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News reports point to an important decision that the minister concerned has been requested to make on the above subject. If this is correct it is important that we recognise that it is more than a million dollar decision that has been called for. It is so important a decision because it could determine the ...
- Storms brewing in teacups (Category: Business)
- Storm in Sri Lanka’s teacup: A more pragmatic approach is key (Category: Business)
- SL must become a tea nation, but… (Category: Business)
Sri Lankaandrsquo;s banking watchdog - Central Bank is expecting to increase foreign reserves in 2012 and narrow the current accounts deficit in the balance of payments, despite strong capital inflows, which will increase domestic spending power.
With open economic policies, the health sector in Sri Lanka has shown a significant development during the last few years. With the increasing population, which has now reached 20.8 million, there was a dire need for the country to improve her healthcare facilities and this requirement is now being fulfilled by both public and private ...
- ‘Arogya 2012’: A step towards better healthcare (Category: Business)
- Private Hospitals Association’s case for employing foreign medical specialists (Category: Business)
- Nawaloka Hospitals sponsors ‘Arogya 2012’ as Official Cardiac Partner (Category: Business)
- MARKSS Healthcare expands footprint in Kandy (Category: Business)
Dialog Axiata PLC announced yesterday that the depreciation of the SrI lankan Rupee relative to the USD by 12.4% QoQ, resulted in the provisioning of a non-cash translational Foreign Exchange loss of Rs 2.1Bn, leading to the Dialog Group recording a Net loss of Rs 531Mn for Q1 2012. andnbsp;
- Dialog dials top line growth in 2Q; forex losses cut profit (Category: Business)
- Dialog profit tops Rs 1.2 b in Q1 (Category: Breaking News)
- Dialog revenue grows 18% in first three months (Category: Business)
- AEC collects more Dialog shares (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)
Speaking to over 200 foreign delegates at the biennial Dilmah Tea Global Distributor Conference in Colombo on recently, Treasury Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundera outlined the way forward for the Sri Lankan tea industry
Even as prices of several essential items saw monumental increases last week, Central Bank Governor Ajith Nevaard Cabraal assures the country that inflation is at an all time low, foreign reserves are adequate and the Sri Lankan economy is sounder than ever.
In the run-up to the vote on the controversial United Nations Human Rights Council resolution on Sri Lanka, countryandrsquo;s bourse andmdash; the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) showed marginal declines
Sri Lankaandrsquo;s bourse- Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) and the countryandrsquo;s capital market watchdog - Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC) recently amended provisions relating to the listing of public companies on the Colombo Stock Exchange
- CSE only exchange to record positive growth (Category: Breaking News)
- CSE records highest ever All Share Price Index points (Category: Breaking News)
- Bourse down 0.28% (Category: Breaking News)
- Colombo worst hit exchange among frontier markets (Category: Breaking News)
By Patricia A. Butenis The 20th century American politician Thomas “Tip” O’Neill once famously said that “all politics is local”. That was often true of the news in the last century as well. With the advent of so many technological changes, however, the truism for information in the 21st century has become “all news is ...
- EU Heads of Mission express concern over blocking of news sites (Category: Breaking News)
- LLRC backs Right to Information law (Category: Breaking News)
- Right to information: Transformation from a secretive society to transparency (Category: Business)
- Twitter to restrict user content in some countries (Category: Business)
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)
VESAK is the festival of light. Yet this year it seems that the lights will have to be dimmed to reflect the reduced lustre of the country’s economy. As the Power and Energy Ministry organisers raffle draws for people who save electricity during the upcoming religious season there are many other efforts happening behind the ...
- Plane explodes near school (Category: South Australia)
- Hayleys Consumer’s ‘Light-Styles’ glow at architectural lighting showroom (Category: Business)
- No electricity tariff hike this year (Category: Business)
Colombo Page: The Sri Lanka Army has strongly denied a UN report that said unexploded cluster munitions have been found in northern Sri Lanka indicating the military’s use of cluster bombs during the war with the Tamil Tiger terrorists. The Army has noted that the military had not used cluster bombs and that cluster munitions ...
- Sri Lanka military denies using cluster bombs as alleged in UN report (Category: Breaking News)
- UN finds cluster bombs in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Cluster bomb use in Sri Lanka could trigger war crimes probe (Category: Breaking News)
- UN finds cluster bombs in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
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)
Reuters: Pakistan officials are hoping this month’s mini home series against Bangladesh will finally convince neighbouring India to renew bilateral cricket ties between the two Asian cricket powerhouses. Bangladesh will become the first foreign team to play full internationals in Pakistan since March 2009 when Sri Lankan cricketers and officials were attacked by gunmen in ...
- Asia Cup — Opportune Testing Ground Ahead Of 2011 World Cup (Category: Breaking News)
- Pitched Battle (Category: Business)
- Bangladesh recall Tamim after fitness row (Category: Business)
- Ashraf vows to lure world’s best back to Pakistan (Category: Business)
Despite being Asia’s worst performer, there is some news for cheer as the Colombo Bourse has achieved the milestone of over half a million local individuals dabbling in shares though not regularly. The total operative CDS accounts of local individuals by end March grew to 500,198, thereby crossing the half a million mark for the ...
- Big Guns Absent (Category: Breaking News)
- Funds raised via CSE up 65% to record Rs. 47.1 b in 2011 (Category: Business)
- Bourse still draws a beeline (Category: Business)
Last Sunday when the unknown Ajinkya Rahane scored 103 runs off just 60 balls at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore, which helped the Rajasthan Royals to score a massive 195 runs at IPL season five, my mind went to just one ethos the IPL is all about – highlighting performance. It is how IPL ...
