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Reuters: Chinese university teacher Zhu Haibin wept softly as she and other Communist Party cadres stood in rows before a mass grave of Communist fighters in southern China. Ignoring light drizzle, the group listened to a party instructor tell the story of Zhang Longxiu, a “hero mother” from the early days of China’s Communist revolution ...
- China to test superpower claims on foreign soil (Category: Business)
- Top Chinese professor boasts of operatives in top of US ‘core inner circle’ (Category: USA, New York)
- Top Chinese professor boasts of operatives in top of US ‘core inner circle’ (Category: USA, New York)
- Top Chinese professor boasts of operatives in top of US ‘core inner circle’ (Category: USA, New York)
Visa has taken its first steps towards entry into Myanmar (previously known as Burma) with a series of training workshops to prepare selected local banks for the introduction of electronic payments as the country continues its economic and social reforms. The workshops are aimed at upgrading the banking facilities to accept and issue international payment ...
- Visa introduces new mobile prepaid product for developing countries (Category: Business)
- Visa promotes tourism in Egypt (Category: Business)
- ICTA plays major role in Visa Online System (Category: Business)
- Electronic Travel Authorisation system in effect from today (Category: Business)
Last week I had the opportunity of meeting Hermawan Kartajaya, one of the top 50 gurus who has shaped the world of marketing. His perspective to the changing landscape of marketing and what business must do sure opened my mind set to a new way of thinking business and Sri Lanka’s policy decision making. Hermawan ...
- Storm in Sri Lanka’s teacup: A more pragmatic approach is key (Category: Business)
- Eminent speakers at SLIM International Marketing Conference 2012 tomorrow (Category: Business)
- Honorary Fellow Dr. Hermawan Kartajaya visits SLIM (Category: Business)
- Driving marketing in the boardroom (Category: Business)
Whilst tracking the key moments of the London Olympics, I realised how reliant I was on the text updates that beeped on my Blackberry and then when time permits go to YouTube or the official websites to experience this key happening as it unfolds to the world. But, then I realised that my friends had ...
- HR and London Olympics (Category: Business)
- Coca-Cola and McDonalds launch London Olympics 2012 memorabilia (Category: Business)
- Marketing 3.0 and Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- London Olympics biggest in US TV history, despite gripes (Category: Business)
Reuters: British tourism chiefs hope the Olympics and a global advertising campaign will entice more overseas visitors by 2015 and more than compensate for any short-term losses as the country tries to dig out from a double-dip recession. Tourism Minister John Penrose said the 2012 Olympics had given Britain the chance to re-establish itself as ...
- With Olympics ahead London hotels ‘pricing themselves out of market’ (Category: Business)
- Final countdown starts to London Games (Category: Business)
- London leading destination city in 2012 (Category: Business)
- Six-time world champion Foster sinks Olympics return (Category: Business)
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) has announced that PATA Travel Mart 2013 (PTM2013) and PATA Board Meeting will be hosted by the City of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China in September 2013, at its PATA’s Executive Board Meeting on July 28, at the Hotel ICON, in Kowloon, Hong Kong. Martin J Craigs, PATA CEO, revealed ...
- PATA, Chengdu Culture and Tourism Development Group sign MoU (Category: Business)
- Philippines to host PATA Travel Mart 2012 (Category: Business)
- PATA Mart returns to the Philippines (Category: Business)
- Useful guide to understanding Chinese outbound travel market launched (Category: Business)
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) last week announced global traffic results for May showing a general downward trend in line with deteriorating global economic conditions. While passenger demand was 4.5% ahead of levels in May 2011, growth was virtually flat compared to April. Capacity increased by 4.0% and load factors stood at 77.6%, below ...
- Global aviation market improves in April: IATA (Category: Business)
- Global aviation’s growth slows again in July: IATA (Category: Business)
- July global passenger traffic gets a boost, freight stagnates – IATA (Category: Business)
Malaysia Airlines, in recognizing the vibrant growth of the Sri Lankan economy and its tourism sector, has decided to expand its operations and visibility, by opening its second branch office in Matara, in the Sothern Province.
Last week I was on the Air Force flight on route to Jaffna for a meeting with 52 investors who wanted to invest in the first industrial estate in the Northern Province – Atchchuveley. In my hand were the key sites that one can visit in Jaffna as a tourist. The first thought that struck ...
- Why Lion leads frontier (Category: Business)
- Atchchuvely a public-private model in Jaffna! (Category: Business)
- Unity is the way to success, not ethnic division: President (Category: Business)
- As the world decides to vote (Category: Business)
Case study Middle East Sri Lanka is one of the most sought-after tourist destinations in the world. It is surrounded by the Indian Ocean strategically located between West Asia and South East Asia and has been an important stop on the silk route or the Silk Road. It has all requirements to be one ...
- Unified branding in the tourism industry (Category: Business)
- Showcasing Sri Lanka and driving demand (Category: Business)
- Marketing an emerging tourism destination in Asia (Category: Business)
WOKE up as usual to a nursery rhyme. The Bread Man, who blares the same old tune over a megaphone every day, runs two jobs; one of waking up Sri Lanka, a job coercively collared from the rooster and the other selling bread and buns. The ice cream man comes later on in the day, ...
