Category: Industry
England register historic series win against Sri Lanka
Oct 11, 2007 (AFP) – Alastair Cook hit a masterly 80 as England thrashed Sri Lanka by five wickets in the fourth one-day international here Wednesday to clinch their first series win in the subcontinent for 20 years. The 22-year-old left-hander shared a 110-run stand for the third wicket with Kevin Pietersen (63 not out) […]
” Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Oct 11, 2007 (AFP) – Stunned local media slammed “amateurish” Sri Lanka Thursday after they slumped to their first home series defeat to England since joining cricket’s elite in 1982.Sri Lanka, who became a Test nation in 1982, are due to travel to Australia for two Test matches starting on November 8.Paul Collingwood’s tourists […]
”’ pancake mix
Oct 11, 2007 (LBO) – The Hilton hotel in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo will muster up to 40 chefs to make what’s considered a record-breaking two-tonne ‘kottu roti’ pancake mix to mark its 21st anniversary. Hilton also plans to partner with the school for the deaf and blind to raise funds for the physically […]
Port Bids II
Oct 11, 2007 (LBO) – The Sri Lankan government Thursday opened four financial bids by private sector consortia to build a new container terminal in the new Colombo south port project, officials said. No official word of the bids was available but a consortium including PSA Corp and an independent bid by Hutchison Port Holdings […]
Sri Lanka minister wants Atapattu back
Oct 10, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lankan Sports Minister Gamini Lokuge is keen to bring back former captain Marvan Atapattu into the squad for next month’s tour of Australia, a ministry official said here Wednesday. “The minister hopes to see Marvan in the next few days to hear his side of the story. He is […]
Port Bids
Oct 10, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court Wednesday ordered the government to open all four financial bids to build a new container terminal in the new Colombo south port project, officials said. The order came after a consortium led by conglomerate John Keells Holdings sought court intervention when their technical bid for the […]
Murali dilemma for desperate Sri Lanka
Oct 9, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka are mulling over whether to play star spinner Muttiah Muralitharan in the must-win fourth one-day international against England here on Wednesday. The hosts, trailing 1-2 in the five-match series, will be tempted to field the 35-year-old, who has recently recovered from a bicep injury suffered while playing for […]
Building Watchdog
Oct 09, 2007 (LBO) – International audit firm Deloitte Thursday launched its financial advisory services for Sri Lanka’s construction industry which has been growing rapidly in recent years. “We try to help clients in monitoring the quality of work, and to ensure timely and on-budget delivery of their projects,” said Gajanan Sabnis, Senior Manager, Construction […]
Power Plan
Oct 09, 2007 (LBO) – Fresh legislation to regulate the power sector is being readied after Sri Lanka’s highest court said an earlier plan to break up the utility was unconstitutional, officials said. Although the state electricity monopoly Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) won’t be ‘unbundled’ or broken up in to generating, long distance transmitting and […]
Disgraced Marion Jones hands over Olympic medals
LOS ANGELES, Oct 8, 2007 (AFP) – Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones has been stripped of her gold medals from the 2000 Olympics and asked repay more than 100,000 dollars in prize and bonus money, said the United States Olympic Committee.Jones, who admitted in a US court last week to using performance-enhancing drugs, has returned the […]
” in tourism promotion
Oct 08, 2007 (LBO) – French travel agents are visiting Sri Lanka on a tourism promotion which includes what’s billed as a treasure hunt where they search for clues and discover the island’s hidden charms, the Tourist Board said Monday. Sri Lanka received 559,603 visitors the whole of last year. The visit by over 40 […]
Expensive Road
Oct 08, 2007 (LBO) – A new elevated highway connecting Colombo’s Fort areas with Malabe, a fast developing suburb will cost nearly 40 billion rupees, a Malaysian firm that is charged with studying its feasibility has said. Meanwhile a senior Sri Lankan official said the priority now was to push through a light rail project […]