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Leta Hong Fincher is an American  journalist and writer.
Her books have been reviewed by several major publications including The Guardian and the Washington Post.
She graduated from Tsing Hua University.
She was an Associate Research Scholar, at Columbia University.
Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, Zed Books, 2014.
ISBN 978-1780329222
Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China, Verso, 2018.
ISBN 978-1786633644
Contagem is a city in the state of Minas Gerais, in Brazil.
It has 663,855 inhabitants and an area of 195,045 km².
Monroe County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.
At the 2010 census, 13,502 people lived there.
Melo is a city in Uruguay.
It is the capital of the Cerro Largo Department.
Rivera is the capital of the Rivera Department in Uruguay.
It has about 64,400 inhabitants and is the sixth largest city by population in Uruguay.
Miriam Pawel is an American journalist and writer.
She is a contributing opinion editor at the New York Times.
Her books have been reviewed by several major publications including the Los Angeles Review of Book and the New York Times.
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2014.
ISBN 9781608197101
The Browns of California, New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
ISBN 9781632867339
The union of their dreams : power, hope, and struggle in Cesar Chavez's farm worker movement, New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
ISBN 9781596914605
A Free Soul is a 1931 American drama movie directed by Clarence Brown and based on the 1927 novel of the same name by Adela Rogers St. Johns.
It stars Lionel Barrymore, Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, Clark Gable, Lucy Beaumont and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
It was nominated for 3 Oscars and won an Academy Award in 1931.
John Duncan Anderson  (born 14 November 1956) is an Australian politician.
He was the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and leader of the National Party from 1999 to 2005.
He was a member of the House of Representatives from 1989 to 2007.
He also served as Minister for Primary Industries and Energy (1996–1998) and Minister for Transport and Regional Development (1998–2005) in the Howard Government.
Anderson was born in Sydney, New South Wales.
He is married to Julia Robertson.
Bensalem Township is a township in Bucks County, Pennsylvania,  United States and borders the northeast section of Philadelphia.
Joe Porcaro (April 29, 1930 – July 6, 2020) was an American jazz drummer.
He was known for performing with Toto.
Porcaro led a jazz group with Emil Richards.
He was one of the founders of the Los Angeles College of Music.
He performed movie scores with James Newton Howard, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner and Danny Elfman.
Dannes Arcenio Coronel Campoverde (May 24, 1973 – July 7, 2020) was an Ecuadorian football defender.
He was born in the Guayas Province, Ecuador.
Coronel made 27 appearances for the Ecuador national team between 1992 and 2000.
He also played for Emelec, El Nacional
Leland is a town in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States.
The population was 13,527 at the 2010 census.
Bolivia is a town in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States.
The population was 143 at the 2010 census.
Brock Pierce (born November 14, 1980) is an American businessman and former child actor.
He is known for his work in the cryptocurrency industry.
As a child actor, he was in Disney movies The Mighty Ducks (1992), D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994), and First Kid (1996).
In July 2020, Pierce announced his candidacy for President of the United States as an Independent candidate for the 2020 election.</big>
The Burmese alphabet is an alphabet that is used to write some languages, including the Burmese language.
It is also used to write down the religious languages of Sanskrit and Pali.
It is very different from the ABCs.
It is known for having a lot of round letters that look like circles.
Monks would write on palm leaves.
They had to make the letters round because straight lines would split the leaf and ruin it.
Eventually, these round letters became the Burmese alphabet as we know it today.
The Burmese alphabet has 33 basic consonants.
Extra marks are added to indicate vowels and tones.
There are 33 consonants in the Burmese alphabet.
When they are alone, they have an "ah" sound, although people use the "uh" sound when another syllable follows it.
The Burmese alphabet is not organized the same way as the ABCs.
Instead, consonants are organized by the parts of the mouth they are made in.
For example, the first row of consonants are all sounds that are made when the tongue is against the back of the mouth.
Some letters are written different in different cases to avoid confusion with other letters.
For example, ဝ + ာ is written as ဝါ (wah) to avoid confusion with တ (t).
There are letters that are used in words from Pali.
They are: ဃ (gh), ဈ (jh), ဋ (ṭ), ဌ (ṭh), ဍ (ḍ), ဎ (ḍh), ဏ (ṇ), ဓ (dh), and ဠ (ḷ).
Two letters, ၐ (ś) and ၑ (ṣ), are only used in words that are from Sanskrit.
They are pronounced the same as သ.
To make more consonants, special marks are written around or below consonants.
These marks are: ျ, ြ, ွ, and ှ. They change the consonant sound.
