COLOMBO — Sri Lanka’s diplomatic failure to secure a concrete debt relief framework from China, its largest bilateral lender, is blocking
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Nilmini Fernando International collaboration Q: As the President of the inaugural Executive Committee of CA Sri Lanka Canada Chapter (CASLCC), what is your role? And what does this milestone mean to you both personally and professionally? A: Being elected president and witnessing the inauguration of the chapter has filled me with pride. It signifies a remarkable milestone for the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) as the first chapter established in North America and the seventh overseas. It’s been a pleasure to work with the chapter’s Executive Committee and CA Sri Lanka’s Chapter Establishment and Engagement…
TIES THAT BIND If there’s a game – or anything for that matter – that unites a nation and its expatriate community in far-flung lands, it is the so-called ‘gentleman’s game’ It brought hope amid the despair of a deadly civil war when ‘Arjuna and the boys’ rose to the pinnacle of ODI cricket: they ran as dark horses and reached the finish line ahead of a big gun in Lahore back in March 1996. And following the heroics of a young Team Sri Lanka at the recently concluded Asia Cup – bar the debacle in the final – there’s…
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