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A fusion of glamour and festivities awaits guests at the annual gala dinner organised by the Sri Lanka India Society to celebrate India’s Independence Day. The celebratory dinner will be held today from 6. 45p.m. at Taj Samudra. The Chief Guest at the dinner will be High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka Ashok K. ...
The location of Sri Lanka has a strategic significance and this has been proven by the historical trading activities between Sri Lanka and ancient China, Egypt, and the Roman Empire. There is ample evidence to show that Sri Lanka was a main trading hub in Asia. The reasons for occupation of Sri Lanka by the ...
Xinhua: Sri Lanka’s topmost Tamil minority minister in the northern town of Jaffna on is confident that the government will be able to finalise a political solution for the Tamils. The minister of Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development, Douglas Devananda, told Xinhua in an interview that the solution should be based on 13 Amendment ...
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 ...
“Countries at Risk: As part of its analysis, Freedom House identified a number of important countries that are seen as particularly vulnerable to deterioration in the coming 12 months: Azerbaijan, Libya, Malaysia, Pakistan, Russia, Rwanda, and Sri Lanka” – Report Washington DC
The Sri Lankan Government is making serious efforts in rehabilitation of former Tamil Tiger combatants, their reintegration into society and reconciliation with the minority, a high ranking Russian Government official said. Konstantin Dolgov, Russian Foreign Ministry Commissioner for Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, and Ambassador-at-Large, said the situation in terms of human ...
The first CFW Resortwear show will feature a total of 12 important designers showcasing their Resortwear 2013 collections. The focus for the first show is the South and South East Asian region hence the designers are from Malaysia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The show which is themed as a Resortwear weekend on the ...
There was a time when cricket was a game only Commonwealth nations derived pleasure from. Those days are long gone. Scour through its recent history, and you’ll find pages dedicated to the likes of Ireland and Afghanistan. It doesn’t stop there. Scotland, The Netherlands, Hong Kong and the United States were among the ten nations ...
The first Prime Minister of independent India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, wrote 75 years ago: “It would be absurd to say that the profit motive does not appeal to the average Indian, but it is nevertheless true that there is no such admiration for it in India as there is in the west. The possessor of ...
2012 unlikely to match up to 2011 tea revenue; stakeholders’ voice uncertaintya By Cheranka Mendis The tea industry which brought in revenue of approximately US$ 675 million within the first six months of this year – US$ 50 million below the revenue collected in the same period in 2011 – is likely to fall short ...
By Shanuka Tissera SREI Infrastructure Finance Ltd (India) announced their launch in Sri Lanka through a partnership with Arinma Holdings Pvt Ltd. SREI has helped over 30,000 entrepreneurs over its 23 years in operation offering a range of services in the infrastructure sector: Infrastructure project finance, advisory and development infrastructure equipment finance, venture capital and ...
By Cassandra Mascarenhas Sri Lanka’s biggest ICT events of 2012, the ASOCIO international conference and the country’s national IT expo INFOTEL, will be held consecutively portraying the country’s persistent ICT development and the significance of the rapidly expanding industry. Hosted by the Federation of Information Technology Industry (FITIS), the Asian-Oceanian Computi...
The External Affairs Minister has said that Sri has achieved several benefits through visits of leading foreign state representatives to Sri Lanka. Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris was addressing journalists in Kandy. The Minister said that Sri Lanka in her history had never witnessed such a large number of state leaders who had visited the island ...
Global CyberLympics is an international cybersecurity competition. There are teams from various countries participating in the competition. The competition is carried out in different parts of the world including North America, Europe, Africa, South America and Middle-east and the Asia Pacific. It is hosted by the International Council of E-Commerce Consultants (EC-Council), a member-based o...
Human Rights Human rights (HR) abuse of the past cannot be forgotten on the basis of focusing only on the future, Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Jerzy Pomianowski told reporters in Colombo on Thursday. This appeared to be a hint that at least Poland, a member of both the EU and NATO, takes HR abuse seriously ...
