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Overseas Banking
Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance Corporation (SLECIC) is in talks with a Russian bank, to promote financing of Russian importers of local goods. The company has identified importers of goods from Sri Lanka as an opportunity segment and has started off in that direction with a Russian bank to finance importers of Sri Lankan products […]
Changing Heads
Hatton National Bank has appointed Rienzie Wijetilleke as new Chairman of the Bank. Wijetilleke will continue as Managing Director.The post fell vacant after former Chairman Chrisantha Cooray passed away recently.rnrn
Calling Colombo
The HSBC Group on Friday finalized plans to pump in US$ 25 mn to set up its seventh group service centre in Sri Lanka, generating over 2000 jobs. The call centre will be the largest such project in the country taking Sri Lanka into the big leagues of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO).rn rnThe project is […]
Sugar Free
The UNF threatened to reduce import duties on commodities, starting with sugar, if local traders start hoarding goods to increase prices. rnThe import duty on sugar was reduced with immediate effect on Friday to control a surge in sugar prices in the local market.rn rnThe price of a kilogram of sugar went up from Rs […]
Redialing
The telecom watchdog is taking a second look at the controversial Caller Party Pays (CPP) tariffs, this time taking account of its implications to phone subscribers and bulk users.The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) has opted for this route, as public responses flood in since a March 1 implementation date was pushed back.rn rnThe review will […]
Seeing Red
The Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is marrying its past with the present, to give the party its first significant political victory next month.ldblquote We did not take part in active politics for 34 years. We watched and we saw what was happening.Things were getting so bad, we decided to return to support the JVP […]
Super Power
The Supreme Court sought time till March 29, to give President Chandrika Kumaratunga an opinion on the controversial tax amnesty law.President Kumaratunga had used her constitutional powers on March 8 and asked the Supreme Court for its opinion.rn rnThough the Constitution requires an opinion to be given within 10 days, the five-member Bench presided by […]
Hot Chip
Intel Expanded its product offer in Sri Lanka as it faces growing demand for its processors from the state and private sector and a growing population of individual personal computer users. Intel of Wednesday introduced four new processors that promise to deliver an even faster digital experience and offer headroom for the next wave of […]
Target Practice
Despite an independent police commission in place, local officers continue to harass and torture innocent victims, the Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) said Wednesday.In its second report on torture by the police in Sri Lanka, titled Endemic torture and the collapse of policing in Sri Lanka, the report describes 31 recent cases of torture or […]
Green Eye
Denying news reports of supporting a split in the Tamil Tigers, the United States on Wed. pledged US$ 600,000 in assistance to help election monitoring activities during next months poll.US ambassador Jeffrey J Lunstead said that the US had nothing to do with the unprecedented break up of the LTTE ahead of the April 2 […]