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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 ...
When you go to a cricket match in Pallekele, it’s as much about the game as it is about the atmosphereBy Anand Vasu in Pallekele The greatest challenge you’re likely to face when going to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium is the winding road that snakes around the lake in central Kandy. If you get ...
The German Embassy in Colombo gave Rs. 2.9 million as humanitarian assistance to drought affected families in Mutur in Eastern Sri Lanka. The project is implemented by the Coordinating Centre for Community Development (3CD), a community based organisation that has undertaken safe drinking-water projects to serve displaced communities since 2007. The current project focuses on ...
Elephant House-branded mini ice cream trucks in their home locales. An initiative to help improve ...
ANC Education has commenced the first LLM student intake with a full batch in September 2012. Two prominent academics Dr Philipp Elliot-Wright, Course Leader for LLM Programs and Dr Yaraslau Kryvoi, Senior Lecturer, School of Law from the University of West London arrived in Sri Lanka to attend the inaugural lectures conducted at ANC Education. UWL ...
A Sri Lankan born in California, Ras Ceylon speaks on how rasta and Sri Lanka has influenced his music By Rashika Fazali “For me, music is the universal language. It is the vehicle of expression,” said rastafarian rapper and lyricist Ras Ceylon. I first heard him when he performed at Alternative Sunday Round ...
Simon Taufel’s retirement as an active umpire at the end of the ongoing ICC World Twenty20 will mean that the most decorated member of the ICC’s Elite Panel of Umpires will not be around to oversee big games anymore. Taufel has been among the few officials who have been regarded with respect across the board, ...
Reuters: The newly married lesbian daughter of a Hong Kong tycoon who offered a $65 million “marriage bounty” to any man able to win her love, on Thursday said she’d been flooded by marriage proposals but harboured no animosity towards her father. Since Hong Kong property billionaire Cecil Chao, known in the tabloid media for ...
Reuters: Lewis Hamilton will leave McLaren and race for the Mercedes Formula One team next season after agreeing a three-year deal in which the Briton replace seven-times world champion Michael Schumacher. McLaren announced separately that Mexican Sergio Perez would partner 2009 champion Jenson Button in their line-up next season. The announcements by Mercedes and McLaren ...
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...
PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka, (Reuters): West Indies have not tasted much international success in the last decade but captain Darren Sammy believes he has succeeded in creating the kind of dressing room atmosphere that can help them end the title drought in Sri Lanka. The erstwhile giants
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is lending $130 million to help Sri Lanka expand the reach and quality of its electricity supply, with a focus on former conflict areas in the north and east of the country. It will also improve transmission and distribution network efficiency and develop renewable
Reuters: Iran’s President said on Wednesday his country was under constant threat of military action from “uncivilised Zionists” and called for a new world order not dominated by Western powers in the service of “the devil.” In his eighth and likely final address to the U.N. General Assembly’s annual gathering of world leaders, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ...
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 – ...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is lending $ 130 million to help Sri Lanka expand the reach and quality of its electricity supply, with a focus on former conflict areas in the north and east of the country. It will also improve transmission and distribution network efficiency and develop renewable
By Cheranka Mendis Sri Lanka, which did not qualify to make it to the Future Brands Country Brand Index 2011-2012 due to the lack of awareness and familiarity among the global community about the country, has made a surprise appearance in the 2013 Country Brand Index at number 67. This was revealed by Future Brands ...
Pradeep Carvalho was recently appointed as Head of Corporate Communication at Etisalat Sri Lanka. He joins Etisalat after serving in the capacity of Channel Communication Manager at Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT). Pradeep has experience not only in the highly competitive Sri Lankan Market but also in the US Market, working at Fortune 500 companies both ...
The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, the main business chamber of the country has conducted a series of workshops in the regions of Uva, Northern, Southern, Eastern and Central with assistance provided by the Asia Foundation. These were successfully conducted with the help of the regional chambers
Etisalat Sri Lanka has partnered with Commercial Bank to introduce mobile banking via USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) technology, a global system for mobile communication used to send a text between a mobile phone and an application program in a network. Etisalat users can now enjoy the convenience of conducting their banking activities with Commercial ...
At Standard Chartered, banking is certainly core business but this has never deterred or precluded the bank from contributing positively to communities which its business calls home. Standard Chartered is recognised globally as the single biggest corporate sponsor of avoidable blindness projects around the world. Seeing is Believing (SiB) is a major global public-private initiative ...
Top experts shared their secrets with more than 350 photography enthusiasts who gathered recently at the full-day seminar and workshop ‘The Big Click’ organised to enlighten on the newest technologies and skills on photography, held by Metropolitan Office Ltd., the sole authorised distributor for Canon cameras in Sri Lanka. At the event, Teoh Peng Kee, ...
With over 50 years of experience in creating mesmerising beauty, Lakmé since its inception has always celebrated beauty. Lakmé is dedicated to the contemporary woman’s exploration of the fine art of beauty by continuously innovating, offering range of high performance world class colour cosmetics, skincare products and state of the art beauty salons. Lakmé understands ...
Lipton Tea has reached another milestone in Sri Lanka with their latest range of flavoured tea being added to the product portfolio. The company launched three new black tea flavours which include – Earl Grey, Lemon and English Breakfast. Also the re-launch of new packaging and communication of the popular Lipton Clear Green variants – ...
“I am extremely delighted by the enthusiastic participation of leading private sector organisations to support our inventors by way of active sponsorships given to the Sahasak Nimevum – the first ever National Exhibition for inventions and innovations,” says Minister of Research and Technology Pavithra Wanniarachchi. Sahasak Nimevum is organised by the Sri Lanka Inventors C...
Diesel and Motor Engineering PLC (DIMO) recently organised the second Tata Nano Mileage Challenge Rally for Tata Nano owners in Colombo. The rally was flagged off from Colombo, with the objective of raising customer awareness and reassuring the position of Tata Nano as the most fuel efficient passenger car in Sri Lanka. Twenty five Tata ...
HSBC has successfully implemented a complete payment processing solution for Aitken Spence’s Financial Shared Services Centre. (FSSC) The solution implemented by HSBC Payments and Cash Management has a host of unique features including the use of XML (Extensible Markup Language) based ISO 20022 which is now the global industry standard for data transmission. In addition ...
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 ...
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 ...