel Firm Produces a Hit For Counter Culture Brand Diesel

Underwear and inner wear products for men and women developed and designed by Emjay Penguin secures core product status for two seasons
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leadership

Education: What can Sri Lanka learn from Korea?

Korea probably has the best school education in Asia. Interestingly, it looks like they do not do things too differently from us. So where have we in Sri Lanka gone wrong?
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features

Doctors stomp on private med students

The body that regulates doctors is refusing to acknowledge Sri Lanka’s only private medical school whose first batch of graduates are due out in May 2016
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portfolio

What I learned in the first year in private equity

In September 2014, Ironwood Capital Partners, Sri Lanka’s first post-war private equity fund, raised $30 million. Ironwood’s Hiran Embuldeniya discussed what he learned in the first year as a Managing Partner in the fund
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Corporate-themed art show

Better known as P413 in the art world, Samuel Niruban Satchithanandakumar’s latest collection of corporate-themed paintings is on display at Colombo’s Saskia Fernando Gallery
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features

Digital dividends: A gap too far?

It is now 21 years since Sri Lanka became the first country in South Asia to introduce commercially available internet services.
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opinion

The Economy In 2016: Limping To Stability From A Runaway Budget

.Sri Lanka is fearing more economic instability in 2016, with little being done to fix the budget that went off the rails in 2015 and debt repayments looming, but several corrections have already occurred.
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