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Inmates on hunger strike in Japan immigration centre
TOKYO, May 20, 2010 (AFP) – Scores of foreigners in a Japanese immigration detention centre have been on hunger strike for more than a week, demanding to be released and protesting the mysterious death of an African deportee. Some 70 detainees — many of them Sri Lankans and Pakistanis — have refused food since May […]
Oil Sales
May 20, 2010 (LBO) – Lanka IOC, the Sri Lanka unit of Indian Oil Corporation said it lost 422 million rupees in the year to March 2010 down from 1,237 million a year earlier and had boosted bunkering sales to 15 percent of its total revenues. Lubricant sales had risen to 5. 6 million litres […]
Sri Lanka holds policy rate steady
May 20, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s central bank said it was holding policy rates steady at 9.75 percent amid a pick up in bank credit to private businesses and a dip in annual inflation in April 2010. “Developments in the monetary sector have been encouraging,” the Central Bank said. “Credit obtained by the private […]
Sri Lanka Treasuries yields steady
May 19, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Treasuries yields were steady at Wednesday’s auction though the 3-month yield fell 05 basis points to 8. 13 percent, the government’s debt office said. The 6-month yield was flat at 8. 88 percent and the 12-month yield was also flat at 9.23 percent, the debt office which is […]
Sri Lanka shares end 0.33-pct down
May 19, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lankan stocks closed lower Wednesday with investors seen losing interest in shares whose prices had risen sharply as the market reached record highs in recent weeks, brokers said. The All Share Price Index closed at 4,243.54, down 0.33 percent (14.13 points) while the more liquid Milanka index fell 0. […]
Sri Lankans hit Tamil Tiger tourist trail
KILINOCHCHI, May 19, 2010 (AFP) – The wreckage left by a brutal war has created a new tourist trail in Sri Lanka just a year after the Tamil Tiger rebels were crushed by government forces. “I make about 500 rupees (four dollars) a day,” says Kilinochchi native N. Seelan, who sells palmyrah-based sweets to tourists. […]
‘s war-torn east beckons business
May 19, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s eastern province is recovering rapidly from the effects of war and provides opportunities for business, especially in agriculture, a senior official said. The conflict ended last May, resulting in an economic revival in the region as well as the rest of the country. Wijewickrema said the revival of […]
Property Drive
May 19, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Overseas Realty Ceylon, a unit of Singapore’s Shing Kwan group, is pushing ahead with Colombo’s largest property project amid renewed buying interest in apartments after the end of a 30-year war. Overseas Realty owns Colombo’s World Trade Centre building which houses the Colombo Stock Exchange and is jointly […]
Sri Lanka air force offers flights after floods block road
May 19, 2010 (LBO) – The Sri Lanka Air Force is offering services to transfer by air passengers traveling to the main international airport at Katunayake, north of the capital Colombo, because of floods on the main road, officials said. A 15-seat Y-12 light aircraft can be charted by groups at the rate of 55,300 […]
Sri Lanka-EU talks on trade deal positive: EU envoy
May 19, 2010 (LBO) – The European Union is likely to remain a lucrative market for Sri Lankan exporters with talks to extend a trade deal giving duty free access to Europe being positive, the EU envoy said. EU ambassador Bernard Savage said talks between Sri Lanka and the EU on extending the GSP Plus […]