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BRUSSELS (Reuters): Euro zone economic sentiment defied expectations of stabilisation and again fell sharply in September, underlining the economic gloom brought on by the sovereign debt crisis as the euro zone sinks into a recession. The European Commission’s monthly economic sentiment survey showed the index for the 17 countries sharing the euro falling to 85 ...
- Asian markets firmer as focus turns to FOMC from Greece (Category: Business)
- German Ifo business morale rises unexpectedly (Category: Business)
- Euro zone fears rattle global markets (Category: Business)
- Oil up despite weak Europe data (Category: Business)
When you go to a cricket match in Pallekele, it’s as much about the game as it is about the atmosphereBy Anand Vasu in Pallekele The greatest challenge you’re likely to face when going to the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium is the winding road that snakes around the lake in central Kandy. If you get ...
- Afridi carries Pakistan hopes at World Twenty20 – Hafeez (Category: Business)
- ‘Good Test wicket’ awaits Aussies, Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka fined for slow over-rate in fifth ODI (Category: Business)
- Cricket Chief insists Galle wicket was not poor (Category: Business)
ANC Education has commenced the first LLM student intake with a full batch in September 2012. Two prominent academics Dr Philipp Elliot-Wright, Course Leader for LLM Programs and Dr Yaraslau Kryvoi, Senior Lecturer, School of Law from the University of West London arrived in Sri Lanka to attend the inaugural lectures conducted at ANC Education. UWL ...
- ANC Education Partners EDEX Expo 2012 As Platinum Sponsor (Category: Breaking News)
- Public seminar on law on 11 June (Category: Business)
A Sri Lankan born in California, Ras Ceylon speaks on how rasta and Sri Lanka has influenced his music By Rashika Fazali “For me, music is the universal language. It is the vehicle of expression,” said rastafarian rapper and lyricist Ras Ceylon. I first heard him when he performed at Alternative Sunday Round ...
- Video: Ras Vehera, Kurunegala (Category: Travel)
- Video: Hiru TV Sadaham Ras EP 244 | 2015-03-01 (Category: Video)
- Video: Hiru TV Sadaham Ras EP 243 | 2015-02-28 (Category: Video)
- Video: Hiru TV Sadaham Ras EP 231 | 2015-01-17 (Category: Video)
Simon Taufel’s retirement as an active umpire at the end of the ongoing ICC World Twenty20 will mean that the most decorated member of the ICC’s Elite Panel of Umpires will not be around to oversee big games anymore. Taufel has been among the few officials who have been regarded with respect across the board, ...
- ICC, CA play down umpiring error during India-Sri Lanka match (Category: Business)
- Lovely cricket! (Category: Business)
- Emirates contributes to Sri Lanka’s Carnival of Cricket (Category: Business)
- ICC cricket committee to re-consider legality of switch-hit (Category: Business)
PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka, (Reuters): West Indies have not tasted much international success in the last decade but captain Darren Sammy believes he has succeeded in creating the kind of dressing room atmosphere that can help them end the title drought in Sri Lanka. The erstwhile giants
- Sammy to cheer for Tendulkar’s 100th ton, in another series (Category: Business)
- Windies expect Narine to play big role in World Twenty20 (Category: Business)
- Aussie coach not sure changes needed for 4th ODI (Category: Business)
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is lending $ 130 million to help Sri Lanka expand the reach and quality of its electricity supply, with a focus on former conflict areas in the north and east of the country. It will also improve transmission and distribution network efficiency and develop renewable
- ADB’s South Asia head meets Basil (Category: Business)
- $ 130 Mn. For Power (Category: Breaking News)
- ADB lends $130 mn to upgrade power supply (Category: Business)
- ADB’s new Sri Lanka partnership to target inclusive growth (Category: Business)
Pradeep Carvalho was recently appointed as Head of Corporate Communication at Etisalat Sri Lanka. He joins Etisalat after serving in the capacity of Channel Communication Manager at Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT). Pradeep has experience not only in the highly competitive Sri Lankan Market but also in the US Market, working at Fortune 500 companies both ...
