Category: Industry
Satellite Maps
Dec 23, 2007 (LBO) – A mapping programme using satellite pictures will help Sri Lanka’s government do better planning and rebuilding in the tsunami-hit eastern and southern provinces, officials said. The French-funded Geographical Information System (GIS) project using high resolution satellite imagery costs almost a billion rupees. The detailed digital maps that can be prepared […]
England fall to fifth in Test rankings despite Sri Lanka draw
DUBAI, Dec 22, 2007 (AFP) – England might have been scrambled to a rain-affected draw against Sri Lanka on Saturday, but the result could not prevent them from slipping three places to fifth position in the ICC Test Championship table.When time was called on the match in Galle on Saturday, England had battled to 251-6 […]
Emirates braces for worst in Sri Lanka air talks
Dec 22, 2007 (LBO) – Emirates Airlines, managing shareholder of SriLankan Airlines, has indicated that it is preparing for a possible breakdown in contract renewal talks over an ongoing row where its top manager has been ordered out of the island. The chief executive officer of Sri Lankan airlines, Peter Hill, an Emirates appointee has […]
Literary Climate
Dec 21, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s second international literary festival in Galle next year will focus on the theme climate change and would reach out to get a new generation interested in English, its organizers said. The Galle festival was named as one of the best literary festivals in the world, by the American […]
Watching Brief
Dec 21, 2007 (LBO) – Lanka Rating Agency said Friday it had placed BB3 rated Multi Finance Company on rating watch, pending a take-over from the Ceylinco group. Multi Finance, a small privately held finance company founded in the 1974, will initially get a 70 million rupee capital injection from Ceylinco Shriram Securities Holdings. Ceylinco […]
Easier Shipments
Dec 21 (LBO) – The threat of higher freight rates on Sri Lankan exports to Europe is easing, former Sri Lanka Shippers’ Council chairman Jayanath Perera said. Exporters were forced to pay high rates six months ago when a surge in Chinese exports led to space shortages for Sri Lankan cargo on ships calling Colombo […]
” England play in Sri Lanka
LONDON, Dec 21, 2007 (AFP) – After a dismal performance at the crease on Thursday in Galle, Sri Lanka, where they were bowled out for just 81 in the final match in the three-Test series, England’s cricketers will not want to eye the British newspapers. Described as “pathetic” and “spineless”, England were blasted in Friday […]
Cook keeps England afloat in Sri Lanka Test
GALLE, Sri Lanka, Dec 21, 2007 (AFP) – Alastair Cook hit an unbeaten half-century as England began a long vigil to avoid defeat in the third and final Test against Sri Lanka here on Friday.The tourists, following on 418 runs behind after being dismissed for a new low of 81 against Sri Lanka in the […]
No play after lunch in England-Sri Lanka Test
GALLE, Sri Lanka, Dec 21, 2007 (AFP) – A heavy downpour that began at the lunch interval washed out the afternoon session on the fourth day of the third and final cricket Test between England and Sri Lanka here on Friday. Continued wet weather has been forecast for the next 48 hours. The ground was […]
Sri Lanka insurers may escape sweeping downgrades over govt. move: Fitch
Dec 21, 2007 (LBO) – Fitch Ratings says Sri Lankan insurance firms may avoid sweeping downgrades after the government partially rolled back plans to force firms to re-insure with the state. “It is now envisaged that no insurance ratings in Sri Lanka will be affected by the introduction of the fund.” Sri Lanka only has […]
Banished Sri Lankan air chief to run firm from Dubai
Dec 21, 2007 (LBO) – SriLankan Airlines chief Peter Hill would continue to run the airline from Dubai after his resident visa in the island was revoked by the government, managing shareholder Emirates Airlines said. SriLankan Airlines is 43.6 percent owned by Dubai-based Emirates air, and Hill was seconded to the airline in 1998 after […]
Northern Hunt
Dec 20, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka plans to invite oil companies to explore for petroleum deposits in new areas in the north of the island, a senior minister said, where Tamil Tiger rebels are active. The petroleum ministry has been given the government nod to kick off exploration in the Sri Lankan side of […]