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Sri Lanka’s best football talent identified 12 young soccer enthusiasts win a chance of a lifetime Winners will visit Manchester United Soccer school shortly Bharti Airtel, a leading global telecommunications company with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, today announced the conclusion of the Airtel Rising Stars program at a colourful awards ...
ESPNCricinfo: Mohammad Ashraful has pointed to Bangladesh’s intensive preparation across three continents as their biggest asset as they head into the ICC World Twenty20. They have played a quarter of all their Twenty20 internationals this year, as well as two competitions where they played unofficial matches, all targeted towards a proper build-up to the event, ...
The country’s export sector has recorded mixed fortunes, suffering its worst decline year-on-year whilst month-on-month manages to recover, as per latest external trade data released by the Central Bank yesterday. Marking the fifth consecutive dip YOY, the contraction in exports in July at 17.4% to $ 794.4 million was the worst in recent times though ...
The Central Bank yesterday said earnings from tourism and workers’ remittances continued to hold up, cushioning the current account of the Balance of Payments (BOP). It said earnings from tourism in July 2012 grew by 23.6%, year-on-year, to $ 100 million, while during the first seven months of 2012, earnings from tourism have grown at ...
Momali – one of the leading manufacturers of sanitary ware in China re-enforces its presence in Sri Lanka with the arrival of a team of its founder members to research and develop its clientele and the needs of the market. The two-pronged purpose of the visit was also to educate dealers and its loyal clientele ...
A delegation from the United Nations Human Rights Council will arrive in Sri Lanka on Friday, Minister of External Affairs Prof. G.L Peiris has said. A technical team from the UNHRC office in Geneva on the advice of HR High Commissioner Navi Pillay will arrive in the country on 14 September, External Affairs Ministry officials ...
Continuing its growth momentum, Orient Finance PLC added yet another milestone with the opening of its doors to the acceptance of fixed deposits. This is subsequent to the company being licensed by the Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka under the Finance Business Act No. 42 of 2011 as a Finance Company. ...
Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Italy Asitha Perera was recently elected as the Chairperson of the Asia Group of the FAO council in Rome. The Asia Group is the governing body consisting of 23 members from the Asian region amongst who are India, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Japan, Korea and the Philippines. Ambassador Perera attended the Asia ...
KPMG Sri Lanka hosted a CEO and Islamic Finance Industry Leaders Round Table Discussion on 7 September at the KPMG premises in Colombo. The forum was addressed by KPMG’s Global Head of Islamic Financial Services Neil Miller who is an International expert in the field of Islamic Finance. Miller was a member of the ...
One of the largest healthcare systems providers in Sweden, Cambio Healthcare Systems has set up a research and development centre in Sri Lanka and is now poised to expand further with the vision of being the leading healthcare systems provider in the Nordic regions. “Cambio Healthcare Systems is currently one of the largest e-Health providers ...
CIMA Management Accountants’ Conference on 24 September The CIMA Management Accountants’ Conference provides a forum for acclaimed academic thought leaders such as Professor Danture Wickramasinghe and skilled corporate practitioners like Deepanie Perera to share advances in the field and initiate discussion about future developments. Since its inception, management accounting ha...
On Friday (7) afternoon, the eve of provincial council elections in three provinces, a certain gathering took place at 101, Rosmead Place, which houses the corporate offices of Democratic National Alliance (DNA) National List Parliamentarian, Tiran Alles. Consultations that lasted for hours, took place between Alles and UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa and a few ...
In the last 15 years, the major hospitals invested over Rs. 50 billion by way of total expenditure to increase capacity building within the private healthcare sector by investing in necessary infrastructure, cutting edge technology and continuous development in human capital in the clinical discipline. The centres have created several hundreds of employment opportunities with ...
Reuters: Pak-istan captain Mohammad Hafeez expects Shahid Afridi to recover from injury in time to play a decisive role in his country’s attempt to win another ICC World Twenty20. Afridi is hoping to overcome a thumb injury before the tournament, which runs from Sept. 18 to Oct. 7 in Sri Lanka. “Shahid Afridi is a ...
The Zimbabwe team arrived on Tuesday to participate at the ICC T20 World Cup tournament to be played in Sri Lanka from next week. Here the team on their arrival at the Bandaranaike International Airport The Bangladesh team arrived yesterday to participate at the ICC T20 World Cup tournament to be played in Sri ...
