Category: General Services

The UK’s top accounting heavyweights are in exploratory talks for a strategic consolidation, but management accountants would still need to get additional qualifications to sign off a company’s balance sheet.The UK’s top accounting heavyweights are in exploratory talks for a strategic consolidation, but management accountants would still need to get additional qualifications to sign off […]

British insurance giant Aviva will send up to 950 more jobs to India and Sri Lanka in 2005, out sourcing its back office and other support functions.British insurance giant Aviva will send up to 950 more jobs to India and Sri Lanka in 2005, out sourcing its back office and other support functions. The jobs […]

Tourist arrivals from East Asia, including Japan and China dipped in August, taking total tourist numbers down over record arrivals in July.Tourist arrivals from East Asia, including Japan and China dipped in August, taking total tourist numbers down over record arrivals in July. August saw over 48,000 people visiting Sri Lanka, a 15.3 percent increase […]

The special labour-rights based duty cuts for Sri Lankan exports into the European Union will hold until end 2005, but renewal of concessions will be much harder. The special labour-rights based duty cuts for Sri Lankan exports into the European Union will hold until end 2005, but renewal of concessions will be much harder. According […]

The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) says local business need to practice Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a common work place tool.The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) says local business need to practice Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as a common work place tool. The Chamber says it will take up the topic at its fifth […]

Sri Lanka and Lebanon are in talks for a prisoner swap so that the convicted of both countries can be tried on home ground. Sri Lanka and Lebanon are in talks for a prisoner swap so that the convicted of both countries can be tried on home ground. As at right now, there are no […]

Sri Lankan employers have another problem to deal with – work related stress is on the rise but employers and employees are getting more stressed out instead of coping with it. Sri Lankan employers have another problem to deal with – work related stress is on the rise but employers and employees are getting more […]

Mental illness is on the rise in the island but Sri Lankans prefer popping pills to pottering of to see a shrink.Ironically, psychiatrists don’t feel like treating Sri Lankan’s either.Mental illness is on the rise in the island but Sri Lankans prefer popping pills to pottering of to see a shrink. Ironically, psychiatrists don’t feel […]

Holidaymakers to Sri Lanka this winter will probably return home more relaxed and looking better than they did before their vacation – that is if they check in at the plush Apollo Colombo before sinking into their holiday.Holidaymakers to Sri Lanka this winter will probably return home more relaxed and looking better than they did […]

Asiri Medical Services, a unit of Asiri Hospitals Ltd., plans to list its stock next year to settle some debt.Asiri Medical Services, a unit of Asiri Hospitals Ltd., plans to list its stock next year to settle some debt. The 14 storey Asiri Medical Service (AMS) cost the group around Rs. 1.0 bn and was […]

Finance Minister Dr. Sarath Amunugama said Tuesday that the public sector would be ‘expanded’ as needed, to take up 41,000 unemployed graduates who were promised jobs.Finance Minister Dr. Sarath Amunugama said Tuesday that the public sector would be ‘expanded’ as needed, to take up 41,000 unemployed graduates who were promised jobs. The state is dishing […]

A lack of formal training and a piece of paper to prove it is keeping a part of Sri Lanka’s unemployed from finding work abroad. A lack of formal training and a piece of paper to prove it is keeping a part of Sri Lanka’s unemployed from finding work abroad. “We have not been able […]