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Ballooning trade gap Even with the multitude of measures taken to curb imports, Sri Lanka's cumulative trade deficit widened to nearly US$ 1.7 billion in the first two months of the year with earnings from exports increasing marginally by 3.3 per cent to US$ 1.8 billion whilst import expenditure shooting by 24.7 per cent to ...
- Hub is no hoodoo, says TEA (Category: Business)
- Marketing 3.0 and Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- ‘Pure Ceylon Tea’ or ‘tea hub’? The billion dollar question (Category: Business)
- Do people prefer coffee over tea? (Category: Business)
What is corporate governance? According to the World Bank Corporate governance is “the system by which companies are directed and controlled”. It involves the balance of powers among three key corporate constituencies: the board of directors, which is charged with monitoring, overseeing, and guiding the company; the shareholders, who invest their funds in the company’s ...
- A Company Director’s Role (Category: Business)
- Meeting the corporate governance challenge (Category: Business)
- Critique on Board directors’ role and liabilities (Category: Business)
- STING recognises Aitken Spence Sustainability Strategy (Category: Business)
CHENNAI (TrustLaw): Indian villager Jaya places the bright pink, sequined, moulded C-cupped designer bra under the needle of her sewing machine and carefully stitches the seams together. The padded “Very Sexy” push-up bra which 22-year-old Jaya sews is for American lingerie retailer Victoria’s Secret – designed to give a “boost” to buyers in hundreds of ...
- Kate Moss and Lara Stone strip for Pirelli calendar (Category: Business)
- D’Divas brings haute couture to Cambridge (Category: Business)
- Leaders unequal - Women in South Asia (Category: Business)
- Women’s political participation must be accelerated through quotas (Category: Business)
What is business writing? Business writing is one of the most important aspects of the business world. Writing is still one of the number one methods of communication in the world. With the introduction of email, writing became even more important in the work place. There are many different types of business writing. Each type ...
- How to Write and Self-Publish Your Own Book (Category: Breaking News)
- How to manage your boss (Category: Business)
- Converting ideas into actions: Part II (Category: Business)
- Why some companies fail (Category: Business)
Central Bank of Sri Lanka yesterday vehemently denied allegations by United National Party (UNP) Parliamentarian and Economist Dr. Harsha de Silva that Employeesandrsquo; Provident Fund (EPF) was engaged in corrupt deals in the Colombo Bourse.andnbsp;
Central Bank of Sri Lanka today denied allegations by Dr. Harsha de Silva that Employeesandrsquo; Provident Fund (EPF) that it was engaged in corrupt deals in the Colombo Bourse.
The best hotels, hotel architecture, interiors, construction and design across the entire Asia Pacific region were celebrated at The J W Marriott Hotel in Kuala Lumpur on 27 April. The leading companies behind these winning hotels and hospitality projects were invited to attend to receive the prestigious awards. The Asia Pacific Hotel Awards in association ...
- The Fortress pampers guests with 5-star butler service concept (Category: Business)
- The Fortress wins global title in World Luxury Hotel Awards (Category: Business)
- The Fortress scoops prestigious global luxury hotel award (Category: Business)
Who is a boss? A boss is a person who exercises control over other employees in a workplace environment. Over time, the term has come to have negative connotations (note words like bossy and mob boss), and many people who now lead others in the workplace prefer to be called supervisors, foreman or forepersons, leads, ...
- Getting on with difficult bosses (Category: Business)
- Why unqualified managers are harmful to employees – Part II (Category: Business)
- A heart that feels and a mind that thinks (Category: Business)
- Unacceptable employee behaviour (Category: Business)
Mr. Thilak Karunarathne Chairman, Securities Exchange Commission,Colombo. Dear Sir, Re: SEC inquiry connected with the stock exchange transaction where the National Savings Bank acquired shares of The Finance Company I wish to hail your expressed commitments to initiate with urgency a comprehensive inquiry connected with the stock exchange transaction where the National Savings Bank acquired ...
- Economic management and the way forward (Category: Business)
- Govt. to consider tightening laws on white collar crimes (Category: Business)
- NSB-TFC deal’s stench spreads! (Category: Business)
- Wijetilleke backs calls for tough action on NSB-TFC deal (Category: Business)
Sri Lankaandrsquo;s banking watchdog- Central Bank said that global rating agency- Fitch had affirmed countryandrsquo;s stable outlook whilst Fitch opined that the government has to persist with reducing its budget gap and tighten monetary policy further if needed to ward off balance payments pressure. andnbsp;
The highest oversubscription ever seen for a Sri Lankan international bond in April and KPMG’s latest positive Change Readiness Index ranking for Sri Lanka show the growing international investor confidence in the country, which prefers patient investments to hot money. “Sri Lanka has entered a new era of development thanks to the visionary leadership of ...
