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Hilton Colombo Residences yesterday announced its latest ‘Drink as much as you feast’ food and beverage promotion at its flagship restaurant, Union Bar & Grill. The promotion would be held every Sunday to Wednesday between 7 and 10 p.m. Guests would be treated to a full international buffet, which consists of salads, soups, main course ...
- Phase 2 construction begins on Unser (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Phase 2 construction begins on Unser (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Chinese man returning to Shanghai from Sri Lanka infected (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan’s women team to Sri Lanka for SAFF Championship (Category: Business)
Trekurious, Sri Lanka’s premium experiential travel portal introduces new offering to travellers to Sri Lanka with the launch of celebrity cricket experiences, tailored for those who love the gentleman’s game and the personalities who play it. Trekurious brings to discerning fans a wide array of experiences to choose from, including a dinner hosted by Sri ...
- Sri Lanka's delights within easy reach (Category: Breaking News)
- More countries to learn from Lanka s military (Category: Breaking News)
- Branding beyond borders (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka, Kuwait to forge stronger relations, signs agreement to protect worker rights (Category: Breaking News)
ESPNcricinfo: Northamptonshire have decided not to renew Chaminda Vaas’ contract for 2013, citing the 38-year-old’s troubles with fitness last season. A variety of injuries saw the former Sri Lanka seam bowler play in only six of Northants’ 16 Division Two Championship matches and he also missed much of the Clydesdale Bank 40. Vaas had been ...
- Lionheart Vaas is roaring again (Category: Sports)
- Veteran Vaas shows his class (Category: Sports)
- Cricket Squad (Category: Business)
- Getting Set (Category: Business)
Group companies to unite in ‘Passing the Pillow’ amongst 30,000-strong workforce and communitiesThe Hayleys Group displayed its commitment to help the nation combat the spread of HIV/AIDS by becoming the latest entity to join the “Passing the Pillow” programme launched by the Lanka Business Coalition on HIV and AIDS (LBCH). In pledging renewed efforts to ...
- Hayleys pledges concerted effort to drive HIV/AIDS awareness creation (Category: Business)
- Lankan corporates unite to pass pillow of awareness on World Aids Day (Category: Business)
- Creating awareness’ on HIV and AIDS is just a click away (Category: Business)
Houses 400 stalls, 40 international publishers to a expected million peopleBy Cheranka Mendis For Sri Lanka there is no better time to read than now. With Colombo International Book Fair (CIBF) opening its doors yesterday for a nine day journey, it is the time of the year to battle your way through the masses gathered ...
- Sri Lanka’s Colombo International Book Fair kicks off with 400 stalls (Category: Breaking News)
- US job growth stalls, fuels recession fears (Category: Business)
- Momentum stalls on Obama nuclear agenda (Category: Business)
- UBS China fund management project stalls after Credit Suisse deal (Category: Breaking News)
Cabraal says that price pressures will remain, keeps policy rates and growth figures steady The Central Bank kept policy rates unchanged yesterday, on expectations that inflation would remain contained to single digit levels on policy changes to reduce demand. The concerted efforts by the Central Bank and the Government earlier this year to curb the ...
- Credit growth to slow to 27% by December – Cabraal (Category: Business)
- CB seen keeping rates steady for fifth straight month (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka to grow at 7.2% (Category: Business)
- CB banks on policy changes (Category: Business)
Issue oversubscribed by two times, says Central Bank The Central Bank has had its latest issue of Sri Lanka Development Bonds oversubscribed by two times, bringing the total bid to US$ 121.05 million, the monetary institution said in a statement. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka, on behalf of the Government of Sri Lanka, ...
- Central Bank successful at 1st Sri Lanka Development Bonds issue in 2010 (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka plans to issue sovereign bond for up to $1 bn (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka`s 12 billion rupees T-bills oversubscribed (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Central Bank to remove old currency notes from circulation (Category: Breaking News)
The biggest-ever textile industry delegation from India arrived yesterday, the Industry and Commerce Ministry said in a statement. The high-level textile delegation is here to strengthen the promising textile trade between the two countries and incorporates both high ranking Government officials and reps from private sector. “We warmly welcome the high-level textile delegation which is ...
