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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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
Introduction In the context of global economic uncertainty the challenges and opportunities faced by companies around the world continued to evolved. And also evolution of information, communication & technology and convergence of technology, media, telecommunications and use of internet; leads business boundaries disappearing with globalisation. Hence business enterprises been exposed t...
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;
Economist and Academic of the University of Peradeniya Dr Prasanna Perera while expressing his views said andldquo;Volatility is Short term and therefore it could not be considered as a crisisandrdquo; at the public seminar which was hosted by the Organization of Professional Associations (OPA) for Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) on the topic Rupee Crisis?.
Sri Lanka has to persist with reducing its budget gap and tighten monetary policy further if needed to ward off balance payments pressure, Fitch Ratings which confirmed a sovereign rating at 'BB-' said
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 ...
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 ...
I am shaking rocks! This was a claim made by the Minister of Sports (MOS) in a banner headline run in a recent news article. There is no doubt that he has certainly made a start. In what he claims is the biggest cleanup ever, he has dared to remove some big rocks; the reference ...
The launch of the book ‘BPO and Sourcing Dictionary’ at the Dialog Auditorium on 26 April was welcoming news to all who are and will be involved in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) industry in Sri Lanka. BPO globally is in the ascendancy and is a multi-billion US dollar industry. India has already captured a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
athandz, Sri Lanka’s pioneering internet based research organisation unveiled plans for expansion within the local market under its new ownership. Launched under parent company Infoserve, athandz is dedicated towards internet based market research for consumers. It was brought under the group of the nation’s leading information and communication technology solutions provider, PC House ...
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 ...
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 ...
It has been just seven months since Sri Lankan student Mustansir Ameerali arrived in Indiana to begin his college adventure. If you ask Mustansir, he will admit that even after that short period of time, Valparaiso University and the town of Valparaiso, Indiana are beginning to feel like a second home. Mustansir describes his first ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
AP: Sri Lanka will not implement all proposals from its civil war commission because the panel went beyond its mandate, a Government Minister said Monday after a UN rights council called for the report’s implementation. The commission’s report dismissed allegations that Government troops deliberately targeted civilians as the long civil war was ending in 2009 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
A spectacular laser show and water dance taking place Friday and Saturday this week will mark the launch of a major campaign to improve water management. Backed by the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), headquartered in Pelawatte, the campaign, RipplesOnWater.org, will raise awareness about water issues, initially in Sri Lanka and will then spread globally ...
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) spokesman and parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayaka in an interview with the Daily FT critiques the on-going sessions of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the state of bad governance, deteriorating law and order and the economic crisis in the country. Following are excerpts from the interview. Q; What are your ...