Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has announced that New York city will reach a record 90,000 hotel rooms by year’s end, representing a 24% increase since 2006. More than 7,000 rooms are in the pipeline that will add to the city’s hotel inventory, with an average 40% of new openings taking place in boroughs other than ...

Airline, unions appear again before govt-ordered labour tribunal Qantas says 447 flights grounded, 68,000 passengers affected since Sat PM calls for end to dispute World leaders at Perth meeting among those affected Rival airlines put on more flights MELBOURNE, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Qantas Airways and its unions appeared before a labour tribunal on Sunday ...

BANGKOK (AFP): Thailand’s worst floods in decades have jolted a global supply chain already straining under the impact of Japan’s tsunami, as deluged factories threaten some of the kingdom’s key export industries. The floods have killed about 300 people, damaged one-tenth of Thailand’s rice paddy and made major roads north of Bangkok impassable. Toyota, Ford, ...

Justice and fair-play is paramount Justice and fair-play are of paramount importance to all members of the world family consisting of 193 nations expecting justice and fair-play equally. It is the principle on which the United Nations was established in place of the less-effective League of Nations, in order to settle differences among nations based ...

The Sri Lanka Private Sector Assessment of the Report to the United Nations Secretary General by the Panel of Experts on accountability in Sri Lanka was released on Thursday. The private sector critique is a compilation of views raised by a private sector group in Sri Lanka who are concerned about the content of the ...

(Reuters) – Saudi Arabia is excavating a new archeological site that will show horses were domesticated 9,000 years ago in the Arabian peninsula, the country’s antiquities expert said on Wednesday. The discovery of the civilization, named al-Maqar after the site’s location, will challenge the theory that the domestication of animals took place 5,500 years ago ...

and a record low of 1.50 percent in March of 2009. Sri Lanka is a developing economy off the southern coas...

Sri Lanka Gross Domestic Product is worth 50 billion dollars or 0.08% of the world economy, according to the World Bank. Historically, from 1960 until 2010, Sri Lanka's average Gross Domestic Product was 10.46 billion dollars reaching an historical high of 49.55 billion dollars in December of 2010