- Ore. father accused of trying to give away the kids (Category: USA, Washington)
- Jana Aragalaya now ‘Frontline Socialist Party’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Bayliss feels for Marsh as Dilshan quits (Category: Business)
- Heshan comes second in heats but fails to qualify for next round (Category: Business)
The Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) yesterday categorically rejected the statement allegedly made by an Opposition Member of Parliament as reported in several news papers on 15 May 2012, where the EPF has been accused of fraudulent transactions in the stock market. "Such statement, read in conjunction with several past statements of a similar nature made ...
- Harsha rebuffs CB’s rosy EPF story (Category: Business)
- CB says EPF investments are long-term and of value (Category: Business)
- EPF defends its investment strategy (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP MP renews warning over fate of EPF’s questionable investments in stock market (Category: Business)
Boating industry thanks Industry Minister for strong support Sri Lanka enters prestigious International Boating Industry Magazine rankings Sri Lanka’s commercial boat sub-sector reporting stronger international orders from Asia, Africa and ME Introducing a much-sought-after measure of relief to Sri Lanka’s boating industry, the country will now introduce tax on boat imports that are la...
- Sri Lanka launches into the world of marinas (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s hidden marine potential is huge (Category: Business)
- 20,000 buyers expected at South Asia’s largest boat show (Category: Business)
The highest oversubscription ever seen for a Sri Lankan international bond in April and KPMG’s latest positive Change Readiness Index ranking for Sri Lanka show the growing international investor confidence in the country, which prefers patient investments to hot money. “Sri Lanka has entered a new era of development thanks to the visionary leadership of ...
- Rishad to promote Lanka at Dubai AIM power forum (Category: Business)
- Indian interest - Sri Lanka readying for dedicated trade talks in March (Category: Business)
- UAE-Sri Lanka trade tops $ 1 b mark in 2011 (Category: Business)
- Robust exports to get boost via Expo 2012 (Category: Business)
Less than a year after starting up on its own, the company prepares to replicate its Indian success in Sri LankaJubilant FoodWorks, the master franchisee of Dominos Pizza for South Asia, last year set up its own subsidiary company in Sri Lanka, moving away from the franchisee partnership which held the fort for the Group ...
- Domino’s Pizza, opens in Colombo (Category: Business)
- India’s Jubilant Foodworks to expand overseas (Category: Business)
- Aviraté dresses up for aggressive expansion (Category: Business)
- Lenovo experiencing ‘tremendous growth’ in SL under ‘Smarter Tech for All’ vision (Category: Breaking News)
Last Sunday when the unknown Ajinkya Rahane scored 103 runs off just 60 balls at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, which helped the Rajasthan Royals to score a massive 195 runs at IPL season five, my mind went to just one ethos the IPL is all about – highlighting performance. It is how IPL ...
- Developing cutting-edge brand strategies (Category: Business)
- The ‘real’ problem with brand Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- HR and London Olympics (Category: Business)
- Nation branding: A holistic perspective (Category: Business)
On 30 March, Cunard Line’s latest luxury cruise vessel MV Queen Elizabeth made her inaugural call to Colombo, marking the third inaugural vessel call to Colombo made by the cruise liners operated by the parent company Carnival UK within the first quarter of 2012. The vessel left Southampton on 10 January this year and is ...
- T20 Cricket Carnival at Hilton Colombo (Category: Business)
- DeBug wins at FITIS ICT industry cricket carnival (Category: Business)
- Emirates contributes to Sri Lanka’s Carnival of Cricket (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka welcomes luxury cruise Queen Elizabeth with 2000 tourists (Category: Business)
Unity is strength: Let us unite as a nation and a group of likeminded nations in the world Sri Lanka is a senior member Sri Lanka is a senior member of the world family, maintaining high standards of human rights on international standards, which is not an alien system to us. Our culture is based ...
- UN panel an unwarranted unnecessary interference on sovereignty - Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Banking industry joins Lankan chorus against UNHRC moves (Category: Business)
- Transparency and equality in human rights arena (Category: Business)
- Equality for all sovereign nations (Category: Business)
My column today is an attempt to focus our attention on a few less spoken or untold developments that may have a profound influence on how we carve our way through in creating a desirable social, economic and political future for mankind on this only planet of ours. While I will not specifically touch on ...
- Development-led globalisation (Category: Business)
- The ‘Doha Mandate’ (Category: Business)
- UNCTAD should address challenges faced by developing world (Category: Business)
- Global trends in investment (Category: Business)
As the world decides vote on Sri Lanka on the methods used on the eradication of terrorism in the country, my mind goes back to the December 2008 when three of us were organising the staging of the first Industrial Exhibition in Jaffna so that the north gets connected to south on an economic front. ...