- Program to revive textile industry with Indian help (Category: Business)
- India to modernise textile mills in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Anand Sharma to lead delegation to Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
The ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2012 started off yesterday at the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium Hambantota, with the first match played between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. Photojournalist Shantha Rathnayake captured these moments prior to the match as crowds gathered at the stadium to enjoy yet another edition of the gentleman’s game.
The first-ever National Bamboo Processing initiative will be kicked off today, 19 September, at Galle Face Hotel, Colombo. The UNIDO focal point office in Colombo will be launching the event with Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen and Secretary, Ministry of Industry and Commerce Anura Siriwardena. The launching will also be attended by senior ...
- Bamboo processing industry initiated in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka’s fledgling bamboo industry gets UNIDO backing, aims 10000 Ha coverage by 2018 (Category: Business)
- UNIDO enlists top global financier GEF in pioneering alt-power push (Category: Business)
Considering the growing need for the security technologies, products, solutions and services, the security domain stakeholders in Sri Lanka can benefit from the sixth edition of IFSEC India and Homeland Security India – the largest security exposition in India and South Asia. It is scheduled to be held from November 01-03, 2012 at the India ...
- Mayor says NYC needs more homeland security money (Category: USA, North Carolina)
- Homeland Security Exercise On I-20 and Thornton Road (Category: USA, Georgia)
- U.S. Homeland Security is monitoring the Sri Lankan Tamil migrant ship heading to Canada (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian Position (Category: Business)
Commendable achievements Over the years Sri Lanka has gained a considerable reputation for its achievements in social development. It punches above its weight on the UNDP’s Human Development Index. It has also performed very well in meeting the internationally agreed Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which focus on indicators related to poverty, health, education and gender ...
- From poverty to sustainability in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Equity and well-being in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- “Connecting People to Prosperity” in Sri Lanka. A reality check with “Mahinda Chinthanaya” (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Divi Neguma’ Dept: Development catalyst, dependency creator or a white elephant? (Category: Business)
The exchange of goods and services has been around for as long as civilisations themselves, if not longer. Humans, being extremely adaptive to their environments, have always found ways to utilise resources and build surplus. This surplus was then used to trade in order to obtain resources and goods that weren’t abundantly available. Evolution of ...
- Dialog empowers 7.5m with mobile money transactions (Category: Business)
- ComBank records highest growth in ‘Inter-Bank Electronic’ payments (Category: Business)
- Banking foresight – Shaping integrated development (Category: Business)
Abeeth Dangalla who made a strong comeback to become the champion driver at the Rotherham Circuit Meet, the penultimate event for the CEAT/SLARDAR Championship 2012 gave a brief interview to the media discussing his recent achievement and passion for the sport. Dangalla won both events of the SL-GT 3500cc Class which was organised by the ...
- Ester Core technology launched by Motul (Category: Business)
- ‘Motul’ power for Ashan’s racing (Category: Business)
- 78th MOTUL Mahagastotte to turn Nuwara Eliya to a racing circuit (Category: Business)
- 78th Motul Mahagastotte turns Nuwara Eliya to a racing circuit (Category: Business)
The festival of creativity – Spikes Asia 2012 in Singapore during its first two days showcased key insights on winning and creative ideas in the marketing communications sphere by a host of global and regional experts. Attended by nearly 1,800 creative industry professionals and students from 27 countries including nearly 20 from Sri Lanka, the ...
- Countdown to Spikes Asia starts (Category: Business)
- Leo Burnett Sri Lanka’s Subhash Pinnapola, first Sri Lankan on Spikes Jury (Category: Business)
- East vs .West, good vs. bad: Dissecting ‘glocalisation’ in branding (Category: Business)
- Leo Burnett celebrates exceptional year in 2011 (Category: Business)
It is with great sacrifices that Sri Lanka brought about a victory against ruthless terrorism, which is certainly a feather in the cap of Rajapaksa family. No one can dispute the fact that President Rajapaksa provided the political leadership and ensured that the LTTE was decimated at any cost. The Tamil diaspora and the pro-separatist ...
