Month: March 2020
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Mar- 2020 -21 MarchUncategorized
DARAZ
Daraz is a premium online shopping site, hosting a wide variety of products and has increasingly become a place for many to start their own businesses. Many women have come to embrace
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21 MarchMEDIA RELEASES
GURU.LK
Sri Lanka’s largest digital learning content platform Guru.lk has announced it is offering access to its vast resource of digitised material to schools and private tuition institutes whose
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20 MarchUncategorized
NUCLEAR WASTE SITE CLOSE DUE TO CORONAVIRUS
Britain’s nuclear waste site will shut its reprocessing plant at Sellafield after more than 8% of its staff began self-isolating to prevent the spread of the coronavirus
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20 March
HOW CAN YOU TURN YOUR HOBBY INTO A START UP?
When we imagine the pathway to becoming an entrepreneur, we often envision a linear track: quit your job and start a business. Being an entrepreneur is an all or nothing proposition
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20 MarchONLINE EXCLUSIVES
GLOBAL SEA LEVEL RISES BY 2.2 MM
Last year’s summer was so warm that it helped trigger the loss of 600bn tons of ice from Greenland – enough to raise global sea levels by 2.2mm in just two months, new research has…
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20 March
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20 March
25 MILLION JOBS ESTIMATED TO BE LOST DUE TO CVOID-19
The United Nations’ labor agency suggested this was a worst-case, or “high,” scenario of global unemployment but said internationally-coordinated policy response could mean
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20 MarchWOMEN IN BUSINESS
AITKEN SPENCE
Q: How does Aitken Spence view the business climate? A: The economy is gradually recovering and according to the IMF, GDP growth is projected at 3.7 percent for 2020. Moreover, the tourism industry has…
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20 MarchWOMEN IN BUSINESS
CBH LANDS
Q: What challenges are faced by women entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka? A: Many women entrepreneurs enter business due to widowhood, divorce, inheriting a family business or because their husband’s income is insufficient. While Sri Lankan…
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20 MarchWOMEN IN BUSINESS
JOHN KEELLS PROPERTIES
Q: Could you outline the importance of financial independence for women? A: Financial independence – or any form of independence – impacts people’s outlook on life and provides them with the confidence to achieve other…
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