Category: General Services

RIYADH, August 4, 2009 (AFP) – A Sri Lankan man and a Saudi teenager suffering from a heart defect have died from swine flu, raising the country’s flu death toll to six, the Saudi health ministry said on Tuesday.The Sri Lankan man, 32, was found dead in his hotel room on Monday, while the 15-year-old […]

July 27, 2009 (LBO) – Management and finance students of Jaffna University will get easy access to Colombo Stock Exchange data, market regulator Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said. The qualification starts with a certificate and leads up to a degree. The SEC said the Jaffna University would get a fully equipped capital market information […]

June 25, 2009 (LBO) – The World Bank said it has approved a 24 million dollar loan to support Sri Lanka’s state health services mainly in former war-zones in the North and the East of the country. The credit from the International Development Association (IDA), the World Bank™s concessionary lending arm, has 20 years to […]

June 24, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Asiri Surgical Hospital has launched a round-the-clock emergency care service targeting expatriate Sri Lankans who have relatives in the island, an official said.Ashok Pathirage, managing director, Asiri group, said the service was aimed particularly at Sri Lankans living and working overseas who had to care for elderly parents […]

June 16, 2009 (LBO) – The clubhouse of a golf course which was ordered in to state hands by court over corruption charges is operating as a hotel and starting to generate profits, an official said.The Water’s Edge golf course in Colombo was ordered returned to the state and its clubhouse is now run by […]

RIYADH, June 13, 2009 (AFP) – Nineteen men, most of them foreign workers, were incinerated when a Saudi bus caught fire after crashing into a truck during a blinding sandstorm, a transport official said on Saturday. No one escaped from the burning bus when it hit a slow-moving truck entering the road from the shoulder […]

June 10, 2009 (LBO) – A regional Sri Lankan business chamber has won a top global award for its work after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, in a competition which had entries from 33 countries, the organization said. The member services of the Hambantota chamber, job placement and information technology had also been improved. The […]

June 02, 2009 (LBO) – Listed consumer durables firm Singer (Sri Lanka) said March 2009 quarter profits plunged 79 percent to 26 million rupees from a year ago as consumer spending slumped amid an economic slowdown. Group sales for the three months ended March 31, 2009 fell 23 percent to three billion rupees, the company […]

May 30, 2009 (LBO) – The International Policy Network (IPN), a London based organization that offers an annual journalism award for writers that help promote a free society, is giving a separate award for online writers from this May. The awards are named after Frédéric Bastiat, a 19th-century French philosopher and journalist started in 2002. […]

May 27, 2009 (LBO) – The Sri Lankan chapter of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) has launched the second season of Spellmaster, a spelling contest which it hopes will improve English spelling and vocabulary skills among school children. Being an avid reader from a very young age, I always referred the dictionary to […]

May 09, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Institute of Technological Studies (ITS) which has formed a partnership with a foreign partnership to start a medical college says its output will be readily absorbed in to healthcare sector.ITS head E M S Edirisinghe, who is also the president of the Oasis, a private hospital says there […]

May 08, 2009 (LBO) – Sri Lankan labour unions have signed co-operation agreements with unions in Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait to protect migrant workers™ rights, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said.The agreements, based on an ILO model, are the first of their kind covering Asian migrant workers active in Arab states. The ILO said it […]