- Mobile Banking (Category: Business)
- Arabian Call (Category: Business)
- Tele Spend (Category: Business)
- Mobile Move (Category: Business)
The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, the main business chamber of the country has conducted a series of workshops in the regions of Uva, Northern, Southern, Eastern and Central with assistance provided by the Asia Foundation. These were successfully conducted with the help of the regional chambers
- Hospital asks community to adopt healthier lifestyles (Category: USA, North Carolina)
- Provincial workshops on bar coding, labelling and standards (Category: Business)
- SME businesses in Puttalam enriched by Seylan Bank and CCC workshop (Category: Breaking News)
- Plans for defence business (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
Etisalat Sri Lanka has partnered with Commercial Bank to introduce mobile banking via USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) technology, a global system for mobile communication used to send a text between a mobile phone and an application program in a network. Etisalat users can now enjoy the convenience of conducting their banking activities with Commercial ...
- Mobile Banking (Category: Business)
- Pocket Money (Category: Business)
- Commercial Bank expands country’s largest ATM network to 500 (Category: Business)
At Standard Chartered, banking is certainly core business but this has never deterred or precluded the bank from contributing positively to communities which its business calls home. Standard Chartered is recognised globally as the single biggest corporate sponsor of avoidable blindness projects around the world. Seeing is Believing (SiB) is a major global public-private initiative ...
- Standard Chartered sponsors national athletes for Mumbai Marathon this weekend (Category: Business)
- Standard Chartered micro-finances Jaffna start-ups (Category: Business)
- Standard Chartered Bank continues supporting National Cancer Hospital (Category: Business)
- Standard Chartered Bank commemorates World Environment Day 2012 (Category: Business)
Lipton Tea has reached another milestone in Sri Lanka with their latest range of flavoured tea being added to the product portfolio. The company launched three new black tea flavours which include – Earl Grey, Lemon and English Breakfast. Also the re-launch of new packaging and communication of the popular Lipton Clear Green variants – ...
- Fresh Brew (Category: Business)
- Stephan takes over as CEO/Director of Softlogic Properties (Category: Business)
- The world’s No 1 Tea brand : Handpicked from Sri Lanka’s finest tea gardens (Category: Breaking News)
Diesel and Motor Engineering PLC (DIMO) recently organised the second Tata Nano Mileage Challenge Rally for Tata Nano owners in Colombo. The rally was flagged off from Colombo, with the objective of raising customer awareness and reassuring the position of Tata Nano as the most fuel efficient passenger car in Sri Lanka. Twenty five Tata ...
- Will Nano succeed in Sri Lanka? (Category: Business)
- Nano Effort (Category: Business)
- Mercedes-Benz New Year Bonanza Winners Get Brand New TATA Nano Cars (Category: Business)
- Tata Nano Re-established As The Most Fuel Efficient Passenger Vehicle In Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
The WTO in its annual World Trade Report for 2012, in addition to analysing world trade, has dealt in detail on Non Tariff Measures (NTMs), which has gained an important place in international trade today. In a world of trade liberalisation and free trade agreements which deal mainly with tariff reductions, which are clearly spelt ...
- New external trade policy (Category: Business)
- WTO risks its future by keeping Doha talks alive (Category: Business)
- Time to update global services trade rules – report (Category: Business)
- Unfinished Business? The WTO’s Doha Agenda (Category: Business)
East London recently received a boost as five ICT firms announced plans to expand their operations in Tech City, Europe’s fastest-growing digital hub. Milton Keynes, Sheffield and Ulster will also benefit from multi-million pound international business deals announced at the Global Business Summit on ICT, organised by UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) during the Olympic ...
