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Customs Fraud
The Customs Department investigators are probing whether Gold Quest customers defrauded the state of revenue, by undervalueing imported Gold coins to the country.GoldQuest customers or Tracking Centre Owners, paid only Rs. 3,000 in duty and taxes for the Rs. 80,000 plus priced gold coins purchased from the companys website.rn rnThe coins are cleared by a […]
Model Pyramid
Sri Lankans who get into pyramid schemes simply because they are lquote not illegal would find themselves in a legal vacuum with no help from the system, a top legal luminary points out.One of Sri Lankas top lawyers and a former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Arittha Wickremanayake says authorities should speed up […]
Curious Courier
DHL said they would upgrade supply chain management in the Asia Pacific region to better service the garment trade.Guaranteed quotas for garment exports are due to expire at the end of the year and DHL says garment manufacturers will have to rely on faster delivery times to be competitive.rn rnApparels already account for around 50 […]
Dollar Challenge
Sri Lanka has been asked to submit its proposal promoting economic growth to draw down funds from the Millennium Challenge Corp.s (MCC) billion-dollar kitty.The MCC is a U.S. Government corporation created in January, to work with developing countries by providing grants through the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA).rn rnSri Lanka is one of the 16 countries […]
Up on a Hill
Hunas Falls is dressing up its hill country hotel, to get a booking in the Small Luxury Hotels of the world catalogue. The Jetwing managed hotel is spending some Rs.25 mn of the Hunas Falls internal funds to upgrade and expand 20 of its 31 rooms to mini-suites.rn rnAlong with the standard features added with […]
Globe Trotting
The prospect of joining U.N. peacekeepingrnmissions has prompted more people to join Sri Lankas army, which has beenrnsuffering from a troop shortage, military officials said Friday.rnAfter two decades of brutal civil war, this countrys army has beenrnplagued by desertions. Officials have struggled to get recruits for thernforce, which is supposed to have 100,000 members.rn rn […]
Dressing Down
A restaurant in Sri Lanka which served a vegetable roll with a cotton dressing for a wound was fined Rs. 5,000 and warned to improve its hygiene, a press report said Friday.The magistrate in the southern town of Matara slapped the fine on the restaurant owner after a customer complained of discovering the offending dressing, […]
Flash Dance
A Sri Lankan convict who joined his prisons dance troupe escaped when his jailers took him to perform at a Buddhist temple, an official said Friday.The prisoner, serving a four-year jail term for robbery, vanished when he was brought from the main prison in the central town of Kandy three days ago for the temple […]
Illiterate Cop
Sri Lankas Supreme Court is to investigate a complaint from a man of the tiny indigenous community that police violated his rights by stopping him from using his native language, officials said Friday.Uruwarige Kekula said a police officer had threatened him with physical violence unless he spoke the islands majority Sinhalese language instead of his […]
Tigers Tail
The key to unlocking the US$ 4.5 bn Tokyo aid is to restart peace talks endash but the governments main ally the JVP wants the LTTE to first lift its pre-conditions on the interim administration.The co-chairs of the Tokyo conference met in Brussels this week and called on both parties to resume peace talks as […]
Flash Floods
Sri Lankas government has received 52,000 jobrnapplications after a decision to hire unemployed university graduates intornthe public service, a Finance Ministry official said Thursday.rnAfter winning general elections in April, President ChandrikarnKumaratungas government said it would increase recruitment into the publicrnsector to reduce unemployment.rn rn “We are still going through the applications. They are being handled […]
Tea Shop
In search of new growth for its stunted tea export industry, India is cultivating plans to set up an auction centre in Dubai.Indian Tea Association Chairman C.K. Dhanuka was quoted saying that a separate auction centre in Dubai would be a shot in the arm for the ailing tea industry, whose exports fell from 201,010 […]