For example, ရ makes a y sound (like you) but ရ + ှ makes ရှ which makes a sh sound (like shoe).
There are rules about which consonants can be changed this way.
Every letter has a "ah" sound when it's alone.
For example, က is pronounced as "kah."
When a lone letter is followed by another syllable, it is pronounced with a "uh" sound.
Burmese is a tonal language.
That means that the meaning of a word can change by how fast or slow someone let air out of their throats.
In written Burmese, tones are indicated by special marks.
Syllable rhymes
Burmese words cannot end in a consonant sound.
For example, "cat" would not be a word in Burmese because it has a "t" sound at the end.
However, words are written with consonants to indicate special vowel sounds that are allowed at the end of Burmese words.
These consonants have a special mark on them (်) called asat.
When these consonants are combined with the vowels that are already written, they are called syllable rhymes.
Some of these special consonants indicate that the word needs to end with a puff of air, like in "uh-oh" between the uh and the oh.
They are: က်, စ်, တ်, ပ်.
Other special sounds indicate that the vowels is nasal.
Nasal vowels are not found in English, but are found in other languages like French and Portuguese.
They are: င်, ည် ဉ်, န်, မ်.
Stacking consonants
In Burmese writing, consonants can be written on top of each other.
There are very specific rules on which consonants can be stacked on top of which.
၁၀ is 10
Joshua Baret Henderson (born October 25, 1981) is an American actor, model and singer.
He is best known for his roles as John Ross Ewing III in the TNT revival of Dallas (2012–2014) and Austin McCann on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives (2006–2007).
Bruce Millan  (5 October 1927 – 21 February 2013) was a British Labour politician who served as a European Commissioner from 1989 to 1995.
He was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Craigton at the 1959 general election and served for that seat, and after its abolition in 1983 for Glasgow Govan, until 1988.
He served in the Wilson government of 1964–1970 as Under-Secretary of State for the Air Force from 1964 to 1966, as Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1966 to 1970, and in the Callaghan government of 1976–1979 as Secretary of State for Scotland; he subsequently served as Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland under new leader Michael Foot.
After Parliament
In 1988 he left Parliament, by applying for the Chiltern Hundreds, to take up the post of European Commissioner for Regional Policy and Cohesion which he held until 1995.
The vacancy he left was filled by Jim Sillars of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the notable Glasgow Govan by-election of 1988.
Meryl Gordon is an American writer.
Her books have been reviewed by several major publications including the Washington Post and the New York Times.
Her work appeared in Vanity Fair and Town & Country.
Mrs. Astor Regrets: The Hidden Betrayals of a Family Beyond Reproach, Houghton Mifflin ISBN 978-0-618-89373-7
The Phantom of Fifth Avenue.
Grand Central, ISBN 978-1455512652
Bunny Mellon: Life of an American Style Legend, Grand Central, ISBN 978-1-4555-8874-9
The Baliem River Valley tree frog (Litoria umbonata) is a frog from New Guinea.
The male adult frog is 2.8 to 3.6 cm long and the female is 3.1 to 4.2 cm long.
It has some webbing on its front feet and more webbing on its hind feet.
It is creamy or brown in color.
The wind farm of Jabal Al-Zait is a power plant which produces electricity by wind energy.
The wind farm is located in Jabal al-Zeit after Ras Gharib in the Red Sea Governorate.
The plant area is 100 square kilometres, with 300 wind turbines.
The construction project of the plant started in 2015.
The cost of the Jabal Al-Zayt farm reached about 12 billion Egyptian pounds.
The farm was established with the objectives of increasing the amount of clean energy in the Egyptian national network and reducing the consumption of fossil fuels.
The European Union has provided a 30 million Euro grant to the project which costs a total of 340 million Euros.
Several European donors, including the German Development Bank, have also contributed to this ambitious project on the shores of the Red Sea, with the aim of generating clean energy.
In total, the Gabal El-Zayt project generates 580 MW, each turbine producing 2000 kilos of electricity, compared to 850 kilos per turbine at Zaafarana.
Each turbine is cleaned every two years and undergoes maintenance every six months.
The capabilities of the plant
The station consists of three administrative buildings, including the station's control rooms building, which have been created and designed in line with international standards.
Inside the turbine columns of the farm there are electric lifts for periodic maintenance, the turbine rotation speed can reaches 16 rpm, and the wind speed in the station area reaches 12-33 m / s.
The production rate at Jabal al-Zeit plant reached a standard number, which is 52% of the total capacity of the station.
