Category: Industry
England captain in strip club row
DURBAN, South Africa, Sept 18, 2007 (AFP) – England captain Paul Collingwood on Tuesday apologised for visting a strip club a night before an important tie in the Twenty20 world championships. The tabloid ‘The Sun’ reported on Tuesday that Collingwood accompanied friends to a lap dancing club in Cape Town on Saturday night ahead of […]
Mobile Deal
Sept 18, 2007 (LBO) – Bharti Airtel Lanka, a unit of India’s Bharti Airtel Tuesday announced a 150 million dollar alliance with China’s Huawei Technologies Co. to build and manage its mobile network. “We’d like to share infrastructure with other operators. We’d like to maximise the terms of sharing. We believe sharing is the way […]
Sri Lanka placed third in Twenty20 by online punters
Sept 17, 2007 (AFP) – Ricky “Punter” Ponting’s Australians are strong favourites in the online gambling world to win the ongoing Twenty20 World Championships in South Africa.Australian paceman Brett Lee, who claimed a hat-trick against Bangladesh on Sunday, remains favourite with the ball, with paddypower.com rating him at 11-1 and popular Sri Lankan paceman Lasith […]
New Zealand defeat India, Vettori bags 4 wickets
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 16, 2007 (AFP) – Captain Daniel Vettori led from the front as New Zealand brushed aside India by 10 runs in the Super Eights match of the Twenty20 world championships on Sunday.New Zealand next play England on Tuesday and India take on England on Wednesday, both matches taking place at the Kingsmead in […]
Slow Band
Sept 16, 2007 (AFP) – Home to some 1.5 billion people, South Asia is paying a high price to access the Internet as service providers have been slow to deliver cheaper broadband connections, analysts say. The region has embraced telephones, mobile phones and computers and India has a flourishing software and outsourcing industry, noted industry […]
Medical Moves
Sept 16, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s newest hospital firm, a part of the Hemas group, is raising capital via a private placement, with their first hospital on track to be opened next year. Hemas Holdings Ltd is one of Sri Lanka’s top conglomerates with a focus on five key sectors – FMCG, Healthcare, Transportation, […]
Australia bounce back to crush England
CAPE TOWN, Sept 14, 2007 (AFP) – Australia bounced back from the embarrassment of defeat against Zimbabwe to crush England by eight wickets in a World Twenty20 match at Newlands on Friday. Flintoff and Owais Shah both hit sixes off off-spinner Andrew Symonds in the space of three balls but both fell in quick succession […]
‘s smashing Jayasuriya crushes New Zealand
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 15, 2007 (AFP) – Sanath Jayasuriya hit a second successive half-century as Sri Lanka warmed up for the next round of the Twenty20 world championships with a seven-wicket romp over New Zealand here on Saturday. The veteran left-hander, who made 88 off 44 balls against Kenya on Friday, blasted 61 off 44 as […]
Network Track
Sept 15, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is on track to complete computer networking of 200 government offices, the state information technology agency said. The Lanka Government Network project hopes to connect 325 ministries, departments, provincial councils, district and divisional secretariats by the year-end the ICT agency said. The ICTA has also developed High-level Information […]
Open Call
Sept 15, 2007 (LBO) – India’s envoy in Sri Lanka urged the island’s business community to overcome reluctance to open the services sector in trade talks between the two countries, especially the movement of people. . India’s economic growth was accelerating faster than had been forecast, creating skills shortages that Sri Lankan companies were well […]
Sri Lanka hopes for tourism recovery with easing of travel advisories
Sept 15, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is confident of achieving its target of attracting 600,000 tourists this year following the relaxation of travel advisories in key markets, tourist board officials say. “We are confident that this year, looking at the progress we have, we’ll be able to achieve 600,000 tourists for this year,” S. […]
Sri Lanka thrash Kenya for highest T20 total
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 14, 2007 (AFP) – Sri Lanka went on a spectacular run spree to post the highest Twenty20 total of 260-6 in the world championship match against hapless Kenya here on Friday.Veteran Sanath Jayasuriya led the way with 88 off 44 balls and captain Mahela Jayawardene hit 65 off 28 before Jehan Mubarak smashed […]