Category: Industry
Sri Lanka want Aussies to fight for Warne-Murali Trophy
Oct 31, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka Cricket on Wednesday formally suggested to Australia to mark their upcoming Test series with a trophy named after spin rivals Shane Warne and Muttiah Muralitharan.The country’s governing body said they had written to Cricket Australia that the winner of the two-Test series, opening in Brisbane on November 8, […]
Sri Lanka leisure group buys Maldives resort
Oct 31, 2006 (LBO) – Sri Lankan conglomerate Aitken Spence has announced that it has bought another island resort in the Maldivian archipelago where it is already one of the top leisure operators. Aitken Spence Hotels (International), a subsidiary of Aitken Spence Hotel Holdings, said it had acquired the Vadhoo Island Resort for 13 million […]
Mini Hydro
Oct 30, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lankan mini hydro power company Vidullanka Tuesday said net profit for the first half ending September 30, 2007 was up nine percent year-on-year to 24.6 million rupees. Group revenue rose 13.5 percent to 83.5 million rupees over the same period, according to interim results sent to the Colombo bourse. […]
Murali likely to miss Test warm-up
BRISBANE, Australia, Oct 30, 2007 (AFP) – Star bowler Muttiah Muralitharan is expected to be rested for Sri Lanka’s final warm-up match ahead of next week’s first cricket Test against Australia at the Gabba here.Captain Mahela Jayawardene indicated the spin wizard would sit out the three-day game with Queensland starting on Friday after his marathon […]
Dialog Downturn
Oct 30, 2007 (LBO) – Consolidated net profits of Sri Lanka’s top celco Dialog Telekom fell 6.9 percent to 2.43 billion rupees, while revenues rose 29 percent to 8.55 billion in the September quarter, the firm’s latest results showed. Losses at its new pay TV division dragged down profits, while at company level profits from […]
Greener Pastures
Oct 30, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka should encourage more workers to seek employment abroad as worker remittances will immensely help economic development while reducing the government’s burden of creating job opportunities, UN officials say. Despite two decades war Sri Lanka has been able to sustain better growth and development as a result of increasing […]
Smooth Ride
Oct 29, 2007 (LBO) – Chevron Lubricants Lanka said net profit for the September quarter shot up 78 percent to 325 million rupees from the same quarter a year ago. The firm, the Sri Lankan unit of the Chevron Texaco oil multinational, said sales were up eight percent to 2.1 billion rupees. “The top line […]
Sri Lanka Murali claims four wickets in drawn tour match
ADELAIDE, Australia, Oct 29, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan claimed four wickets in a drawn-three day tour match against the Cricket Australia Chairman’s XI at Adelaide Oval here Monday ahead of the Test series against Australia.Muralitharan claims four wickets in drawn tour match Muralitharan, eight wickets short of Australian leg-spinner Shane Warne’s […]
Middleware Hire
Oct 30, 2007 (LBO) – WSO2, the open source middleware company, has hired software engineer Glen Daniels as director of Java platforms, a company statement said. Daniels, recently named a vice president of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), will be responsible for the general technical direction and architectural consistency of all WSO2 Java products. œWSO2 […]
Game Chat
October 29, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will play host to a crucial meeting of the Commonwealth Games Federation general assembly next week to select a venue to host the 2014 games, organisers said Monday. More than 400 delegates from 71 Commonwealth nations who will gather in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo from November […]
‘s Murali
HONG KONG, Oct 28, 2007 (AFP) – Test cricket’s top wicket-taker Shane Warne said Sunday he will have no regrets when rival spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan overtakes him at the top of the charts. Murali is currently on Sri Lanka’s tour of Australia and is just nine short of breaking Warne’s record 708 Test wickets. […]
‘s Chaaya village charm visitors in tough times
Oct 28, 2007 (LBO) – Adding an extra touch of nature and concentrating on the local tourist market has helped a hotel controlled by Sri Lanka’s John Keells Holdings to maintain higher occupancy. This year the Chaaya Village in north-central Habarana says it has recorded higher occupancy rates than other properties in the area, despite […]