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Retirement Debate
June 08, 2011 (LBO) – Much has been written about the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed Employment Pension Benefits Fund. The bill was to affect the lives of the majority of Sri Lankans. First a white paper should have made available for public discussion and debate prior to its presentation in Parliament. When the […]
Outsourced Work
June 08, 2011 (LBO) – R R Donnelley has opened a third business process outsourcing facility in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo as business grows with the end of the island’s ethnic war. The company, which now employs over 750 people in the island, plans to increase its workforce to over 1,000 by year-end, said […]
Matched Training
June 8, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s state-run vocational school system is seeking closer links with the software and business process outsourcing firms to develop courses to suit the sector. The Vocational Training Authority (VTA), which is overseeing 275 centres which take in 20,000 students a year, said it is signing a deal with the […]
Pakistan ISI leaders had no role in Mumbai plot: court
CHICAGO, June 8, 2011 (AFP) – A Pakistan-born Chicago businessman was part of the “inner circle” of terrorists who plotted the 2008 Mumbai attacks, US prosecutors said in closing arguments Tuesday. Tahawwur Rana’s trial was closely watched as it touched on Pakistani military intelligence collusion with terrorism — a hugely sensitive subject since the killing […]
Sri Lankan Airlines to start Zurich flights
June 8, 2011 (LBO) – State-run national carrier SriLankan Airlines is re-starting services to Zurich in Switzerland which were stopped in 2005, expanding its network to 53 destinations in 34 countries, the airline said. The services will start from December 23, 2011 and run twice weekly on Monday and Friday. “This will significantly strengthen our […]
Sri Lankan shares end down 0.8-pct
June 07, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lankan shares fell for the second straight day Tuesday with money drained from the market by forthcoming share issues and heavy trading again in mini hydro firm Panasian Power and in rarely traded Hunter & Co. Blue Diamonds Jewellery Worldwide fell 10 cents to close at 4.80 rupees with […]
Glitzy Loans
June 07, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Commercial Bank plans to extend ‘gold loans’ through its branches country-wide offering higher advances and lower rates to encourage use of gold to raise funds. The bank will offer up to 80 percent of the gold value, in the form of jewellery, biscuits or bars, and an interest […]
Sri Lanka Expolanka upgrades lentils plant
June 07, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Expolanka Holdings group said a lentils splitting plant owned by a subsidiary has been fully automated in a 350,000 US dollar upgrade designed to meet increasing local and international demand. The upgrade of the plant, located in Wellampitiya in Colombo, included the addition of a colour sorting machine […]
Wider Reach
June 07, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Richard Pieris group wants to cash in on the post-war consumer spending boom by rapidly expanding its chain of ‘Arpico’ supermarkets, a senior official said. The firm’s profits nearly doubled to 2. 1 billion rupees in 2010 due to higher returns from core business areas, plantations, retail and […]
Tele Tower
June 7, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has rebuilt a 175 meter television tower costing 450 million rupees to begin television and telecom transmissions to former war torn areas in the north of the island. President Mahinda Rajapaksa opened the tower Tuesday in the Kokavil region. The government’s information office said the tower will be […]
Security Award
June 07, 2011 (LBO) – Millennium Information Technologies Pvt Ltd (MillenniumIT), a unit of the London Stock Exchange group said it had been given the award for the best partner of the year in South Asia 2010 by Check Point Software Technologies India. “They are constantly growing, evolving, both in consulting and delivering solutions around […]
Sri Lanka should open skys to get tourists: leisure group chief
June 07, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has to liberalize aviation further to make the country more accessible to tourists and boost economic activity, the head of one the island’s top leisure groups which operates in several other countries, said. “The implementation of the open skies policy remains key to the success of Sri Lanka’s […]