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Spending Power
Nov 02, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lankan conglomerate Hemas Holdings has reported a sharp fall in net profit for the September quarter as high inflation erodes consumer spending and high interest rates make borrowing for investments more costly. Group net profits fell 44 percent to 166 million in the second quarter ending September 2007, according […]
Happy Shopping
Nov 02, 2007 (LBO) – A Sri Lankan media management and marketing services company, has tied up with a UK firm to offer retail design and research to optimize revenues, officials said. Vanguard Management Services has tied up with Shopworks, a UK consultancy which has worked with retailers like Tesco, Carrefour, Wal-Mart as well as […]
Indian court lets man divorce HIV positive wife
NEW DELHI, Nov 2, 2007 (AFP) – An Indian court has granted a man permission to divorce his HIV-positive wife on the grounds that he could no longer enjoy sex with her, a report said Friday. Judge Rajnish Bhatnagar found in favour of the unnamed husband noting that “marriage without sex is anathema,” the Hindustan […]
Indian inflation fall to 5-year lows with prudent monetary policy
NEW DELHI, Nov 2, 2007 (AFP) – India’s inflation rate is pursuing a steady decline around five-year lows, official data showed Friday.Annual inflation fell slightly to 3.02 percent for the week ended October 20 from 3.07 percent for the previous week, according to the wholesale price index, India’s most watched cost-of-living monitor. Inflation stood at […]
Fed printing press scares global markets
TOKYO, Nov 2, 2007 (AFP) – Asian stocks suffered heavy losses in early trade Friday after initial euphoria on Wall Street over the US interest rate cut faded quickly as fresh credit jitters rattled global markets.Indices around the region fell by as much as nearly three percent after tumbles in New York and Europe on […]
Bangladesh gets independent judiciary
DHAKA, Nov 1, 2007 (AFP) – Bangladesh’s government on Thursday gave up its executive control over the judiciary, ending a practice that dates back to British rule over the Indian subcontinent. The move to free up the courts from politics is a key element of sweeping reforms being put in place by the country’s emergency […]
Anti-doping sleuths arrive in Sri Lanka for Rugby championship
November 02, 2007 (LBO) — The International Rugby Board’s anti-doping inspectors arrived in the Sri Lanka to kick off the Asian Rugby championship which starts in Colombo later this week, officials said Friday. Tim Ricketts, the board’s anti-doping Manager, will lead the panel during the nine-nation event which runs from November 3-10. “We will do […]
Who is Thamilselvan?
Nov 2, 2007 (AFP) – The political head of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels who was killed in an air strike on Friday was the guerrillas’ public face for scores of visiting dignitaries and media personnel.“It is always wrong to place us on a par with international terrorist acts that bring harm to innocent civilians […]
Sri Lanka military to target Tiger leaders
Nov 02, 2007 (Vimasuma.com) Sri Lanka’s military would continue to target the Tamil Tiger leadership based on intelligence, a top defence official said, after the guerrillas’ political chief was killed in an air raid Friday. The Tamil Tigers said today its political head S P Thamilchelvan and five others were killed in a dawn air […]
Sri Lanka Tiger political chief Thamilselvan and five others killed
COLOMBO, Nov 2, 2007 (AFP) – The political chief of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers, the public face of the secretive rebel group, was killed in a government air strike on Friday, the guerrillas announced. S.P. Thamilselvan died with five others in an attack by the Sri Lankan air force on rebel-held territory, they said.The defence […]
Sri Lanka Tigers lose seven, claim to be beat back offensive
Nov 2, 2007 (AFP) – Tamil Tiger guerrillas on Friday said they had beaten back two attacks by government forces in northern Sri Lanka with the loss of seven of their own fighters.The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said there were two attempts by government forces to break into territory they hold and […]
Sri Lanka to print less money for deficit after bond issue: Central Bank
Nov 02, 2007 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s central bank says it would not have to print money as the government had borrowed abroad helping lower inflation in the near future, but analysts warn that a massive dollar liquidity influx is now unsettling the monetary system. Analysts say the October jump in inflation of 2.8 percent, […]