“Lion City” – ‘Isle at the end of the peninsula’ – By Arundathie Abeysinghe – Part IV Image Source : 7continents1passport. Sentosa Island Globally renowned Sentosa Island is Asia’s leading leisure destination and Singapore’s premier island resort getaway, a vibrant island resort for business and leisure. Located within 15 minutes from the central business and shopping districts, the island resort is situated off Singapore’s southern coast, connected to the city by road, cable car, pedestrian boardwalk as well as monorail. 500-hectare island resort is home to an exciting array of themed attractions including golden sandy beaches, resort accommodations, world-renowned golf courses, lush rainforests, a deep-water yachting marina and luxurious residences. Sentosa is also home to Singapore’s first integrated resort, Resorts World Sentosa that operates Southeast Asia’s first Universal Studios theme park. Situated on the eastern end of Sentosa Island is Sentosa Cove, an exclusive waterfront residential enclave bustling with more than ...

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“Lion City” – ‘Isle at the end of the peninsula’ – By Arundathie Abeysinghe Part II Currently, Singapore is a thriving center of commerce and industry, with intense economic growth and a rapidly developing manufacturing base. Singapore is the busiest port the world with over 600 shipping lines herding supertankers, container ships, passenger liners, fishing vessels including wooden lighters in its waters. It is also a major oil refining and distribution center and a significant supplier of electronic components. It has also turned it into a leader in shipbuilding, maintenance as well as repair. When the Suez Canal was built in 1869, Singapore became even more singificant as a ‘gateway’ between Europe and eastern Asia. Changi International Airport Ranked by Travel + Leisure readers as “the best airport in the world”, a position Changi Airport has upheld in T+L’s World’s Best Awards since 2012, the 14,000-square-metre space is filled with ...

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YEVIN SAMARARATNE Sri Lanka born young Golf prodigy in Brisbane had qualified for the final squad of thirty among 125 golfers at the Sri Lankan Open Golf Championships 2023 – By Sunil Thenabadu Sri Lanka born teenage golf prodigy Yevin Samararatne has done remarkably at the open golf championships  2023 being held at Colombo Golf Club courses which commenced on the 30th May.At the end of the preliminary rounds they had selected thirty players squad for the final two rounds. Yevin has been placed the 17th beating so many overseas players and local players who are used to this golf course. The score card is annexed hereto. The overseas players from countries like USA, Singapore,India,Pakistan,Singapore,Japan,Maldives etc are participating .Yevin is the only participant from down under.   Sunil Thenabadu in Brisbane… Also refer to this article eLanka published in Oct 2021 “ Yevin and Tiyara phenomenal golfing siblings “Down Under””    https://www.elanka.com.au/yevin-and-tiyara-phenomenal-golfing-siblings-down-under-2/ Sri ...

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Sapporo Soup Curry – By GEORGE BRAINE Recently, The New York Times carried a feature article on what to eat while traveling in Asia. It recommended a specific dish from India, Thailand, Korea, Japan, and Singapore. Soup Curry was the dish from Japan, and Sapporo, in the northern island of Hokkaido, where I live, is the home of soup curry. To a Sri Lankan, “Japanese curry” sounds like such a mismatch. What would the consumers of sushi – raw fish – know about curry, in which ingredients are cooked to death? So, for a couple of years, I thumbed my nose at local curry. Most supermarkets display a mind boggling variety of packaged curries, but they did not appeal to me.   Curry is said to have arrived in Japan in the 19th century, when Anglo-Indian members of the Royal Navy brought curry powder with them. Since then, the Japanese ...

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A migrant’s story – By Ron Pieris I was preparing to migrate to Sydney from Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) in 1974. I was invited to a home in Moratuwa for a meal. I remember it was a sunny day in the summer of ‘74. I took a bus from Bambalapitiya to Moratuwa and walked down to my friend’s home. I was greeted at the entrance by his wife and children who warmly welcomed me. After a bit of small talk, I was requested to move to the dining room. This was a Sinhalese family from the provinces. I noticed that on the dining table was placed a bowl of rice with a saucer for serving and three vegetable curries, and on the centre of the table was placed a single egg. We all served food onto our plates. And all of those present were staring at the egg! I was ...

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Dining Out: Dhruvees offers welcome upscale spin on South Asian dishes – by Peter Hum Source:ottawacitizen.com The Beechwood Avenue restaurant is the vision made real of Ottawa-based, India-born entrepreneur Donald Wingell, who worked for years as a manager at deluxe hotels in Sri Lanka, China, Indonesia and Singapore. Dhruvees 18 Beechwood Ave., 613-744-7888, dhruvees.com Open: Tuesday to Sunday 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., closed Monday Prices: main courses between $20 and $32 Access: steps and ramp to front door There are two kinds of people in the world. First, there are those who don’t mind getting their hands dirty while ripping off the shells of cooked crustaceans so as to feast on their sweet, toothsome flesh, even if it means appearing embarrassingly primal in front of your sophisticated dining companions. Then there are those who would rather not. Diners from both camps should be happy at Dhruvees, which opened in early February in New Edinburgh. ...

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Sports-tech startup Koach Hub expands boundaries with Daryll Cullinan Source:-www.ft.lk Singapore based Koach Hub, the revolutionary sports-tech platform, has signed a partnership with renowned South African cricketing legend Daryll Cullinan to expand its platform to cricket.  Koach was launched in January this year as a solution to increasing market demand for an intelligent collaboration tool for sports, especially soccer. The company has seen rapid expansion across the world, and is deployed across clubs and academies in Australia, Singapore, USA, UK, Netherlands, Japan, Lebanon, Ghana, Bermuda, and Sri Lanka within the last eight months.  Being able to collaborate with Legendary Daryll Cullinan is indeed a huge step forward. Cullinan became, at the young age of 16, the youngest South African to strike a first-class century. He also scored 337 not out, the highest first-class score in domestic South African cricket at the time. Daryll Cullinan was the centrepiece of South Africa’s ...

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THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC –  By – Algi Wijewickrema When you have an email address like “noproblemperera” I’m sure you readers would expect an out of the ordinary person. Out of the ordinary is an understatement really for arguably Sri Lanka’s most versatile and entertaining musician. He is the leader of a band that is not only popular among Sri Lankans living here but also popular with Sri Lankans abroad. He is none other than the leader of the “Gypsies”, Sunil Perera. When I visited Sunil at his studio in Ratmalana where their family business has existed for decades, he was ready to accommodate us but the interview was inevitably disturbed by many telephone calls that kept coming which to me proves how busy this man can still be and how the popularity of Gypsies has not diminished. Beginning with his school days at St. Peter’s College, Bambalapitiya, Sunil ...

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