“Our labour force should step up and needs exposure to a higher level of skills if Sri Lanka is serious about seizing maximum advantage of the ‘One Belt-One Road’ (OBOR) initiative” expressed Sunshine Holding’s Group Man

Pan Asia Bank recently announced of two changes to its Board of Directors. 

Plastindia Foundation of India invited Sri Lanka’s plastic industry players to take part in the largest plastic exhibition, to meet new plastic equipment suppliers and manufacturers.

SriLankan Airlines has recorded a consistently superior on-time performance during the first six months of this year, in comparison with its peers. The latest statistics by the global flight data tracker Flightstats.com ranks Sri Lanka’s nation

Collaborating with an employers’ organization for the first time, the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization, (ITC - ILO) recently entered into an MoU with the Employers’ Federation of Ceylon (EFC) in launc

Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the parental body of the Sri Lanka Institute of Architects, established a branch in Sri Lanka last week named ‘RIBA Members : Sri Lanka’, the second RIBA membership group to be formed in the A

Given the recent stock market trends, you may be wondering whether you should make changes to your investment portfolio.  At times some investors, including bargain hunters and mattress suffers, make rapid investment decisions without considerin

The Sri Lanka – Malaysia Business Council was inaugurated on February 23, 1994 under the aegis of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce at the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka. 

AFP: Singapore Airlines said yesterday it is offering cabin crew unpaid leave in a cost-cutting measure as it struggles to keep up in an increasingly tough market. 

AFP: Japanese auto giant Toyota and smaller rival Mazda said yesterday they agreed a capital tie-up to focus on joint development of electric vehicles, while building a US$1.6 billion factory in the United States which will create up to 4,000 jobs.

Rimbun Forensic Advisory Sdn Bhd, the partners representing Foresptin in Malaysia, signed the memorandum of agreement (MOA) with Asia Pacific University Malaysia (APU) to enhance the undergraduate and postgraduate learning experiences on Forensic Acc

People around the world prefer the use of shampoo over soap because of a number of reasons.  Most of them use it to because it clears away any foreign residue, some of them because it gives a good smell or some people use them as treatments for

REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee was little changed yesterday, as mild importer demand for the dollar offset light greenback sales by banks in dull trade ahead of the long weekend, dealers said. 

Wild Stone, a renowned brand of men’s body deodorant, recently introduced to the Sri Lankan market by American Remedies, announced the launch of a special promotion for consumers at an event held in Colombo.

A huge sub-sector within Sri Lanka’s crucial Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) that directly impacts national food supply and security is being positioned for exports. Encouraged by raging exports in this sector, Sri Lanka has begun work on t

Nestlé Professional, Nestlé’s out-of-home food and beverage solutions provider, joined hands with the Chefs Guild of Lanka to become the Diamond sponsor for Culinary Art Food Expo 2017. The partnership marks Nestlé Professi

REUTERS: China is on pace to overtake the United States as the world’s biggest oil importer this year, cementing its status as Asia’s most pivotal oil market actor that will increasingly dominate the region’s fuel trade. 

ReeBonn Cosmetics (Pvt.) Ltd, one of the foremost herbal cosmetic companies operating in Sri Lanka, has introduced an assortment of brand-new face wash products with enhanced quality. All these products come in user-friendly containers.

The Financial Intelligence Unit of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (FIU-Sri Lanka) entered into Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs) with the China AML Monitoring and Analysis Centre and Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Kingdom of Bhutan at the 20

National Development Bank PLC (NDB) initiated the NDB Toastmasters Club on October 31, 2013 and joined the Global Toastmasters fraternity. Since its inception, NDB Toastmasters Club has completed four very successful years and has helped many staff m

LG, one of the most popular global brands for home appliances, continues to redefine how we get our laundry done with its latest addition to the LG washing machine range – LG TWINWash. 

Ceylon Tea will get a makeover this August when Michelin Star Chefs Tom Aikins and Jason Atherton infuse their award-winning brand of cuisine with the best tea in the world at the first-ever Ceylon Tea Festival. 

Adding further accolades to its already extensive local and international award portfolio, Colombo’s favourite suburban hotel, Waters Edge, and its culinary team performed outstandingly at the recently concluded Culinary Art & Food Expo, wh

AFP: Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has effectively shot down a sweeping overhaul of the island’s tax system, calling the proposed legislation unconstitutional, the country’s parliament speaker told lawmakers yesterday.

Deutsche Gesellschaftfür Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)is hosting an Organic Pavilion at the ongoing ProFoodProPack 2017 exhibition, which is being held at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Memorial Exhibition Center, in order to promote Sri Lanka&

Sampath Bankfurther extended its growth momentum in the 2nd quarter of the year and recorded apost-tax profit of Rs 5.7 Bn for the six months ended 30th June 2017.This registered an impressive 

Sri Lanka’s most comprehensive and accurate tender alert service, eTenders.lk, is ripping through red tape and greatly improving transparency in the tender issuing and procurement processes

The fifth annual CFA Sri Lanka Capital Market Awards 2017 was held at The Hilton Colombo recently, under the theme ‘Sharpen your investment edge’ with the objective of encouraging those in the investment profession locally to uphold the s

National Development Bank PLC (NDB) held an Investor Forum recently to present the financial performance for 1H 2017, at Galadari Colombo.

Thirty five MDRT members from AIA Sri Lanka participated in the recently held MDRT Annual Meeting held in Orlando, Florida, USA.