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What makes a whisky cask worth £500,000?

Just how much would you pay for a cask of rare Scotch whisky?

For some, it seems, the sky is the limit when it comes to liquid gold.

Earlier this month, an anonymous buyer in Hong Kong paid an auction-record £285,000 for a sherry cask filled with a 30-year-old Macallan single malt.

Its contents, if emptied, would work out at a neat £1,000 per 70cl bottle.

Others have paid even more for a cask of the hard stuff, with one Scotch whisky brokerage reporting a sale in excess of £500,000.

Some industry experts believe there are £1m casks out there 

waiting to be found.

So why are people willing to spend such eye-watering amounts of money on the spirit?

The answer isn't straightforward.

For some, casks are merely an investment. For others, such as connoisseurs and collectors, there's more emphasis on the experience - tasting a spirit that has been ageing in oak casks for decades.

But rarity is also highly prized.

N. Korean Nuclear test site collapse, 200 killed

 many as 200 North Korean labourers have been killed after a mine shaft being dug at the regime's nuclear test site collapsed, according to Japan's Asahi TV.

Sources in North Korea told the news channel that a tunnel being excavated by around 100 workers at the Punggye-ri test site collapsed earlier this month.

An additional 100 labourers sent to rescue their colleagues were reportedly killed when the tunnel suffered a second collapse.

An exact date for the disaster has not been provided, but it comes shortly after North Korea conducted its sixth - and most powerful - underground nuclear test at the site.

Lipton operations to remain on top

Unilever-owned, Lipton is handing over its local operation –auctioning, evaluation and buying of its tea – to Finlays as part of ensuring cost efficiency. 

 Lipton seems to be constantly moving out its operations, out sourcing its business to some of the other companies in a bid to ensure cost efficiency and in the wake of the UK tea market itself reducing its consumption of the brew. Currently one of the biggest tea brands in the UK, Lipton had also closed its packing and blending plant in 2001 and shifted operations to Dubal.

In transition in handing over their operations to the finlays , Lipton had taken this decision based on the fact that sri Lanka is currently believed to be the only country where the trade collectively decides that everything sold has to be via a public auction.

Tea brokers confirmed that the market has been informed of the move .officials from Lipton and Findiays declined to comment.

According to the complex rules for an auction and the other terms of quality involved Lipton’s wants to ensure that another non-competitive company could be involved in this tedious process thereby ensuring cost efficiency for the company.

Saudi Arabia is changing in the future world.

A robot with Saudi citizenship? It's the latest surreal scene from the kingdom's "Davos in the Desert", where Saudi Arabia's leaders have been attempting to impress their economic ambitions upon the rest of the world.

In a three-day event that has already seen the country announce its intent to build an entirely new city - called Neom - from scratch, the announcement that a robot named Sophia has been granted Saudi citizenship stands apart.

Alongside a holographic lion and a virtual rollercoaster, the robot has been on display at the Future Investment Initiative held by Saudi Public Investment Fund this week.

"Thank you to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," said the robot, named Sophia, when she learnt of her ostensible citizenship. "It is historic to be the first robot in the world granted citizenship."

The announcement could be controversial among conservative Saudis, many of whom believe that representation of the human form, even in art or on a mannequin, is sacrilegious.

Citizenship is also a carefully guarded benefit in the kingdom, which does not grant it to foreign workers who make up about a third of the population - even to some families who have been there for generations - or to the children of Saudi women and foreign men.

In a statement, the Saudi government's Center for  International Communication described the citizenship as "no laughing matter"

Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia's powerful crown prince on Tuesday announced plans to build a futuristic city run entirely on alternative sources of energy and said the ultraconservative kingdom must return to “moderate Islam.”

AJAHN BRAHMAVAMSO TO SPEAK AT TEMPLE TREES

Ajahn Brahmavamso ,the popular Buddhist teacher to a growing international audience eager to learn teach inquest of meditations , will speak at the Prime Minister’s auditorium at Temple Trees on November 06 and 07 Ajahn Brahm society – Sri Lanka branch announced this week.

