KANCHANAMALA (KANCHI) RANASINGHE-MULTIFACETED GENIUS HIGHLY QUALIFIED MEDICAL DOCTOR ,LECTURER,VOCALIST,CHARITY WORKER, DRAMTIST IN SINHABAHU AT PEAK OF CELEBRITY – BY SUNIL THENABADU Dr Kanchanamala Ranasinghe known popularly as Kanchi among her family,friends, patients and admirers is a multifaceted authoritarian charisma has at her relatively young age navigated over many traits as a consultant clinical doctor for which she has the highest post graduate certification,  Kanchi with her multifaceted competences, traits, and talents retain a diverse temperament with expertise in multiple fields. Kanchi has immense hereditary affiliations inherited from her parents who were both scholars and dramatists. The duo Malini and Terrence Ranasinghe then residents of Peradeniya both have honorary degrees in Biology and Arts from the University of Peradeniya .Mother Malini had been selected to the medical faculty in Colombo, as then there had been only this solitary medical faculty in Sri Lanka , her parents had objected to accepting this offer as she had to ...

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Sri Lankan Tourism & Sustainable Development by HELEN BULLE Source: Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade With  the support of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Griffith University has been proud to support a range of capacity building projects with the Government of Sri Lanka and other stakeholders during the  past decade. Through this, we have built strong people to people and organisational links to create opportunities and support the mutually beneficial relationship between our two countries. The  most recent project, delivered in 2018 and 2020 by Griffith University and  University of the Sunshine Coast, has been an Australia Awards Short Course in Sustainable Tourism, an area of significant importance now and into the future in both Sri Lanka and Australia. This program has focussed on  improving the economic benefits brought into Sri Lanka by the tourism sector while ensuring their long term viability. The participants have been ...

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    Sri Lanka’s HC to Australia appointed as a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Griffith University Source:-Colombo Page Dec 24, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Australia, President’s Counsel J C Weliamuna has been appointed as a visiting instructor in the Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. The Griffith Business School’s Professor A J Brown announced the appointment of J C Weliamuna PC to support the Asia-Pacific Integrity School to be hosted in March 2020. Professor Brown said he was honored to announce the appointment of His Excellency J C Weliamuna PC to support the Integrity School and Griffith’s wider anti-corruption efforts. “As a new Distinguished Visiting Fellow in our Public Integrity & Anti-Corruption Research program in 2020, Mr Weliamuna will make an exceptional contribution to regional and global anti-corruption policy.” A leading human rights and constitutional lawyer, Mr Weliamuna is currently Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Australia, and was a ...

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