The Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardane extended his gratitude to the government of South Korea for donating USD 3 million worth of PCR test kits to be used in Sri Lanka and the Korean Embassy declaring the ‘Stay Strong’ campaign to strengthen Sri Lanka’s anti-COVID campaign.

Sri Lanka Ambassador-designate to Japan Sanjiv Gunasekara assumed duties on 6 January 2021, in Tokyo. He is the seventeenth Sri Lanka Ambassador to Japan during last 69
years of bilateral relations of the two countries. The event of the assumption of duties of the Ambassador-designate included the invoking of the blessings of Buddhists, Hindu,
Islamic and Christian.

Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Nishantha Ulugetenne on 06th January 2021 ceremonially declared open a pillared structure (Latha Mandapaya) and Lotus Pond (Nelumpokuna) constructed with the contribution of Sri Lanka Navy, at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed 18-member De-Regulation Commission for the Simplification of the Existing Laws and Regulations in the interest of the people.