Category: General Services

Jan 25, 2007 (LBO) – North Dakota State University (NDSU) has granted Sri Lanka’s university students concessions to pursue postgraduate studies in America, officials said Thursday. Dean of postgraduate studies NDSU David Wittrock said the university hopes to increase the student intake from Sri Lanka which is currently around 27 students. “We hope to increase […]

January 23, 2007 (LBO) – The government plans to raise the duty free allowances for Sri Lankans retuning from foreign employment to 5,000 dollars, an official from the Labour Ministry said Tuesday. Sri Lankans returning from a stint abroad are currently given a duty free allowance of up to 1,750 dollars if they stay away […]

Jan 18, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is promoting the cultivation of herbs used in indigenous medicine, through a network of farm villages, in a bid to cut down the cost of imports, a government minister said. Sri Lanka has a separate ministry for indigenous medicines which runs a network of Ayurvedic hospitals, medical centres […]

Jan 16, 2007 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan firm, which has built a freight forwarding network spanning eight coastal African nations plans to rapidly expand further into the African hinterland this year. “But we have to spread our wings outside Sri Lanka to grow.”

Jan 17 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lankan companies should do more to make it easier for physically challenged customers to work with them, an activist body has said. “An environment of this nature welcomes people.Winning people is definitely a potential business opportunity,” Ajith Perera from the Idiriya organization said. A customer lost is a lost […]

Dec 05, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Postal Department is expanding its high value stamp range with a 200 rupee issue later this year and is also seeking public views to issue personalised stamps for private entities. Stamp values currently vary from 50 cents and to 1,000 rupees. “For persons or companies who want commemorative […]

Jan 03, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s ministry of education says more than 60 percent of the teachers in Sri Lanka lack computer and English literacy skills that are needed in a modern teaching environment. The Ministry of Education says a new government survey shows that only a third of the teachers or (32.5 percent) […]

COLOMBO, Dec 18, 2006 (AFP) – Corruption and ethnic violence is blocking a flood of foreign aid for Sri Lanka’s tsunami survivors two years after the massive disaster, according to official records and whistle-blowers. President Mahinda Rajapakse admitted a year ago the country had failed to do enough to help the victims of the towering […]

BANGKOK, Dec 18, 2006 (AFP) – Nearly two years after the tsunami, a regional warning system is beset by squabbling and inaction, officials and experts say, as individual countries instead scramble to implement their own schemes. Thailand this month released a US-funded deep-sea warning buoy into the Indian Ocean, while Indonesia plans to install about […]

Dec 15, 2006 (LBO) – The Employers Federation of Sri Lanka are calling on more firms to employ disabled people, not just for equal opportunity, but because it also makes business sense. The Employers Federation of Ceylon (EFC) together with the Motivation Charitable Trust of UK run an annual job fair for disabled people and […]

December 15 (LBO) – Sri Lankan pay television service Comet Cable is facing a withdrawal of its broadcast rights, unless royalties owed to a joint shareholder since 1997, are paid up. Comet Cable has an 18,000 strong customer base and is one of the oldest pay television companies in Sri Lanka with 18 paid channels […]

Dec 13 (LBO) – Sri Lankan workers in Board of Investment approved companies within and outside industrial zones are to get a wage hike with effect from January 01 next year. Unions have argued that some companies violate internationally accepted wage rates, overtime hours, unfair dismissal of workers and do not allow trade unions to […]