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Published on Apr 3, 2023 11:21:45 AM by Trader's Life
- Video: Cabraal-missile is stronger than Indian Agni-V missile (Category: Video)
- Video: Dambulla Mosque controversy could have been solved peacefully (Category: Video)
- Video: Sajith issuing misleading statements - Tissa (Category: Video)
- Video: No need for permission - Sajith (Category: Video)
Published on Mar 23, 2023 10:17:10 AM by Trader's Life
- Video: Cabraal-missile is stronger than Indian Agni-V missile (Category: Video)
- Video: Dambulla Mosque controversy could have been solved peacefully (Category: Video)
- Video: Sajith issuing misleading statements - Tissa (Category: Video)
- Video: No need for permission - Sajith (Category: Video)
Published on Oct 11, 2022 11:34:37 AM by Trader's Life
- Video: Cabraal-missile is stronger than Indian Agni-V missile (Category: Video)
- Video: Dambulla Mosque controversy could have been solved peacefully (Category: Video)
- Video: Sajith issuing misleading statements - Tissa (Category: Video)
- Video: No need for permission - Sajith (Category: Video)
Published on Jul 5, 2022 9:44:43 AM by Trader's Life
- Video: Cabraal-missile is stronger than Indian Agni-V missile (Category: Video)
- Video: Dambulla Mosque controversy could have been solved peacefully (Category: Video)
- Video: Sajith issuing misleading statements - Tissa (Category: Video)
- Video: No need for permission - Sajith (Category: Video)
BRUSSELS (Reuters): Euro zone economic sentiment defied expectations of stabilisation and again fell sharply in September, underlining the economic gloom brought on by the sovereign debt crisis as the euro zone sinks into a recession. The European Commission’s monthly economic sentiment survey showed the index for the 17 countries sharing the euro falling to 85 ...
- Asian markets firmer as focus turns to FOMC from Greece (Category: Business)
- German Ifo business morale rises unexpectedly (Category: Business)
- Euro zone fears rattle global markets (Category: Business)
- Oil up despite weak Europe data (Category: Business)
President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday asserted that there is no political interference of any kind in the country’s Judiciary, as some have alleged. Addressing a meeting with News Directors and Chief Editors of electronic and printed media at Temple Trees, the President said that the Government does not interfere in the affairs of judges or ...
- Devolution: Let Parliament decide, says President (Category: Breaking News)
- Regular elections epitomise a vibrant democracy: President (Category: Business)
- Mahinda calls for UNP to unite and build a strong opposition (Category: Business)
- Government to monitor NGOs (Category: Breaking News)
The protest marches launched by the union of striking university academics and the student union on Monday urging the government to save the state education reached the city marking a successful conclusion. The trade union of Sri Lankan university academics, Federation of University Teachers Associations (FUTA) launched its protest from Galle on September 24 and ...
- Marches by university teachers, students to reach Colombo (Category: Breaking News)
- The Long March To Nowhere (Category: Breaking News)
- Academics may quit local system (Category: Breaking News)
- University academics on token srike on Tuesday (Category: Breaking News)
Text and pics by Mohamed R. Farook Fathima Halidha, a Fathima Muslim Ladies College 2011 AL Examination Bio Stream student, who secured an astonishing Z-Score of 3.0, with an all island ranking number three and district ranking of number two having achieved three straight A’s in all the three subjects of biology, chemistry and physics, ...
- Muslim Ladies College Interact Club engages with community (Category: Business)
- Founder of Kenwick school guilty of making fraudulent grant claims (Category: Western Australia)
- School founder guilty of fraudulently claiming grants (Category: Western Australia)
- All Ceylon Muslim Women’s Association celebrates Diamond Jubilee (Category: Business)
Watching the World T20 matches on TV – currently being played in Sri Lanka, I noticed a Tourist Board commercial on the theme ‘Refreshingly Sri Lanka – Wonder of Asia.’ Immediately I recalled last year’s stamp released to mark World Tourism Day. Sri Lanka issued ten stamps with an attractive souvenir sheet carrying all the ...
