Category: General Services

Feb 22, 2013 (LBO) – The faculty of management studies and commerce of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura is holding an international conference with papers to be presented by participants from Malaysia, Poland, France and India in addition to Sri Lanka.The ‘International Conference on Business Management’ will be held on February 28 and March 01 […]

Feb 18, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has a chance to strengthen its ‘nation brand’ after the end of a civil war, by building upon freedom enhancing values and being focused and consistent on messaging that differentiates the island, a international consultancy has said. Sri Lanka has entered a country brand index (CBI) compiled annually […]

Feb 15, 2013 (LBO) – An annual country music concert will be held for the 25th time in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo to raise funds for needy children with European and US performance along local artistes performing, its organizers said.Colombo-base Country Music Foundation said its ‘Country Roads’ festival is the longest running concert of its […]

Feb 10, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is on track to build a 100 million US dollar branch campus of Britain’s University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), an 120-acre site leased from the state, a media report said.Many parents spend lifetime savings, sell houses or get into debt to educate their children abroad. Sri Lanka’s The […]

Feb 08, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Chevron Lubricants Plc said profits in the December quarter rose 1.7 percent to 571 million rupees from a year arlier, while volume sales dropped amid an economic slowdown.The firm reported earnings of 4.76 rupees per share. For the year to December the firm reported earnings of 19.06 rupees […]

Feb 06, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Odel Plc, a unit of Parkson Retail Asia Limited, Malaysia said profits in the December 2012 quarter rose 50 percent to 81 million rupees, while warning about the effects of a value added tax imposed from January.The company is sitting on 2.0 billion rupee cash reserve after the […]

Jan 10, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s EDEX 2013 exposition will showcase career and further education opportunities for school leavers with over 350 employers and educational institutes exhibiting, officials said.The exhibition will be held from18 to 20 January in Colombo 25 to 26 January in Kandy. The exhibition will have over 200 foreign universities from […]

Dec 16, 2012 (AFP) – Sri Lanka on Sunday unveiled new guidelines encouraging devotees to donate low-sugar, healthier food to the country’s Buddhist monks after warnings that half of them risk developing diabetes. Sri Lanka’s monks eat food containing on average 12 teaspoons of sugar a day, but it should be reduced to a maximum […]

Nov 28, 2012 (LBO) – Japan has given 3. 7 million rupees worth tools and equipment to a Sri Lanka based organization making artificial limbs, the Japanese embassy in Colombo said. . The ‘Colombo Friend-in-Need Society’ gives ‘Jaipur’ artificial limbs with rehabilitation free of charge to needy people, and helps about 1,000 people a year, […]

Nov 26, 2012 (LBO) – Grants advertising group said it had won three silver and four bronze awards at Sri Lanka’s Effie advertising for 2012 with the telecom brand Etisalat being the most awarded with five medals. The Grants group in represented in Sri Lanka by Response Marketing and Grant McCann Erickson agencies. “Grants have […]

Nov 22, 2012 (LBO) – Japanese-style management techniques applied in hospitals in Sri Lanka had helped improve healthcare in a number of African countries, the Japan International Co-operation Agency said. JICA said the 5-S organizational method (seiri or sort), seiton or set), seiso ro shine), seiketsu or standardize) and shitsuke or sustain) and kaizen (continuous […]

Nov 20, 2012 (LBO) – Cargills (Ceylon) Plc Sri Lanka’s a consumer goods group which runs the island’s largest retail network said its taking stock of future expansion following a budget for 2013 and a slowdown in consumer spend. Inflation picked up sharply in 2012 and the rupee fell after authorities took large volumes of […]