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- ↑ EDEX 2009 - Promoting Choices, Opportunity and Options
- ↑ EDEX Expo 2013 – 10th Anniversary Edition launched A decade of service empowering nation’s youth
- ↑ "EDEX launches "Live your Dream"". Archived from the original on 2013-04-13. Retrieved 2013-02-12.
- ↑ EDEX launches “Live your Dream” for next generation of Sri Lanka
- ↑ Sampath Bank PLC | Annual Report 2009
- ↑ Sampath- Royal affinity cards