- Eight Lankan refugees arrested in TN (Category: Breaking News)
- Coast Guard stand on TN fisherman ‘outrageous’: Jayalalitha (Category: Breaking News)
- TN determined to regain Katchatheevu (Category: Breaking News)
- TN BJP will continue to press for retrieval of Katchatheevu: Annamalai (Category: Breaking News)
The first CFW Resortwear show will feature a total of 12 important designers showcasing their Resortwear 2013 collections. The focus for the first show is the South and South East Asian region hence the designers are from Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The show which is themed as a Resortwear weekend on the ...
- Darshi to showcase at Russia Fashion Week (Category: Business)
- HSBC Colombo Fashion Week starts today (Category: Business)
- Colombo Fashion Week 2012 on the ramp from 24 Feb. (Category: Business)
- HSBC Colombo Fashion Week to boost local fashion retail network (Category: Business)
Two groups totalling around 50 would-be Sri Lankan asylum seekers have arrived at the offshore processing centres in Papua New Guinea, but are unlikely to provide a bottleneck for the dozens more expected. The number of detainees during the last two months has topped 556, with total numbers since June estimated at around 1,400, showing ...
- Choices (Category: Business)
- Ready to make any sacrifice for the people – Prime Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Two people shot dead in Moratuwa (Category: Breaking News)
- 6.26 Million people in Sri Lanka are food insecure – World Food Programme (Category: Breaking News)
Non-Americans generally have a patronising, derisive view of American politics. That also applies to this presidential election campaign. Trivia, mud-slinging, bitter partisanship, extremism (particularly among Republicans) and Washington gridlock crowd out sensible debate, reasonable compromise and hard policy choices. That, at least, is the conventional wisdom. But it is wrong in one major respe...
- Romney vs Obama: Leadership and the enemies list (Category: Business)
- Losing ground in Ohio, Romney says his ‘heart aches’ for jobless (Category: Business)
- Obama takes campaign to Latin America, slams Romney (Category: Business)
- Romney, Ryan hit the road in an energised Republican campaign (Category: Business)
Ministers announced substantial new funding awards to boost the UK life sciences industry, when around 300 UK and international delegates met in London for the British Business Embassy Life Sciences summit during the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The event also focused on how translational research can be used to develop novel therapeutics and medical technologies ...
- Global pharma giant GSK to invest $ 11.2 m more in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- GSK supports Govt. initiative to educate pharmacists (Category: Business)
- Glaxo SmithKline opens Rs. 217 m new plant (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) joined hands with ICC Development (International) Limited to become the official Tourism Partner of ICC World Twentey20 which has just started off in Sri Lanka for the period of 18 September to 10 October. The official agreement was signed by the representatives of two organisations – Sri Lanka Tourism ...
- ICC named Malinga is the event ambassador for T20 (Category: Breaking News)
- ICC World Cup - tremendous tourism gain (Category: Breaking News)
- World Cup - tremendous tourism gain (Category: Breaking News)
- ICC launches online Media Guide for ICC World Twenty20 Sri Lanka 2012 (Category: Breaking News)
Houses 400 stalls, 40 international publishers to a expected million people By Cheranka Mendis For Sri Lanka there is no better time to read than now. With Colombo International Book Fair (CIBF) opening its doors yesterday for a nine day journey, it is the time of the year to battle your way through the masses ...
- Momentum stalls on Obama nuclear agenda (Category: Business)
- UBS China fund management project stalls after Credit Suisse deal (Category: Breaking News)
- US job growth stalls, fuels recession fears (Category: Business)
Chandrasena Sudusinghe, one of Sri Lanka’s greatest culinary success stories and the only Lankan to become an approved judge by the World Association of Chefs Societies joined Cinnamon Grand, Colombo’s premier city hotel, as Executive Chef recently. Cinnamon Grand, which prides itself on inducting exceptional individuals into its hospitality team, is aiming high with the ...
