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Transport Costs
July 26, 2010 (LBO) – Shipping lines calling at Colombo port may have to raise freight rates to cover losses in recent years and return to profitability, Sri Lankan ship agents representing liners have said. Nimal Ranchigoda, chairman of the Ceylon Association of Ships’ Agents, said the shipping industry was in “dire straits” last year […]
Sri Lankan stocks close 0.98-pct up
July 26, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lankan stocks closed higher and passed the 4,900 point mark Monday, as investors continued their buying spree, while there was systematic profit taking on selected high value and midcap companies, brokers said. The All Share Price Index closed at 4,943.53, up 48.02 points, while the more liquid Milanka index […]
Vietnam to open Sri Lanka embassy early 2011
July 25, 2010 (LBO) – Vietnam will open an embassy in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo in early 2011, a joint statement following a meeting of deputy foreign ministers of the two countries on the sidelines of a regional group meeting said. Minister Gunawardena had requested co-operation from Vietnam in security intelligence to combat activities of […]
Dancing in the street as Pakistan beat Australia
ISLAMABAD, July 24, 2010 (AFP) – Cricket fans took to the streets in Pakistan on Saturday to celebrate their side’s first Test victory over Australia in 15 years, after a tense fourth-day finish at Headingley. The heads of all the major political parties and chief ministers of all four provinces also congratulated the team. “It […]
Depleted Sri Lanka eye series win over India
July 25, 2010 (AFP) – Sri Lanka hope to overcome a weakened bowling attack and secure a series-clinching win in the second Test against India from Monday, their first match in the post-Muttiah Muralitharan era. The world bowling record holder bid farewell to Test cricket last week by leading the hosts to an emphatic win […]
Change Agents
ASPEN, July 25, 2010 (AFP) – Top technology and media executives wrapped up a three-day conference here during which they grappled with — and left unresolved — the question of whether readers will pay for news online. Firmly in the paid camp in the “paid vs. free” debate was News Corp.’s head of digital operations […]
Test Case
July 25, 2010 (LBO) – An arbitration of a disputed derivative contract between an oil distributor in Sri Lanka and a German bank would be a test case on whether such deals would come under bi-lateral investment protection treaties, a media report said. Standard Chartered and Citibank had separately started action for breach of contract […]
”, prices up: estate
July 25, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tea growing areas in the hill country is suffering from an ‘acute’ supply shortfall of fuel wood and prices are going up, a plantation company which is expanding its own timber cropping area has said. “With the acute shortage and rapidly increasing prices of fuel-wood in the hill […]
Northern Branch
July 25, 2010 (LBO) – State-run Indian Bank headquartered in Chennai, India is planning to open a branch in Sri Lanka’s former war torn Northern Jaffna peninsular and also in the central hills of the island, a media report said. The bank has another overseas branch in Singapore and is also looking at opening one […]
‘s Malinga out of second India Test
July 24, 2010 (AFP) – Sri Lanka suffered a major blow on Saturday when a knee injury ruled sling-arm fast bowler Lasith Malinga out of the second Test against India. His absence means the hosts will be deprived of both architects of their 10-wicket win in the first Test at Galle — Malinga and the […]
India carmaker Maruti posts surprise quarterly profit fall
NEW DELHI, July 24, 2010 (AFP) – India’s biggest carmaker Maruti Suzuki reported Saturday quarterly net profit fell by a surprise 20 percent as the company was pummelled by a surge in raw material costs. Maruti, majority-owned by Japan’s Suzuki Motor Corp, said net profit during the fiscal first quarter slid to 4. 65 billion […]
Indian state seeks one billion dollars to counter Maoists
NEW DELHI, July 24, 2010 (AFP) – An Indian state seen as a bastion of an increasingly deadly Maoist revolt said Saturday it was seeking one billion dollars to counter the left-wing insurgency with a development surge. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh told federal and state planners that the funds would be spent to rapidly […]