Small Cover
July 22, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka should focus on giving insurance to the poor, regional experts in micro insurance say, with rural populations a largely …
Industry
Going Rural
July 22, 2007 (LBO) - ABC Investments, a new Sri Lankan Islamic investment group, plans to expand their business with branches outside the capital Colombo, …
State Try
July 21, 2007 (AFP) - A Sri Lankan minister has travelled to Saudi Arabia with the parents of a teenage housemaid to help prepare her appeal after she was …
Nobody Told
July 21, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's terror finance sleuths said two former ministers who had made claims about money being paid to Tamil Tigers are yet to …
Book Fever
July 20, 2007 (LBO) -- Thousands of Harry Potter fans in Sri Lanka have signed up to pick a copy of J. online pharmacy buy ciprodex with best prices today in …
Pricing Practice
July 20, (LBO) – Sri Lankan exporters and importers have called for a regulator to monitor the pricing practices of shipping lines, as freight rates move …
Bigger Results
July 20, 2007 (LBO) – A Sri Lanka-German initiative to give microfinance to tsunami victims had more than doubled its original target helping more than …
Seed Cover
July 20, 2007 (LBO) - HNB Assurance, a unit of Hatton National Bank, has tied up with the micro finance arm of Sarvodaya, a non-governmental organization, to …
Sri Lanka’s Malinga to bowl apparel brand
July 19, 2007 (LBO) – One of Sri Lanka's top clothing exporters, Brandix Lanka, has hired fashionable fast bowler Lasith Malinga as the group's 'brand …
Aborted Flights
July 19, 2007 (AFP) - Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways said Thursday that it was pulling out of Sri Lanka, citing a sharp drop in tourist traffic to the tropical …
Machine Time
July 19, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's construction industry is looking for foreign partners to set up a machinery leasing company that would be especially …
Good Banking
July 18, 2007 (LBO) – The financial journal Euromoney has named Commercial Bank as Sri Lanka's best bank in its 2007 survey, the bank said Wednesday. The …
Earthquake
July 18, 2007 (LBO) – An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale had occurred in the Bay of Bengal 510 kilometres to the East of the Sri Lankan …
Joint Service
July 17, 2007 (LBO) – DFCC Vardhana Bank (DVB) has teamed up with Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation (SLIC) to introduce insurance products to consumers in …
Borrow Gold
July 17, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's gem and jewellery industry is lobbying for new financial instruments like 'gold loans' to get cost effective funds for …
Air Pocket
July 17, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lankan Airline's consolidated after tax profits dived 50 percent to 862.1 million in the year ended March 2007 the carrier …
Monthlies
July 16, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will adjust fuel prices monthly on a transparent formula to cut losses in petroleum utilities, an official said, which is …
Need Based
July 16, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has announced fuel subsidies to the poor on state welfare and warned of more price hikes with the onset of a hurricane …
Better Care
July 16, 2007 (LBO) –Asiri Hospitals group posted a 312.7 million rupee after tax profit for the year ending in March 31, 2007, up almost by half, …
Sri Lanka tourist arrivals plunge 30 percent in June
July 15, 2007 (AFP) - Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka plunged 30 percent in June compared to a year ago as fighting escalated in the country's bitter ethnic war, …