Category: General Services

July 03, 2007 (LBO) – Aitken Spence, one of Sri Lanka’s conglomerates with interests in several areas of the shipping industry, wants to develop a new business in managing ports abroad. The company already has a deal with South Africa’s Durban Port under which is sent 125 skilled Sri Lankans to provide training and port […]

July 2, 2007 (LBO) – Manique Gunaratne, a visually impaired Sri Lankan professional, has a simple poem that she recites to highlight the hopes of people like her. “It takes the summer, sun and the rain, to make a garden grow It takes the moon and twinkling stars, to make the heavens grow It takes […]

June 28, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan exporters are being squeezed as fewer container ships heading west call into Colombo, with global shipping lines moving more business to India and its booming economy. Both projects have been delayed for over a decade because of poor government policy and analysts fear that further delays could see […]

June 27, 2007 (LBO) – Ultrapay Limited, the Australian broadband and mobile wireless services company, has sold the stake it held in Sri Lanka’s Ruhuna Multivision pay tv business, the company said.Ultrapay held the stake in Ruhuna Multivision, which runs Comet Cable, through its subsidiary Chalmway Private Limited. The company says the sale netted 1.2 […]

June 27, 2007 (LBO) – A web logging site for the Sri Lankan and international trading community as well as customs clients has been launched, giving access to new information on tariffs and regulations, officials said. The database holds all of the country’s customs regulations, related laws, taxes and other levies as well as preferential […]

June 25, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has lost the lead it once had in education, slowing the progress of the country, education specialists have warned.A telling sign of the times is that a large number of recently recruited teachers are being trained on the job with students as guinea pigs. While university graduates have […]

June 22, 2007 (LBO) – More women are joining the construction industry, attracted by the higher wages that have risen with the boom in building activity, a senior industry official said. Dakshitha Thalgodapitiya, Secretary General of the Chamber of Construction Industry (CCI), said new training centres being set up by the organisation were attracting female […]

June 18, 2007 (LBO) – Amba Research, an investment research outsourcing firm which raised new venture capital financing Monday, is planning to expand operations in Sri Lanka, officials said. Over the last two years the government absorbed 42,000 unemployed graduates into the already bloated public sector, while outfits like Amba is searching high and low […]

June 15, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka plans to set up a carbon fund to promote carbon trading and provide financial as well as technical support for potential project developers, a government minister said Thursday. The concept imitates an ecosystem that produces food and manages the land. Trees and vegetables useful to mankind will be […]

June 15, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has equipped a rural hospital with computer facilities and a broadband link to offer patients remote consultation, diagnosis, and treatment through telemedicine, the government information technology agency ICTA said Friday. The project in Kurunegala, in the island’s north-central region, was launched under the Information and Communication Technology Agency™s […]

June 12, 2007 (LBO) – The Hemas group is pushing into the hospital sector with a 2.5 billion rupee investment though bottom line growth this year has been hit by a higher taxs, officials said. The group’s 100 bed hospital in Wattala, off Colombo, is expected to be operational by August 2008, while a newly […]

June 08, 2007 (LBO) – Hemas group a listed diversified group that is in consumer goods, energy, leisure and healthcare said it had acquired a hospital in the southern Sri Lankan city of Galle. Hemas said the privately-owned Southern Hospital will soon be upgraded with new medical technologies. “Hemas Southern Hospitals will, over the next […]