Category: General Services

July 25, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka™s Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM), provider of management education said it will launch its course on public policy for business leaders, academics, researchers and government officials on August 01. While resource persons include IMF’s Sri Lanka resident representative Koshy Mathai, Lloyd Fernando, Indrajit Aponsu, W A Wijewardena, Saman […]

July 15, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka™s Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM), provider of management education said it will conduct a short course on public policy for business leaders, academics, researchers and government officials. The closing date for registration is July 15 and the program has openings for only 40 participants, who will be accommodated […]

June 28, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will start a technology stream in its secondary school system and boost facilities and teachers to increase students studying science and commerce with a 200 million US dollar Asian Development Bank program. “The current system needs a major overhaul so that young people have the skills to enter […]

June 19, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s fee-levying higher education institutes are drawing on technology and cost management strategies to make services affordable to students and maintain quality, officials said.Overseas education is very expensive for students and parents and it is not affordable to many. Affiliated colleges with a local partner are more affordable. UK’s […]

June 18, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Hemas group, which has interests in consumer goods, power, leisure and healthcare, opened a 1.3 billion rupee 60 bed hospital in a fast growing suburb of the capital Colombo. Hemas also has hospitals in Sri Lanka™s Wattala and Galle towns. “We decided on Thalawatugoda as the location following […]

June 17, 2013 (LBO) – International and regional educators will come together in Colombo to debate international higher education issues at a first in a series of global forum, the British council said. Each policy dialogue features the latest thinking in its area with new research and input from the government and industry leaders. Global […]

June 14, 2013 (LBO) – Brandix, an apparel group said its workers who had donated blood voluntarily had been recognized for making the firm the largest company to have contributed to the National Blood Transfusion Service.Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa had given a plaque appreciation which had been received by Brandix chief people officer Ishan […]

June 13, 2013 (LBO) – Business and Professional Women International, an organization spread across 125 countries will be holding a conference in Sri Lanka in August to promote joint ventures trade and ecotourism, organizers said.The conference will be held from August 10 to 12 in Colombo with the support of the parent organization which is […]

June 11, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state education system is in the process of changing its structure from an exam centric one to a more interactive learning system, the island’s education minister said.“There should be a structural change in the education system to help with the employment requirements of the country,” minister Bandula Gunawardena […]

June 06, 2013 (LBO) – Profits at Sri Lanka’s Cargills (Ceylon) Plc, fell 58 percent to 123 million rupees partly due to a retail tax and higher interest costs on new investments but the group said it was taking counter measures.Cargills reported earnings 55 cents per share for the quarter, in accounts filed with the […]

May 31, 2013 (LBO) – Profits at Sri Lanka’s Asiri Hospital Holdings Plc, edged up 2.9 percent to 269 million rupees in the March 2013 quarter from a year earlier, helped by non operating gains, accounts showed. In the March 2012 quarter there were 205 million rupees of fair value gains which were absent this […]

May 31, 2013 (LBO) – Odel Plc, a unit of Malaysia’s Parkson Retail Asia Limited, lost 16.3 million rupees in the March 2013 quarter, retreating from a 26. 6 million rupee profit from a year earlier as it was hit by a new value added tax on retailing. The firm reported losses of 9 cents […]