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Amidst tumbling value in the Colombo bourse, the Government’s Revival Bill suffered a fresh blow when rating agency Moody’s yesterday warned of investor uncertainty and negative impact whilst a fresh Fundamental Rights case was filed against new legislation. Triple adverse developments or reactions were despite the Government remaining hell bent in its continued justification of ...
- Fitch joins chorus, says nationalisation law could hinder investment (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s takeover bill negative for investment - Moody's (Category: Breaking News)
- Harsha reminds Rajapaksa Govt. of Sirimavo’s fall after nationalisation (Category: Business)
- Economist Intelligence Unit says Expropriation law raises investor concerns (Category: Business)
Rajapaksa Family already planning more land grabbing Kleptocrat: A ruler who uses power to steal the country’s resources. Oxford Dictionary By Tisaranee Gunasekara Mindless-extravagance; land-grabbing; media-muzzling: the three Rajapaksa preoccupations are intimately interconnected. The Ruling Siblings need money to strengthen their power and to sustain their voracious appetite for exhibitionism, ...
- Kleptocrats Strike Again (Category: Breaking News)
- Land acquisition seminar in Canada: TNA MPs to present (Category: Breaking News)
- Namal reveals alleged land grab plot (Category: Breaking News)
- Namal reveals alleged land grab plot (Category: Breaking News)
Real estate and property development group Overseas Realty (Ceylon) PLC is consolidating its post war growth momentum as reflected in the nine months results released to the Colombo Stock Exchange. The Group recorded revenue of Rs. 1,657 m and net profit of Rs. 440 m, which is an increase of 42% and 77% respectively over ...
- Overseas Reality goes for ESOP (Category: Business)
- ORCL profit increases by 200% to Rs 2.7 b (Category: Business)
- Directors aren’t a rarity at Blue Diamonds (Category: Business)
- Pelwatte Sugar goes for Rs. 306 m Rights (Category: Business)
The 17th SAARC summit ended on Friday with the adoption of a 20-point ‘Addu Declaration’ to forge effective cooperation among the member states in a host of areas including economy, connectivity, climate change and food security. The Addu Declaration was adopted at the concluding
- SAARC agree on Indian Ocean ferry service (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka to set up SAARC Seed Bank (Category: Breaking News)
- India, Pakistan officials meet before S. Asia summit (Category: Business)
- Hope for SAFTA (Category: Business)
The policy changes, reforms and modernisation since Budget 2011 appears to have been the context of a presentation made to the Joint Apparel Association Forum in July 2011 by the “leading light” in finance, planning, treasury management and economic development. Sri Lanka background 2000-’10 The presentation articulates the background issues experienced from 2000 to 2010. ...
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
- Raising the bar: The rise of the Sri Lankan economy (Category: Business)
- Treasury Secy. showcases recent economic success and future outlook (Category: Business)
- For a change Geneva, Zurich to hear Sri Lanka’s post-war potential this week (Category: Business)
Last week I received an invite for an ‘Inventors Day Celebration’ in one of the leading schools in the country and the master in charge shared a thought that I felt was a cutting edge idea. Apparently, every one of us is an inventor in some part of our daily life. The issue is that ...
- Wimbledon 2012 pick-ups for Lanka (Category: Business)
- Global Commerce Excellence awards next week (Category: Business)
- For tourism, after BRICs, Lanka-included SLIMMA is the best (Category: Business)
The gem mining sub-sector grew by 7.9% in 2010. The gem and jewellery exports too reported 1.56% positive growth in 2010. Even in the first-half of 2011, increased earnings from mineral exports were led by higher exports of gems which increased by 35.5% in the first half of 2011, according to the Central Bank. The ...
- FACETS’ foreign sales top $ 10 M, world rediscovers Ceylon Blue Sapphire (Category: Business)
- Exports grow by 41% to $ 5.1 b in 1H, Govt. to sustain growth (Category: Business)
- Boost for gem and jewellery as top multinational arrives (Category: Business)
- Exporters’ Forum returns in full strength; exporters upbeat on prompt results (Category: Business)
Exponential 575% rise in comparison to FY2010’s figure of Rs. 155 m; Posts Rs. 829 m net profit attributable to equity holders; Turnover more than doubles to Rs. 10.6 b FY2012 1Q revenue up 162% to Rs. 4.4 b; after tax profit up 257% to Rs. 368 m Assets worth Rs. 34.3 b, up from ...
