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The HRM Enterprise Version 4.0 is a highly versatile, fully web based system and is database independent.It is flexible and scaleable to any organisation leaving room to plan, define, and change to suit to its structure. rn rnThe new version provides a Self Serving facility to all staff in the organization to access their personal […]
Righteous Vote
The monks will be pitted against minority Tamils, who are mainly Hindus and also want to hold the balance of power after the April 2 election called by President Chandrika Kumaratunga nearly four years ahead of schedule.rn rn The majority Sinhalese community, which is mainly Buddhist, is divided down the middle between two coalition parties […]
Confused Signals
Top trade chambers say Tuesdays meeting with the PA-JVP alliance has failed to shed any light on how they plan to manage the economy.The newly formed JVP-PA alliance talked of promoting a mixed economy with a ban on importing unessential goods.rn rnBusinessmen, instead, were left with many pointed questions like progress in a gamut of […]
Small Change
The state is looking at absorbing up to about 25 percent or as much as half the cost of laying rain guards for rubber trees on smallholder estates this year. Laying the plastic skirt-like rain guards over the areas to be tapped protects it in heavy rainfall areas like the Ratnapura and the Kalutara districts.Increasing […]
Money Matters
Three-month treasury yields continued to surge upwards as the market becomes uneasy over the upcoming April polls.The Central Bank offered and accepted Rs.6.462 bn worth of bills at Tuesdays auction, though the market sent in bids for Rs.11.065 bn, the Central Bank said.rn rnThe weighted average yield rate for three-month paper rose eight basis points […]
No Brakes
The rupee slipped up against the US dollar to end at 99.15, despite a state bank selling some dollars to shore up the currency.The rupee opened at 99.25, before the intervention brought it down to 98.90. Dealers said there was heavy import demand, on slim volumes.rn rnDealers said Bank of Ceylon had sold some dollars […]
Think Differently
The Premier told a top gathering of planters on Tuesday that the time had come to take over as managers of a value added industry, or lose out to more efficient agro-businesses that would be the industry of the future. “When you say that your contribution to the economy has fallen, it is true because […]
Small Change
The state is looking at absorbing up to about 25 percent or as much as half the cost of laying rain guards for rubber trees on smallholder estates this year.rn rnLaying the plastic skirt-like rain guards over the areas to be tapped protects it in heavy rainfall areas like the Ratnapura and the Kalutara districts.rn […]
Going Offline
Stepping up its presence from a standalone internet service provider, Eureka on Tuesday said it has repositioned its business to become an IT solutions provider. Eureka says it has redesigned its business model over four years to offer anything from PC maintenance to more complex corporate data and software solutions.rn rnChief Executive Dilendra Wimalasekere says […]
Alliance Calling
Wooing support for its ticket to govern the country, the newly formed SLFP-JVP alliance flirted with the Colombo based business and international community on Tuesday. The gala two-hour PR campaign, the first major public appearance since the alliance was signed in late January was mooted to ally fears of an anti-private sector regime in the […]