- Celebrating World Tourism Day by linking global cultures (Category: Business)
- Linking cultures - World Tourism Day 2011 focuses on empowering youth (Category: Business)
- Cinnamon Grand first ever hotel to launch first day cover (Category: Business)
DISREGARDING an offered salary increase, academics on Friday staged a massive protest march demanding sweeping reforms to higher education and widening the abyss with the Government. As the three month anniversary of the strike nears, there is escalating concern of the consequences of this stalemate. The Federation of University Teachers’ Association (FUTA), the trade union ...
- Chaotic higher education – an opening to totalitarianism (Category: Breaking News)
- Academics of Sri Lanka's Jaffna University against setting up private universities (Category: Breaking News)
- Academics may quit local system (Category: Breaking News)
- University teachers and students began protest against the government (Category: Breaking News)
Eisenhower Foundation South Asia Conference 2012 kicks off in Colombo By Cassandra Mascarenhas Bringing together Eisenhower Fellows from across the world for networking and deliberations in Colombo, the Eisenhower Fellowships, Philadelphia and conference organising teams from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka hosted the three-day Eisenhower Foundation South Asia Conference 2012 which kicke...
- Eisenhower South Asia Conference 2012 and Eisenhower Day celebrations (Category: Business)
- Promoting leadership qualities (Category: Business)
- South Asia doing worst on UN development goals :ADB official (Category: Business)
- India, China militaries ease tensions; to resume joint exercises (Category: Business)
Reuters: The race for president focused squarely on the battle for working-class votes on Wednesday, as Republican Mitt Romney scrambled to make up ground on Democratic President Barack Obama in the crucial battleground state of Ohio. On a day when the rivals held dueling events across the state, Romney mixed empathy for the unemployed – ...
- Romney backs Israel if needs to strike Iran – aide says (Category: Business)
- Romney wins big in Florida presidential primary (Category: Business)
- Obama takes campaign to Latin America, slams Romney (Category: Business)
- Romney, Ryan hit the road in an energised Republican campaign (Category: Business)
A fusion of glamour and festivities awaits guests at the annual gala dinner organised by the Sri Lanka India Society to celebrate India’s Independence Day. The celebratory dinner will be held today from 6. 45p.m. at Taj Samudra. The Chief Guest at the dinner will be High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka Ashok K. ...
- ‘Sthree Utsav 2012’ by The Sri Lanka India Society to dazzle Colombo (Category: Business)
- Rs. 200,000 from US Ambassador’s Ball to Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society (Category: Business)
- Mega ‘India Show’ in August 2012 to boost bilateral trade with Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- It was Bachchan's decision, not IIFA (Category: Breaking News)
Govt. gives 37%-82% salary hike, says 4.5% of GDP already given to education, charges issues politicised but promises to continue discussions By Uditha Jayasinghe After nearly three months of unrelenting trade union action, the Government yesterday extended the strongest olive branch yet to university teachers by increasing their salaries by as much as ...
- FUTA no-balled again (Category: Breaking News)
- University teachers want 20% salary increase (Category: Breaking News)
- No invitation for discussion, complains Federation of University Teachers' Association of Sri La... (Category: Breaking News)
- University teachers of Sri Lanka to accept an interim solution on salary demand (Category: Breaking News)
Celebrating ties between China and Sri Lanka, the Sri Lanka-China Journalists Forum in collaboration with Embassy of China will present China Nanjing Little Red Flowers Children’s Art Troupe for the first time in Sri Lanka as ‘Red Flowers on Stage’ on 30 September and 1 October at the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapaksa Theatre. The exclusive ...