The station contains a system for monitoring Bird migration through the radar, where the turbines are stopped when they pass and then restart later.
This system is created in order to maintain the safety of the birds, which may reach 300 thousand birds.
Roosevelt Island is a station on the IND 63rd Street Line of the New York City Subway.
Located in Manhattan on Roosevelt Island in the East River, it is served by the F trains at all times and the <F> trains during rush hours in the peak direction.
After this station, the next stations will be Lexington Avenue 63rd Street and 21st Street Queensbridge.
There are two two tunnels.
There is one tunnel to Queens and another one to Manhattan.
But sometimes, E trains and other trains enter this station via 6th Avenue to World Trade Center or Jamaica Center or other stations.
New York City Subway stations‎
Paul Seban (21 October 1929 – 1 July 2020) was an Algerian-born French movie director and journalist.
He was born in Sidi Bel Abbès, French Algeria.
He wrote articles for Positif and Ligue de l'enseignement.
He was known for directing La Musica and French Cancan.
William Walter Barlow (February 20, 1931 – July 5, 2020) was a Canadian politician and businessman.
He was in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1981 to 1987.
Barlow was born in Cambridge, Ontario.
Cambridge is a city in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
It is located at the confluence of the Grand and Speed rivers.
The city had a population of 129,920 as of the 2016 census.
Mary Katherine Schmitz (formerly Letourneau; January 30, 1962 – July 6, 2020) was an American schoolteacher.
She pleaded guilty in 1997 to two counts of felony second-degree rape of a child.
The victim was Vili Fualaau, who was 12 or 13 at the time and had been her sixth-grade student.
She was born in Tustin, California.
While awaiting sentencing, she gave birth to Fualaau's child.
With the state seeking a six-and-a-half year prison sentence, she reached a plea agreement calling for six months in jail, with three months suspended, and no contact with Fualaau for life among other terms.
Shortly after spending three months in jail, the police caught Letourneau in a car with Fualaau.
She was later given a prison sentence for the maximum allowed by law of seven-and-a-half years.
Eight months after returning to prison, she gave birth to Fualaau's second child, another daughter.
She was imprisoned from 1998 to 2004.
Letourneau and Fualaau began a 14-year marriage in May 2005.
They divorced in 2019.
Tustin is a city in Orange County, California, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
As of 2019, Tustin had a population of 79,348.
The city is located next to the county seat, Santa Ana.
North Tustin is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Orange County, California.
The population was 24,917 at the 2010 census.
Fulton is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sonoma County, California, United States.
Fulton is just to the north of the city limits of Santa Rosa, and  north-northeast of Sebastopol.
The population as of the 2010 U.S. Census was 541.
Renée Elise Goldsberry (born January 2, 1971) is an American actress and singer-songwriter.
She is known for playing the role of Angelica Schuyler in the Broadway musical Hamilton, for which she won the 2016 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.
Daveed Daniele Diggs (born January 24, 1982) is an American actor, rapper and hip hop singer-songwriter.
He is the vocalist of the experimental hip hop group Clipping.
In 2015, Diggs was the first actor to play the roles of Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in the musical Hamilton, for which he won both a Grammy Award and Tony Award.
Jasmine Cephas Jones (born July 21, 1989) is an American actress and singer.
She is best known for originating the dual roles of Peggy Schuyler and Maria Reynolds in the 2015 Broadway musical Hamilton.
On December 24, 2018, Cephas Jones became engaged to Hamilton original Broadway cast member Anthony Ramos.
Anthony Ramos Martinez (born November 1, 1991) is an American actor and singer.
In 2015, he became known for his the dual roles of John Laurens and Philip Hamilton in the Broadway musical Hamilton.
Leslie Odom Jr. (, born August 6, 1981) is an American actor and singer.
He has performed on Broadway and in television and movie, and has released three solo jazz albums.
He is known for the role of Aaron Burr in the Broadway musical Hamilton.
Mister Cory is a 1957 American crime drama movie directed by Blake Edwards and starring Tony Curtis, Martha Hyer, Charles Bickford, Kathryn Grant, William Reynolds, Henry Daniell.
He is known for playing King George III in the original Broadway production of Hamilton, Holden Ford in Netflix's Mindhunter, Kristoff in Frozen and Frozen II, and Jesse St. James in Glee.
He has been nominated for two Tony Awards for Spring Awakening and Hamilton.
He won a Grammy award as part of the cast recording album for Hamilton and won a Satellite Award in 2017 for Mindhunter.