- Rishad to promote Lanka at Dubai AIM power forum (Category: Business)
- Indian interest - Sri Lanka readying for dedicated trade talks in March (Category: Business)
- UAE-Sri Lanka trade tops $ 1 b mark in 2011 (Category: Business)
- Robust exports to get boost via Expo 2012 (Category: Business)
The need for an integrated program on a war footingIn 2008, eight prizewinning economists were asked to list the type of projects which would do the most good for the most number of poor people, if they had an imaginary $ 75 million to spend. Half of their proposed projects involved nutrition. There has been ...
- Sri Lanka: Tea rich but nutrient poor (Category: Business)
- Dairy: The mirage of self-sufficiency (Category: Business)
- Equity and well-being in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
What is the combination of heart and mind? This combination creates the ability to identify, use, understand, and manage your emotions in positive and constructive ways. It’s about recognising your own emotional state and the emotional states of others. Recognising and understanding comes from the mind whilst emotions/feelings come from the heart. This combination is ...
- A heart that feels and a mind that thinks (Category: Business)
- Improving interpersonal skills (Category: Business)
- How to manage your boss (Category: Business)
The Colombo stock market yesterday produced a late rally following the removal of the 10% price band by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The market’s value swelled by Rs. 41 billion whilst main All Share Index gained by 2% or 111 points as sentiments of investors and brokers got a boost following the regulatory ...
- No show by SEC Santa this X’mas! (Category: Business)
- Price band duration reduced - SEC (Category: Breaking News)
The challenges Sri Lanka has to face in its march towards development are manifold. Although the war has ended the wrong political ideologies, the proposals and timetables it created are still in operation. By Government Information Department Additional Director General Chandrapala Liyanage Similarly, various social activity groups and individuals and organisations operating under the advice ...
- President’s leadership led to great achievements in ICT: Weeratunga (Category: Business)
- Building resilience in Asia Pacific’s digital society (Category: Business)
- Namal on dynasties and democracies (Category: Business)
- EDB turns 33 (Category: Business)
By Cheranka Mendis Even if the status of the world economy seems to have found a rather fragile equilibrium with Europe over the past six weeks, the world is no closer to being immune from the risks that have cropped up as a result of the European and USA led recession and changes in world ...
- S&P says Asia will pull through hard times (Category: Business)
- Emerging Asia’s 2012 growth cut to 6.8% from 7.4% (Category: Business)
- Lion leads frontier markets (Category: Business)
- World economy fragile, faces “uneasy calm” – IMF (Category: Business)
The combination of heart and mind creates the ability to identify, use, understand and manage your emotions in positive and constructive ways. It’s about recognising your own emotional state and the emotional states of others. Recognising and understanding comes from the mind whilst emotions/feelings come from the heart. This combination is what we call ‘Emotional ...
- A heart that feels, a mind that thinks (Category: Business)
- Elected Leaders React To Capitol Building Insurrection (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Elected Leaders React To Capitol Building Insurrection (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Connecticut officials react to chaos at U.S. Capitol (Category: USA, Arkansas)
Intelo Networks (Pvt) Ltd., has developed the first ever digital Tourist Information Kiosks (TIKs) launched recently by the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau under the aegis of Ministry of Economic Development. To identify the locations of the Tourist Information Kiosks, Intelo has planned to up TIK directional signs at the discretion of the state regulations ...
- Video: අමෙරිකාවේ Tik Tok තහනම චීනයේ උදහසට... (Category: Video)
- Video: TIK TOK කරන්න ගොස් මුහුදට වැටුණු තරුණයා... (Category: Video)
- Video: අමෙරිකාව මොකද හදිසියේ Tik Tok නතර කරන්න යන්නේ? (Category: Video)
- Video: tik tok වලින් ලෝකයටම ඇපල් විකුණන චීනය (Category: Video)
The Saudi Kingdom has offered financial aid worth SR 225 million (approximately Rs. 7.6 billion) for the upgrading of road networks in Sri Lanka. The draft agreement for the financial assistance was finalized in Riyadh on Monday during a meeting between the Vice Chairman of the Saudi Fund For Development (SFD) Yusuf Al-Bassam and Dr. ...
- Somali pirates demand 20 million US dollars to release oil tanker (Category: Breaking News)
- BOI signs $ 44 m deal with Saudi investor (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka seeks US$ 6 Billion fuel credit line from Saudi Arabia (Category: Breaking News)
- NEOM offers Sri Lankan workers ‘lifetime opportunity,’ minister says (Category: Breaking News)
Capital Alliance, a full-service investment bank will be hosting one of Asia’s foremost Investor Relations experts, Jonathan Zax, in Colombo this week. Zax’s investor relations efforts have been frequently recognised by the international financial community through top rankings in polls by Asiamoney, Finance Asia, Lafferty Group and Investor Relations Magazine. Last year, he received a...
- Capital Alliance, CT CLSA win top Sri Lanka’s CFA capital market awards (Category: Breaking News)
- HNB continues capital raising spree; gets $ 25 m for Tier 2 funding via DEG Germany (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka can be an Islamic finance hub (Category: Business)
Having successfully defeated terrorism, ended years of civil war, ushered an era of peace and prosperity to the country, initiated resoundingly successful development initiatives in the north and the east, the Government of Sri Lanka needs to be applauded for consolidating a unified national identity; an identity that only occasionally reared its head at cricket ...
