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India hikes petrol price to offset crude costs
NEW DELHI, May 14, 2011 (AFP) – India’s state-owned fuel firms on Saturday hiked petrol prices by nearly nine percent to help stem revenue losses from a rise crude prices, a record rise that will fuel stubbornly high inflation. The increase marked the eighth rise in petrol prices since India’s government last June deregulated petrol […]
Australia to send newest asylum seekers offshore
SYDNEY, May 14, 2011 (AFP) – The latest boatload of suspected asylum seekers to arrive in Australia will be sent to another country for processing, the government said Saturday as it implements its controversial new policy. Immigration Minister Chris Bowen would not say where the 32 newest arrivals who landed in Australian waters late Friday […]
Sri Lanka tea prices fall again
May 13, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lankan tea prices fell at the Colombo auctions this week mostly because of lower quality and larger volumes in some categories and while trouble in the Middle East also had some effect, brokers said. “Until such time normalcy returns to the Middle East, it is unlikely that Low Grown […]
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MUMBAI, May 13, 2011 (AFP) – India is opposed to extending a piracy “risk zone” to the edge of its territorial waters, the country’s maritime regulator said Friday, as pirates seek new targets beyond the Horn of Africa. The extension, brokered by the International Transport Workers Federation with ship owners and managers, came into effect […]
Sri Lanka badly in need of more cinnamon peelers
May 13, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka, the world’s biggest exporters of cinnamon, needs 10,000 more peelers to overcome an acute shortage of labour, members of the trade have told the ministry of industry and commerce. Of the 30,000 hectares of cinnamon grown in Sri Lanka, only one-fifth are peeled twice a year with 70 […]
Australia and India launch free trade talks
SYDNEY, May 12, 2011 (AFP) – Australia and India launched talks Thursday on establishing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) aimed at greater economic integration between the two countries. Negotiations took place between Australian Trade Minister Craig Emerson and his Indian counterpart Anand Sharma with the focus on broadening the base of merchandise trade and removing […]
India to hire 10,000 teachers from Taiwan
TAIPEI, May 10, 2011 (AFP) – India plans to recruit up to 10,000 teachers from Taiwan to meet growing demand for Chinese language classes, Taiwan’s education ministry said Tuesday. Kapil Sibal, India’s minister of human resources, made the proposal during a meeting with Taiwan’s education minister Wu Ching-ji in India last week, an education official […]
Sri Lanka Three Acre March net up despite price cuts
May 11, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Three Acre Farms said March 2011 quarter group net profit was 41 million rupees compared with just half-a-million rupees the year before although excess stocks forced it to cut prices. But there have been excess stocks in recent months after the government allowed chicken imports in the run […]
Sri Lanka Grain Elevators March net up 64-pct
May 10, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lankan poultry firm Ceylon Grain Elevators said March 2011 quarter net profit rose 64 percent to 94 million rupees from a year ago as gains from feed milling helped overcome high raw material prices. Sales grew 26 percent to 2.3 billion rupees during the quarter with earnings per share […]
India car sales grow at slowest pace in 2 years
NEW DELHI, May 9, 2011 (AFP) – Indian car sales grew at the slowest pace in nearly two years in April, data showed Monday, as price hikes, rising fuel costs and more expensive loans kept buyers out of showrooms. Domestic passenger car sales in Asia’s third-largest economy rose by 13. 18 percent to 162,825 units […]
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LONDON, May 7, 2011 (AFP) – Indian-born steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal has seen his fortune fall by some £5 billion ( billion, 5. 7 billion euros) in the past year but remains the wealthiest person in Britain, it was revealed Saturday. The fortune of the London-based head of ArcelorMittal, the world’s largest steel maker, fell […]
Sri Lanka Carson unit sees palm oil prices staying firm
May 08, 2011 (LBO) – Palm oil prices are likely to remain firm owing to growing demand from emerging markets like India and China, shareholders of Shalimar (Malay), a subsidiary of the Carson Cumbebatch group, have been told. Shalimar’s net profit for the financial year ending March 31, 2011 shot up 218 percent to 153 […]