A three-day international security conference organized by the Sri Lanka Army will commence in Colombo today. The three-day seminar covers thematic Reconstruction, Resettlement, Rehabilitation, Reintegration, Reconciliation (5Rs) spheres in post-conflict Sri Lanka with the participation of 250 foreign and local delegates Defence SecretaryGotabaya Rajapaksa, is to deliver the keynote address durin...
Playing off India against China and vice versa‘The Great Game’ was the name given to a diplomatic and military tussle between the British and Russian empires during the time of the British Raj in India for influence over what constitutes today’s central Asian states. Commonly known as the ‘Stan states,’ they were located along the ...
A farewell dinner was organised by the Sri Lanka-Russia Business Council of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce for Vladimir Mikhaylov and Madam Mikhaylov in recognition of the yeomen services rendered by Mikhaylov during his tenure as the Patron of the Council. The event was held on 6 July 2012
Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha, Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, addressing the Conference on Disarmament (CD) on Tuesday, 31 July 2012, has expressed Sri Lanka’s “profound disappointment that the conference has not been enabled to undertake substantive work on its agenda”. He said: “It is time to avoid the temptation of subjecting the ...
Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha, Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, addressing the Conference on Disarmament (CD) on Tuesday (31 July ), has expressed Sri Lanka’s “profound disappointment that the Conference has not been enabled to undertake substantive work on its agenda”. He said, “it is time to avoid the temptation of subjecting the wo...
With no incidents of terrorism or a threat of its resurgence within Sri Lanka, most counter terrorism activities undertaken by the government in 2011 targeted possible LTTE overseas finances, a United States government report said. 'Country Reports on Terrorism 2011', an annual report issued by the The US State Department - reviews the counter terrorism events worldwide last year, said...
Sri Lanka’s dependence on imported milk is a phenomenon that evolved during the time frame of my lifetime. I well remember as a child, a man used to bring a cow and its small calf to our house – we lived in a Government quarters bungalow in Colombo – and milk the cow, in the ...
Five teenage schoolchildren from Sri Lanka who had lost a family member to an act of terrorism attended this year’s ‘Project Common Bond’, a weeklong peace building and conflict resolution program held in the US. The program was organised by Tuesday’s Children, a New York based non-profit organisation serving the needs of those affected by ...
CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) yesterday announced that The Indivisibles from Exeter University have been crowned global champion at the prestigious 2012 CIMA Global Business Challenge (GBC) in partnership with Barclays which took place from 23 to 24 July. The Indivisibles triumphed over stiff competition from twenty one other talented regions at the event ...
Russia has reiterated its continued support to Sri Lanka which is advancing as an independent state achieving the goals. Russian Ambassador to Sri Lanka Vladimir P. Mikhailov made this reiteration during a meeting with Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne. The Russian diplomat paid this courtesy call
Excitement is building in Sri Lanka as Colombo prepares to host the 2012 CIMA Global Business Challenge (GBC) in partnership with Barclays from 23 to 24 July. Shown on MTV, the GBC final is held in partnership with Barclays. The competition involves teams presenting a business case which is then judged by a panel of ...
Industry experts urge disillusioned local investors to ‘buy when it’s down and sell when it’s up’ In a highly volatile atmosphere and with low investor confidence in the Colombo Bourse, experts earlier this week went against the negative sentiments and instead stated that now is the time to buy. These views were aired at a ...
UNCTAD released its World Investment Report 2012 recently. The report indicated that for the first time since 2007, global FDI inflows increased by 16% despite the continuing effects of the global and financial economic crisis. However, UNCTAD predicts the FDI growth rates to decline in 2012 due to economic uncertainty and the possibility of lower ...
By Shamil Samsul Mueen 1. Introduction The global financial crisis has raised imperative issues concerning the stability and reliability of existing financial systems. This has driven an extensive global re-examination on the competence of the existing financial architecture and the search for a more enduring solution. As a result an increasing interest in Islamic finance ...