2006: Spring Awakening (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
2010: Glee: The Music, The Power of Madonna
2010: Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers
2010: Glee: The Music, Journey to Regionals
2011: Glee: The Music, Volume 6
2013: Frozen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2015: Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
2016: A New Brain (2015 New York Cast Recording)
2017: 36 Questions: Songs from Act 1 – EP
2017: 36 Questions: Songs from Act 2 – EP
2017: 36 Questions: Songs from Act 3 – EP
2017: Olaf's Frozen Adventure
2019: Frozen II (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
2019: Little Shop of Horrors (The New Off-Broadway Cast Album)
2007: "Now" from Dreaming Wide Awake: The Music of Scott Alan
2015: "Prayer" from A View of the River: 7 Songs by Will Van Dyke & Jeff Talbott
2015: "Making Today a Perfect Day" from Frozen Fever
2019: "I'll Be Home for Christmas" by Lea Michele
2008: Broadway Nights by Seth Rudetsky
2013: Red by John Logan
2015: Frozen Fever by VA
2019: The Killer Across the Table by John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker
Christopher Neal Jackson (born September 30, 1975) is an American actor, singer, musician, and composer.
He is known for starring in many of Lin-Manuel Miranda musicals such as Benny in In the Heights and George Washington in the smash hit Hamilton.
William "Bill" Ramsey (25 April 1943 – 7 July 2020) was an English professional rugby league footballer.
He was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
He played in the 1960s and 1970s, and coached in the 1970s.
He played at representative level for Great Britain, Yorkshire, and Commonwealth XIII, and at club level for Hunslet, Leeds, Bradford Northern, Hull FC and Widnes.
Chynybaĭ Tursunbekov (15 October 1960 – 7 July 2020) was a Kyrgyz Social Democratic Party politician.
He was a member of the Supreme Council from 2010 until his death.
Between 2016 to 2017, he was President of the Supreme Council.
He was born in Jalan-Bulak, Kirghiz SSR.
Spearfishing is a method of fishing that has been used throughout the world for millennia.
Early civilizations were familiar with this method of spearing fish from rivers and streams using sharpened sticks.
Alex Pullin (20 September 1987 – 8 July 2020) was an Australian Olympic snowboarder.
He was born in Mansfield, Victoria.
He competed in the 2010 Winter Olympics, 2014 Winter Olympics and 2018 Winter Olympics.
He won the gold medal at the FIS Snowboard World Championships in 2011 and 2013.
Pullin died after drowning in a spearfishing accident on 8 July 2020 on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
The Ceylon Electricity Board - CEB , is the largest electricity company in Sri Lanka.
With a market share of nearly 100%, it controls all major functions of electricity generation, transmission, distribution and retailing in Sri Lanka.
It is one of the only two on-grid electricity companies in the country; the other being Lanka Electricity Company (LECO).
The company earned approximately LKR 204.7 billion in 2014, with a total of nearly 5.42 million consumer accounts.
It is a government owned and controlled utility of Sri Lanka that takes care of the general energy facilities of the island.
The Ministry of Power and Energy is the responsible ministry above the CEB.
Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), established by an CEB Act No.
17 of 1969, is under legal obligation to develop and maintain an efficient, coordinated and economical system of Electricity supply in accordance with any Licenses issue
Lanka Electricity Company
LTL Holdings (Pvt) Ltd
Lanka Coal Company Ltd
Sri Lanka Energies (Pvt) Ltd
Trincomalee Power Company Limited (Joint Venture)
Hydro power
Electricity generation by CEB is primarily done by hydro power.
Hydro power is the oldest and most dependent source of electricity generation, taking a share of nearly 42% of the total available grid capacity in December 2014, and 37% of power generated in 2014.
Hydropower generation facilities has been constantly under development since the introduction of the national grid, but is currently declining due to the exhaustion of the resource.
The Norocholai Coal Power Station, the only coal-fired power station in the country is owned by CEB; it was commissioned in late-2011 and finished in 2014, under loans from Export-Import Bank of China.
It added further  of electrical capacity to the grid.
The Sampur Coal Power Station, is currently under consideration in Trincomalee.
Coal Power Development
In 2011, Ceylon Electricity Board opened a new coal power plant named Puttalam Lakvijaya.
On 13 February 2011 it was synchronized with the system.
On 17 September 2014, US$1.35 billion coal-fired Norochcholai Power Station was commissioned by the Chinese President Xi Jinping on his visit to Sri Lanka.
The Export-Import Bank of China provided a US$450 million loan for the first 300 megawatt unit at the power plant.
The power plant was officially commenced on 16 September 2014.
