Author Archive for Technology
Friday, February 16th, 2024
Story by Andrew Griffin Courtesy The Independent Graphene, a wonder material” that could help solve some of humanity’s deepest problems, has cleared a major hurdle towards practical uses. Graphene is the world’s thinnest, super-strong and super-flexible material. It could have dramatic applications in everything from engineering tissue to making new kinds of technological devices. However, […]
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Monday, January 15th, 2024
GEETA PILLAI Courtesy bnn In a pioneering step, Sri Lanka has introduced a fresh wave of innovation into its fish export industry. The country has successfully shipped a colossal 10,000 kg container of dried and Maldive fish to Australia and Korea. This groundbreaking move utilized a revolutionary dehydration technology, marking a departure from the traditional […]
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Thursday, December 14th, 2023
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Dec 14 (NewsWire/ Sputnik) – Russia has emerged as one of the strongest contenders to build nuclear power plants in Sri Lanka, according to a media report published on Tuesday. According to Russia’s Sputnik News, Sri Lanka currently imports most of its energy needs, including oil, coal and hydrocarbons. To ease the economic […]
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Tuesday, November 28th, 2023
Courtesy Offshore Technology The refinery will be built at Hambantota port in the south of the country. Sri Lanka’s Government has approved China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation’s (Sinopec) proposal to build a $4.5bn (32bn yuan) refining facility, reports Reuters. With the approval, the Chinese Government-backed refiner will be able to complete project specifics and enter a […]
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Friday, November 24th, 2023
Courtesy The Island State Minister for Defence, Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon, addressing a Press Briefing held under the theme ‘Collective Path to a Stable Country,’ at the Presidential Media Centre (PMC) today (24) said that Sri Lanka was losing around US$200 million annually as only 116 of the 122 Electronic Navigation Charts (ENC) which map out Sri Lanka […]
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana Scientists from China and Sri Lanka are conducting a joint marine scientific activities on board a Chinese research vessel, a senior official said Tuesday, amid concerns voiced by India and the US. The Chinese ship, ‘Shi Yan 6’ arrived at the Colombo port last week. According to sources, Sri Lanka was delaying granting […]
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Thursday, September 21st, 2023
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, September 21: The Contract for the Design, Installation, Testing & Commissioning of the signalling system for the Sri Lanka Railways from Maho to Anuradhapura (66 km) was signed by the Ministry of Transport and Highways of Sri Lanka and IRCON Ltd of India today (September 21, 2023). It took place in the […]
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Friday, August 4th, 2023
by Nadja Skopljak Courtesy Offshore Energy French telecommunications corporation Orange has taken delivery of its new cable laying and repair vessel (CLRV), said to be designed for the maintenance of cables for offshore wind projects. The vessel, named Sophie Germain after the pioneering French mathematician and philosopher, is currently on its way from Sri Lanka’s Colombo […]
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Wednesday, July 5th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Belgium Government expressed consent to provide modern European technology required to develop Sri Lanka’s ports. The decision was announced during a special discussion held between Belgium Ambassador to Sri Lanka Didier Vanderhasselt and Ports, Shipping and Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva this morning. The Minister requested Belgium’s support in […]
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Tuesday, July 4th, 2023
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia July 4 (Xinhua) – A program to gauge the resistance of buildings and new constructions against earth tremors is being conducted across Sri Lanka, the country’s Geological Survey and Mines Bureau (GSMB) said on Monday. Several small tremors have been felt in the country in the past year, said senior geophysicist of the […]
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Thursday, June 29th, 2023
By Engr. Kanthar Balanathan DipEE (UK), GradCert (RelEng-Monash), DipBus&Adm (Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE, Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical EngineersLeading Engineer of the World 2006, UK Authority Award The author, engineer (A) joined a thermal power station as a Senior Engineer in Sept 1998. The station had a combination of thermal, gas […]
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Sunday, May 28th, 2023
By Asiri Fernando Courtesy The Morning Sri Lanka’s renewed focus on a digital economy as part of its recovery effort and the cornerstone of the island’s future economic growth remains vulnerable, with the proposed enactment of legislation on the protection of vital undersea data cables remaining incomplete to date, The Sunday Morning learns. This, despite the process […]
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2023
By Peter Clarke Courtesy NewsIn.Asia www.eenewseurope.com/www.mathys-squire.com February 21: There have been 69,190 global patents for semiconductors filed in the year to September 30, 2022, and 55 percent were filed by Chinese entities, according to Mathys & Squire, an intellectual property law firm. In contrast, the UK accounted for only 179 patents or 0.26 percent of […]
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Thursday, May 11th, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sri Lanka is working closely with several Ministries and relevant authorities to develop a project to mainstream e-mobility through the conversion of 500,000 Tuk-Tuks to electric vehicles (EVs) or e-Tuk- Tuks over a 5-year period. In a statement issued in this regard, the UNDP stated that […]
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Monday, April 10th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror A card system will be introduced this year to enable passengers to obtain tickets for Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) buses instead of using money, Transport Minister Bandula Gunawardena said. Accordingly, a new technical solution will be introduced for passengers to obtain bus tickets using a QR code. Minister Gunawardena said […]