Trinidadexpress.com: UNABLE to convince the International Cricket Council (ICC) to provide an exclusive window for the Indian Premier League (IPL), the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) have decided to do it on their own. As their leading players are likely to be engaged in next year’s sixth IPL season of ...
Reuters: Yuvraj Singh was denied a fairytale comeback from serious illness as New Zealand beat India by one run in a see-saw Twenty20 International to win the two-match series on Tuesday. Brendon McCullum’s 55-ball 91 lifted New Zealand to a total of 167 for five and India finished on 166 for four to give the ...
Peopleandrsquo;s Leasing Company PLC has secured the distinction of being the only Sri Lankan non-banking financial institution to secure two international credit ratings.
The Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), which is the third largest equity/stock market in the world with a total market capitalisation of US$ 3.3 trillion, has expressed interest to have Sri Lankan listed corporates on the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) to be listed on the TSE as Japanese Depository Receipts (JDRs), stated Ambassador of Sri Lanka ...
Reuters: West Indies are banking on off-spinner Sunil Narine playing an important role in the World Twenty20 on the dusty pitches of Sri Lanka this month. West Indies last got their hands on ICC silverware when they won the Champions Trophy in 2004. “We have the best spinner right now in T20 cricket in our ...
Standard Chartered together with the Liverpool Football Club (LFC) will conduct the inaugural soccer clinic in partnership with the Football Federation of Sri Lanka and ‘Thaarunyata Hetak,’ on 15 September 2012 at the Maligawatte MC Grounds. The soccer clinics are part of the bank’s ‘Go Forward’ initiative which is its effort to not only provide ...
Reuters: Pakistan went from the sublime to the disastrous against Australia on Monday, recording their lowest Twenty20 international total and suffering their heaviest defeat in the shortest form of the game. Mohammed Hafeez’s side were bowled out for just 74, giving Australia a crushing 94-run win three days after Pakistan had secured the three-match series ...
Sacred Kapilavastu Relics brought to Sri Lanka by Minister of Culture Kumari Selja on 19 August will be taken back to India on 12 September afternoon after the successful conclusion of the exposition at ten venues in Sri Lanka. The Kapilavastu Relics had arrived in a special aircraft of the Government of India and will ...
It is unfortunate that today many impressions of Sri Lanka in foreign countries are based on unverified facts, and wrong or deliberately manipulated disinformation, carried out by those who once supported the forces of terror. These same elements continue to sow the seeds of division and separatism through various media, and also influence politicians in ...
By Shanuka Tissera Amendments to the Petroleum Products (Special Provisions) Act have been finalised and approved by the Attorney General. It is expected that both bills will be presented to Parliament shortly for enactment. Pending the enactment of new legislations, the Cabinet of Ministers has appointed the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) as ...
SriLankan Airlines received the title of Best Airline Operator from South Asia for an amazing sixth time, at the annual Kuala Lumpur International Awards 2011 which recognise the finest airlines operating into Malaysia. SriLankan’s Head of Service Delivery Chanaka Olagama said, “SriLankan has won this award in six of the seven years that it has ...
The National Chamber of Exporters of Sri Lanka (NCE) participating at the Hotel Asia Exhibition which was held in Male in the Maldives from 10 to 12 September. The Chamber participated at this event last year as well, and due to the successful outcome, and demand from member companies decided to participate this year too. Director ...
People’s Leasing Company PLC has secured the distinction of being the only Sri Lankan non-banking financial institution to secure two international credit ratings. The company, which is 75 per cent owned by state-owned People’s Bank, secured an international rating equal to the Sovereign from Standard & Poor’s (‘B+/B” Rating) and an international rating one notch ...
Sujeewa Karunasekera has joined the Softlogic Group as CEO of Softlogic Communications Ltd. with effect from 1 September. Softlogic Communications is the sole authorised distributor for Nokia mobile phones and accessories in Sri Lanka where Softlogic dominates the market. Sujeewa is a Chartered Management Accountant with over 18 years of experience in large and multinational ...
PC House Plc announced yesterday the appointment of two new directors to its Board with effect from 5 September. They are M. Jude C. Fernando as a Director and W.I. Deepal Peiris as a Non Executive Director. Fernando holds over 14 years of experience in human resources management. He has HRM experience in the banking, ...