Category: General Services

June 18, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Chamber of Construction Industry is pressing for the setting up of an institutional and legal framework to exploit the island’s offshore resources. “It appears that our economic survival will depend on our ability to exploit our offshore resources,” said Dakshitha Thalgodapitiya, chief executive of the Chamber of Construction […]

June 14, 2008 (LBO) – Laugfs Eco Sri, a unit of Sri Lanka’s Laugfs gas distributor, plans to launch a sample testing centre next month to test vehicle exhaust emissions ahead of the imposition of new emission standards. The government has said vehicles that do not meet proposed exhaust emission standards will not be given […]

UDAWALAWE, June 14, 2008 (AFP) – Sri Lanka on Saturday released eight orphaned baby elephants into the jungle after rescuing them from near certain death, wildlife officials said.Many of those elephants cared for by the wildlife officials have been injured after being struck by trains or shot by farmers. Others are rescued from pits into […]

June 9, 2008 (LBO) – An education fair to guide post-secondary education students find appropriate opportunities for further studies which are oriented to current economic needs will kick off on June 27, its organizers said. The ‘Future Minds’ national education and carrier exhibition will be on for three days at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference […]

June 08, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Leo Burnett Solutions has launched an initiative called ‘humankind’ for the advertising agency’s Asia-Pacific region network aimed at building brand preference and changing consumer behavior, a top official said. In the absence of brand preference, price reduction is the only option, Chairman of Leo Burnett South Asia, Arvind […]

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 […]