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 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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
- Appreciating the exchange rate to create prosperity (Category: Business)
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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...
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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. ...
- Blue Chips attract more foreign buying (Category: Business)
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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 ...
- Brokers scramble for new capital (Category: Business)
- Brokers to seek variance of SEC credit rule (Category: Business)
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