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eLanka Newsletter – 18th Oct – 5th edition – Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter Consul General pays a courtesy call on with Her Excellency, the Governor of New South Wales CICERO’S COMMENT – By Des Kelly Crowdfunding fight to save pay-as-you-can Lentil As Anything restaurants during COVID-19 recession-Cheryl Hall An American’s Opinion of Australia – by David Mason Photos from the Consul General of Sri Lanka Sydney office – photos Vijay Sethupathi to play legendary Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan in biopic ‘800’-By PTI Mr. Ranjith Weerasena – Vice Patron and former President of the St Peter’s OBU Osteoporosis-who gets it?-by Dr Harold Gunatillake Ex Servicemen Project England tour to Sri Lanka – Mickey Arthur ‘really positive’ fixtures will go ahead-Andrew Fidel Fernando Adihetty looking to impress – By Nick Creely Kaleidoscope with Savithri Rodrigo Juggler like no ...

Rebuilding of the economy in post-COVID-19 era: Acquisition of technology a must-W.A Wijewardena The Government should set up many more techno cities all around the country with participation of both State and private universities, research institutions and industrial ventures – Pic by Shehan Gunasekara Source:FT A Chinese tech-university is a good development It has been reported in the media that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had requested the visiting high-level delegation from China to help establish a tech-university in Sri Lanka (available at: https://economynext.com/sri-lanka-president-asks-china-to-reduce-trade-deficit-invest-in-tech-university-74651/?utm_campaign=EconomyNext%20News&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter). This is a salutary development on several counts. First, China is a leader in technology and its universities are moving up in the league table of renowned universities in the world year after year. Second, Sri Lanka has now been downgraded from a higher middle-income country to a lower middle-income country on account of its poor economic performance in 2019. With the economic downfall arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, Sri ...