Category: General Services

Dec 08, 2010 (LBO) – Britain intends to restrict entry of foreigners for study with tougher criteria for adult students and stricter accreditation procedures for private sector education providers, a statement said. They aim to ensure students return overseas after their course, limit entitlements to work and to sponsor dependants and simplify procedures for checking […]

Dec 02, 2010 (LBO) – The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide 90 million US dollars in loans to help Sri Lanka restore water supply and sanitation infrastructure in the war-ravaged north, a statement said. The project, due for completion by February 2017, will help restore and modernise key infrastructure damaged by war or which […]

AMMAN, November 22, 2010 (AFP) – A Sri Lankan maid who said she had swallowed nails did so to pin the blame on her employer in Jordan and be sent home, recruitment agency officials said in the Jordan Times newspaper on Monday. “We have asserted that the helper™s accusations were false and she had confessed […]

Nov 18, 2010 (LBO) – Members of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka will be able to get the qualifications of its sister body in the UK following a deal signed this month, an official said. “Following the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Institute of England and Wales you will not […]

November 13, 2010 (AFP) – A Sri Lankan housemaid has accused her Kuwaiti employer of hammering 14 nails into her body, in the second such incident in the past few months, a local doctor said Saturday. Non-governmental organisations report frequent cases of employer abuse of maids who work abroad. The woman, identified only as Lechchami, […]

Nov 06, 2010 (LBO) – Cargills (Ceylon), which runs Sri Lanka’s biggest supermarket chain, has begun selling products of farmers in the former war zone in the northern Jaffna peninsula, officials said. The bank has given 105 million rupees in loans among over 3,000 micro-entrepreneurs, farmers and fishermen to restart their income generating activities in […]

Nov 02, 2010 (LBO) – Piramal Glass Ceylon made a net profit of 157 million rupees in the September 2010 quarter as domestic sales rebounded after the end of a war and exports grew sharply, the company said. Chief executive Sanjay Tiwari said all the sectors in the domestic market, namely food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, […]

Oct 20, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lankan retailer Odel’s net profit rose 18 percent to 63. 6 million rupees in the September 2010 quarter from a year ago with sales strong but costs also rising sharply, a stock exchange filing said. Sales rose 50 percent to 836 million rupees in the quarter, its first as […]

Oct 19, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka™s Asiri Hospital has bought a 10 percent stake in Asiri Surgical Hospital for 500 million rupees increasing its stake to 40 percent, managing director, Ashok Pathirage said. State-run Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation sold the stock for 9.50 rupees a share Tuesday, he said. SLIC had a 22 percent […]

Oct 11, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is offering free land and tax breaks for top ranked foreign universities to start branches in the island with the end of a state monopoly in awarding degrees, the island’s higher education minister said. “We are planning to bring higher education institutions ranked among the top 1,000 in […]

Sep 30, 2010 (LBO) – Ranil de Silva founder of Sri Lanka’s Leo Burnett advertising agency has been awarded a ‘Global Medal of Merit’ by New York based, International Advertising Association. De Silva said he had been overwhelmed and touched by the gesture. “It is the first time ever that someone had recognized my commitment […]

Sept 22, 2010 (LBO) – India’s CRISIL, a unit of the rating agency Standard & Poor’s said it is buying Pipal Research Corporation, a knowledge process outsourcing firm for 12.75 million US dollars. The purchase will be done through , Irevna, CRISIL’s own KPO division. “The Irevna-Pipal combination will be uniquely positioned in the high-end […]