- Sri Lanka: A hidden gem for IT, BPO and knowledge services, says A.T. Kearney (Category: Business)
- Infotel 2011 to ‘Accelerate IT’ (Category: Business)
- OpenArc offers 50 BIT Degree Scholarships for A/L Students (Category: Business)
Global giant Standard Chartered Bank tips Sri Lanka’s economic growth to rebound in 2013, after contracting this year from 2011. It is forecasting economy to grow by 7.5% in 2013 and by 7.7% in 2014 from 6.8% this year. However, forecasts for the next two years are lower in comparison to record 8.3% growth achieved ...
- SCB checkmates cameo CB! (Category: Business)
- Value investors enter as speculators exit (Category: Business)
- Growth to slow down in 2012 –Central Bank (Category: Breaking News)
Globe Mirror Industries (GMI), the first tempering plant to be established in Sri Lanka in 1969 has been awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification, a clear indication of its growth and credibility in terms of maintaining a high standard of quality throughout the years. GMI was started by late Mohammed Nawaz and has since grown to be ...
- Piramal Glass wins National Biz Excellence award for second year (Category: Business)
- New wine glasses aim to balance “water and fire” (Category: Business)
- Piramal Glass Ceylon shines with Rs. 149 m after tax profit in 1Q (Category: Business)
- Piramal Glass Ceylon opens Rs. 25 m effluent treatment plant (Category: Business)
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) granted the distinguished associate membership status to 215 passed finalists of the chartered accounting course offered by the Institute at the 2012 annual convocation held at the Waters Edge, Battaramulla on Thursday. Joining a fraternity of nearly 4200 existing CA Sri Lanka members, the ...
- CA Sri Lanka goes to Kalmunai (Category: Business)
- World Bank boost for CA Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- Kasun Gunawardhana shines at CA Sri Lanka Strategic Level exam (Category: Business)
CHILD abuse hits headlines with sickening frequency in Sri Lanka, but new data suggests that victims have to wait as much as six years, often enduing mind-numbing stigma and distress, before they are given justice. IRIN reported over the weekend that Sri Lanka is taking as long as six years to prosecute criminals who abuse ...
- National project launched for expeditious processing of child abuse cases (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka records highest number of child abuse cases last year (Category: Breaking News)
- Child Abuses: Why “Prevention Is Better Than Cure” Is The Smartest Option? (Category: Breaking News)
A number of articles which appeared in print media in the recent past signify the volatility in the economy. High volatility leads to vulnerability. Volatility and vulnerability are reflections of the haphazard nature of the economic policies and poor economic governance in a country. What is volatility? Volatility is the severity and the frequency with ...
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
- Raising the bar: The rise of the Sri Lankan economy (Category: Business)
- Lion leads frontier markets (Category: Business)
Weather and ground conditions hog attention ahead of ICC Women’s World Twenty20 kick-off today Even as the men’s competition is nearing the Super Eights stage, eight teams are preparing to battle it out in the third edition of the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 in Galle, starting from Wednesday (September 26). Sri Lanka and South ...
- The pressure is on Sri Lanka, says du Preez (Category: Business)
- Invitation side will test Sri Lanka: Barnes (Category: Business)
- Rain a greater threat to SA than Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
A look at the history of cricket’s support for UNAIDS and UNICEF over the past decade The sight of leading cricketers wearing red ribbons on their shirts at ICC events has become a familiar one in recent years, but have you ever wondered why the players do this? South Asia, Africa and Caribbean, three geographical ...
- Standard Chartered calls for individual action on World AIDS Day (Category: Business)
- Lankan corporates unite to pass pillow of awareness on World Aids Day (Category: Business)
- World AIDS Day commemorated (Category: Breaking News)
- The Challenge (Category: Business)
Scientists have pinpointed a gene that enables rice plants to produce around 20% more grain by increasing uptake of phosphorus, an important, but limited, plant nutrient. The discovery unlocks the potential to improve the food security of rice farmers with the lowest value phosphorus-deficient land, allowing them to grow more rice to add to global ...
