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‘s Atapattu mulls Sydney move: report
HOBART, Australia, Nov 17, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan opening batsman Marvan Atapattu is considering quitting international cricket after the second Hobart Test and playing club cricket in Sydney, reports said Saturday.But he went on to score 51 in the first innings to keep his place in the team.In 89 Tests Atapattu has scored 5,397 […]
Gilchrist hits 100th Test six for dominant Aussies
HOBART, Australia, Nov 17, 2007 (AFP) – Adam Gilchrist blazed his way to 100 Test sixes as Australia plundered Sri Lanka’s bowlers for another 500-plus innings declaration. Later he made a plea for the person in possession of the ball which brought up his 100th Test six at Bellerive Oval here Saturday to return it […]
No Porn
Nov 16, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s banks said they would dump customers who paid for child pornography though their services and would also report them to the regulator. The banks said Friday they would have “heightened watchfulness” on credit cards and “other methods of transaction[s] relating to child pornography”. The customers would be reported […]
Capital Issue
Nov 16, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state-owned Bank of Ceylon (BOC), the main commercial banker to the government, is planning to raise six billion rupees in debt next year to beef up regulatory capital, a top official said. At the rate we are growing the loan book we will have a two billion rupee […]
Sri Lanka Tea Board waives fees for online documentation
Nov 16, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Tea Board Friday announced it was waiving documentation fees for exporters who use an electronic export document processing system in an effort to encourage more automation. . The system, designed and implemented by eServices Lanka, enables tea exporters to submit documents electronically seeking approval for export without having […]
Skills Export
Nov 16, 2007 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan construction industry trade mission to the Middle East has managed to secure work in the booming Arabian Gulf construction industry, officials said. The visit to Qatar and Dubai by members of the Chamber of Construction Industries (CCI) was arranged in an effort to export local construction skills […]
Bhutto freed, Musharraf to swear in new government
ISLAMABAD, Nov 16, 2007 (AFP) – Pakistani authorities freed former premier Benazir Bhutto and a leading human rights activist from house arrest Friday as a senior US official headed to Islamabad to urge an end to emergency rule.The orders ending their detention came just hours before President Pervez Musharraf was to swear in a caretaker […]
US change on accounting rules welcomed by EU
WASHINGTON, Nov 15, 2007 (AFP) – A top EU regulator on Thursday welcomed a move by the US Securities and Exchange Commission to abolish rules that had obliged publicly-listed European companies to comply with US accounting standards. SEC regulators approved new rules which will no longer oblige publicly-traded EU companies with operations in the United […]
Australia tigthened grip over Sri Lanka; Jaques, Hussey hit repeat centuries
HOBART, Australia, Nov 16, 2007 (AFP) – Phil Jaques and Mike Hussey scored back-to-back Test centuries as Australia took a vice grip on the second cricket Test with Sri Lanka after the opening day’s play at Bellerive Oval here Friday. Australia named an unchanged side while Sri Lanka recalled Lasith Malinga and fit-again Kumar Sangakkara, […]
News agencies end Sri Lanka- Australia cricket coverage boycott
HOBART, Australia, Nov 16, 2007 (AFP) – Global news agencies ended a boycott of Australian cricket Friday after striking an agreement with the sport’s governing body that allows their photographers and reporters to cover matches.The agencies will immediately begin coverage of the second Test against Sri Lanka, which started in Hobart on Friday, in which […]