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The Maldivian administration’s key economic strategy is to engage the private sector and enable the diversification of the economy for sustainable development, said Mahmood Razee, Minister of Economic Development in the Republic of Maldives who was in the country to attend the fourth Annual General Meeting of the Sri Lanka-Maldives Bilateral Business Council recently. ...
- Maldives Hotel Asia 2012 from 10 to 12 Sept. (Category: Business)
- Budding Business (Category: Business)
- Seminar on bilateral trade between Maldives and Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Lankan businesses asked to invest in Maldives (Category: Breaking News)
By Cheranka Mendis Sri Lanka’s general education system needs to up their game before long if the country is to achieve the status of knowledge hub in the economic development plans to be laid out by the Government by 2015. The system, which runs on low investment and infrastructure, questionable quality teaching and varied issues ...
- $ 100 m World Bank assistance to transform education system (Category: Business)
- Catching itself young (Category: Business)
- Baby Cheramy celebrates 50 years with ‘The big heart project’ (Category: Business)
Reuters: Sri Lanka’s stock market narrowly edged up on Monday from a seven-week low, ending four straight falls as investors snapped up battered shares though a liquidity shortage and global worries cooled sentiments, dealers said. The island nation’s main share index closed 0.02 per cent or 1.42 points up at 6,736.02, from the lowest since ...
- Stock market at two-week low; block deals boost activity (Category: Business)
- Stock market at 11-week low despite foreign inflows (Category: Business)
- Kenya tea exports up 10% in first quarter (Category: Business)
- Stocks slip on profit-taking ahead of SEC ruling (Category: Business)
Reuters: Sri Lanka’s stock market fell for a third session to a more-than six-week low on Thursday, following Asian peers on a gloomy global economic outlook, a local liquidity shortage and forced selling to meet margin debt reductions. The island nation’s main share index closed 0.45 per cent or 30.50 points weaker at 6,762.38, its ...
- Controlling shareholder CFLB buys 12% more of Colonial Motors for Rs. 319 m (Category: Business)
- Bottomed Out or SEC change talk? Market opens week on the up (Category: Business)
- Royal Ceramics’ 2Q shines with half a billion pre-tax profit (Category: Business)
- Stock market up ahead of Budget; rupee weaker (Category: Business)
Retail selling push stocks near two-week lows Foreign investors net sellers of Rs. 339.9 m Rupee flat despite heavy importer dollar demand Reuters: Sri Lanka’s stock market fell near a two-week low on Tuesday on high turnover and volume as retail investors sold amid a credit shortage while institutional investors stayed cautious in line with ...
- Stock market up ahead of Budget; rupee weaker (Category: Business)
- Colombo bourse slide on credit; rupee flat (Category: Business)
- Rupee on a yo-yo! (Category: Business)
- Shares at 22-month low on SEC rule, economic woes (Category: Business)
Last week, media were abuzz with two reports on how undesired exchange rate movements could worry governments. One was a currency under pressure for appreciation in the market and the other was a currency moving in the opposite. Swiss Franc: One way Journey to Appreciation The first was the case of the Swiss Franc which ...
- Six popular fallacies of currency appreciation – Part 2 (Category: Business)
- Swiss central bank intervention fails to stem franc’s rise (Category: Business)
- External value of the rupee: Market driven or Central Bank driven? (Category: Business)
- Rupee sinks to record low (Category: Business)
The Sri Lanka Standards Institution (SLSI) yesterday lifted the ban on the import of Lucky brand of cement following the Pakistan-based manufacturer’s factory getting a certification on quality from a London laboratory. The decision to lift the suspension imposed in June, was made at a meeting of the SLSI Council which includes representatives from the ...
- SLSI finally clears quality ‘Lucky’ cement (Category: Business)
- Ban on substandard cement removed (Category: Breaking News)
- Suspension of SLS mark on cement from Pakistan lifted (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistani cement released to the market (Category: Breaking News)
Stock Broking firm Capital Alliance suggests that the 2.6 million tourist arrivals target isn’t a pipedream but achievable though it will be only by 2020, which is 4 years later than the Government and industry set timeline of 2016. “The Government projects 2.5m arrivals in 2016, but the industry will lack the rooms and trained ...
- Think tourism (Category: Business)
- ETA examined (Category: Business)
- September tourist arrivals up 27% (Category: Business)
- South Africa’s Sun City to invest $ 800 m in Sri Lanka tourism (Category: Business)
CEMENT, a product slapped with maximum retail price, is in crisis. During the past few weeks cement has been the centre of much public spotlight and debate. Macho-type talk by Co-operatives and Internal Trade Minister Johnston Fernando and his lack of consultation with cement trade hasn’t helped the situation either. Let’s take stock of the ...
- Cement market gets ‘Lucky’! (Category: Business)
- 1 million bags of cement in need (Category: Business)
- Lanka Cement gets new Board (Category: Business)
- Price of a 50kg bag of cement to cost Rupees 2300/- from today (06) (Category: Breaking News)
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