- Adding rice farmers to the Rio+20 Agenda (Category: Business)
- Feeding rice just got easier with smartphones! (Category: Business)
- ASEAN nations can help prevent global rice price rise (Category: Business)
- IRRI backs study to ensure rice supply in Asia (Category: Business)
By D.C. Ranatunga Gnanavalli grew up in the Eskdale Division of Park Estate near Ragalla. Her parents were employees of the estate. She read her first letters at the Child Development Centre (CDC) in the estate. With the grounding she got there, she continued her studies until she got admitted to the Eastern University and ...
- PHDT awarded international certification for quality management (Category: Business)
- RPC estate communities have seen significant quality of life improvements: PA (Category: Business)
- Construction of over 500 houses for plantation community to resume (Category: Breaking News)
Reuters: Riskier assets fell broadly on Monday, dragging down Asian shares, copper and oil but the dollar strengthened as investors shifted their focus to weak economic fundamentals while monitoring progress in the euro zone debt bailout scheme. The MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.7%, with a 1.5% drop in its materials ...
- Rupee weaker on importer dollar demand (Category: Business)
- Asian shares fall, dollar spikes vs yen on intervention (Category: Business)
- Stocks slip on profit-taking ahead of SEC ruling (Category: Business)
- Asian shares fall on fears over Europe fund tightness (Category: Business)
Standard Chartered, in furtherance of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed with Youth Business Sri Lanka (YBSL), a project of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC), handed out micro-financing facilities to 29 young men and women of Jaffna who had been affected by the war to start up businesses, on Friday, 21 September 2012. Nine ...
- PGTI debuts in Sri Lanka with Standard Chartered Open 2012 (Category: Business)
- Standard Chartered Bank commemorates World Environment Day 2012 (Category: Business)
- Standard Chartered Bank’s Pettah Branch moves to new location (Category: Business)
- 2012: Sri Lanka's growth to slowdown, rupee to depreciate (Category: Breaking News)
Leaving nobody out in the cold In India, the Rangarajan Committee on Financial Inclusion defined the concept as: “The process of ensuring access to financial services, timely and adequate credit where needed by vulnerable groups such as weaker sections and low income groups, at an affordable cost.” At the recent FutureGov SAARC Summit in Colombo, ...
- Govt waits for clearance to implement India-funded Unique ID card project (Category: Breaking News)
- Is JVP/NPP signalling left and turning right? (Category: Breaking News)
- India aids Sri Lanka to fund its digital identity project (Category: Breaking News)
- Moneylenders - Exploiters or providers of a vital financial service? (Category: Business)
General outlook: Light at the end of the tunnel? With US Federal Reserve’s decision to launch the third round of Quantative Easing (QE) through the purchase of mortgage backed bonds to the value of US$ 45 billion per month up to December 2012 combined with Germany’s Constitutional Court granting the green light for the country ...
- Maritime market update (Category: Business)
- ‘G6’ Alliance starts services at Jaye Container Terminal (Category: Business)
- Evergreen Marine to step up CKYH alliance cooperation (Category: Business)
Reuters: Formula One cars will continue to swerve around the skyscrapers of Singapore for the next five years after the government agreed on Saturday to help cover the S$150 millioncost of hosting the unique night race. There had been some doubt about the future of the event, the only night race
- Montezemolo suggests shorter and later F1 races (Category: Business)
- India can be one of the great F1 venues (Category: Business)
- New tyres make F1 better: Webber (Category: Business)
- F1 looks for a pattern in the unpredictable (Category: Business)
Reuters: Passenger jets could be chomping on straw or flying on fuel extracted from sawdust in coming years as the search widens for cleaner alternatives to kerosene, French scientists say. The “ProBio3” project, started in early July and co-financed by a French government economic stimulus programme, aims to use traditional horse-bedding materials to develop a ...
- Galle Fort to get green hydro-powered tuk-tuks (Category: Business)
- SignalGuru app helps drivers avoid red lights (Category: Business)
- SJB trade unionist raises queries over National Fuel Pass (Category: Breaking News)
- Warsaw Board Of Aviation Looks Ahead To New Year (Category: USA, Indiana)
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