- Dancing envoys mark 55 years of Sino-Sri Lanka ties (Category: Breaking News)
- Chinese ballet at Nelum Pokuna Theatre (Category: Breaking News)
The location of Sri Lanka has a strategic significance and this has been proven by the historical trading activities between Sri Lanka and ancient China, Egypt, and the Roman Empire. There is ample evidence to show that Sri Lanka was a main trading hub in Asia. The reasons for occupation of Sri Lanka by the ...
- Accelerating inclusive growth: The role of the external sector (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka to revive FTA talks with India, China and Thailand (Category: Breaking News)
- Is Sri Lanka geared for globalisation? (Category: Business)
- EDB turns 33 (Category: Business)
Although the Asian region is better prepared for economic turmoil than it was a decade ago, high levels of financial, trade and investment integration with the Western economies ensure that no country is immune to the effects of the Eurozone debt crisis. While most of the European Union (EU) economies struggle to design new austerity measures to ...
- Sri Lanka is an exciting and resilient business destination (Category: Business)
- Huge gains for South Asian consumers: CUTS (Category: Business)
- Challenging times for Asia Pacific (Category: Business)
- Developing Asia’s growth to moderate amid global uncertainty, says ADB (Category: Business)
THE events that unfolded with the swearing-in of a new Chief Minister to the North Central Province has brought into sharper focus the practice of collective bargaining in Sri Lanka, with the added dimension of family bartering. Since 2005, as the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) has entrenched its dominance over the United National Party ...
- Being brilliant in bargaining (Category: Business)
- Wijeyadasa Rajapakse inducted as BASL president (Category: Breaking News)
- Adidas eyes basketball boost after NBA lockout ends (Category: Business)
- NBA players reject offer, season in jeopardy (Category: Business)
With the rejection of the Cabinet decision proposed to resolve the problem of university academics, the issue seems to be dragging without a settlement. The lecturers’ main demands are a salary increase, increase in Government funding of the education system to 6% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product), end to political interference in education, and establishment ...
- Universities in crisis: Key learnings (Category: Business)
- Chaos in universities: A solution? (Category: Business)
- English as medium of instruction at Law College (Category: Breaking News)
- Medical education at crossroads (Category: Breaking News)
World-famous Amanresorts Chairman Adrian Zecha has expressed his bullishness in post-war rebound in Sri Lanka’s tourism, which has encouraged him to explore fresh opportunities for expansion. “The post-conflict economic development process is visible everywhere in Sri Lanka. Our resorts in Sri Lanka were not economically viable during the pre-conflict period. But thanks to the peace, ....
- Historic building used as PM’s official residence to be a hotel (Category: Breaking News)
- Beach Hotels (Category: Business)
- Island Lure (Category: Business)
- Adrian Zecha : The Trailblazing Innovator Continuing to Redefine Luxury Travel (Category: Breaking News)
Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice President Xiaoyu Zhao has declared that Sri Lanka has big potential than any other country in Asia to become the most viable and attractive regional economic hub. “Strategic location, post conflict infrastructure development initiatives, peace and stability, high economic growth and able leadership are the main factors behind these potential,” ...
- ADB’s South Asia head meets Basil (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka has big potential to be a viable regional hub – ADB (Category: Breaking News)
- ADB’s new Sri Lanka partnership to target inclusive growth (Category: Business)
- New ADB, Sri Lanka partnership strategy agreed to target growth (Category: Breaking News)
Xinhua: Sri Lanka’s topmost Tamil minority minister in the northern town of Jaffna on is confident that the government will be able to finalise a political solution for the Tamils. The minister of Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development, Douglas Devananda, told Xinhua in an interview that the solution should be based on 13 Amendment ...
- Meeting of revived pro-Eelam outfit in Chennai on Monday (Category: Business)
- Outside conspiracies will not be allowed – Mahinda (Category: Business)
- German Foreign Ministry Head of Asia-Pacific Political Affairs visits Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- President denounces Tamil National Alliance’s call for international inquiry (Category: Business)
Reuters: Banks are getting round new rules intended to make a still vulnerable industry safer while countries are distracted by the continuing financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. The IMF’s latest Global Financial Stability Report said banks will adjust to new costs from tougher regulation to curb excessive risk taking, with deep-pocketed ...
