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HSBC together with Young Entrepreneur Sri Lanka (YESL) and the Ministry of Education launched the ‘Future First Company’ program, as part of the Bank’s Global Education Trust ‘Future First’ to empower the entrepreneurial skills of young children. The launch was held at the Hewavitharana Vidyalaya in Rajagiriya and was attended by HSBC Sri Lanka and ...
- YESL and HSBC assist less privileged youth towards equivalence (Category: Business)
- HNB donates school books in Nochchiyagama in conjunction with Deyata Kirula 2012 (Category: Business)
- Nestlé creates ‘shared value’ for Kelaniya Maha Vidyalaya (Category: Business)
- SLASSCOM launches ‘Future Careers Partners 2012’ (Category: Business)
With the wave of rapid expansion of the company’s branch network and business activities, Multi Finance recently announced the appointment of Manohara S. Tillakawardana as an Independent, Non-Executive Director of the company. He is presently a Director and Lead Consultant in TOGS Associates Ltd., a company which is engaged in providing consultancy and advisory services ...
- Second Listing (Category: Business)
- Finance Purchase (Category: Business)
- Finance Act (Category: Business)
- Finance Sale (Category: Business)
An eminent panel of speakers will address the International Marketing Conference 2012 organised by the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM) to be held at Hotel Galadari on Thursday, 1 March. GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (GSKCH) Sri Lanka Director of Marketing Subroto Geed will make a presentation on ‘Practical Insights into Brand Adaptation vs Standardisation’. An ...
- Tilan becomes youngest SLIM President (Category: Business)
- Wheels in motion for SLIM Brand Excellence Awards 2012 (Category: Business)
- Driving marketing in the boardroom (Category: Business)
- SLIM, SLII to introduce Diploma in Insurance Marketing (Category: Business)
The High Commission of India, Colombo has decided to widen the scope of Maulana Azad Postgraduate Scholarship to include arts, humanities, economics and commerce streams and has also extended the deadline for receipt of applications to 6March. With this change, 50 scholarship slots for postgraduate
- India offers scholarships for Sri Lankan students (Category: Business)
- India enhances scholarship programme in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- 10 more scholarships for studying in India (Category: Business)
- 10 Sri Lankan youth to go to India under cultural schols (Category: Business)
Top apparel exporter supports workshop on sustainability at AIESEC Sri Lanka event Sri Lanka’s top apparel exporter Brandix extended its globally-acclaimed commitment to the environment to the youth by supporting a forum on the sustainability of the environment, held as part of the first-ever Sri Lanka International Youth Forum of AIESEC, the world’s largest student-run ...
- Brandix Promotes Sustainability (Category: Breaking News)
- Brandix proves eco sustainable solutions viable and profitable (Category: Business)
- Youth Fest 2012 takes off this August (Category: Business)
- Youth Fest 2011 a success (Category: Business)
By Dr. Laksiri Fernando Sri Lanka’s independence on 4 February 1948 was never a final act, but a major landmark in a process of evolution from colonialism to independence and underdevelopment to development. It is truly a process of internal emancipation. It is the 63rd anniversary of this landmark or the 64th Independence Day that ...
- Accelerating growth: catching the wave or missing the bus (Category: Business)
- Invest in education (Category: Business)
IBM yesterday unveiled smarter computing solutions designed to transform, grow and make Sri Lankan enterprises more competitive. A wide range of workload-optimisation hardware solutions, such as IBM Storwize V7000, IBM Starter Kit for Cloud and IBM BladeCenter blade servers were presented at the IBM Smarter Computing Forum. Tailored to the local market needs through IBM ...
- Flying smarter (Category: Business)
- IBM launches new cloud offerings for smarter commerce (Category: Business)
- Nokia unravels Asha 202 with smarter features (Category: Business)
- A Different Discourse For A Smarter Politics (Category: Breaking News)
Q: 13 Plus has become the most discussed topic in the political scene. What do you think about 13 Plus? A: Before looking at the 13th Amendment or the 13 Plus, first let us give a chance to the present mechanism. I strongly believe the present mechanism can address the majority of our issues. The ...