- Cinnamon Grand bids farewell to Chef Moru (Category: Business)
- Cinnamon Grand hosts training sessions for Sri Lanka’s Culinary Olympics Team (Category: Business)
- Martin Becquart appointed Executive Chef at Cinnamon Lakeside (Category: Business)
Group companies to unite in ‘Passing the Pillow’ amongst 30,000-strong workforce and communities The Hayleys Group displayed its commitment to help the nation combat the spread of HIV/AIDS by becoming the latest entity to join the “Passing the Pillow” programme launched by the Lanka Business Coalition on HIV and AIDS (LBCH). In pledging renewed efforts ...
- Lankan corporates unite to pass pillow of awareness on World Aids Day (Category: Business)
- Creating awareness’ on HIV and AIDS is just a click away (Category: Business)
“Broadband will represent a momentous economic and social change,” said President’s Secretary Lalith Weeratunga. Weeratunga said so while participating at the inauguration of a two-day ‘Regional Expert Consultation on Connecting Asia Pacific’s Digital Society for Building Resilience’ held in Colombo recently. Organised by the United Nations Economic and Social C...
- Building resilience in Asia Pacific’s digital society (Category: Business)
- UNESCAP expert group meets in Colombo on 5-6 Sept. (Category: Business)
- FutureGov SAARC Summit 2012 begins today (Category: Business)
- Creating digital inclusion and regional connectivity (Category: Business)
Tightening brakes on growth, Government data released yesterday showed the country has slowed to a two-and-a-half-year low, slipping from 7.9% in the first quarter to 6.4 % in the second when compared with the same period last year. A Reuters report noted that economic growth eased to 6.4 per cent in the second quarter ...
- Growth is better than expected – CB (Category: Business)
- Credit growth to slow to 27% by December – Cabraal (Category: Business)
- Economy ecstatic! (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Q3 GDP seen expanded 8.0%; full year 8.1% (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka and China inked 16 agreements yesterday in a move that will solidify already strong relations. Xinhua News reported that China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee Chairman Wu Bangguo together with his 150-strong delegation singed the agreements when they met with President Mahinda Rajapaksa. However no details were given of what the agreements contained ...
- Cherishing China! (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka, China sign 16 new agreements (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: China strengthens its grip on Colombo (Category: Breaking News)
- Top Chinese official arrives in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
Reuters: The Central Bank is expected to keep interest rates steady for a fifth straight month on Tuesday despite high inflation to help bolster economic growth, which has been cooling due to sweeping policy measures and an extended drought. Twelve out of 13 analysts polled by Reuters expect the repurchase and reverse repurchase rates to ...
- Central Bank seen holding rates, SRR steady (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)
- Inflation slips on food prices (Category: Business)
Aims to reduce travel time by 20 per cent; project to benefit an estimated 1.8 m people in five districts The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved US$ 98 million in loans for infrastructure development in Sri Lanka’s former northern war zone that will bring benefits to an estimated 1.8 million people, the organisation ...
- ADB assistance for northern road rehabilitation work (Category: Breaking News)
- ADB funds US $ 154.4 m for Northern road project (Category: Breaking News)
- ADB Director General in town (Category: Business)
- ADB grants $154.4 million to develop roads in Northern Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Successor of the International Dawoodi Bohra Community and member of the Bohra Royal Family, Syedi Aali Qadr Mufaddal Bhaisaheb Saifuddin arrived in the country late last night to deliver a sermon and meet the followers of the Dawoodi Bohra community in Colombo. Syedi Aali Qadr Mufaddal Bhaisaheb, the successor and son of the Bohra Leader, ...
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- DeepMind's AI agent MuZero could turbocharge YouTube (Category: Technology)
- TCL will launch its first television with Google TV this year - CNET (Category: Technology)
- TCL will launch its first television with Google TV this year - CNET (Category: Technology)
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