- 2Q results add further value to Softlogic story: Ashok (Category: Business)
- Softlogic’s 9 month revenue, post-tax profit up, bottom line down (Category: Business)
- Distilleries toasts FY12 start with 1Q net profit up 50% to Rs. 1.2 b (Category: Business)
- RPC posts strong results for 9 months (Category: Business)
President’s Secretary Lalith Weeratunga delivered the keynote address as the Guest of Honour at the FutureGov Forum Sri Lanka 2011 in Colombo recently. Addressing the gathering, he asserted that it was the President’s leadership that led to the great achievements recorded by the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka even under the trying circumstances of wartime. ...
- FutureGov SAARC Summit 2012 begins today (Category: Business)
- Microsoft Sri Lanka Partners ICTA for FutureGov SAARC Summit 2012 (Category: Business)
- Presidential Secretary’s address at FutureGov Forum (Category: Business)
- FutureGov SAARC Summit 2012: Intel joins ICTA to promote E-governance (Category: Business)
Our ‘poli-socionomic’ dialogue You will recall that like Capt. Kirk in his Star Ship-Enterprise,’ we also ventured into new territory with our first discussions under this theme ‘poli-socionomics,’ which appears to have caught on somewhat; thus, on behalf of those of us who still dare to think, I must thank those editors who carried it. ...
- Poli (Sigh): Hunker Down For The Holidays (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Poli (Sigh): Hunker Down For The Holidays (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Poli (Sigh): Hunker Down For The Holidays (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Poli (Sigh): Hunker Down For The Holidays (Category: USA, Indiana)
by Stewart Bell BANGKOK — In the office of Thailand’s Anti Human Trafficking Division, Colonel Panya Pinsook flips through photos of engine parts, sacks of food, plastic oil drums -and the Canadians caught with the cache of supplies. A cellphone...
- Lankan human smuggler arrested in France (Category: Breaking News)
- On the smugglers’ trail: U.K. man ‘Peg Leg Shankar’ wanted by Interpol - RCMP ‘making a differen... (Category: Breaking News)
- On the smugglers’ trail: ‘So many refugees are here’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Canada files charge on Sri Lankan man (Category: Breaking News)
"Economic prosperity and development are necessary, but not sufficient, conditions for lasting peace and healing in Sri Lanka" Remarks by Robert O. Blake, Jr. Assistant Secretary, Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs at Asia Society Event, New York, NY,...
- Those responsible for injustices and abuses in Sri Lanka war must be held to account – Voice of ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Those responsible for injustices and abuses in Sri Lanka war must be held to account – Voice of ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Economic prosperity and development not enough for peace and healing in Sri Lanka, US says (Category: Breaking News)
- Reconciliation process to unite a divided people necessary (Category: Breaking News)
by Darini Rajasingham Senanayake On 4 February, Sri Lanka celebrated its 63rd birthday. After nearly three decades of armed conflict, it is now one of Southasia’s calmest and fastest-growing countries. Its social indicators, apart from the northeast zone, remain the...
- Military in Sri Lanka encroaching on civilian control of government (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka military extending its influence over civilian affairs, things are not looking good fo... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s North: Rebuilding under the Military (Category: Breaking News)
by Ranga Jayasuriya Some key positions of this government have been filled by dual citizens. Gotabaya Rajapaksa - the powerful Defence Secretary is a dual citizen of Sri Lanka and the USA. Basil Rajapaksa - Investment Development Minister has a US Green Card in addition to his Sri Lankan citizenship. Sarath Fonseka, the now incarcerated former army commander is also a Green Card holder. ...
- Sri Lanka to re-commence processing dual citizenship applications (Category: Breaking News)
- BOC invites Sri Lankan expatriates and international investors to join “BOC My Sri Lanka” (Category: Breaking News)
- Strategies on reducing or getting out of foreign debt (Category: Business)
- Device to influence policies of other nations (Category: Breaking News)
By Mangala Samaraweera, M.P. It is with great alarm that the peace loving people of the civilised world witness the despotic regime of Muammar Gaddafi killing his own people, using heavy weapons and even fighter aircraft to bomb civilian targets...