- What’s next for Brand Sri Lanka? (Category: Business)
- Building ‘Brand Sri Lanka’: Expo 2012 (Category: Business)
Over the weekend I met up with a cross section of business people, which gave me view of the current climate that exists in corporate world of Sri Lanka. One said that their production plant was closed last week as the cost of production was higher than the selling price given the devaluation of the ...
- Do people prefer coffee over tea? (Category: Business)
- Ceylon Tea in catch-22? (Category: Business)
- New tea industry model: By default? (Category: Business)
- Marketing 3.0 and Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
BANGKOK (Reuters): Thailand’s economy, which shrank a record 10.7 per cent in the fourth quarter due to devastating flooding, is expected to bounce back sharply this year as the government and major exporters step up reconstruction spending after the disaster. While some economists
- Growth is better than expected – CB (Category: Business)
- Credit growth to slow to 27% by December – Cabraal (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Q3 GDP seen expanded 8.0%; full year 8.1% (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka records an 8.6 % growth (Category: Breaking News)
One of Sri Lanka’s top thought leaders and respected corporate personalities Rohantha Athukorala addressing the Lions Club of Colombo Orient commented that whilst accepting the fact that the economy was into some rough times he went on to say that the first wave of post war success
- Sri Lanka-Iran bilateral relations enhanced (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to issue long-term residence visa for foreign investors (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka announces new fuel limits for vehicles (Category: Breaking News)
- Business Today TOP TWENTY (Category: Breaking News)
The latest data coming out predicts Sri Lanka’s economy to be 59 billion dollars with overall external trade recording a strong 51.6% of GDP as against the 44.4% the year before, which indicates the expansion of the economy. This data is reflective of Sri Lanka’s jump of 17
- Brand ‘Sri Lanka’ valued $ 23 b; ranks 76th globally (Category: Business)
- Brand Finance launches Nation Brands 100 (Category: Business)
- Will the deal hurt brand NSB? (Category: Business)
- The brand IPL is about highlighting performance (Category: Business)
Reuters: Luxury spas in the Maldives archipelago along with massage parlours in places like the capital Male must close, the government ordered on Saturday, bowing to pressure from opposition parties in a move that may imperil the mainstay tourism sector. Pristine white sand beaches and turquoise waters attract honeymooners and celebrities from around the world ...
- Maldives president orders luxury resorts to reopen spas (Category: Business)
- Concern over Maldives spa 'prostitution' closures (Category: Breaking News)
- Maldives spa 'prostitution' closures overturned (Category: Breaking News)
- Spa Rule (Category: Business)
It is the season for giving, which we all know is a reason to look beyond ourselves and find some worthy cause to take up for Christmas. Everyone is familiar with the warmth connected with giving and the quiet pleasure in ensuring that someone else has a happy time as well. It can be something ...
- Facebook group raises more than $1,500 to tip entire restaurant staff (Category: USA, Iowa)
- Facebook group raises more than $1,500 to tip entire restaurant staff (Category: USA, Nebraska)
- Facebook group raises more than $1,500 to tip entire restaurant staff (Category: USA, Maryland)
- Facebook group raises more than $1,500 to tip entire restaurant staff (Category: USA, New Hampshire)
New CEO Kapila Chandrasena upbeat on prospects for national carrier and Sri Lanka as a tourist destination post-warWhen the news of the impending change at the top in the national carrier broke, the Daily FT headlined the lead story on 6 May 2011 as ‘Turb-UL-ence,’ with a pun. But for the man in the hot ...
- $ 500 m boost for SriLankan Airlines (Category: Business)
- Flying smarter (Category: Business)
- Colossal loss incurred by Mihin (Category: Breaking News)
- SriLankan and Mihin ready to fly high (Category: Business)
International Consultants Chairman Ranjiv Goonawardena had kindly invited the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau to participate by showcasing the great opportunity that Sri Lanka has to offer, at the Islamic Real Estate Finance (IREF) Summit and Gala Dinner Awards Ceremony of which it was a sponsor. International Consultants sponsored for the second year the ninth ...
- EFC launches new guide to investors (Category: Business)
- Commercial Bank adjudged ‘Best Bank in Sri Lanka’ for record 14th year (Category: Business)
- CSE holds Investor Forum in Malaysia (Category: Business)
Last week my phone beeped and the text message read ‘The Chairperson of the Security and Exchange Commission Indrani Sugathadasa had resigned citing reasons of values and principles for her resignation’. My mind went back to the time when this lady when she was the Board Director at EDB. Whenever tough decisions had be taken ...
- 2011: Power achievements for Sri Lanka, but… (Category: Business)
- The changing face of brand Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Govt. to abolish duty-free vessel imports to boost $ 500 m boating industry (Category: Business)
FRANKFURT (Reuters): Uncertainties caused by the euro zone debt crisis and a stuttering global economy could hit spending next year on holidays by Germans, the world’s top spenders on trips abroad, a German travel association said. “Our market researchers forecast moderate market growth
- Tour firms juggle luxury, packages in profit battle (Category: Business)
- TUI cuts German jobs as tourists move online (Category: Business)
- The world’s worst tourists (Category: Business)
- German travel firms says Greece bookings plunge (Category: Business)
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