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Credit Trend
July 29, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s loans to private business picked up in May as credit to both state enterprises and the central government from banks dropped in May, official data showed.Total credit to the state dropped 6.2 billion rupees to 1555.6 billion rupees in May from a month earlier, which included an increase […]
Credit Board
July 29, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s industry and commerce ministry said it had appointed a four person body to approve credit agencies under powers of Sri Lanka’s mortgage and trust receipt laws. Commercial minister Rishad Bathiudeen had appointed, Sujeewa Rajapaksa (President of ICASL), Anura Meddagoda (Attorney at Law) and VM Weerasinghe (Chief Accountant, Ministry […]
Myanmar monasteries offer bootcamp for the spirit
YANGON, July 29, 2013 (AFP) – Pre-dawn wake-up calls, days of silence and hunger may not be everyone’s idea of a holiday, but for tourists seeking spiritual sustenance Myanmar’s monasteries offer help on the path to Buddhist nirvana.The search for inner peace is unlikely to appeal to those who take a more hedonistic approach to […]
Tele Investments
July 29, 2013 (LBO) – Investments in Sri Lanka’s by Dialog Axiata group, a unit of Malaysia’s Axiata is reaching 1.5 billion US dollars with a 150 million US dollar network and fibre optic capacity, officials said. The latest investment agreement inked with the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka for 150 million dollars will […]
India panel clears Jet-Etihad deal: official
NEW DELHI, July 29, 2013 (AFP) – India’s foreign investment panel Monday approved a plan for Abu Dhabi-based Etihad to buy a stake in Indian airline Jet, but the pact still faces other hurdles. “It (the agreement) has been cleared” by the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB), a senior finance ministry official told AFP. “But […]
Cricket: Dilshan, Sangakkara lift Sri Lanka to series win
PALLEKELE, July 28, 2013 (AFP) – Tillakaratne Dilshan and Kumar Sangakkara pulverised South Africa’s bowling as Sri Lanka took a decisive 3-1 lead in the one-day series with an eight-wicket victory in Pallekele on Sunday.Amla, batting for the first time in the series after being injured while fielding in the only other game he played, […]
Sri Lanka FDI flows reach $430mn in first half 2013
July 29, 2013 (LBO) – Foreign direct investment flows to Sri Lanka in the first half of 2013 reached 430 million US dollars and the full year was expected to bring 2.0 billion US dollars, investment promotion minister Lakshman Abeywardena said. The money had come mainly from Chinese and Hong Kong based companies with top […]
Personal Travel
July 28, 2013 (LBO) – Scooters are becoming more popular in Sri Lanka making up about a third of all two-wheelers sold in the country now, the agents for India’s Mahindra group said at the launch of new models.Sri Lankan citizens who could not afford a car were buying up to 24,000 two-wheelers a month […]
Refinance
July 27, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Nations Trust Bank has signed up a 15 million dollar credit to lend to small and medium enterprises, especially those in former war zones and tsunami hit areas, the Asian Development Bank said. About 20 percent of the facility will target women borrowers. The loans will be given […]
Detentions
JAKARTA, July 27, 2013 (AFP) – Police detained four Indonesians allegedly involved in arranging an Australian-bound refugee boat which sank earlier this week, killing at least 15 people, a local police official said Saturday.The four men were arrested on Wednesday and Thursday in two nearby cities after the boat sank off the southwestern coast of […]