Monthly Archives: April 2010
SSTL Contracted to Establish Sri Lanka Space Agency
The director general of the Sri Lankan Telecommunications Regulatory Commission has contracted Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) to help the country develop its own space capability and its first communications satellite, SSTL announced Nov. 17. SSTL will design and produce …
The Risks and Benefits of Drinking Coffee
These days, more and more people drink coffee for different reasons. The effects of drinking coffee have been long researched. Is it only a habit people have in the morning? Is it for the taste? Is it a way of …
Top 10 psychological and emotional reasons to quit smoking
To stop smoking, smokers need strong motivation to drive them to kick the nicotine habit. Indeed, there can be strong personal reasons, pressure from peers and family members or due to social stigma attached with smoking to give up the …
Ship building Colombo Dockyard Limited
A leading shipbuilding and repairing company in the region Colombo Dockyard Limited (CDL) is receiving increasing orders from Middle Eastern countries due to the global shipbuilding boom. Due to the high world oil prices oil producing countries` economies are booming …
US$ 230 million renewable energy project
The BOI signed an agreement worth US$ 230 million with the Malaysian-Bahraini joint venture Orizon Renewable Energy private Ltd to build a waste to energy plant. The plant will be built on a 20-acre land at Kahatamedawelyaya, Muthurajawela, in the …
World’s first plant to generate petrol by polythene and plastic waste in Sri Lanka
Polypto Lanka – the world’s first plant in which petrol is generated from polythene and plastic waste – was launched yesterday at Yatiyantota. The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) in collaboration with Ananda Withanage, the inventor of the novel concept, and …
