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Ever been to Hotel de Same Place? If you find it hard to believe, here’s the address: No. 83 & 85, Malay Street, Colombo 2. The esoteric roadside eatery’s venturesome owner says that he so named the hotel fearing that patrons may deem otherwise. “I wanted to assure my customers that my hotel will remain ...
By Cheranka Mendis The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) is offering 2717.243 acres of land and 415.7 acres of water body in six selected areas for eco-friendly beach, wildlife and waterfront developments. Located in Kalpitiya, Kuchc-haveli, Bentota, Pasikudah, Dedduwa and Yala, all land offered will be given on a long-term 99-year lease upon payment ...
- Divyaa Lagoon Resort first luxury boutique hotel to open in Kalpitiya (Category: Business)
- Sri Lankan government to lease out 10 more islands in Kalpitiya for tourism development (Category: Breaking News)
- Golden opportunity for tourism industry (Category: Breaking News)
By Marianne David and Cheranka Mendis Sri Lanka Tourism yesterday told the Daily FT that the Department of Wildlife would set up a meeting with both the Tissamaharama Jeep Association and the officials of the three tented mobile safari operators in order to arrive at “an amicable settlement,” following the recent assaults on the operators ...
- Ceasefire on safari savagery (Category: Business)
- Safari savagery (Category: Business)
- One size fits all (Category: Business)
- Going wild! (Category: Business)
Last week’s My View talked about six popular fallacies of currency or exchange rate appreciation which both the authorities and the public have tended to harbour in themselves. Of them, the following three were discussed in detail: Fallacy One: The government can fix the external value of a currency at any level it wishes. Fallacy ...
- Appreciating the exchange rate to create prosperity (Category: Business)
- External value of the rupee: Market driven or Central Bank driven? (Category: Business)
- Appreciating exchange rates: Not a boon always (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka swims against Asian currency depreciation tide (Category: Business)
Gives comprehensive address highlighting issues of developing countries Shoots down discriminatory practices by developed countries Outlines post-war development, reiterates stance against terrorism Backs Palestine, Cuba and Africa By Nisthar Cassim in New York In his much-anticipated address to the UN, President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday took a comprehensive local, regional and world view, with...
- CB releases full details on new laws to curb terrorism funding and money laundering (Category: Business)
- LTTE was engaged in the drug trade to finance itself – Kohona (Category: Business)
- Lankan envoy in US hosts National Press Club’s Intl. Correspondents (Category: Business)
by Tisaranee Gunasekara Basil Rajapaksa is unabashed in claiming that in Sri Lanka an era of ‘ruler kings’ has begun. Western ideas of transparency, he claims, along with limits of presidential power and accountability, are not relevant to ‘Asian Culture’.”...
- Compliance with Rajapaksas is the only way to prosper in the Rajapaksa - Land (Category: Breaking News)
- Stop intimidating judiciary,end undermining democracy,hold elections (Category: Breaking News)
- DNA to inundate President with messages for SFs release (Category: Breaking News)
- A True Democratic Leadership (Category: Breaking News)
A panel of 340 tourism authorities has ranked the Grand Strand among the worst coastal destinations in the world, according to a report by National Geographic Traveler magazine. The Grand Strand was rated the eighth worst out of the 99 destinations rated. The area tied with three other destinations in Vietnam, Lebanon and Spain. The index rates stewardship and integrity of a destination and the su...
- Travel Spot (Category: Business)
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- New Wings (Category: Business)
- Leisure Bear (Category: Business)
by Melani Manel Perera On 17 July, masked men wielding weapons destroyed the homes of residents in Panama and Ragamvila, two coastal villages in northeastern Sri Lanka. Police and troops who now occupy the area have prevented residents from coming...
- 919 villages of Sri Lanka lack deeds to verify land ownership (Category: Breaking News)
- Retirement villages call in receivers (Category: South Australia)
- Police landmine assistance mission (Category: Western Australia)
- SL's half million mines to take a decade to clear (Category: Breaking News)
by Frederica Jansz Since the bloody 30 year war ended in a shoot-out in a remote mangrove in the North, in Colombo we have all been enjoying a semblance of peace. Of course there are yet no strong institutions which would boost Sri Lanka’s democracy. Good discipline is sadly lacking at all levels for peace ...
- Investment opportunities in Sri Lanka expanded, President informs Japanese delegation (Category: Breaking News)
- Sinhala symbols, war, peace and ethnic reconciliation in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘SL from a nation of war to amongst the most peaceful’ (Category: Breaking News)
- LLRC was for reconciliation, not to create divisions – President Rajapaksa (Category: Business)
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