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SAO PAULO(Reuters) : Brazil is guzzling coffee like never before, but even as its growing middle class becomes more willing to pay for better quality beans, the largest coffee producing country does not look poised to topple the United States as the world’s No. 1 consumer yet. Coffee consumption in Brazil grew 3.1 percent from ...
- Deadly asbestos not banned in Asia yet (Category: Business)
- Brazil sugar losing competitiveness-Kingsman (Category: Business)
- Starbucks to enter India, targets 50 outlets by year-end (Category: Business)
- Kraft to invest over $100 m in Russia coffee plant (Category: Business)
Reuters: Airbus outsold Boeing almost two-to-one in 2011 after gambling on a revamped fuel-efficient jetliner and delivered more jets than its rival for the ninth year running, while admitting it may struggle to keep its order crown this year. Figures released by the European planemaker on Tuesday confirmed the popularity of narrowbody jets offering significant ...
- Spotlight turns to output as Boeing wins show (Category: Business)
- Airbus expands order, Boeing set to rebound (Category: Business)
- Boeing sees more 787 cancellations, still upbeat (Category: Business)
- Boeing targets number one spot with 1,000 jet sales (Category: Business)
By Nimisha Muttiah Communication is the epitome of human life itself. It is what allows us to say “hello” and greet someone we know, it lets us build relationships with people we care about, share information with others and gives us a way to communicate with those around us to meet or daily needs. Without ...
- Proposals to appoint a Speech and Language Therapist or Speech Pathologist for each educational ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Medcon advises parents about hearing loss in children (Category: Business)
- ‘English day 2012’ with John Keells scholarship program (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Sign Language workbooks for pre- school deaf children (Category: Business)
Worldwide PC shipments totaled 92.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2011 (4Q11), down 0.2% compared to the same quarter in 2010, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. As expected, shortages of hard disk drives (HDDs) added to challenges from slow economic conditions and competition from other consumer electronics, including ...
- Worldwide PC shipments up 1.9% in 2012 1Q (Category: Business)
- Global smartphone market hits all-time quarterly high (Category: Business)
- Samsung takes top spot as smartphone market grows 42.6% in 3Q (Category: Business)
SINGAPORE (AFP): Oil prices rose in Asian trade on Monday as worries over supply disruptions in Nigeria outweighed concerns over the mass debt downgrade of eurozone nations, analysts said. New York’s main contract, West Texas Intermediate crude for delivery in February, gained three cents to $98.73 in morning trade. Brent North Sea crude for February ...
- Sri Lanka suffering huge loss after replacing Iranian oil with Arabian crude (Category: Business)
- Kuwait resumes full crude supply to Asia (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka’s Iran crude imports may drop up to 20% (Category: Business)
- Reuters says Lanka has most reasons to worry about Iran oil (Category: Breaking News)
RAM Ratings Lanka said yesterday it has assigned respective long- and short-term corporate credit ratings of A+ and P1 to Lanka Hospitals Corporation PLC (LHC). The long-term rating has a stable outlook. The ratings are upheld by the Hospital’s strong financial profile, liquidity, ongoing State support and the positive outlook for the private healthcare industry. ...
- LHC issues arrest warrants for SL cricket team attack accused (Category: Breaking News)
- LHC finds 'interesting effects' (Category: Technology)
- LHC 'has two years to find Higgs' (Category: Technology)
- RAM Ratings Lanka assigns A+/P1 to Lanka Hospitals Corporation PLC (Category: Breaking News)
Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka Ltd. continues to work towards uplifting the lives of people within Sri Lankan society with their new sustainability initiative – a Capacity Building Programme for English Teachers in Jaffna. The programme which is a two day workshop organised by Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka Ltd. was facilitated by Kent Ridge in collaboration ...
- Returning Fizz (Category: Business)
- ‘Coca-Cola Cricket Pathway Initiative’ continues to discover grassroots talent (Category: Business)
- Winners from Coke promotion get all-expense paid trip in Switzerland (Category: Business)
sports.ndtv.com: Colombo: Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has approached the BCCI about the possibility of hosting IPL matches, the new SLC president, Upali Dharmadasa, has said. The idea has been proposed as a way for SLC to raise additional revenue because the Sri Lanka Premier League (SLPL) failed to get off the ground last year, after ...
- SLC eager to host IPL matches (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka eager to host IPL matches - Dharmadasa (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Cricket Chief Upali holds puja to banish ‘evil spirits’ (Category: Business)
- SLC hires former ICC Chief Lorgat as Special Adviser (Category: Business)
Expects 2012 to continue 2011 success despite anticipating slow year By Cheranka Mendis Kia Motors is geared to embrace a phenomenal year in 2012, riding high on the extraordinary success of 2011. Launching the final model that was to be introduced to the local market in 2011, the all new fourth generation Kia Rio, Kia ...
- KIA Motors to invest Rs. 1 b on service facilities (Category: Business)
- KIA To Drive Royal Rugby As Sole Team Sponsor Of 1st XV (Category: Breaking News)
- Ceylon Chamber identifies opportunities in Brazil during FIFA 2014 and Olympics 2016 (Category: Business)
HANOI (Reuters): Vietnam’s rice exports this year jumped 4.36 per cent from 2010 to a record high of 7.19 million tonnes, the Agriculture Ministry said on Monday, beating previous industry projections. Rice export revenue rose 14 per cent from last year to an estimated $3.7 billion, the ministry said in its monthly report. Vietnam, the ...