- UNHRC inspection team to visit Sri Lanka next week (Category: Business)
- Double-edged reconciliation (Category: Business)
- Political dialogue must be accompanied by concrete changes on the ground (Category: Breaking News)
- International Crisis Group statement on LLRC report (Category: Business)
As the world decides vote on Sri Lanka on the methods used on the eradication of terrorism in the country, my mind goes back to the December 2008 when three of us were organising the staging of the first Industrial Exhibition in Jaffna so that the north gets connected to south on an economic front. ...
- What’s next for Brand Sri Lanka? (Category: Business)
- Building ‘Brand Sri Lanka’: Expo 2012 (Category: Business)
“Account management is the process of maximising the return on your investment in a customer by defining and actioning appropriate plans that will enable you to build on the present, to manage the future” An account manager is a person in a business who is responsible for the management of the sales and relationship with ...
- How to develop an effective marketing plan (Category: Business)
- Why some companies fail (Category: Business)
- Business and project risks (Category: Business)
- Business-to-business selling (Category: Business)
Reuters: Iran, facing sanctions that could cripple its oil exports, has told world powers it wants to resume long-stalled talks with “new initiatives”, and France said it might be open to addressing suspicions about its nuclear programme. Tehran made the offer in a letter to the EU’s foreign policy chief obtained by Reuters on Thursday, ...
- Letter To Tiran (Category: Breaking News)
- Marsh sends letter of demand to SLC (Category: Business)
- Iran halts oil sales to UK, France on eve of talks (Category: Business)
- Iran imposes oil ‘counter-sanctions’ on EU (Category: Business)
(Bloomberg): Sri Lanka doesn’t need to further tighten monetary policy for now even though an increase in fuel and transportation costs and a weakening currency may stoke inflation, the head of the central bank said. The central bank’s rate increase earlier this month will have a “demand-driven impact” and help moderate inflation, its Governor Ajith ...
- Sri Lanka stocks may slump more on rates – HSBC Private (Category: Business)
- CB Governor sees light at the end of the tunnel (Category: Breaking News)
- Rupee hits new low, but State intervenes (Category: Business)
- Rupee down (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka’s benchmark stock index, the world’s worst performer this year, may extend its slump as the central bank raises interest rates to curb inflation, according to HSBC Holdings Plc’s private banking unit. HSBC Private Bank, which oversees about $499 billion, will wait for stock valuations to fall to “single digit” multiples before it considers ...
- Stocks approach one-month low; rupee steady (Category: Business)
- China factory surveys signal economic growth stays soft in Q3 (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Stocks May Slump More on Rates, HSBC Private Says (Category: Breaking News)
- CB seen holding rates, SRR steady – Reuters poll (Category: Business)
Are the Indian Army’s golf courses illegal? Sri Lanka’s fourth golf course opened by Air Force India’s national auditor, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), has reported to Parliament that the country’s Army has turned large tracts of State military property into illegal privately-run ...
- Nuwara Eliya Golf Club elects Office Bearers at 123rd AGM (Category: Business)
- Opening of Lanka’s 4th golf course (Category: Breaking News)
- SriLankan flies Touché Golf League finalists to Kandy (Category: Business)
- Oman Air Golf Classic Tournament 2012 to tee-off in October (Category: Business)
Regulatory pressure mounted further over the course of 2011 – bad news for financial services firms, but good news for the consultancies to which they turned for help. Ernst and Young topped the Operational Risk and Regulation consultancy rankings again in 2011 (http://www.risk.net/operational-risk-and-regulation/feature/2135016/orr-consultancy-rankings-2011), and the New York-based head of ...
THE proposed amendments to the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) have created a much-needed discussion forum on pension funds and their benefits, while also bringing several crucial points into the limelight. Experts have pointed out that if the Government is genuinely keen on maximising returns of workers, then they need to exempt EPF earnings from tax ...
- End taxation on EPF earnings: Employers body (Category: Business)
- No investigations yet on EPF transactions (Category: Business)
- VIDEO: Govt using EPF, ETF money to pay off debt - Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
- Stop repeating mistakes (Category: Business)
Respected blue chip Aitken Spence pulls out of biggest FDI project – the $ 500 m Colombo South Container Terminal due to issues with funding and cost escalations Construction cost up 30% to $ 350 m; overall project cost now estimated at $ 595 m up from $ 475 m at bid proposal stage Lender ...
- Deal signed to build Colombo Port Expansion project’s South Container Terminal (Category: Business)
- BOI signs US$ 500 m agreement for Colombo South Container Terminal (Category: Business)
- WORK ON SOUTH CONTAINER TERMINAL OF COLOMBO PORT LAUNCHED (Category: Breaking News)
- AGREEMENT INKED FOR US$500 M AGREEMENT FOR CBO SOUTH CONTAINER TERMINAL (Category: Breaking News)
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