One is not against the imposition of value-added tax (VAT) so long as essential commodities and public utilities are taxed at a bearable minimum. VAT on healthcare services was exempt in Sri Lanka until May 1, 2016, as the principal purpose of the he

Last week, we said that customer relationship management (CRM) is an enterprise wide initiative and therefore 

This refers to the article titled ‘Poor-quality decision-making, main cause for destruction of plantations’, written by Lalin de Silva, which appeared in mirrorbusiness of 22.04.16.

As Sri Lanka stands on the threshold of the possibility of obtaining the GSP Plus once again, a World Bank report states that South Asia’s clothing industry has the potential to create millions of jobs for women.

Many books and movies from the past feature the notorious highwayman, who would often stop travellers

I was asked to comment on the Sri Lanka government’s decision to extend value-added taxes to the telecom industry. Below is my response.

To those public servants, businessmen and politicians sitting on the fence waiting for the unexpected, President Maithripala Sirisena at the breakfast meeting with the editors on Wednesday fired on all cylinders at certain Members of Parliament (MPs)

Sri Lanka’s overall macro-economic conditions deteriorated in 2015.  Despite government adopting expansionary policies to boost consumption spending, both internal and external balance deteriorated in 2015, and GDP growth declined to 4.8 p

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said at a press conference on April 26 that the Cabinet of Ministers had decided to seek an international partner to avoid having to close down SriLankan Airlines. The government has decided to take over debt and s

There should be no argument among business people that it is employees who take the business forward

When Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971, the 7000 papers of top-secret Vietnam War documents were the biggest leak in history, which consisted of only about a dozen megabytes as compared to the modern computer te

Children with disabilities or special needs often experience widespread violations of their rights. The World Report on Disability estimates one billion people in the world are living with disabilities, of which 93 million children aged 0-14 years&rs

As identified by Asian Development Outlook (ADO) 2016, which is a report produced annually by Asian Development Bank (ADB), developing Asia will continue to contribute at least 60 percent for the growth of the world. 

Few weeks backs, I spoke to a group of public servants about good HR private sector practices and how 

Chemical based paddy farming is geared towards achieving higher yields with new improved rice varieties 

At the heart of most organisations is a series of interrelated strategies addressing products, services, distribution, 

The world is changing the way it perceives products and services. More and more consumers like to know where the money they pay for a service or a product is going. 

A little more than 12 months ago, Ford announced a newly created position, global chief data and analytics officer. 

We have been stressing on the systematic killing of this world-renowned plantation industry of Sri Lanka through a series of newspaper articles during the past few months. These articles were a gist of the evolution of the plantation industry of Sri

Last year, soon after taking power as President of Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena requested a US $ 4 billion loan from the International Monitory Fund (IMF) to restructure its debt repayments. The bailout package was rejected by the IMF. It warned t

They say every cloud has a silver lining. We are a country that has been starving with reforms to connect to the modern world with technology to improve the country’s processes in logistics and trading capabilities to make it a true hub, given

The kokis eaten on our traditional New Year didn’t have much time to digest when the news broke that luxury vehicle permits worth US $ 62500 were issued to all 225 Members of Parliament of Sri Lanka, which they can sell for close to Rs.20 milli

Innovations in telecommunications and transportation have shrunk the distances that once separated nations through 

A gap analysis tool compares the actual performance of a company with its potential performance. A company

The tourism industry in Sri Lanka will need around 130,000 newly trained personnel by 2020 to serve the four million (2016 - 2.5 million) tourists 

It is due to the forthcoming festive season that the business organisations in Sri Lanka, despite turbulent 

In today’s wired world when virtual assistants and remote working is the norm, dreaming of starting on your own

Today (7th April 2016), marks World Health Day, under the theme “Beat Diabetes”, with the aim of scaling 

Sri Lanka has a visibly high rate of urbanization and ambitious plans for further urbanization through the envisioned Western Region Megapolis Project. Nonetheless, the latest official statistics indicate that only 18.2 percent of the population live

Sri Lanka is negotiating an Economic and Technological Cooperation Agreement (ECTA) with India. It envisages liberalising trade in services. The lack of information on what is being negotiated has fuelled speculation on the outcomes. A previous Verit