SriLanka

Sri Lanka selects candidates to study medicine in Cuba

Published on: April 9, 2024
12:48

Colombo, Apr 9 (Prensa Latina) The Sri Lankan Ministry of Education on Tuesday evaluated the candidates to study medicine in Havana, at a meeting that was attended by Cuban Ambassador Andrés González.

Sri Lankan healthcare unions announce strike

Published on: August 1, 2023
09:20

Colombo, Aug 1 (Prensa Latina) Sri Lanka's healthcare unions on Tuesday announced a symbolic strike for next Thursday to demand solutions to the difficulties that affect the quality of services in the country.

Sri Lanka receives 1,000 tons of rice donated by China

Published on: June 29, 2022
10:34

Colombo, Jun 29 (Prensa Latina) A total of 1,000 tons of rice donated by the people of China for Sri Lankan students were handed over to the Ministry of Education in the Colombo port, it was spread on Wednesday.

Communist Party of Sri Lanka suppports Cuba

Published on: November 19, 2021
13:03

Colombo, Nov 19 (Prensa Latina) The leader of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL), Edwin Weerasinghe Gunasekera, on Friday expressed his solidarity with Cuba, as well as his rejection of the United States economic, commercial and financial blockade against the Caribbean island.

Sri Lanka’s death toll rises to 20 due to rains

Published on: November 10, 2021
10:07

Colombo, Nov 10 (Prensa Latina) The death toll from Sri Lanka's adverse weather conditions on Wednesday rose to 20, while five people were injured and one is missing, the Disaster Management Center (DMC) informed.

Cuba to help Sri Lanka make medicines from moringa plants

Published on: October 20, 2021
16:17

Colombo, Oct 20 (Prensa Latina) Cuba offered to help Sri Lanka with technology to manufacture health products from the moringa plant, the Ministry of Education announced on Wednesday.

Sri Lanka and Cuba exchange on hydraulic development

Published on: October 1, 2021
07:53

Colombo, Oct 1 (Prensa Latina) Representatives of Sri Lanka and Cuba exchanged on the hydraulic development of both countries and the possibilities of developing ties in this economic sphere, a diplomatic source reported on Friday.

Over 10 million people in Sri Lanka receive Covid-19 vaccines

Published on: September 10, 2021
09:39

Colombo, Sep 10 (Prensa Latina) Sri Lanka has crossed the 10-million mark in administrating the two doses of Covid-19 vaccines since the vaccination program rolled out in late January.

Covid-19 vaccination for minors in Cuba highlighted in Sri Lanka

Published on: September 7, 2021
07:32

Colombo, Sep 7 (Prensa Latina) Cuba became the first country in the world to immunize children aged two years and older against Covid-19 with its own vaccines, Ceylon Today reported in Sri Lanka on Tuesday.

‘History Will Absolve Me’ translated into Tamil language in Sri Lanka

Published on: July 26, 2021
09:11

Colombo, (Prensa Latina) La Historia Me Absolvera (History will Absolve Me), Fidel Castro's self-defense allegation during the trial on the attacks on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes barracks in 1953, was translated into the Tamil language in Sri Lanka.

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