- Gaddafi rule ends : people scream gleefully we are now free (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksa project of establishing familial control over the State Army and the SLFP (Category: Breaking News)
- Telephone call from Gaddafi tp Rajapaksa shows Mahinda is on the wrong side of history (Category: Breaking News)
- FRIENDS IN LOW PLACES (Category: Breaking News)
by Prof. G.L.Peiris (Keynote Address delivered by External Affairs Minister Professor G L Peiris, at the symposium organized jointly by the Centre for Security Analysis, Chennai and the Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Sri Lanka in Colombo on October 26,...
- Fear of persecution does not end merely because the war is over in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Post-War Reconciliation Process: Human Rights violation (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s relations with United Nations still remain warm despite Ban Ki moon report (Category: Breaking News)
- Jayanatha Dhanapala submissions before LLR Commission - Full transcript (Category: Breaking News)
By Ravinatha Pandukabhaya Aryasinha Ananda College Old Boys' Association Olcott Oration 2010...
- A post-war challenge for Sri Lanka: Dismantling the LTTE overseas and rebuilding a Sri Lankan id... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka is still under threat, warns Defence Secy. – Part I (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s image builders (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s image builders (Category: Features)
by Rick Westhead Toronto Star, South Asia Bureau TRINCOMALEE, SRI LANKA—The weathered wooden bench that serves as an open-air confessional booth at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church doesn’t enjoy much down time nowadays. It’s not that more people are...
- Tapping Diaspora Support (Category: Breaking News)
- Is the report of the UNSG’s panel of experts a conspiracy and obstacle to reconciliation? (Category: Breaking News)
- "The 13th Amendment to the Constitution must be properly implemented": Dharmalingam Siddharthan (Category: Breaking News)
- Northern citizens reject Chinese efforts to make inroads into Jaffna (Category: Breaking News)
WARS can still be won, even against formidable terrorist organisations. And Sri Lanka shows how. That is the core message of the country's security supremo, Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a rare interview with The Australian: by Rowan Callick His...
- A one-eyed view of Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Gothabaya Rajapaksa in China with military top brass (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Gotabaya Rajapaksa in China with military top brass (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankans commemorate War Heroes Day, Tamil Genocide Day on same day (Category: Breaking News)
Winning the Peace by Ross Tuttle After 30 years of war, Sri Lanka's Tamil community is finally connected again with the outside world. But life under occupation has its own tensions -- and renewed conflict is always a possibility. JAFFNA,...
- Sinhala nationalist mind set seems incapable of comprehending what Tamils are articulating (Category: Breaking News)
- The defeat of the LTTE is being systematically transformed as the defeat of the Tamil and Muslim... (Category: Breaking News)
- The fundamental problem is not secessionism or devolution but justice for all communities in the... (Category: Breaking News)
- We condemn the opinion of Chinese Ambassador who supports the genocides: Jaffna University Stude... (Category: Breaking News)
by Surendra H.E. President Mahinda Rajapakse has pledged to develop Sri Lanka as the new miracle of Asia. Since this project concerns our collective destiny as a country, we should subject this project to a surgical analysis. Is this a...
- Myanmar: South Asia’s other ‘Small Miracle’? (Category: Business)
- Miracle of humanity (Category: Breaking News)
- Exodus from the ‘Miracle of Asia’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka’s economic miracle turns sour (Category: Breaking News)
by Mel Gunasekara MANKULAM, Sri Lanka (AFP) – In a wooden shelter in north Sri Lanka a soldier has swapped his gun for a pair of scissors, trimming hair and beards of civilians who now travel through what was a...
- Unusual Action (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka rejects British war crime video (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka military presence reduced in former war zone (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Army arrests over 36,000 deserters after war (Category: Breaking News)
Interview with Ms. Tamara Kunanayakam, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Cuba Amb. Tamara Kunanayakam 1. You are Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Cuba. What brought you to Caracas? Our attention was drawn to the active presence in Caracas of a delegation...
- Sri Lanka is still under threat, warns Defence Secy. – Part I (Category: Business)
- The Katchatheevu Sovereignty Commission (Category: Business)
- "I am most Concerned about the relationship being built between the TGTE and the Govt of South S... (Category: Breaking News)
- Transnational Govt of Tamil Eelam “Prime Minister” states his opinion (Category: Breaking News)
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