High Alert
January 22, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka plans probe deeper into the financial activities of non-governmental organizations, by beefing up its financial …
Industry
In Tune
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Secret World
KYOTO, Japan, Jan 22, 2007 (AFP) - In these days of the Internet, cellphones and iPods, few Japanese girls still dream of becoming a geisha with a strict life …
Cool Chat
January 22, 2007 (LBO) – Motorola Inc plans to introduce a low budget handset next month to popularize the use of cellular phones among less affluent …
Tight Control
Sri Lanka limited Friday the ownership of banks to prevent individuals or groups making hostile takeover bids that could destabilise the country's small …
Switching Channels
January 19, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka plans to abort contracts of greenfield radio station operators and instead offer them to new investors, in a crowded …
Off Air
Jan 18, 2007 (AFP) - Sri Lanka stopped mobile phone services for nearly half a million users in the island's embattled east as government troops were locked in …
Indian Visitor
January 18, 2007 (LBO) – India's Bharti Airtel Ltd has been tentatively picked to take up a slot as Sri Lanka's fifth mobile phone operator, the island's …
Jaffna Power
January 18, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's power utility has signed up a new independent power supplier for the northern Jaffna area, and extended the …
In a stroke
January 18 (LBO) - Sri Lanka is banning the import of three-wheeler taxis that use two-stroke piston engines from next year, to reduce pollution in urban …
Herbal Remedy
Jan 18, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is promoting the cultivation of herbs used in indigenous medicine, through a network of farm villages, in a bid to cut …
Unit Gains
Jan 17, 2007 (LBO) – Investors in mutual funds with an equity component have managed to beat raging inflation last year, with Sri Lanka's youngest fund, …
African Wings
Jan 16, 2007 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan firm, which has built a freight forwarding network spanning eight coastal African nations plans to rapidly expand …
Disabled Friendly
Jan 17 2007 (LBO) - Sri Lankan companies should do more to make it easier for physically challenged customers to work with them, an activist body has said. "An …
Connecting Points
Jan 16, 2007 (LBO) – Japan on Tuesday gave Sri Lanka 30 million rupees to design a new bridge connecting Mannar to the mainland, the finance ministry …
Pandora’s Box
January 13, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's proposal to retain 50 percent of re-insurance business in a government-backed entity, may deteriorate the quality of …
Old Hands
SINGAPORE, Jan 12, 2007 (AFP) - Workers are relying on 19th century technology to fix a very 21st century problem -- disruption of the Internet traffic that …
Tight and Loose
January 12, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's central bank has allowed finance companies to form subsidiaries, raised single borrower limits, but tightened …
Sri Lanka’s monkeys, the island’s latest draw card for foreign travellers
January 11, 2007 (LBO) – Scouting treetops for purple-faced leaf monkeys or on the trail of the shy loris at nightfall, Sri Lanka's rich primate life …
Brainstorming
LAS VEGAS, Nevada, Jan 10, 2007 (AFP) - Porn makers at the world's largest sex trade show in Las Vegas on Wednesday were taking a page from Internet superstars …