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Surging rubber prices raising ‘alarm bells’: experts
KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 24 (AFP) – Rising demand that has pushed prices for natural rubber to record highs is raising fears world supplies will run short, experts said Monday at an international summit in the Malaysian capital. Growing demand has seen prices rise steadily for over a year, hitting 2.0 dollars per kilogram (2.2 pounds) […]
Loosing Grip
PARIS, Apr.24 (AFP) – From cars to planes, chemical plants to retail, every sector in the world economy is having to adapt to the prospect that high oil prices are going to last.Most oil firms are transferring the price hike to their clients, noting that high oil revenues stimulate research and development. CARS: Although driving […]
”: experts
KUALA LUMPUR, Apr. 24 (AFP) – Rising demand that has pushed prices for natural rubber to record highs is raising fears world supplies will run short, experts said Monday at an international summit in the Malaysian capital. Growing demand has seen prices rise steadily for over a year, hitting 2.0 dollars per kilogram (2.2 pounds) […]
Chess Game
Apr.24 (LBO) – Sri Lanka plans to ask for more shipments of clothes, edible oils and fewer limits on country of rules origins on exports of key items to India, when both nations meet for trade talks tomorrow, officials said. Four days of trade talks between the two nations under the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement […]
Guilty
NEW YORK, Apr.24 (AFP) – The former top executive of Computer Associates, Sanjay Kumar, pleaded guilty Monday to participating in a 2.2 billion dollar accounting fraud and obstructing a subsequent investigation. The Sri Lankan-born Kumar, former chairman and chief executive of the software and computer security giant, entered the guilty plea together with the company’s […]
Red Light
Apr.24 (LBO) – The District Court Monday turned down a request by Malaysian based investor A P Jagaiah to postpone the NDB Bank’s annual general meeting. -LBO Newsdesk Jagaiah sought legal recourse after NDB Bank refused to register 9.36 percent or 5.2 million shares owned by him, the bank said in a statement. In a […]
Close Inspection
Apr. 24 (AFP) – Sri Lankan police arrested five Maldivian nationals sparking unconfirmed rumours that the suspects were linked to Al-Qaeda, police and media reports said Monday.The five — two women, two children and a man — were taken into custody at the request of the Maldives government and handed over to the Maldivian high […]
New Route
HONG KONG, Apr. 24 (AFP) – A long campaign to remove pirated goods from shop fronts in Asia is finally having an impact but the crackdown has also changed the nature of the problem and new outlets are flourishing.The results of police raids, a slate of new laws and increased prosecutions can be seen across […]
Indian court rules domestic whisky not “Scotch”
NEW DELHI, Apr. 24 (AFP) – An Indian court has ordered domestic whisky makers not to use the words “Scot” or “Scotch” for their distilled brews as it would violate global copyright laws, a lawyer said Monday. These include 53,000 dollars to Cartier, 35,000 dollars to Time magazine and 280,000 dollars to Microsoft — all […]
Jackpot
PARIS, Apr.24 (AFP) – While governments and consumers weep over the rise and rise of fuel prices, oil companies are rubbing their hands in glee. Last year the world’s 250 top oil companies earned profits totalling 243 billion euros (300 billion dollars), a 35-percent increase on 2004, and that in spite of hurricanes in the […]
Sri Lankan troops kill two Tiger suspects amid new tensions
Apr.24 (AFP) – Sri Lankan troops shot dead two men who were trying to set up a Claymore mine Monday intended for security forces in the island’s east, a defence official said.The men were killed at Vandaramullai in the district of Batticaloa as army soldiers conducted an operation to clear the main road of mines […]
E-sex bust
Apr.23 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s immigration authorities have closed an internet-based commercial sex service run by foreign nationals, in the first such operation, officials said. The service run by persons of Ukrainian origin, and solicited clients via the website www.bananaescort.net, ended on April 12, after just two months of operations when sleuths from the Department […]