- Developing cutting-edge brand strategies (Category: Business)
- The ‘real’ problem with brand Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- HR and London Olympics (Category: Business)
- Nation branding: A holistic perspective (Category: Business)
On 30 March, Cunard Line’s latest luxury cruise vessel MV Queen Elizabeth made her inaugural call to Colombo, marking the third inaugural vessel call to Colombo made by the cruise liners operated by the parent company Carnival UK within the first quarter of 2012. The vessel left Southampton on 10 January this year and is ...
- T20 Cricket Carnival at Hilton Colombo (Category: Business)
- DeBug wins at FITIS ICT industry cricket carnival (Category: Business)
- Emirates contributes to Sri Lanka’s Carnival of Cricket (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka welcomes luxury cruise Queen Elizabeth with 2000 tourists (Category: Business)
News Butterfly, the unique TV programme from the US’ FOX news network, is now filming in Colombo for an exclusive segment on Sri Lanka’s new upswing. News Butterfly Market Place (NBMP) is described as a ‘unique women’s movement on TV’. According to NBMP, ‘the programme is a TV Channel venture for beautiful and talented women ...
- First-ever global logistics expo makes good ground for business networking (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian business supports Sri Lanka Expo 2012 (Category: Breaking News)
- Ind-Expo seminar on ‘New Food Hygiene Regulations’ (Category: Business)
- Over 55 tour agents, 50 international journalists for Expo 2012 (Category: Business)
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)
By Cheranka Mendis The volatility in Middle Eastern markets, coupled with the increasing issue of low quality due to competition and increasing costs, has placed the local tea industry in a big fix, which could, if unattended, immediately mark the end of a Sri Lankan legacy in four to five years. Despite Sri Lankan tea ...
- Tackling tea travails (Category: Business)
- Planters’ Association Chief says turbulent times for tea (Category: Business)
- Sector report (Category: Business)
- Tea Industry Divided Over Importing Tea For Blending (Category: Breaking News)
Arab News: RIYADH: Saudi businessmen have evinced immense interest in attending the upcoming the Sri Lanka Expo 2012 scheduled from 28 to 30 March in Colombo, Sri Lankan Embassy’s Commercial Counselor Anil Sirimanna said. The Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB) has organised the three-day event being held at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall ...
- Rishad to promote Lanka at Dubai AIM power forum (Category: Business)
- EDB, UK High Commission promotes Sri Lanka Expo 2012 in London (Category: Business)
- Expo 2012 promotional meeting in the Dubai Chamber (Category: Business)
Unity is strength: Let us unite as a nation and a group of likeminded nations in the world Sri Lanka is a senior member Sri Lanka is a senior member of the world family, maintaining high standards of human rights on international standards, which is not an alien system to us. Our culture is based ...
- UN panel an unwarranted unnecessary interference on sovereignty - Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Banking industry joins Lankan chorus against UNHRC moves (Category: Business)
- Transparency and equality in human rights arena (Category: Business)
- Equality for all sovereign nations (Category: Business)
By D.C. Ranatunga “We bear a very heavy responsibility to build up this service with great care, vigilance and intellectual integrity so that the people of this country belonging to different ethnic groups, believing in four different faiths, of diverse economic groups, living in varying environments, urban and rural, with different levels of literacy and ...
- London Olympics biggest in US TV history, despite gripes (Category: Business)
- ABC sport cover feels pinch (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- ABC’s Hiru TV to launch on 23 May (Category: Business)
- ABC’s Hiru TV gears to shake up the television industry (Category: Business)
My column today is an attempt to focus our attention on a few less spoken or untold developments that may have a profound influence on how we carve our way through in creating a desirable social, economic and political future for mankind on this only planet of ours. While I will not specifically touch on ...
- Development-led globalisation (Category: Business)
- The ‘Doha Mandate’ (Category: Business)
- UNCTAD should address challenges faced by developing world (Category: Business)
- Global trends in investment (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)
By Cheranka Mendis With a membership of 107 top entrepreneurs of the country – among which close to 200 leading organisations is managed providing employment close to 250,000 people – the Chamber of Young Lankan Entrepreneurs (COYLE) is a unique and highly valuable organisation to the country. Taking the mantle of the Chamber from K.H. ...
- COYLE visits Hambantota; says a land of opportunity for PPPs (Category: Business)
- Idac Chief Rohitha Silva new Chairman of COYLE (Category: Business)
- COYLE to unveil leadership facets: ‘The Untold Truths of Sri Lankan Entrepreneurs’ (Category: Business)
- Fly the Sri Lanka flag urges COYLE (Category: Business)
By Lucien Rajakarunanayake “In the light of this commitment by Sri Lanka, there is no justification or urgency whatsoever in floating a resolution calling for the implementation of the LLRC’s recommendations and engagement with the High Commissioner, when this has already been effectively undertaken by the Government. What we now need from the international community ...
- Govt. prepared for bilateral discussions on war crimes allegations with any country (Category: Business)
- US calls for detailed action plan from Sri Lanka on LLRC recommendations (Category: Business)
- TNA says LLRC Report fails to deal with "accountability" issues (Category: Breaking News)
- TNA calls for international probe (Category: Business)
Over the weekend I met up with a cross section of business people, which gave me view of the current climate that exists in corporate world of Sri Lanka. One said that their production plant was closed last week as the cost of production was higher than the selling price given the devaluation of the ...
- Do people prefer coffee over tea? (Category: Business)
- Ceylon Tea in catch-22? (Category: Business)
- New tea industry model: By default? (Category: Business)
- Marketing 3.0 and Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
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