Business Today Sri Lanka - March 2011

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Rajendra Theagarajah, Managing Director of Hatton National Bank spoke about the Bank's achievements and the strength of its staff and how the Bank will move forward with the changes in this renewed environment.
Vogue is synonymous with quality, elegance and master craftsmanship in the gold jewellery industry in Sri Lanka. Celebrating its 50th year, Vogue aims to be the ‘Bridal Jeweller for Sri Lankans’ identifying the requirements of all customers from the various communities in the country and thus being the selected place to go to for one’s wedding jewellery requirements. Managing Director, Anura Hemachandra and Director, Nandadeva Perera spoke to Business Today about Vogue’s journey through the years to maintain the rich traditions of Sri Lankan jewellery while offering a wide range of trendy and modern jewellery.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa envisages a trilingual Sri Lanka where Sinhala and Tamil speaking people will relate to each other in each other’s languages and English will be a life skill for occupation and employment and an instrument of communication to access knowledge from the external world. Sinhala and Tamil will be further developed to serve as the country’s languages of discourse, discussion and intellectual debate on all aspects of modern knowledge and technology as is the function of national languages in almost all other countries of the world. This will enable the vast majority of our people to participate in national discourse to thereby help grow a vibrant, practicing democracy in the country. Sunimal Fernando, a senior Advisor to the President is spearheading the trilingual initiative of the President and is the driving force to ensure that the ten-year Master Plan becomes a reality. He spoke to Business Today about the concept, strategy and importance of a trilingual Sri Lanka.