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2023
Courtesy Argus Media Chinese state-owned Sinopec has proposed to fully finance the construction of a refinery in Hambantota district in Sri Lanka, the island nation said on 13 March. Representatives from Sinopec presented Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe with a proposal, and also confirmed their “readiness to invest in the import, storage, distribution, and marketing […]
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Friday, March 3rd, 2023
Courtesy Adaderana The Department of Motor Traffic has approved the use of ‘Vega’ cars – not only Sri Lanka’s, but also South Asia’s first all-electric supercar. Accordingly the number plate for the first Vega car registered in Sri Lanka was handed over today (03 March) to the President and CEO of CodeGen and the designer […]
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Wednesday, March 1st, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Cabinet approved signing the international conventions relating to generate electricity using nuclear power as it was a reliable, low-carbon baseload source of electricity to complement renewable energy sources in the future, Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Board (SLARB) Chairman Professor S.R.D. Rosa said. He told the Daily Mirror that the country […]
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Saturday, February 25th, 2023
Researched and written by Mr. Rama Somasunderam retired State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport (1990) and retired Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Mahaweli (SLAS). This was called the Jaffna Peninsula Lagoon Scheme which is located at Elephant Pass which is located 30 miles South East of Jaffna. The lagoon is 19,000 acres and […]
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Saturday, February 25th, 2023
Mr. Rama Somasunderam retired State Secretary of the Ministry of Transport (1990) and retired Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Mahaweli (SLAS). The Kelini Ganga is one of the main rivers of Sri Lanka. It has its source in the Central Hills near Adam’s Speak and follows through the South Western Part of the country […]
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
Amanda Ranasingha Convener A digital voting system should be introduced in the country as soon as possible as it would benefit the country in a variety of ways, including a significant cost reduction when conducting polls, Sri Lanka Digital Citizen Association said. Sri Lanka Digital Citizen Association Convener Amanda Ranasinghe emphasized that it would bring […]
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Saturday, December 24th, 2022
Mr Alan Williams Media & Communications Officer University of Plymouth The University is working with organisations in the UK and Sri Lanka on new research to develop compound flood hazard maps. An international team of engineers is joining forces with a disaster educationalist to investigate coastal flooding due to cyclones in three communities within the […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2022
by Russian Foundation for Basic Research RUDN University mathematicians with colleagues from Portugal, Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka for the first time investigated a wireless network model with NOMA and PLNC technologies . It allows serving a large number of users at once, while ensuring security. The results are published in IEEE access. For more efficient operation of wireless networks, the NOMA […]
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Thursday, December 15th, 2022
මාධ්යවේදී ජනක බලල්ල විදේශ රැකියා සහ සංක්රමණ ක්ෂේත්රෙය් මේ වන විට වාර්තාවන ජාවාරම් සහ අක්රමිකතා වැලැක්වීම සදහා වහාම සංක්රමණයන්ට අදාල සියලු කටයුතු ඩිජිටල් වේදිකාවකට ගෙන ආ යුුත බවත්, මෙය ඩිජිටල්කරණයට ලක් නොකරන්නේ කාගේ බලපෑමක් නිසාදැයි ප්රශ්ණ කරන බවත් විදෙස් බලය සංවිධාන පවසයි. විදේශ රැකියා සහ සංක්රමණ ක්ෂේත්රය ඩිජිටල්කරණයට ලක් නොවීම නිසා මේ වන විට විවිධ […]
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Thursday, December 15th, 2022
Courtesy Adaderana Russian Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Levan Dzhagaryan met with Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera this morning (15 Dec). The meeting focused on the requirements of Sri Lanka’s energy sector, Wijesekera stated. Accordingly, the fuel requirements, refinery operations, challenges in coal supply and the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed for nuclear energy […]
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2022
By Audrey Courty Courtesy ABC News A Brisbane-based company that invented a smartphone app it says can diagnose COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses by listening to someone cough has been purchased by Pfizer for nearly $180 million. ResApp Health Limited uses diagnostic technology developed by Associate Professor Udantha Abeyratne and his research team at the University of Queensland […]
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Thursday, April 7th, 2022
Press release The 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize is awarded to Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen and Professor Herbert Sixta for the development and use of novel ionic liquids to process wood biomass into high-performance textile fibres. The future demand for textile fibres is growing due to global population growth. Production of cotton, the predominantly used cellulose fibre […]
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022
Sugath Kulatunga The country is in the midst of a acute power crisis. If we ignore the immediate problem of dearth dollars to buy fuel the present crisis is mainly due to the Yahapalana government not investing in a single new power generation unit. The dollar crisis will exacerbate with oil prices expected to go […]
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Thursday, February 17th, 2022
by Nermina Kulovic Courtesy Offshore Energy A drillship owned by Aquadrill Offshore, formerly known as Seadrill Partners, has caught fire while docked at a port in Sri Lanka. The Hambantota International Port Emergency Response Unit (ERU) together with the port’s Quality, Health, Safety & Environment Dept. (QHSE), and Port Control, responded to a fire that occurred […]
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Saturday, January 8th, 2022
Courtesy Ceylon Today China has manufactured a giant tunnel boring machine (TBM) for Sri Lanka. The TBM, made by China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Corp Ltd, has been rolled off the assembly line in Changsha, Hunan Province. The machine with a diameter of 7.6 meters will be used in a water diversion project in SL. […]
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