Despite Sri Lanka bets big on public-private partnerships (PPPs) to bridge its vast infrastructure requirements and also to reform its loss-making state enterprises, the greater political risk and issues in governance have hampered the ability for th

Hatton National Bank (HNB) announced a breakthrough partnership with Gateway College to introduce HNB Smart Pay, a revolutionary new proprietary card that will completely streamline payments and attendance recording for the school.

Two decades ago Asia was in the grip of a broad economic crisis. Through the 1998 Asian financial crisis, regional stock markets lost more than 60 percent of their value. Already fragile government reserves ran dry. By May 1998, Indonesia’s sov

The Bank of Ceylon (BOC) wishes to invite all its customers to involve with the bank’s green initiatives and win exciting prizes by enrolling for E-statements for NRFC and Current account holders till 31st December 2017. 

DHL Express clinched Gold for ‘Customer Services Department of the Year’ for its Sri Lankan office at the 14th Annual International Business Awards announced by Stevie Awards USA.

The diversification efforts of Sri Lanka’s regional plantation companies (RPCs) into profitable oil palm operations are being restricted by local politicians, villagers and bureaucrats, the head of the plantation fraternity charged last week.

Nestlé has won ‘Highest Value Added Exporter’ in the Coconut Kernel Product category at the recent Presidential Export Awards. 

Vista Rooms, South Asia’s largest chain of affordable stays, is on track to onboard 1000 properties with over 10,000 rooms by the end of 2018. With the country experiencing a growth of 14% vis-a-vis 

Two young professionals from Leo Burnett Sri Lanka, will represent the country at the upcoming Young Spikes Media Competition, which is set to take place in Singapore. 

Sri Lanka will walk into a digital economy in five years’ time and will be able to get connected to the world, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said this week. The prime minister made this remark launching Sri Lanka’s very first fibre

Renuka Capital PLC, a unit of the Renuka group, this week acquired 23 percent of On’ally Holdings PLC, the owners of the Unity Plaza building in Bambalapitiya, for Rs.173.4 million.

Sri Lanka’s Central Bank yesterday left its key policy rates unchanged as the short-term rates eased and the pressures on medium term prices in the economy appeared less of a concern. But the credit to the private sector remained stubbornly at

Walkers CML Properties (Private) Limited, a fully-owned subsidiary of MTD Walkers PLC, unveils its latest upper-middle-income housing project ‘Grace’, in Nugegoda.

Following the success of its two previous projects, 77th on 4th, Nawala and Forest Hill Villas, Amunugama, JAT Property Group, a vertical of JAT Holdings, broke ground on its third development project, ‘96 Residencies’, in Pagoda, Nugegod

The residents of Altair, the inimitable twin tower residential high-rise nearing completion, are to be provided ‘fibre-to-home’ – a state-of-the-art high-speed fibre connectivity solution by Dialog Broadband Networks, under an agree

My Property (Pvt.) Ltd unveiled the development of two sensational condominium projects – luxurious ‘333 Pinnacle’ in Negombo and trendy and urban ‘Elektra’ in Battaramulla, at a media conference held at Cinnamon Grand C

The interim report of the steering committee was presented to the Constitutional Assembly on September 21, 2017. One can argue that when drafting the new 

As one of the 43 Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) member countries, Sri Lanka is not only disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change, but is also willing to take bold domestic actions to combat it.

A recent visit to Kataragama and the deep south laid bare the deficiency of our system of governance, equivalence and the severe case of pretence that engulfs our society. These culpabilities come with great costs: economic and human costs and a brea

Technology based enterprise-wide business application and systems solutions provider ZILLIONe recently launched Sage 300 ERP V6.4as a part of its annual introduction of the latest versions of Sage ERP.

cliQ, powered by Etisalat, the simple, understandable and affordable mobile data plan that doesn’t max the top-up balance out has gained one hundred thousand users in two months.

The premier ICT exhibition Infotel 2017, organized by the Federation of Information Technology Industry Sri Lanka (FITIS) was officially launched at a ceremony at the Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo recently.

IronOne Technologies has announced that its next generation online trading platform ATrad has been awarded ‘CodeSign verified trusted Windows OS Application’ 

Samsung Electronics yesterday launched its flagship smartphone Galaxy Note 8 in Sri Lanka, offering the next level Note for people who want to do bigger things.

The annual general meeting of the Ceylon Hotel School Graduates Association was held in Tangalle on 23rd September. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was the chief guest of the event, and Tourism and Christian religious affairs Minister John 

For Emirates, the world’s biggest operator of the super-jumbo Airbus A380, flying it to 47 destinations and to be the possessor of the 100th A380 aircraft, the one-off flight to Colombo on August 14 was primarily introducing the airliner to the

Emirates has reaffirmed its commitment to Tunis by increasing the frequency of flights between Dubai and Tunis from six to seven a week starting 30th October. The additional Dubai – Tunis flight will be operated every Monday with an Emirate

The General Assembly of Federation of European Screen Printing Associations will be held from 29th to 30th September at Colombo Hilton. 

The Board of Investment of Sri Lanka will be hosting a special seminar titled ‘Hub Operations ; future opportunities for Investment in Sri Lanka’ from 9.00 am to 12.00 pm on 12th October at the BOI Auditorium.

The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce has compiled a ‘Registry’ consisting details of the SMEs operating in the Northern Province.