Category: General Services

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 […]

April 10, 2008 (LBO) – Economic activity in Sri Lanka’s eastern port city of Trincomalee is set to revive after a public market was re-built by the United States and Greek aid, the US Embassy in Colombo said. The refurbished Anuradhapura junction public market in Trincomalee was opened this month. The rebuilding of the public […]

April 06, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s famed architect, Geoffrey Bawa has inspired a new trend of boutique type hotels in Sri Lanka that are attracting high-end tourists, that is now spreading its wings abroad. . A leisure architectural style that is now sweeping across India and Indonesia had its origins nearly half a century […]

April 01, 2008 (LBO) – Fragmented audiences in traditional media like television and radio have made commercial inserts in programs less effective especially to reach urban consumers, marketers in Sri Lanka have said. This was pushing advertisers into emerging new media such as the internet, mobile and to sales points. Conventional advertising on television, radio […]

Mar 31, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has terminated a scheme that gave tax-slashed cars to state workers from today and no new applications would be entertained, the finance ministry said. State workers who have been issued tax slashed import permits but have not opened letters of credit by March 31 would not be able […]