The 13^th consecutive International Healthcare Exhibition 2019 will be held from 12th to 14th July at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall, Colombo. The International Healthcare Exhibition serves as a good platform for healthcare related professionals, service providers, product manufacturers, exporters, importers and retailers from different countries to meet each other under one roof for business interactions and explore the industry. The National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka invites companies engaged in Indigenous and Western medicinal healthcare products and service providers including wellness promotion organizations from other countries to be part of the event.

Sri Lankan expatriates in Berlin and German Friends joined the Candle Light Vigil at the premises of the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Berlin on 23rd April to pay respect to the victims of the attack on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka.

The Faculty of Medicine of Colombo University has informed that it is willing to accomodate ten foreign students for its coming semester. Please find more information under the following LINK. Those interested could apply to the University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka (UGC) in the prescribed application form available in the UGC website http://www.ugc.ac.lk, from March 2019 onwards.

‘This year's Yowun Pura’ or ‘The City of Youth’  Leadership and Outward Bound National Programme conducted under the guidance of Hon. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will be held from 27th to 31st March 2019 in Hambantota, Sri Lanka, bringing together 7000 Sri Lankan and 100 International young people from all around the world. This year the camp is taking place in Hambantota in the Southern Province. Each of the 25 districts in Sri Lanka will send a team to represent them at the camp and a 26th ‘Worldwide’ team will be comprised of representatives from across the globe. Two young persons from Germany will have the opportunity to participate as members of this team.  

Constructors, who are already engaged in construction work in Sri Lanka or those who are intending to undertake construction projects in Sri Lanka are invited to register as a contractor.

Instructions for registration fees and the application form could be downloaded from Http://www.cida.gov.lk.

The Biennial Conference of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education (INQAAHE) and the Annual Academic Conference of the Asia Pacific Quality Network (APQN) will be hosted by the Unversity Grants Commission (UGC) of Sri Lanka from 25th to 26th March and 29th - 30th March 2019 at the BMICH, Colombo, Sri Lanka.