- Tamils only want Chelvanayagam’s demands met- not Prabakaran’s - Suresh Premachandran (Category: Breaking News)
- SLMC opposes govt. decision not to allocate land and police powers to the provinces (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka – Nation Building, Devolution & The 13th Amendment – Part IV (Category: Breaking News)
- TNA and talks travails (Category: Business)
Says Central Bank ‘miserably politicised’; wants change at the top; warns of public, worker agitation UNP MP and its chief spokesman on the economy Dr. Harsha de Silva yesterday said the Government has to blame itself and take responsibility for the current economic crisis in the country. In a statement, Dr. de Silva said: “The ...
- Increase, to meet IMF conditions; UNP (Category: Breaking News)
- Central Bank report was not independent: Dr. Harsha de Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Market will beat the Central Bank no matter how powerful the governor is: Harsha . (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP wants CB, EPF officials summoned before Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
Following are some responses from three economists to the guest column by Chandra Jayaratne titled ‘Important issues’ for Sri Lankan legislators, the Executive, policymakers, Central Bankers, economists and thought leaders to ponder over published on 2 February 1) I disagree with the Stiglitz-Krugman line. My diagnosis is that Europe is in this mess for two ...
- Important issues (Category: Business)
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
- Asian economies: Managing spillovers and advancing economic rebalancing (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s economy stands to gain from a stronger Europe: German Envoy (Category: Business)
The Visible Hand of the government ‘The Visible Hand’ was the title which the famed London-based economics weekly, The Economist, used when it published a special report in its issue on 21 January 2012 on the rise of state capitalism in the modern era. The title has a pun
- Target 2048 – Economic Democracy Principles Should Be Followed To The Letter (Category: Breaking News)
- Corporatism: A step beyond state capitalism (Category: Business)
- A monetary constitution to add on to the legal constitution? (Category: Business)
Rapidly expanding, Divasa Finance Limited recently announced the appointment of Prof. Arjuna De Silva and Mr. Vasula Premawardhana as non-executive directors of the company. Prof. Arjuna De Silva (MBBS, MD, MSc [Oxon], FRCP [Lond], FCCP) is a professor in medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya Sri Lanka. He obtained the MRCP (UK) ...
- Ruhunu University students attacked by the Nil Balakaya(Blue Battalion): 9 hospitalised; 2 in se... (Category: Breaking News)
- Red Ink (Category: Business)
- Finance Losses (Category: Business)
- Finance Recovery (Category: Business)
One of my friends who visited from Australia had a problem with a branded computer he had bought from a renowned place in Colombo. Even though the company claimed the instalment basis with interest free as their special New Year bonanza, there was a different calculation altogether. Finally he had to pay more than the ...
- World Consumer Day: ‘Our Money Our Rights’ (Category: Business)
- SLIM-Nielsen Peoples Awards to be held for the seventh year (Category: Business)
- Arpico Supercentre launches new consumer promotional campaign (Category: Business)
- Winners from Coke promotion get all-expense paid trip in Switzerland (Category: Business)
Following is the keynote address delivered by Senior Minister of Human Resources D.E.W. Gunasekera at the South Asian Regional Consultative Seminar on Human Development and Measurement of Human Development Progress, held at the IPS Auditorium from 30-31 January 2012 Public understanding of human development was galvanised by the appearance of the first Human Development Report ...
- 2011: Power achievements for Sri Lanka, but… (Category: Business)
- 182 Experts Call For Debt Cancellation But Private Investors Play Hardball (Category: Breaking News)
- Top Sri Lanka Ports, Trade & Logistics conference and expo starts (Category: Business)
- More and better jobs: Policy prescription for South Asia (Category: Business)
Increasing risks and probability of natural disasters Consider the volcanic eruptions in Iceland and Congo, the destructive earthquakes that hit Christchurch, eastern Turkey and the East Coast of Tohoku in Japan, as well as the recent flooding in Thailand and one thing becomes clear about natural disasters – their risks, probability and consequences are higher ...
