Sri Lankan stocks closed higher yesterday led by financials, after hitting a more than one-week closing low.....

Created with the aim of celebrating the many faceted talents of emerging young artists from Sri Lanka, The Cockrell Fringe Festival in Galle was all about anarchic fun without the guilt and brought to the forefront innovative, diverse and daring new

The guests of Shangri-La’s Hambantota Resort & Spa can take the opportunity to fulfil their travel goals for 2017 through a series of adventure tours and experiences. 

SriLankan Airlines, the national carrier, inviting the country’s talented youth to artistically elaborate their perspective on the airline, unveils its ultimate creativity inspiring endeavour, Speculo 2017. This painting and visual art competit

The Word Blasters Toastmasters Club (WBTMC) presents a Toastmasters experience of a lifetime with the seventh Speechcraft Programme conducted by the club, which would take place at the Royal College Union Skills Centre (RCUSC) on Saturday, January 28

Suren Cooke Agencies, a pioneer in the pest management industry and renowned for utilizing the latest and most innovative pest control solutions, has introduced the Sure Green Eradicator, based on steam superheated at 180C to eliminate bed bugs, inst

Etihad Airways, in association with Lakmé Fashion Week, recently hosted master couturier Manish Malhotra in Abu Dhabi as part of the airline’s latest initiative as the preferred carrier of the global fashion industry.

Sri Lanka should first worry about the barriers to trade inside the country before entering into far reaching trade pacts with other countries as bureaucracy and administrative and information inefficiencies among other things have put a cap on the p

PeaceAir Pvt Ltd, one of the three shortlisted candidates of the bids for the management of SriLankan Airlines (SriLankan) yesterday held a press conference to express its frustration over the bid evaluation process, which they charged was not transp

LB Finance PLC (LBF), a Dhammika Perera-controlled licensed finance company, recorded higher profits exceeding Rs.1 billion for the quarter ended December 31, 2016 (3Q17), supported by higher loans and leases extended during the period, which in turn

AIA Insurance Lanka PLC yesterday announced an interim dividend of Rs.48 per share payable by February 08, 2017 for the financial year 2016.

Sri Lanka’s leading poultry manufacturer, Ceylon Grain Elevators PLC (GRAN), has entered into an agreement to acquire land and a poultry processing plant from related party Ceylon Agro-Industries Limited for Rs. 272 million.

REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee traded weaker yesterday due to dollar demand from importers while moral suasion by the Central Bank prevented a further fall in the currency, dealers said.

Sri Lanka’s Finance Ministry yesterday said world famous Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has shown keen interest in investing in Sri Lanka and to build an e-commerce platform to promote online business ventures.

Sri Lanka’s largest education exhibition and Job Fair – EDEX Expo will be held on 20-22 January 2017 at BMICH Colombo, and on 27-28 January 2017 at Kandy City Centre

Blue Mountain Apartments, part of the Blue Mountain Group, held the ground-breaking ceremony of its most iconic development project and one of the biggest such projects

In memory of Professor A.D.V De. S. Indraratna, this is a republication of the article initially published in Mirror Business in 2011under the ‘Sri Lanka’s Prominent Economists’ series

When Forbes recently announced its list of Under 30 movers and shakers, the list was more than a statement of young entrepreneurship. It was a confirmation of how entrepreneurship captures the young early on; it also highlighted the power of technolo

According to World Health Organization (WHO), Breast cancer is the top cancer in women worldwide and is increasing particularly in developing countries like Sri Lanka where the majority of cases are diagnosed in late stages. Cervical cancer has been

The Sri Lanka Association of Inbound Tour Operators (SLAITO) announced the annual Sancharaka Udawa tourism product trade fair, which will bring to the forefront many unidentified small and medium service providers by creating a platform to showcase t

We live in an age where we see digital native unicorns, a name fondly used for start-ups valued for more than US $ 1 billion. They’ve turned the world of business upside down by focusing on customer experiences with great user interfaces (UIs)

For the global economy and markets, the start of 2017 couldn’t have been more different from a year ago. Business confidence as well as growth and inflation expectations are once again on the rise in the US and other major economies.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe held bilateral discussions with Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) CEO/Executive Managing Director Tadashi Maeda during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.  Pic by Pradeep Pathirana

DFCC Bank recently opened a fully-fledged branch in Pettah, located at No: 143, Main Street, Colombo 11.

A veteran hospitality and tourism industry professional has been appointed as honorary consultant to the Ministry of Tourism Development with special focus on Germany and the European Continent.  Minister of Tourism Development John Amaratunga o

Emirates has announced that it will further expand its European network with the introduction of a daily flight from Dubai to Zagreb (ZAG), the capital of Croatia from June 1. 

The Insurance Board of Sri Lanka (IBSL) has issued ‘Guidelines on conducting investigations on insurance claims’. 

Colombo Dockyard successfully delivered the 80-passenger vessel built for the Northern Provincial Council on 10th January in Delft.

Sri Lanka’s leading investment banking firm and the preferred partner in financial markets, Capital Alliance Limited (CAL), has been assigned the issuer rating of [SL]A- with stable outlook by ICRA Lanka Limited, a subsidiary of ICRA Limited (a

Yet again revolutionizing the banking industry in Sri Lanka, Seylan Bank has launched a state-of-the-art digital bank account for the youth of Sri Lanka named - Seylan Seylfie.