Born  in  London as Peter Betts’ Ajahn Brahmavamso graduated from Cambridge University after obtaining a scholarship to study theoretical physics .He joined the Buddhist Society at Cambridge and after a short stint at teaching, was ordained as a monk in Thailand’s   Wat Saket in 1974.

What Sustains Georgia’s Film Industry?

A combination of factors help support the Peach State's film productions.

With its eighth season premiering Oct. 22, "The Walking Dead" has been one of America's most popular television shows since its debut in 2010. But the series did more than bring flesh-eating fear into the homes of viewers; it carried fans from a rural hospital through zombie-infested towns and fields to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. And that was just the first season.

While the Georgia setting in "The Walking Dead" was obvious, other successful series were more subtle about the setting. "The Vampire Diaries," which ended earlier this year after eight seasons, was shot in Covington, about 40 miles east of Atlanta. Jackson sits nearly 50 miles south of Atlanta and serves as the home to Netflix's "Stranger Things," the second season of which becomes available Oct. 27.
Georgia has also played host to many high-profile feature film productions, including Marvel Studio's 2017 "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" and "Thor: Ragnarok," which premieres Nov. 2.

Sri Lankans: In Future The necessary skills needed for the job market.

As Sri Lanka enters an increasingly competitive international environment with a renewed emphasis on transforming itself into a modern economy, the importance of promoting technological innovations and generating an educated workforce with market oriented skills cannot be over emphasized.

High quality human resources with science and technology knowledge and a skill labor force are necessary to keep up and improve on the country’s global competitiveness.

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Education and skill mismatch

As for 2014 , only 5 pre- cent of 20-24 year olds were enrolled at a university ,while another 8 pre-cent were enrolled in other educational institutions and only a 3pre-cent of  the same age group were enrolled in technical education and vocational training (TEVT) courses.

The main reason behind this lower tertiary enrolment include capacity constraints of the state university system , unavailability of a proper parallel higher education system with private sector involvement, and an underdeveloped TEVT sector.

In America, a giant military vessel (28) arrives in Sri Lanka.

 The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is scheduled to arrive in Colombo, Sri Lanka for a planned port visit on October 28.  The Carrier Strike Group includes the USS Nimitz, the cruiser USS Princeton, and destroyers USS Howard, USS Shoup, USS Pinckney, and USS Kidd.  The ships are scheduled to depart Colombo on October 31, 2017.

Reflecting the growing relationship between the U.S. and Sri Lankan navies, this is the first time an aircraft carrier has visited Sri Lanka since 1985, and follows the recent completion of the inaugural bilateral Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) naval exercise.

“Building our maritime partnership in step with Sri Lanka’s own progress on reconciliation and human rights advances our shared national goals of fostering security and stability,” said U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives Atul Keshap.  “I’m delighted that U.S. sailors will have the chance to visit Sri Lanka, meet with its wonderful people, and take part in public service activities at schools, hospitals, and rest homes that will improve the lives of Sri Lankans of all ages,” he added.

2.0 : The biggest film event with Akshay and Rajinikanth in Dubai

2.0 is the sequel to director Shankar's 2010 blockbuster Enthiran. The upcoming sci-film has Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar and Amy Jackson in the lead roles and it is being produced on a budget more than Rs 400 crore. Musician AR Rahman will give a live performance at the event.

A massive stage is being prepared in Dubai for the grand audio release of director Shankar’s 2.0, starring Rajinikanth, Akshay Kumar and Amy Jackson in the lead roles, which is set to take place on Friday. India’s top stars have already started descending to Dubai to be part of what the filmmakers have promised to be the biggest and the most exciting film event ever.

Bollywood star Akshay Kumar, talking about the upcoming music launch, promised an “epic” event. “Gear up for the music event of @2Point0movie, it’s going to be nothing less than EPIC!,” he tweeted.

So what makes 2.0 audio launch the biggest film event of the year?

Qatar Emir Talks with President of Sri Lanka.

HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani held a session of official talks with HE President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena, at the Emiri Diwan on Thursday.

During the talks, they reviewed aspects of bilateral relations between both countries and ways to boost and develop them in the different fields such as investment, energy, education, health and medical sciences.
The talks also touched on a number of current regional and international issues of common interest.