Blackouts and shutdowns
On October 2010, during a test run, a fire broke out in the chimney due to clogging.
Splits in the cooling system piping triggered a shutdown down of the power plant.
The Ceylon Electricity Board decided to institute blackouts to households and Industries for three hours a day until the fault is fully repaired.
On December 2013, more leaks were discovered in the cooling system, the CEB decided that the plant was too dangerous to operate at the moment.
The CEB requested assistance from CMEC, and the company said that it would take about six weeks to fix the faults.
After negotiations, the plant was repaired by CMEC and brought back online.
A day later it failed once more and was shut down again for six more days.
In 2014, then Minister of Power and Energy, Pavithra Wanniarachchi, revealed that the Norochcholai power plant had been offline for 271 days out of the 1086 days since it had been operating.
On 25 February 2016, the entire country of Sri Lanka experienced a 3-hour blackout due to a lightning striking the national power grid.
On 13 March 2016, Sri Lanka experienced another 7 hour island wide blackout due to a damaged transformer in the 220 kV substation at Biyagama.
It is considered to be the worst nationwide power outage in 20 years.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe appointed a five-member committee to investigate the blackout.
Due to initial suspicions of sabotage, President Maithripala Sirisena deployed troops to guard electrical installations until the investigation was completed.
The CEB also reported that the outage caused Lakvijaya Coal Power Plant to fail, resulting in a loss of 900 Mega Watts to the National Grid.
On March 23, 2016, Power and Renewable Energy Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya notified parliament that the reason for the power outage was a lack of regular maintenance of power installations.
The engineer in charge of the Biyagama Substation had previously reported that a key transformer needed maintenance; however, no repairs were made.
2019 electricity crisis
In March 2019, the CEB decided to impose four-hour rolling power  cut on a scheduled basis throughout Sri Lanka after the national grid capacity failed to meet the increased demand for power due to dry climate, and due to limited power generation.
In 2012, the CEB lost 61.2 billion rupees and the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation which supplied fuel below cost 89.7 billion rupees.
To cover up the loss, the CEB increased power tariffs in large scales.
The CEB expected to get revenues of 223 billion rupees—or 45 billion rupees more than the earlier tariff—from the price hike, but subsequently lost 33 billion rupees in 2013 on total expenses of 256 billion rupees.
On 16 September 2014, after officially opening a completed $1.35 billion Chinese-financed 900 MW coal power plant project, Sri Lankan President at the time, Mahinda Rajapaksa addressed the nation saying that the electricity bills of the people will be reduced by 25%.
The CEB stated that it will take about two weeks to come up with a process of creating electricity bills to reflect the reduction in prices.
Employee Tax
The CEB has been accused of Tax fraud by the Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE), which has claimed that CEB has not deducted PAYE from its engineers and senior staff since 2010 amounting to Rs.
3465 million.
CaFFE has claimed that this amount has been recovered from the consumer instead.
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India Sri Lanka HVDC Interconnection
List of power stations in Sri Lanka
Electric power companies of Sri Lanka
State owned commercial corporations of Sri Lanka
Public utilities of Sri Lanka
1969 establishments in Ceylon
People's Bank is a state-owned commercial bank in Sri Lanka.
Established on 1 July 1961, it has its head-offices at  Sir Chittampalam A. Gardiner Street in Colombo.
The bank offer both retail and corporate banking services, with a network of 739 local branches, service centers and has an asset base of LKR 1.873 trillion (2019) with over 14 million customers.
People's Bank received a high national long-Term Rating of AA+ by Fitch Rating.
1961 People's Bank was inaugurated on 1st July 1961.
The first branch was opened at Duke Street, Colombo.
During the year, eight more branches were opened in Polonnaruwa, Hingurakgoda, Hambantota, Anuradhapura, Puttalam, Matale and Kandy in addition to the Foreign branch in Colombo.
The Total number of employees stood at 169.
1962 The Head Office was relocated to Ratnam's Building in Union Place, Colombo 02 and 17 more branches were opened.
1963 The Bank commenced its pawning services.
1964 The Co-operative Rural Banking Scheme was inaugurated.
1965 Some departments of the Bank were relocated to the Government Clerical Service Union (GCSU) building Sir Chittampalam A. Gardiner Mawatha, Colombo 02.
The total number of branches increased to 48, including new branches in Horana, Kekirawa, Padaviya, Mannar, Embilipitiya, Kahatagasdigilliya, Ragala and Talawakelle.
1967 The Bank commenced a new Agriculture Credit Scheme becoming the pioneer lender to the small farm sector.
1970 The "Athamaru" loan scheme was introduced to finance economic activities of the informal sector.
The Investment Saving Scheme, a credit linked saving scheme was launched to attract regular savers.
