Category: General Services

June 05, 2008 (LBO) – The Lanka Hospitals Corporation, which own’s Colombo’s Apollo Hospital, said it is targeting medical tourism in a big way, along with cosmetic surgery, and hopes to turn profitable in the next financial year. The hospital, whose ownership changed in October 2006 with tycoon Harry Jayewardena buying a controlling stake, said […]

June 05, 2008 (LBO) – Only two percent of the public buildings in Sri Lanka have easy access to the disabled, CEAT Tyres which is backing an organization that is campaigning to improving access to public buildings by the disabled, has said. “For numerous reasons, disability in both visible and invisible forms is on the […]

June 03, 2008 (LBO) – PC Pharma, a unit of Sri Lanka’s PCH Holdings announced the launch of Bangladeshi Square Pharmaceutical products in Sri Lanka, which the firm says is competitively priced. Square Pharmaceuticals is a unit of Bangladeshi conglomerate, Square Group which has also diversified into healthcare, consumer goods and textiles, officials said. The […]

May 27, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state-enterprise engineers are starting industrial action after the government denied them tax-slashed cars, with a warning of tougher measures if no notice is taken of their demands within the next two weeks. Other officers in state-enterprises and statutory bodies have also been denied the privilege. But engineers say […]

May 22, 2008 (LBO) – The deadline for an essay on the knowledge economy targeting Sri Lankan students in higher education has been extended till June 05, the World Bank said. The competition was launched in partnership with LIRNEasia, and the Point Pedro Institute of Development in March 2008. It coincided with the a recent […]

May 19, 2008 (LBO) – Two small charities in Sri Lanka have won 40,000 US dollars in grants to work on reducing discrimination and stigma associated with AIDS and HIV, the World Bank said. The grants came from the South Asia Development Marketplace initiative where 26 proposals from the region won grants from a million […]

WASHINGTON, 2008 (AFP) – Scientists have long thought that walking is easier than climbing for primates — explaining why we humans ended up on our feet all the time.But researchers at two US universities have found that, at least for smaller primates like squirrel monkeys and lemurs, climbing is no more difficult and energy-consuming than […]

May 15, 2008 (LBO) – Strategy in business continuously changes and businesses must plan and adopt strategies by studying key market components for better results, a top Sri Lanka business executive said. When executing strategy, companies must understand their consumer, competitors, the role of the economy, the supply side and distribution lines in relation to […]

May 13, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka and India’s Adlabs plan to enter into a joint venture to upgrade 30 local cinemas, an official said. A mission from the entertainment company will be in Sri Lanka shortly, Saman Weeraman, head of the State Film Corporation said. Adlabs plans to develop and modernize the cinemas with […]

May 13, 2008 (LBO) – Japan has given a grant of 3,103 million yen (about 3.2 billion rupees) to expand Sri Lanka’s third largest hospital and import equipment for development projects, the finance ministry said Tuesday. . It said in a statement that 1.8 billion yen would go to modernise the Anuradhapura teaching hospital, the […]

May 08, 2008 (LBO) – Amba Research, an investment research outsourcing firm, says four of its employees won gold medals at the convocation of the University of Colombo. Kushantha Perera won the award for the best student in statistics and best final year Project in Statistics and Sha Razeek won the best student in statistics […]

April 11, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Central Bank has called for legislative and regulatory changes to create a favourable environment for private investment in university education. There is an urgent need for introducing a market oriented, efficient mechanism to the existing university education system, the bank said in its 2007 annual report. The education […]