- David Roden on banking sector risk management (Category: Business)
- Ban urges global leaders gathered at UN to “shape the world of tomorrow” (Category: Business)
- Record CAT losses prompt two-speed insurance market (Category: Business)
- Mitigating IT fraud and data theft in businesses (Category: Business)
The Australian College of Business and Technology (ACBT) in association with Australian government-owned Edith Cowan University (ECU), offers students who have completed their Advanced Level examinations an opportunity to receive a globally recognised Australian degree qualification right here in Sri Lanka. Edith Cowan University is listed in the Commonwealth Universities yearbook and the Internat...
- Obtain An MBA From A Presitigous Australian University (Category: Breaking News)
- Get a head start on a career in science and engineering with ACBT (Category: Business)
- Over 300 Students Of ACBT Graduate With Globally Recognised Qualifications (Category: Breaking News)
- Bigger Adyapana 2012 planned in three cities (Category: Business)
Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna announced in Colombo a substantial expansion in the scholarships currently being offered by Government of India to meritorious Sri Lankan students. Under this initiative, the number of scholarships and Self-Finance slots for Undergraduate, Masters and Phd Courses is being increased from the existing 113 slots to 270 per year. ...
- 10 Sri Lankan youth to go to India under cultural schols (Category: Business)
- India offers scholarships for Sri Lankan students (Category: Business)
- India offers higher education scholarships to Sri Lankan students (Category: Breaking News)
- 10 more scholarships for studying in India (Category: Business)
Facing the short-term economic challengesThe macroeconomic imbalances Sri Lanka has achieved a growth rate of 8.3% last year and inflation fell to 4.9% year-on-year in December 2011. These are noteworthy achievements at a time when the global economic landscape has been hostile with a slowdown in the US and a crisis in Europe; key markets ...
- CCC says no room for complacency (Category: Business)
- Commendable start; now for the finish (Category: Business)
- Raising the bar: The rise of the Sri Lankan economy (Category: Business)
- Enhancing confidence in the Sri Lankan economy (Category: Business)
By Cassandra Mascarenhas Furthering overseas education prospects for students in the South Asian region, the University of Cincinnati recently introduced an experimental scholarship scheme in Sri Lanka, India and Nepal, offering an annual grant of $12,000 which amounts to a 50 per cent tuition waiver on selected disciplines. The list of programmes which a student ...
- Why the University of Cincinnati is a top attraction for Sri Lankan students (Category: Business)
- ANC promotes top engineering universities in US (Category: Business)
- ANC promotes top engineering universities in US (Category: Business)
- University of Cincinnati’s Director in town next week (Category: Business)
LTTE rump groups and pro-LTTE organisations are trying hard to achieve their separatist ideology in the countryDefence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Tuesday said that there is a possibility of the re-emergence of the LTTE in Sri Lanka, as LTTE sympathisers abroad are still struggling to achieve the LTTE’s separatist ideology in the country. He made ...
- Sri Lanka is still under threat, warns Defence Secy. – Part I (Category: Business)
- Security is still critical in peaceful Sri Lanka – Gota (Category: Business)
- Country must utilise opportunity afforded by peace: Defence Secy (Category: Business)
There are many quotes and comments that we Sri Lankans repeatedly reiterate in tourist literature and with pride. As another year dawns, some statements may again be recalled with fond memories as it is important to have that positive outlook.It is also about time that we do adorn other literature with comments and numbers that ...
- Conference maketh a ready man! (Category: Business)
- Our own special science park: Going beyond Jurassic Park! (Category: Business)
- From science to commercialisation (Category: Business)
- Dark sands of Pulmoddai (Category: Business)
“Our sense is that if we do not act boldly and if we do not act together, the economy around the world runs the risk of a downward spiral of uncertainty, financial instability and potential collapse of global demand… we could run the risk of what some commentators are already calling the lost decade” – ...