1971 The Bank's 100th branch was opened at Marandagahamula.
1973 A comprehensive rural credit scheme was launched to provide both production and consumption credit facilities.
The Bank initiated the "Ganu-Denu" practice, identifying itself with the traditions of the Sinhala & Tamil New Year and encouraging customers to transact with the Bank at the auspicious time.
1975 An aggressive branch expansion programmed brought our total branch count to 158.
1977 200th branch opened at Kollupitiya.
The Head Office was relocated to building in Fort.
The total number of employees reached 5,000.
The first fisheries bank was opened at Koralawella.
1981 Branch network increased to 290.
The Extended Minors' Saving Scheme was lunched.
1982 The 300th branch of the Bank opened at Ingiriya.
The total number of employees reached 10,000.
1984 The People's Merchant Bank, a subsidiary of the Bank, was established.
Slave Island branch was merged with the International Division and the Fort Foreign Branch.
1986 The process computerization began at Head Office and selected city branches and a Black Light System was introduced.
Customer turnaround time was thereby significantly reduced.
1987 Headquarters Branch became the Bank's first full-automated branch.
A special loan scheme for rural electrification was implemented in collaboration with the CEB.
1989 The Bank participated in a loan scheme sponsored by the Ministry of Labor to provide for housing against EPF balances.
A scheme was launched in association with the Sri Lankan Foreign Employment Bureau to provide loans for job seekers abroad.
The Bank participated in a loan scheme launched by REPIA to provide credit to those affected by civil unrest in 1983.
A Janasaviya associated loan scheme was introduced during the year.
The Bank also commenced issuing Negotiable Saving Certificates during the year.
1990 An Endowment Saving Deposit Scheme was introduced.
The People's Visa Card was introduced in association with Visa International and 24 branches were fully-computerized.
1991 The first ATM was installed at Headquarters Branch.
1992 The Bank supported the Government's 200 Garment Factory Programmed. "
People's Automated Banking System" (PABS) a banking application developed in-house, commenced live operation.
1993 330th branch were operating throughout the country and 35 main branches were fully automated. "
Vanitha Vasana", a saving scheme for women was introduced.
1994 Eight new ATMs were installed and 160 branches were computerized under the automation programmed.
1995 "Gurusetha", a new deposit mobilization and loan scheme catering to Government teachers was launched with the co-operation of the Ministry of Education.
1996 "Suwa Sevana", a credit package for Government sector health personnel was launched. "
Sisu Udaba", a new deposit scheme for schoolchildren was introduced.
The Bank participated in two ADB-funded credit scheme-the Tea Small Holding Development Project.
The Bank's fully owned subsidiaries, People's Leasing Co. Ltd. and People's Travels (Pvt) Ltd., commenced operations.
Zonal offices were opened to strengthen decentralised administration and to facilitate better customer service.
1997 The "Surathura" Loan Scheme was launched to assist self-employment projects.
The Bank extended its credit facilities to small and medium scale enterprise and industries under the NDB-funded Small and Medium Enterprise Assistance Project (SMEAP)
1998 The total number of ATMs increased to 36, serving over 125,000 PET cardholders, One hundred and seventy-five branches were fully-automated and the number of pawing centres increased to 188.
A special credit cum deposit scheme know as "Videshika" was introduced in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau to assist migrant workers.
1999 The Bank lunched "Isuru Udaba", a deposit scheme that encourages parents and guardians to save for the benefit of their young charges.
2000 The "Jana Jaya", saving cum loan scheme was launched.
The newly introduced "Jaya Sri" draw offered attractive prizes for depositors.
The ATM network expanded to 74 machines throughout the country.
The Central ATM Switch was introduced to connect the PABS branches and the ATMs.
2001 The Bank's Corporate Management team was strengthened by the recruitment of certain heads of divisions for the private banking sector.
Restructuring of the Bank was initiated through the launched of a Strategic Plan.
The total number of ATM machines grew to 90.
2002 The number of PABS automated branches increased to 218 and 119 branches were connected to the Central ATM Switch.
A treasure automation package was implemented.
2003 The Young Executive Saver's (YES) Account was launched.
The Bank signed up with Silver Lake System SDV BUD Malaysia to install a state-of-the-art core banking package and trade services solutions which will initially be operational in 60 selected branches including Head Office.
2004 The second phase of the restructuring plan for 2004-2008 launched and approved by the Government of Sri Lanka was based on the recapitalization support of ADB.