- Demands on bank assets pose “vicious cycle” danger (Category: Business)
- India finds balance in NPLs recovery and borrower rights (Category: Business)
- Insurers, asset managers need tighter control – BIS (Category: Business)
- Three steps to avoid a global depression – Soros (Category: Business)
The WTO in its annual World Trade Report for 2012, in addition to analysing world trade, has dealt in detail on Non Tariff Measures (NTMs), which has gained an important place in international trade today. In a world of trade liberalisation and free trade agreements which deal mainly with tariff reductions, which are clearly spelt ...
- New external trade policy (Category: Business)
- WTO risks its future by keeping Doha talks alive (Category: Business)
- Time to update global services trade rules – report (Category: Business)
- Unfinished Business? The WTO’s Doha Agenda (Category: Business)
UNITED NATIONS(Reuters): President Barack Obama will say on Tuesday the United States will “do what we must” to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon as UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned against threatening attacks whose consequences would be devastating. Preparing to take the podium at the United Nations six weeks before the US presidential election, ...
- Ahmadinejad denounces ‘uncivilised Zionists,’ urges new order (Category: Business)
- Obama vows to pursue further nuclear cuts with Russia (Category: Business)
- Iran army tests defences as nuclear tensions rise (Category: Business)
- Israel calls for tougher Iran sanctions (Category: Business)
The academics are marching. The students are marching. The Muslims are marching. Every day hundreds images of throngs of people shouting slogans and demonstrating blare across television screens, newspapers and of course, the internet. SMS news alerts about road closures and barricades abound as popular discontent rises to the surface through trade union agitation and ...
- No interference in Sri Lanka’s Judiciary, President asserts (Category: Business)
- Divi Neguma Bill to be back anew (Category: Business)
- Northwestern Provincial Council approves the Divi Neguma Bill (Category: Breaking News)
- SC order and govt.’s trial balloon (Category: Breaking News)
The Divi Neguma Bill has put forward new questions regarding transparency and good governance in Sri Lanka as well as the role played by powerful politicians in moving away from best practices under the guise of assisting people “for the greater good”. In a nutshell, the Supreme Court last week told Parliament that the Bill ...
- SC says Divi Neguma Bill needs PC sanction (Category: Business)
- SLMC face challenges in Divi Neguma bill (Category: Breaking News)
- Divi Neguma Bill: Govt. says will not violate Constitution (Category: Breaking News)
- Divi Neguma Bill to be back anew (Category: Business)
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)
Reuters: Brent crude oil fell more than $1 per barrel to below $110 on Wednesday, weighed down by a stronger dollar, worries over growth and the euro zone debt crisis as Greece faced its biggest anti-austerity strike for months. Greece’s transport system ground to a halt, shops pulled down their shutters and hospitals worked on ...
- Oil Gush (Category: Business)
- Why is there more oil seed rape being grown? (Category: Technology)
- Shortages: Is 'peak oil' idea dead? (Category: Technology)
- New Mexico increases enforcement of clean-up at oil sites (Category: USA, New Mexico)
Sri Lanka team wins Plate beating Thailand 22-7 Hong Kong beat hosts China 40-10 to win the weekend’s HSBC Asian Sevens Series’ (HSBC A7s) Shanghai Sevens and underline their growing status as one of the top teams in Asia. In the other silverware matches, the Ben Gollings-led Sri Lanka team won the Plate beating Thailand ...
- Sri Lanka 7’s off to Borneo today (Category: Business)
- Korea fights back against Hong Kong to win Shanghai Sevens (Category: Business)
- SLretains Bowl and Japan reclaims top seed at Borneo Sevens (Category: Business)
- Hong Kong wins HSBC Asian Sevens Series Bangkok Sevens (Category: Business)
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