Category: Industry
Oil Pipe
May 28, 2013 (LBO) – State-run Ceylon Petroleum Corporation is repairing an off-shore oil pipeline is expected to completed Tuesday allowing crude to be unloaded from a tanker that was standing by, Sri Lanka’s petroleum ministry said.CPC’s refinery was shut after a consignment of crude failed to arrive in time, but when a second tanker […]
Way Cleared
May 28, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corporation has re-started its 50,000 barrels per day refinery after a crude carrier started discharging cargo through a repaired pipeline, the island’s petroleum ministry said.. The off-shore single point buoy mooring system and pipeline through which crude is unloaded and brought to the refinery was […]
Tennis: Sharapova pledges tough love to photo buddy
PARIS, May 27, 2013 (AFP) – Maria Sharapova and highly-rated teenager Eugenie Bouchard have shared a sponsors’ photo-shoot, but the Russian superstar pledged no favours when the pair meet for a place in the French Open last 32.Sharapova, the defending champion and world number two, and 19-year-old Bouchard, last year’s junior Wimbledon winner, are both […]
Sri Lanka tourism expansion, cement plant by Nepali magnate: report
May 28, 2013 (LBO) – Nepal’s Binod Chaudhary is expanding tourism investments in Sri Lanka and has also got preliminary approval for a greenfield cement factory in the island’s north, a media report said.Sri Lanka’s The Daily Mirror newspaper said Chaudhary is negotiating with owners for land in the Jaffna peninsular to build a 600,000 […]
Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka up 14.7-pct in April
May 27, 2013 (LBO) – Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka rose 14.7 percent to 79,829 in April 2013, with Eastern Europe, China and Maldives showing gains but India and the Middle East weakening, official data showed.Arrivals from Western Europe, the top generating region rose 10 percent to 27,531, and was up 12.1 percent to 156,658, […]
Aftermath
May 27, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Ports Authority said operations at Colombo Port are as usual following a fire in the early hours of May 24.SLPA is looking at compensating customers whose cargo was damaged, the SLPA said. “At present, all operations at SLPA and the Port of Colombo are carried out as usual […]
Umpire reveals attempt to fix Sri Lanka – Pakistan match
LONDON, May 26, 2013 (AFP) – Former umpire John Holder alleged Sunday he was offered £10,000 (,139) to help sway the course of a one-day international in the United Arab Emirates. “He told me his syndicate were involved in making money as the game fluctuates. “I said, ‘You’ve got the wrong person’.Players and umpires who […]
Sri Lanka cricket team sponsored by Dialog Axiata for Rs753mn
May 27, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Dialog Axiata, the island’s largest mobile operator said it will sponsor the men and women’s national cricket team for three years in a 753.9 million rupee deal. The team sponsorship will start on June 01, the firm said in a stock exchange filing. It will cover tours both […]
Indian police arrest six bookies over IPL cricket bets
PANAJI, India, May 27, 2013 (AFP) – Indian police said Monday they have arrested six bookmakers in Goa state who were part of an syndicate betting on Indian Premier League cricket matches. This year’s IPL tournament ended on Sunday night. The tournament has been reeling from a spot-fixing scandal which has led to the arrest […]
‘s top producer
May 25, 2013 (LBO) – Ceylon Tea is being promoted in China giving a chance for citizens in that country to enjoy the beverage, though freely consuming foreign tea is a liberty that citizens of the island no longer posses. Sri Lanka’s consulate in Shanghai had also had a launched a promotional campaign on tea. […]
China offered to make Sri Lanka coal plant an IPP: minister
May 26, 2013 (LBO) – China offered to make a 300 MegaWatt coal fired power plant, which has been hit by a series of shutdowns, an independent power producer (IPP), a government minister said.Power sector officials have said that the frequent ‘breakdowns’ were partly due to the relative inexperience of engineers operating the plant as […]
Digital Demand
May 25, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s demand for computers and peripherals will grow due to greater consumption of information and economic activity and investments pick up after the end of a 30-year war, officials at US-based Hewlett Packard said.The OfficeJet Pro X series come at a price tag of between 30,000 to 80,000 rupees. […]