Category: General Services

Jan 01, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka™s cabinet has granted approval to recommence the Dual Citizenship which had been temporarily suspended during the end of 2011 has been reinstated from today, official of Ministry of Defence and Urban Development said at the briefing yesterday. The granting of Dual Citizenship will be in force from 31st […]

Oct 29, 2014 (LBO) – A Landslide destroyed a plantation in Haldummulla, Central Sri Lanka on Wednesday (29) morning and have killed at least 100 people and leaving more than 150 trapped, a media report said. An about 330 people had been living at the location at the time of the tragedy. The mobilized armed […]

Oct 29, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has slipped to 99 from 85 in a global ranking compiled by the World Bank group as several other nations raced ahead despite an improvement in the score between 2013 and 2014. The report further said Sri Lanka has made paying taxes more costly for companies by increasing […]

August 29, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is to launch an online support system focusing on the issues faced by the small and medium entrepreneurs in the island, Ministry of Industry and Commerce said in a media release. The tool will periodically present views and experiences of entrepreneurs and micro biz operating in formal and […]

Aug 15, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s cabinet of ministers had approved a plan to haul solid waste from Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo to sanitary land in the northwest of the island by rail as part of a plan to produce power, a top official said.Waste will be taken in special locomotives and rolling stocks.The […]

Aug 05, 2014 (LBO) – A regional consultant who works with mainly multinational businesses in South Asia and the Middle East says he wants to measure compassion in Sri Lanka business, after initiating the process in Pakistan.“I want to go deep and see how Sri Lankan organizations are different from Pakistan, even if they are […]

July 23, 2014 (LBO) – Subway, a US-based fast food franchise which launched in Sri Lanka this week is planning a 30-store chain in the island over the next five years, officials said. “All we see is an aggressive growth plan for Sri Lanka, it™s up to the local entrepreneurs to join with us for […]

July 22, 2014 (LBO) – Alpesh Shah, a Senior Partner and Managing Director of the Indian Unit of the Boston Consulting Group, will address a business forum in Colombo in August.Ceylon Chamber of Commerce said Shah will speak at the upcoming ‘Sri Lanka Economic Summit’ on the topic of ‘Colombo as a Financial Hub at […]

PARIS, July 10, 2014 (AFP) – A prototype vaccine for dengue that two years ago yielded lukewarm results has proved more effective after wider trials and is a potential arm against the disease, researchers said Friday.Devised by the French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Pasteur, the so-called CYD-TDV vaccine provided only 30 percent protection against the dangerous […]

June 25, 2014 (LBO) – Villa College, a Maldives-based higher education institute, is setting up an arm in Sri Lanka which will be developed into a residential campus, the state investment promotion agency said.The BOI which gives tax breaks and investment approvals had signed an agreement with Ahmed Anwar, Rector of Villa College and Chief […]

June 11, 2014 (LBO) – MindShare Sri Lanka, a GroupM agency, said it had won silver at GoaFest2014 for an advertisement of Sunlight, a product of Unilever. The advertising festival is organized Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) and The Advertising Club. Mindshare Sri Lanka, had won Silver in the ˜Best Integrated Campaign for the […]