Young Public Health Physician from Sri Lanka at the World Health Summit in Berlin
The Inter Academy Medical Panel (IAMP) is the leading global network of medical academies and medical sections of academies of science and engineering, which is committed to improving health worldwide. The IAMP Young Physicians Leaders Programme is a satellite event, which took place at the World Health Summit 2012 in Berlin from October 19th to 24th. 16 outstanding young physician leaders were selected and nominated by IAMP members for a specific workshop to develop their leadership skills during mentoring sessions with an international group of physician leaders. The programme also included the participation in the World Health Summit taking place from October 23rd to 25th.
Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals rose 18.1 percent to 71,111 in September 2012 from a year earlier, with arrivals during the nine months up 16 percent to 693,772 data from the Indian Ocean island's tourist promotion office showed. Arrivals from Western Europe rose 15.1 percent to 22,327 with German arrivals surging 46 percent to 4,942 and top generating market Britain rising 9.1 percent after showing disappointing performance so far this year. In the first ten months of the year UK arrivals were only up 3.5 percent to 81,762. Arrivals from France rose 6.4 percent to 3,030 but Netherlands another key market fell 3.3 percent to 1,456.
World's most renowned and largest travel guide book and digital media publisher –"The Lonely Planet" has named Sri Lanka as number one destination in the world to visit in year 2013.
Sri Lanka's National Pastry team excelled at the recent Culinary Olympics in Frankfurt winning the National Pastry Team Award with six golds. By Harischandra Gunaratna, The Island, 17.10.2012 (dbsjeyaraj.com)
The Sri Lanka Design Festival (SLDF) is part of the "design for sustainable development" initiative undertaken by the Academy of Design (AOD) campus. Significantly, the annual event showcases creative works from all over the country and will provide a platform to demonstrate and promote Sri Lankan products.