REUTERS : Sri Lankan shares gained for a fourth straight session yesterday to mark a four-week closing high on foreign buying in blue-chips.

The proposed capital injections and retained earnings are unlikely to leave Sampath Bank PLC with much headroom due to the gap between the regulatory capital, and the bank’s actual capital remains very thin, a rating report suggests.

Roof tiles made out of red clay is now in high demand due to the asbestos ban that is set to come into effect next year, according to the country’s Industry and 

OPPO, the leading global technology brand, marked a significant shift towards speedy operation with a spectacular design, the A71 in Sri Lanka. With the new camera phone A71,

As part of an official visit to Chartered Institute of Management Accountants’ (CIMA) global markets, CIMA President, David Stanford FCMA, CGMA, arrived in Sri Lanka yesterday and will be in the country till the 24th.

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“The Village in the Jungle’ is different because it’s not about Us, but wholly about Them. It was very advanced in 1913, when many people in Europe were racist.” -Nick Rankin

oDoc, a Sri Lankan start-up, has raised US $ 1 million as seed funding to commercialize its app connecting patients with doctors for video consultation. This is the largest seed investment round for any start-up in Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka’s life insurers may have thought all troubles they underwent from the time they segregated their composite businesses and adopting risk-based capital are finally over. 

REUTERS: Sri Lankan shares rose for a third straight session yesterday and ended at a three-week closing high as investors picked up diversified and telecom shares, brokers said.

The government has started auditing the Colombo city hotels to bring to book the violators of the minimum room rate regulation, Tourism Development and Christian Affairs Minister John Amaratunga said yesterday.

REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee ended weaker yesterday as dollar demand from banks and importers surpassed selling of the greenback by exporters, dealers said. The spot rupee ended at 153.05/10 per dollar, compared with Friday’s close of 152.80/9

Sinhaputhra Finance PLC, in collaboration with the SAARC Arbitration Council is organizing a seminar mainly to discuss how to adopt arbitration as a litigation process for a speedier recovery method specially in debt recovery, be it in the Banking an

Disruptive technology is nothing new. As esteemed British politician, Benjamin Disraeli said in 1867, “Change is constant. Change is inevitable.” 

The National Chamber of Commerce (NCC) in collaboration with the Construction Industry Development Authority (CIDA) will hold a seminar on the construction industry on Thursday, September 28, 2017, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., at the National Chamber

It’s time to mainstream disaster risk management in areas impacted by flooding in South Asia. The monsoon season has again caused death and destruction across South Asia. As of this writing, more than 1,200 people have died in Bangladesh, India

There has been a rising trend among fashionable youths in search for shoes which are not only stylish and chic but also extremely comfortable and practical. 

The government may start limiting hotel construction in Colombo, as concerns of oversupply are now rising, Tourism Development and Christian Religious Affairs Minister John Amaratunga said yesterday.

Strengthening its vision to offer ultimate banking solutions to the people of Sri Lanka, Seylan Bank opened a fully-fledged branch in Kandana, expanding the bank’s footprint to 166 branches island-wide.

Trade is more contentious now than it has been for decades. Since their heyday during the 1980s and 1990s – which saw the creation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the birth of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and China&rsq

SDB bank Negombo branch was refurbished and re-opened at the same location recently with the objective of providing more efficientand friendly service to its customers with more sophisticated facilities. 

Acer introduced and launched Intel’s 8th Generation CPU based notebooks, along with new additions to its portfolio of Windows 10 devices: Aspire E5, Swift 3, Spin 5, Swift 5 and Switch 7 Black Edition to the Sri Lankan market.

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has broken new ground in enhancing access for differently-abled persons by enriching its corporate website with special assistive technologies for users with visual disabilities, hearing impairments, physical disabilitie

REUTERS: CMA CGM, the world’s third-largest container shipping firm, said it expected operating profits to improve further in the second half as the market continues to recover, and confirmed an order for nine giant vessels.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (64GB), the latest model in the Samsung Galaxy Note series, is now available for pre-order on wOw.lk. 

Domino’s Sri Lanka has become one of the fastest growing restaurant chains in the country by recording a growth of 43 percent YOY along with the Same Store Growth (SSG) of over 20 percent. The highest SSG has also catapulted it to the top posit

TBWA\Sri Lanka continued its winning streak and was once again the only agency to be awarded metal at the prestigious Ad Stars 2017 annual advertising festival, which took place in Busan, Korea recently. 

The Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM) had its second inauguration of the Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing (PGDIM) programme for the current year in July at the Sri Lanka Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management.

REUTERS: Brazil’s government has approved a plan by American Airlines Group Inc to build a maintenance center at Sao Paulo’s Guarulhos airport, a US $100 million investment that will help the U.S. carrier consolidate its South American op

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