The Bank obtained the first ever public rating of BBB+ form Fitch Rating.
The core banking project was implemented successfully.
2005 This year followed immediately receipt of LKR 2 billion.
as the first tranche of Government of Sri Lanka in keeping with the agreement signed between the Government, ADB and People's Bank.
The core banking project was further extended across the branch network.
The Bank was also a major intermediary in bringing Government-granted financial assistance for rebuilding, after the December 2004 tsunami.
2006 The Bank obtained and A- rating form Fitch Rating.
indicating progress from its earlier rating level.
People's Bank was awarded the POP Award for 2006 in the banking and financial services sector by the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing.
The second tranche of capital of LKR 1 billion was received the Government of Sri Lanka.
2007 The rating level of A- form Fitch Ratings was maintained during the year.
The Government of Sri Lanka injected the third capital tranche of LKR 1.5 billion into People's Bank.
People's Bank won the People's Award for the Banking and Financial Services Brand of the Year for the second consecutive year.
The Bank surpassed the LKR 300 billion mark in total deposits during the year 2007.
2008 The Government of Sri Lanka released the fourth capital tranche of LKR 1.5 billion The Bank reached the Capital Adequacy Level of 10.5% by the end of year.
Further, the Bank's first Debenture issue of LKR 2.5 billion was made in year.
A notable advancement in the Bank's remittance service with the introduction of "People's e-remittance", a web-based remittance product supported by later technology to remit money from overseas within minutes.
Two new foreign currency deposits products were launched, viz., "
Doo Daru Ethera Isura" a foreign currency deposit product for children and "Special Foreign Investment Deposit Account" [SFIDA].
2009 The Bank issued its second Debenture for LKR 2.5 billion during the year.
214 branches and 236 service centers were connected online.
The Bank strategically placed over 300 ATMs island-wide.
Total deposits reached LKR 400 billion.
The highest recorded profit before tax of LKR 6.1 billion was achieved.
Received a SAFA (South Asian Federation of Accountants) Award for the 2008 Annual Report for the first time in the Bank's history.
2010 Branch network and service centres expanded to 679.
ATMs increased to 330.
People's International Visa Debit Card was launched in July 2010.
The Bank obtained AA- from Fitch RAting.
and AAA form Ram Ratings.
Total deposits surpassed LKR 462 billion during the year 2010.
The highest recorded profit before tax of LKR 8.7 billion was achieved.
The People's Bank Annual Report won two Gold Awards at the ARC Awards held in New York.
The Bank received the SAFA (South Asian Federation of Accountants) Award, for the 1st Place in the Public Sector Category, for the 2009 Annual Report.
2011 The Bank celebrated the Golden Jubilee on 1st July 2011.
Total branch network reached 714 whilst ATM locations increased to 382 covering almost all parts of the island.
The Bank obtained an upgraded rating of AA form Fitch Ratings.
The Bank's total assets, total deposits and total loans and receivables surpassed LKR 663 billion, LKR 539 billion and LKR 478 billion respectively.
The highest recorded profit before tax of LKR 15.3 billion and a profit after tax of LKR 10.2 billion were achieved.
People's bank won the SLIM-Nielsen Peoples's Award for the Most Popular Bank in the Sri Lankan Banking and Financial Services Sector, the SLIM-Nielsen People's Award-Service Brand of the Year, and also won the Bronze for the Service Category at the SLIM Brand Excellence Awards 2011.
2012 The total branch network reached 728, whilst ATM location increased to 420 covering almost all parts of the island.
The Bank obtained an upgraded rating of AA+ for Fitch Ratings.
The Bank's 2011 Annual Report won one Grand Award and three Gold Award in the National Category at the 2012 International ARC Award.
2013 23 SME centers were established across the island.
Surpassed one million cards milestone during the year with access to over 30 million Visa accredited merchants globally.
Corporate customers were provided with an on line real time payment facility for PET, ETF and Customers Duty Payments.
People's Bank become the first bank to be connected to the National Common ATM Switch.
ATM locations increased to 460 with the branch network expanding to 735.
LKR 5 billion worth Debentures issued during the year at the Bank's fourth Debenture issue.
2014 The Bank's asset base crossed one trillion rupees, as the second largest bank in the industry (after BOC).
Bank garnered the triple accolades of "Bank of the Year 2014" at the European Global Banking and Finance Award-Sri Lanka 2014 and "Most Sustainable Bank Sri Lanka" at the World Finance Banking Awards 2014.
