Pressroom | The Sunday Times Mr. Pure Ceylon Tea Plans A Long-Awaited Break This YearJanuary 14, 2018June 14, 2025RAJAGIRIYA – After 12-14 hour work days and slowing down a few months ago, Sri Lanka’s iconic Mr. Pure Ceylon Tea plans to take a much-needed break this year – visit numerous friends overseas and devote more time to his twin passions: engaging with plantation workers and hundreds of differently abled children.
Pressroom | The Sunday Times Don’t frighten leopards out of existenceJanuary 14, 2018June 14, 2025Last week’s commotion over a cornered leopard reinforces the need to handle such encounters with care to prevent an escalation...
Pressroom | The Sunday Times Dilmah founder helps to rehabilitate prisonersDecember 20, 2017June 14, 2025The man who created history in the tea industry in Sri Lanka asserting that the future of the industry lies in the concept of marketing tea...
Pressroom | The Sunday Times “Lifetime Service Award” for Dilmah founderDecember 17, 2017June 14, 2025Dilmah Tea Chairman & Founder Merrill J. Fernando was last week presented a "Lifetime Service Award" from President Maithripala Sirisena for his services to the industry.
Pressroom | The Sunday Times Hooked on batsNovember 26, 2017June 14, 2025A new book sheds light into the little known world of these creatures of the night
Pressroom | The Sunday Times World’s First Private Sector Owned Climate Change Research Station in Sri LankaOctober 31, 2017June 14, 2025Dilmah Founder, Merrill J Fernando inaugurated the first private sector owned climate change research station- Dilmah Conservation Centre for Climate Change Research and Adaptation, in fulfilment of his founding commitment to make business a matter of human service. The establishment is expected to play a fundamental research on climate change and its impact on agriculture and food security, with key emphasis on tea production.
Pressroom | The Sunday Times When Indonesia’s stars shone brightOctober 29, 2017June 14, 2025Lankan school choirs Methodist College and Ladies' College and Prestantia Chorale do Sri Lanka proud
Pressroom | The Sunday Times Together they sang, sang and sangOctober 29, 2017June 14, 20254th Asia Pacific Choir Games from October 21 to 28
Pressroom | The Sunday Times Potpourri of traditions with a song and a danceOctober 29, 2017June 14, 2025Shakespeare once said, "If music be the food of love, play on" and play on it did, as the highly anticipated choral celebration, the 4th South Asia Pacific Choir Games was held in Colombo.
Pressroom | The Sunday Times All set to sing together and bring nations togetherOctober 15, 2017June 14, 2025An Article Published by The Sunday Times
Pressroom | The Sunday Times Retail discount culture worries top tea brand, DilmahSeptember 10, 2017June 14, 2025A top Sri Lankan branded tea producer has raised concerns over what it calls “the prevailing discount culture in the retail industry’, arguing this has destroyed quality in most product categories.
Pressroom | The Sunday Times Drawn by the lure of lichensSeptember 4, 2017June 14, 2025Dr. Gothamie Weerakoon who put Sri Lanka on the world map as a hotspot for this important and ancient organism, was back in the country to identify its biodiversity and medicinal value