Category: General Services

Mar 03, 2008 (LBO) — A top Sri Lankan advertising agency that stirred up the industry after the Chilies 2008 ad awards has chosen not to go public with its grievances, but the row has raised new questions.Leo Burnet Solutions which bagged 30 percent of the awards, and clinched the second slot created a controversy […]

Mar 03, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan construction companies which visited the Middle East to bid for a share of the building boom there are forming consortia to pool their resources, an industry official said. The firms will form joint stock companies which will be managed by the Chamber of Construction Industries (CCI), its secretary […]

Feb 28, 2008 (LBO) — Sri Lanka will teach arts and commerce subjects for pre-university students in English from this year, a senior government minister said. Sri Lanka’s cabinet of ministers had approved a proposal by education minister Susil Premajayantha to start English medium instruction at 50 schools this year, information minister Anura Yapa said. […]

Feb 26, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Triad Advertising says it will seek international recognition after winning the only gold at this year’s ‘Chillies’ ad awards, while a top agency boycotted a post-event media conference. . Triad topped the tally for the third consecutive year. The agency won gold under the integrated communications category for […]

Feb 23, 2008 (LBO) – Sales representatives of Sri Lankan medical firms are to be given identity cards through the pharma industry and given access to government hospitals during specified hours. They would also have to observe a strict code of conduct under a deal worked out between the industry and the health ministry to […]

Feb 22 2008, (LBO) – A Sri Lankan inventor is setting up a facility to provide customized artificial limbs to thousands who have lost their limbs to war, disease and accidents.. “My aim is to cater to disabled soldiers who have sacrificed so much for us and diabetic patients who are amputees and victims of […]

Feb 21, 2008 (LBO) – The market for high rise apartments in Sri Lanka has bottomed out and prices are unlikely to fall further, a group of property developers and construction contractors said. Economic analysts have pointed out that Sri Lanka’s recent rise in land and property was an asset price bubble fired loose monetary […]

Feb 19, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firms have called for more investment to improve English standards and reduce education costs to get the required number of qualified people for the growing sector. “There’s got to be an opportunity for Sri Lanka there.” “If we tackle English, we may have a […]

Feb 18, 2008 (LBO) – The United Nations office in Sri Lanka will hold a round table conference Tuesday to seek ways of encouraging more people to do volunteer work after a noticeable decline in interest. “The round table conference will talk about how we can make volunteering everyone’s business again,” United Nations Volunteers Programme […]

Feb 16, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s State Engineering Corporation (SEC) has clinched a deal to build a $125mn luxury housing project in Qatar, construction minister Rajitha Senaratne said. . SEC will send 1,600 workers to Qatar to build the 345 urban villas and also ship locally made inputs like wall and floor tiles, electrical […]

Feb 15, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s rating outlook has been lowered to ‘negative’ by Standard and Poor’s (S&P) who warned that the underlying B+ rating rating could also be downgraded if budgets worsened. The rating agency said short term foreign borrowing was rising and an “apparent” fall in national debt was largely coming from […]

Feb 12, 2008 (LBO) – JNW news, Sri Lanka’s pioneer news provider on mobile networks, has launched a news website using Sinhala Unicode characters, an official said. “We wanted to do Unicode because that is the future of Sinhala on the web,” JNW chief Chamath Ariyadasa said. “Advantages like easily transferring the content to other […]