2015 The Bank commenced an ambitious digitization initiative with the objective of enhancing its customer value proposition, generating operational efficiencies and strengthening risk management capabilities.
Accordingly, the Bank upgraded its ATM network platform to increase security and reliability to customers.
Investments were also made in upgrading the Core Banking System, data warehousing the Core Banking System, data warehousing capabilities and POS infrastructure.
The Bank launched a Green Banking Concept in demonstrating its sustainability commitments.
Successfully rolled out to the Bank's Strategic Plan for 2016-2020, which is expected to further fortify the Bank's market position and deliver long-term value to its stakeholders.
2016 The Group achieved the rupees one trillion milestones in both deposits and advance during the year, the only financial services group to achieve two trillion rupee feats in single year.
The Bank was awarded the "Best Banking Group in Sri Lanka" and the "Most Sustainable Bank in Sri Lanka"  by World Finance Banking Awards for the third consecutive year.
It was also adjudged the 387th largest Banking in Asia.
In line with its digitization drive, the Bank launched self-banking centers computerizing  cash deposit machines (CDM), ATMs and kiosks in seven locations in Colombo, effectively catering to customers' increasing demand for convenient financial solutions and seamless banking.
The Bank launched a new logo to reflect the Bank's evolution in keeping pace with new global trends and catering to the fast changing aspirations of customers.
2017 The consolidated contribution towards national economic development via taxation, special levies and dividends over the last ten years surpassed the LKR 150 bullion mark.
Additionally, the Bank received a new capital infusion pf LKR 5 billion for the first time in the past eight years.
The Bank witnessed many firsts in the Digital and information Technology sphere, with the opening of Sri Lanka's first fully-digitalis-ed branch in Colombo and receiving the prestigious ISO/IEC 27001:2013 quality certification for Information Security Management first any State Bank in the nation.
the 400th Largest Bank in Asia as per the Asian Banker Magazine and included in the World's Top 1000 Banks by the Banker Magazine (UK).
Locally, People's Bank was crowned "Country's Best Bank in 2017" at the National Business Excellence Award and was recognized as the  second most valuable Sri Lankan brand by the global brand consecutive year, the Bank was conferred the exclusive "People's Service Brand of the Year" and "People's Banking Service Provider of the Year" Award at the SLIM-Nielsen People's Award in 2017.
2018 LKR 10.9 billion syndicated loan facility extended to Hayleys for the acquisition of Singer Sri Lanka which it the single largest transaction of a listed company in Sri Lanka in recent time.
Six alternative digital channel were launched during 2018 for the benefit and ease of customers namely People's Wave mobile banking application, People's Web/Internet banking, People's Wyn-internet banking and mobile app.
for corporate clients, RLOS-Retail Loan Origination System and CLOS-Corporate Loan Origination System.
Among the many finance apps in the country, People's Wave has become the most downloaded fiance app in Sri Lanka.
For the 12th consecutive year, the bank was awarded the "People's Banking Service Provider of the Year".
The Bank also secured the top spot as "The Banking of the Year for Excellence in Customer Convenience" at the LankaPay Technnovation Awards 2018.
Further, People's Bank won the "Excellence in Local Market Reach" Award at the National Business Excellence Awards.
On the global level, the Bank was once again raked among  the Top 1000 Banks in the World by the Banker Magazine, UK and, adjudged "The Best Bank in Sri Lanka" at the European Global Banking and Finance Awards 2018.
Further, as a testament to our relentless commitment to excellence in digitization, People's Bank clinched the "Best Branch Digitization Initiative Program Award" in Asia Pacific Region at the Asian Banker Business Achievement Awards 2018 for Financial Technology Innovation.
2019 The People's Bank (Amendment)  Bill was passed in Parliament in September 2019, enabling the Bank to issue debentures with relative ease to augment its regulatory capital.
Post amendment, the Bank successfully raised LKR 10 billion in Base III, Tier II compliant Debentures.
The roll out of self banking units (SBU's) was accelerated during the past two years to reach 239 at end 2019 a feat achieved in just three years.
The success of the Bank in digital platform, is demonstrated through the numerous awards received internationally which include the Best Digital Bank 2019 by both the Asian Banker Magazine and Asian Money and being the recipient of the Best Mobile Banking Application by the Asian Banking Magazine for 2019.
At the Asian Banker Financial Technology Innovation Awards 2018, People's Bank was awarded the Best Digitization Initiative Programmed.
The Bank was recognized as the Best Retail Bank in Sri Lanka and the Most Improved Retail Bank in Asian Pacific, Middle East and Africa by the Asian Banker Magazine during 2019.
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