Sri Lanka, Sept. 18 -- The US Embassy in Sri Lanka and the Sri Lanka Navy officially opened a state-of-the-art English Language Lab at the Naval and Maritime Academy in Trincomalee on Monday (15).

The cutting-edge facility was inaugurated by Lieutenant Colonel Matthew House, Senior Defence Official at the US Embassy in Sri Lanka, Rear Admiral Dammika Wijewardana, Director General for Training of the Sri Lanka Navy and Commodore Dinesh Bandara, Commandant of the Sri Lanka Naval and Maritime Academy.

Equipped with advanced multimedia technology and the latest training software from the US Defence Language Institute, the English Language Lab will provide the Sri Lanka Navy personnel with the tools to master English - the common language of...