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Design Group Five wins Asia Pacific Property Awards

The Design Group Five International (Pvt) Ltd (DG5i) was a double winner at the Asia Pacific Property Awards 2012 held recently in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for their innovative and creative design of the People's Leasing Co. Headquarters building at Maradana Road, Borella. The Awards, held annually, recognizes superior architectural and interior designing across the Asia Pacific region.

DG5i was presented with a 5-Star award in the category of Best Office Architecture for Sri Lanka as well as the Overall Winner for Office Architecture for the entire Asia Pacific region which was highly vied among large multinational firms from Australia, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea and Vietnam.

Judging was carried out through a meticulous process involving a panel of over 60 experts covering every aspect of the property business.

The next stage of the awards’ programme is for top scoring five-star winners of each category to be re-judged against those from the other regions to determine the ultimate world's best winners.

Chairman of DG5i, Suranjith de Silva said “We are proud that DG5 is the first and only Sri Lankan architectural firm to win a regional award for design excellence in this competition.

It is a tribute to our quality and our team at DG5i. The award is all the more timely for us as we celebrate the 40th anniversary of our company.” Over the year, DG5i has accumulated a number of landmark projects in its portfolio and has been in the forefront of architectural design and technology and has previously won the Asia Pacific Awards in 2010 and 2011 for architectural excellence.

President of the International Property Awards, Stuart Shield, said, “The Asia Pacific always puts up a very strong representation across the many different categories within the awards’ programme. It also consistently proves to be the hardest region to beat when it comes to competing internationally for the highly coveted World's Best awards.”

Metropolitan Computers reward Best IT student at SLIIT

Metropolitan Computers one of the largest IT companies in Sri Lanka teamed up with Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT) for second consecutive year in rewarding the best IT student in the B.Sc.Degree programme at the SLIIT annual convocation which was held recently.

Imalka Keshani Amarasinghe received this award presented by Metropolitan Computers for her excellence in the programme.

“We have worked with many students of SLIIT in our IT projects and have found them to be outstanding. The Fonterra project is one such project where we worked with a team of SLIIT students and the entire project was rolled out and completed on schedule. Being one of the largest IT companies in Sri Lanka we are committed to develop the IT talent in this country so that Sri Lanka can be an IT knowledge hub very shortly,” said Niranjan De Silva, CEO, Metropolitan Computers Pvt Ltd. Metropolitan Computers is the Information Technology arm of the Metropolitan Group and the pioneer in introducing computers and other innovative IT products to Sri Lanka. Today the company represents top global brands such as Acer, Canon, Novell, IBM and HP networking.

Bonding for the future:

Tokyo Cement collaborates with University of Peradeniya

Tokyo Cement recently conducted an interactive seminar titled ‘Bonding for the future’ for the students of the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Peradeniya.

The event which was held to commemorate seven years of partnership between the University and Tokyo Cement featured two prominent key note speakers Technical Consultant Dr. M. G. M. U Ismail and Consultant Engineer Mouli Gunaratne.

The seminar was conducted at the E.O.E Pereira Theatre and well attended by nearly 400 Final and third year Civil engineering Undergraduates.

Arogya 2012 in August

With the open economic policies, the health sector in Sri Lanka has shown a significant development during the last few years. With the increasing population which has now reached 20.8 million, there was a dire need for the country to improve her healthcare facilities and this requirement is now being fulfilled by both public and private sectors. Sri Lanka presently has a number of modernized hospitals owned by the state and the private sector.

Patients from neighboring countries such as the Maldives do use these facilities making Colombo an important healthcare centre. Sri Lanka has been able to retain many Sri Lankan patients who were earlier seeking medical treatment overseas with the health sector development in the recent past.

Sri Lanka has a pool of well qualified medical professionals, so much so that the country's healthcare sector is not second to the health sector in any country in the SAARC region. Advanced healthcare facilities that were confined to Colombo earlier have now been spread to many parts of the country.

The government under its development plan has invited investments, both local and foreign, to invest in the healthcare sector projects outside Colombo especially in the North and the East of Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka is well ahead in combating many communicable diseases, thanks to the untiring efforts of successive governments towards this.

‘Arogya 2012’ International Healthcare Exhibition to be held from 17 - 19 August 2012 at BMICH, Colombo organized by the National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka in partnership with the Ministry of Health will expose to the world and to Sri Lanka itself the country's strength in the healthcare sector and the future potential.

Tilan heads SLIM

Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing held their annual General meeting and Tilan Wijeyasekera was elected President while Dhanesh R Jayathilaka was named as the Secretary. The executive Committee standing from left; Ranjit Edirisinghe, Ahamed Aroos, Elangovan Karthik, Roshan Fernando, LeRoy Ebert, Prasad M Hewagama, Charitha Jayasinghe, Suranjith Swaris, Shohan Chandiram, Ms. Neluka De Alwis. Seated from left; Sanath Senanayake (Executive Director/CEO), Upul Adikari (Assistant Secretary), Ruwan Liyanagamage (Treasurer), Gamika De Silva (Vice President), Tilan Wijeyasekera (President), Kalana Ratnayake (Vice President), Dhanesh R Jayathilaka (Secretary), Thushara Perera (Immediate Past President)