- W. Bank’s Zoellick says double-dip recession unlikely (Category: Business)
- Flashing red - European debt crisis signals collapse of social welfare state (Category: Business)
- World economy fragile, faces “uneasy calm” – IMF (Category: Business)
- G20 backs Europe’s plans for overhaul to fight crisis (Category: Business)
If the Governor of Central Bank has an urge to enter politics, he should come to Parliament without playing politics inside the CB, charges United National Party Parliamentarian and well-known Economist Dr. Harsha de Silva. Dr. de Silva notes that Governor Nivard Cabraal should respect the sanctity of the Central Bank and therefore if Cabraal ...
- Treasury Chief urges help for balance of payments (Category: Business)
- Nivard sees weak rupee recovering to 125 (Category: Business)
- Central Bank sees rupee firming helped by inflows (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka affirms flexible FX policy, but will intervene if needed (Category: Business)
Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka has announced yesterday the appointment of Lakshman Kaluarachchi as the Acting CEO with effect from 1 January. This is following long standing CEO Gamini Karunathilake retiring on the same day. Kaluarachchi is Deputy Director Leasing and is a holder of a B.Com Special Degree from the University of Kelaniya and ...
- Mobile Banking (Category: Business)
- Banking Charter (Category: Business)
- Investment Banking (Category: Business)
- Growth Area (Category: Business)
Dr. H.N Thenuwara, formerly Assistant Governor of the Central Bank and now an Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of Iowa in USA, spoke on the economics of development to a group of selected economists in Colombo last week. Thenuwara’s enterprise was to revisit
- Dialog rings support for Sri Lanka Economic Summit 2012 (Category: Business)
- Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (Category: Business)
- Former Commonwealth Secretary General and…….. (Category: Business)
- Economic Development Ministry celebrates Vesak (Category: Business)
I would like to thank the Organisation of Professional Associations for inviting me to be the Guest of Honour at this Induction Ceremony. I also take this opportunity to wish the incoming President and the members of the Council every success in taking this organisation to greater heights in future. Sri Lanka today is a ...
- Sri Lanka is still under threat, warns Defence Secy. – Part I (Category: Business)
- DEFENCE SECRETARY HAS WARNED THAT SRI LANKA IS STILL UNDER THREAT (Category: Breaking News)
- Security is still critical in peaceful Sri Lanka – Gota (Category: Business)
In the backdrop of the uncertain conditions that exists in some of Sri Lanka’s key tea exports destinations, attempting to analyse market prospects could have a strong element of ‘crystal ball’ gazing. Nevertheless, a logical approach would be to analyse the past performance of the industry and equate it to supply/demand scenarios that are likely ...
- Brokers mixed over tea industry’s prospects in 2012 (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka secures direct access to fifth largest global buyer of Pure Ceylon Tea (Category: Business)
- Storm in Sri Lanka’s teacup: A more pragmatic approach is key (Category: Business)
- Tackling tea travails (Category: Business)
A Sri Lankan has been awarded one of the most prestigious international scholarships to network with the next generation of Asian leaders by the Government of Singapore. Duminda Ariyasinghe, Executive Director (Investment Promotion and Media) at the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI), has been awarded a Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) Fellowship by the ...
By Sarath de Alwis Tracing my roots to traditional marketing times in aviation and tourism, I am awed by the enormous potential of modern technologies that bring new frontiers to our doorstep; drop new vistas virtually on our laptops. Then I am appalled to see what unfolds. Global opportunities are whisked away from our grasp ...
- More SriLankan flights to Chennai and Karachi (Category: Business)
- India calling (Category: Business)
- Robust exports to get boost via Expo 2012 (Category: Business)
- Fair winds for Sri Lanka maritime hub (Category: Business)
The third year undergraduates of the University of Colombo’s Business Administration degree program visited the Colombo Stock Exchange recently. The group of 120 undergraduates was introduced to the basics and inner working of Sri Lanka’s dynamic Stock Exchange through a discussion and a visit to the trading floor. The field visit was organised by the ...
- Virtusa Apprentice Program to expand capacity and create opportunities (Category: Breaking News)
- British Council and HSBC to assist Sri Lankan students (Category: Breaking News)
- Business events feast (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Singapore business delegation to visit Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
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