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Ever been to Hotel de Same Place? If you find it hard to believe, here’s the address: No. 83 & 85, Malay Street, Colombo 2. The esoteric roadside eatery’s venturesome owner says that he so named the hotel fearing that patrons may deem otherwise. “I wanted to assure my customers that my hotel will remain ...
By Cheranka Mendis The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) is offering 2717.243 acres of land and 415.7 acres of water body in six selected areas for eco-friendly beach, wildlife and waterfront developments. Located in Kalpitiya, Kuchc-haveli, Bentota, Pasikudah, Dedduwa and Yala, all land offered will be given on a long-term 99-year lease upon payment ...
By T. Farook Thajudeen The case filed by CID against Sri Lanka Mirror accusing the website of having contained defamatory items against the President and the State was laid by and the suspects were ordered to appear before Court if noticed by Additional Magistrate Prasanna De Alwis yesterday. When the case was taken up for ...
By Marianne David and Cheranka Mendis Sri Lanka Tourism yesterday told the Daily FT that the Department of Wildlife would set up a meeting with both the Tissamaharama Jeep Association and the officials of the three tented mobile safari operators in order to arrive at “an amicable settlement,” following the recent assaults on the operators ...
Reuters: A rare, still-working Apple I Computer from 1976 sold at Sotheby’s auction house on Friday for $374,500, or more than 500 times its original retail price. The computer, one of only a handful in full working condition, had been estimated to sell for about $150,000 at the auctioneer’s sale of books and manuscripts. The ...
Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka yesterday won the prestigious Commonwealth Book Prize 2012 for his “Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew” published by Vintage Publishing, Random House India. He received the coveted prize at the Hay Festival by the multiple prize-winning Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize was won by Emma Martin ...
KPMG Ford, Rhodes, Thornton & Co.’s Forensic Advisory practice recently announced the launch of a confidential hotline with the signing of its first client in Sri Lanka. The feature known as an Ethics Hotline promotes the concept of good corporate governance, transparency and ethical conduct which could benefit local companies, said Jagath Perera, Partner and ...
BANGKOK (Reuters): From a windowless room in a Bangkok suburb, computer technicians scour thousands of websites, Facebook pages and tweets night and day. Their mission: to suppress what is regarded as one of Thailand’s most heinous crimes — insulting the monarchy. The government calls this its “war room”, part of a zero-tolerance campaign that uses ...
Nov 23 (Reuters) – Leaked reports into England’s rugby World Cup debacle paint a picture of a squad in meltdown and expose schisms and leadership failings greater than even their dismal performance had suggested. A trio of reviews by the Rugby Football Union’s director of elite rugby Rob Andrew; the players’ union; and professional clubs, ...
Reuters: It is a universal truth in golf that caddies, like Victorian children, should be seen and not heard. Nobody, it seems, ever told Steve Williams. Williams succeeded only in humiliating himself when making the now notorious racist comment about Woods at a caddies awards dinner in Shanghai two weeks ago. But if Williams was ...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters): Google Inc is making another push to bring its Web savvy to television sets, hoping to tap into a vast new market despite consumers’ lukewarm reaction to one of its initial offerings. The Internet search engine unveiled a revamped version of its Google TV service and announced plans to create about one ...
Reuters: Ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his son Mo’tassim were buried on Tuesday in a secret desert location, a National Transitional Council (NTC) official said, ending a wrangle over their rotting corpses that led to fears for Libya’s stability. With their Western allies uneasy that Gaddafi was roughed up and shot after his capture ...
Koch, Gates charities pay for research backing earlier claims that came under fire A new climate study shows that since the mid-1950s, global average temperatures over land have risen by 0.9 degrees Celsius (1.6 degrees Fahrenheit), confirming previous studies that have found a climate that has been warming – in fits and starts – since ...
Last week’s My View talked about six popular fallacies of currency or exchange rate appreciation which both the authorities and the public have tended to harbour in themselves. Of them, the following three were discussed in detail: Fallacy One: The government can fix the external value of a currency at any level it wishes. Fallacy ...
Gives comprehensive address highlighting issues of developing countries Shoots down discriminatory practices by developed countries Outlines post-war development, reiterates stance against terrorism Backs Palestine, Cuba and Africa By Nisthar Cassim in New York In his much-anticipated address to the UN, President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday took a comprehensive local, regional and world view, with...
By Dinali Goonewardene As stock markets the world over strongly slid downwards on fears of slowing economic growth, foreigners took their money out of the Colombo stock market yesterday, contributing to a seven-week low. Foreign sales were Rs. 70 million and net foreign outflows Rs. 21.8 million, albeit a relatively low component of total turnover. ...
Daily FT speaks to a forensic auditor on how to keep a company cleanExecutive Director Forensic Services at KPMG India Gaganpreet Singh Puri has led a large number of investigations, fraud risk management and dispute resolution engagements, including loss of profit computations and quantifications of damages and claims. He has just returned from a two-year ...
Stock broking firms yesterday clarified issues with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the latters’ action with regard to suspending 12 broking houses extending credit to clients due to lack of liquid capital. Leading stock broking houses complained they had niggling issues with the SEC which had been resolved on Thursday but said these ...
(Reuters) – Manchester United and Manchester City left their tortured opponents and the Premier League in no doubt they are the teams to beat this season after hugely confident demolitions of Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday. Champions United battered a depleted Arsenal 8-2 at Old Trafford with Wayne Rooney hitting a hat-trick and rampant ...
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