SRI LANKA TO COMPETE IN SUDIRMAN CUP BADMINTON AT THE GOLD COAST 500 million households globally set to watch broadcast of world’s second most popular sport (Thursday February 2, 2017) Minister for Tourism and Major Events Kate Jones, the Hon. Steven Ciobo MP, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment, Mayor of the City of Gold Coast Tom Tate, Consular Dignitaries and Community Leaders representing seven countries and Badminton Australia officials today came together at Southport Broadwater Parklands to announce the 32 countries that will compete for top honours at the globally-celebrated Total BWF Sudirman Cup 2017. Children in traditional dress – representing some of the biggest badminton nations globally – were also on hand to celebrate the world team championships of badminton coming to Australia for the first time in the Sudirman Cup’s 25-year history. ...
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Immunotherapy is an emerging technique to kill cancer cells Written by Dr harold Gunatillake FRCS, FICS, FIACS, AM (Sing), MBBS Health writer For decades, cancer has been treated with invasive procedures like surgery, combined with non-invasive- radio and chemo therapy. Some cancers are also controlled through hormone therapy specifically for those hormone dependant cancers of the breast post conventional therapy. If cancer is detected in the early stages excisional surgery could be 100% cure. If the cancer cells have spread beyond its local boundaries, say into the regional lymph glands then regional radiotherapy is planned in addition to primary elective surgery. When spread beyond the regional lymph glands –chemotherapy is added as an adjuvant therapy to kill ‘metastatic cancer cells’ in the distant sites. The problem with non-invasive procedures is that normally functioning healthy cells also get harmed, revealed by hair loss, gastro-intestinal symptoms, tiredness, lethargy loss of appetite, and ...
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Read More →Drink plenty of water during the day & night By Dr harold Gunatillake-health writer Drink a glass of water every few hours a day. When you get up in the morning drinking a glass or two of cool water with lemon slice in it helps you to wake up and refresh you for the rest of the day. Hydrating your self has many advantages. Water is life, after all life begins in water. You not only tone your body with hydration, it helps digestion of food and corrects many other metabolic issues. Remember, always when you go for your routine blood tests drink plenty of water to hydrate the blood stream. Drinking a glass of water before meals dilutes your gastric juice, and minimises cravings and hunger crashes. You tend to eat less and can help weight loss. It aids fat mobilisation and less fat is absorbed. Water helps ...
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Read More →SRI LANKA DIASPORA PHOTO EXHIBITION Victor Melder Citation DFAT “PLATINUM” ANNIVERSARY 70 long years of outstanding association between Australia and Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, culminates in an anniversary which should afford our diaspora here plenty of pleasure and worthwhile pride in thirteen very special members of “my lovely Island home” who have, in various ways, enhanced the reputation of the tiny Island we called “home”. Thousands of Sri Lankans now call Australia home, and the majority have “done their old Country proud”, but the diplomatic relations between Australia & Ceylon/Sri Lanka from 1947-2017 would naturally be too vast to be comprehensively “covered” and, as such, the Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Australia, in their wisdom, decided to celebrate this special anniversary by “showcasing” thirteen prominent, successful members with Sri Lankan Heritage in a “photograph exhibition” to be exhibited all around this huge Island Continent., a photograph exhibition which will ...
Read More →The A.B.C. of Lankan Cricket by Desmond Kelly; “the Star of eLanka” Congratulations are in order to our Sri Lankan Cricketers, all. After beating South Africa, in South Africa, which wasn’t at all easy, their T20 “team” came to Australia, beat the Prime Minister’s “Eleven” which should not have happened because our P.M. seems to be having a rough time of it, off the field as well, then came to the M.C.G. in Melbourne to defeat the “home-side” in one of the closest T20 cricket matches I have ever seen. Right down to the “last” ball, with Lanka needing just one “run” to win, a boundary of 4 was hit, giving this “entertaining cricket team” another well-earned win. It is “on purpose” that I will refrain from actually naming the gentlemen involved in the game that they love so much. Firstly, all their names seem to be so lengthy (these ...
Read More →Know Your Gall Bladder by Dr. Harold Gunatillake Gall bladder is a pear shaped sac hidden under the liver and connected through its duct to the common bile duct. Its main function is to store bile a greenish secretion formed in your liver. Bile is really an excretory product of the liver to get rid of excess cholesterol and bile acid required for the digestion of fatty foods in the proximal small gut. It is coloured because it contains breakdown products of the blood pigment haemoglobin. It excretes a bile pigment called bilirubin which is orange or yellow and its oxidized form biliverdin, which is green. When you eat your food, especially fatty food the gall bladder squeezes the bile into the gut. ...
Read More →Sri Lanka Cricket on a high by Quintus de Zylva Thilanga and Samadara Sumathipala have been the strength behind Sri Lanka’s emergence as a T20 force to be reckoned with. The manner in which they humbled Australia at the MCG and in Geelong must surely have sent shivers up Cricket Australia. Thilanga and Samadara nursed Lasith back in to a state in which he could believe in himself and provide the backbone to the team for inspiring successes in T20 cricket. His toe-crushing yorkers will be spoken about for many a year to come. Sri Lanka’s cricketing High Commissioner – Skanda – has also been an inspiration to the team and the country – he was at the helm some years ago when the ICC were impressed by the good governance that Sri Lanka showed in getting things together. And now a new era dawns with his words of encouragement ...
Read More →NUWAN KULASEKERA by Quintus de Zylva Nuwan is another of the senior players in the Sri Lankan cricket team that toured Australia for three one day T20 matches at the MCG , order Geelong and Adelaide. He is a right hand bat and right arm pace bowler who was educated at Bandaranayake College Gampaha and has played for the NCC, Sussex and the Chennai Super Kings. Along with Lasith Malinga and Upul Tharanga these three senior players have given stability to the young side that has so far won the first and second T20 matches both of which ended in thrilling last over successes. Sri Lanka looks forward to a clean sweep of this Australian tour – a great performance from a young team. Thilanga and his commitee have steered the side to a winning way after a turbulent period last year. We are proud of them and the leadership ...
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