- Thai rice plan could hit global market (Category: Business)
- SE Asia flood impact on rice supply, prices in focus (Category: Business)
- Asia Rice: Weak demand pushes prices down further (Category: Business)
- Vietnam’s Dec coffee exports ease 8.5 pct y/y-govt (Category: Business)
Reuters: AT&T has dropped its controversial $39 billion bid for Deutsche Telekom’s US wireless unit, bowing to fierce regulatory opposition and leaving both companies scrambling for alternatives. AT&T will have to find another way to address its shortage of wireless airwaves while Deutsche Telekom has to go back to the drawing board on what to ...
- AT&T to buy Bellevue-based T-Mobile USA for $39 billion (Category: USA, Washington)
- Heineken wins control of Tiger beer maker; focus shifts to F&N (Category: Business)
- More than ever, businesses must think ‘what if’ (Category: Business)
- TNT agrees to UPS’s raised cash takeover offer of $ 6.8 b (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka boat builders face skilled labour shortage
Research related to Human Resources is a growing global priority. We saw the enthusiasm last week, when the Research and Publications Committee of the Institute of Personnel Management organised an evening presentation on “Research trends in HR”. Today’s column will focus on the highlights of it, with extended emphasis on the need to debunk some ...
- The seven myths of management research (Category: Business)
- Evaluating employees: Facts and fallacies (Category: Business)
- Evolving “New HR” – be lean, seen and green (Category: Business)
- The treasures and travails of training (Category: Business)
Education is at the core of development and Sri Lanka, targeting post-war development, is still not getting its focus right on developing knowledge across the board, starting with the schooling system. It can be argued that the Sri Lankan Government is more focused on fixing the ills of the university system to pay adequate attention ...
- Student loan payment pause extended to end of January (Category: USA, Nebraska)
- Student loan payment pause extended to end of January (Category: USA, Mississippi)
- Student loan payment pause extended to end of January (Category: USA, New Hampshire)
- Student loan payment pause extended to end of January (Category: USA, Maine)
Reuters: Sri Lanka’s stock market slipped to a one-week low on Tuesday in low volume and turnover as investors held off amid negative sentiment about a credit shortage and uncertainty after the Head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) resigned. The island nation’s main share index rose 0.43 per cent during the day on ...
- Remittances, exporter conversions boost Sri Lanka rupee (Category: Business)
- Bourse turnover slumps to near two-year low (Category: Business)
- Rupee up on Govt. bond dollar inflows; Stock market fails to cheer (Category: Business)
- Bourse up on blue chip bargain-hunting (Category: Business)
Reuters: Taiwan’s Acer Inc, the world’s No.4 PC vendor by sales, expects a 10 to 15 per cent shortage of hard disk drive supplies in the fourth quarter after floods in Thailand hit many makers, Corporate President Jim Wong told a briefing on Wednesday. Wong said the impact in the first quarter was uncertain, but ...
- Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong sentenced to jail for anti-government protests (Category: USA, New York)
- Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong sentenced to jail for anti-government protests (Category: USA, New York)
- Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong sentenced to jail for anti-government protests (Category: USA, New York)
- Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong sentenced to jail for anti-government protests (Category: USA, New York)
The Meteorological Department submitted a report to the Minister of Disaster Management Mahinda Amaraweera yesterday on the weather forecasts in the past few days. The Minister had instructed the Ministry’s Secretary and the Director General of the Meteorological Department to submit a report within three days on the Department’s failure to forecast Friday’s catastrophic weather....
- Fair weather today (Category: Breaking News)
- Better weather warnings needed (Category: Business)
- Fair weather in most parts of the island today (Category: Breaking News)
- Ground frost at some places in Nuwara Eliya district (Category: Breaking News)
Reuters: France and Germany agreed on Thursday to stop arguing in public over whether the European Central Bank should do more to rescue the euro zone from a deepening sovereign debt crisis. President Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel said after talks with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti that they trusted the independent central bank ...
- S&P piles pressure on Franco-German budget plan (Category: Business)
- Crisis in Italy spurs fears of euro zone break-up (Category: Business)
- EU leaders to agree on permanent bailout fund (Category: Business)
- Euro zone crisis reaches France, turns existential (Category: Business)
With media reports mounting on the possibility of price controls for pharmaceuticals and the general perception being created that pharmaceutical prices are escalating in the market, the Sri Lankan Chamber of Pharmaceutical Industries (SLCPI) has come out strongly against, saying that in fact the opposite as true. Vish Govindasamy, President of the SLCPI, addressing the ...
- Proposed drug price control draws flak (Category: Breaking News)
- Pharmaceutical industry warns against unilateral decision on pricing (Category: Breaking News)
- Drug drama (Category: Business)
- Industry will support new national drug policy: SLCPI President Vish Govindasamy (Category: Business)
BANGKOK (Reuters):The world's top rubber producers are blacklisting buyers which have failed to honour their contracts after recent defaults caused panic selling in the physical market, the Thai Rubber Association said on Monday. Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia backed off from a plan to bolster prices at their weekend meeting in Bangkok, but pledged to prevent ...
- Thailand seeks regional benchmark rubber export price (Category: Business)
- Tokyo rubber futures end down 36% for 2011 (Category: Business)
- Thailand seeks global cooperation on rubber prices (Category: Business)
- Thailand to start cutting rubber exports from Oct. (Category: Business)
In Sri Lanka there is some times a perception that there is a lack of skilled workers to fill positions at management levels. Some employers would say they have difficulty filling positions because of a talent shortage. Some of the complaints about skill shortages simply could be that employers can’t get top candidates to accept ...
- Post-secondary education should be more affordable (Category: Business)
- Internships: Free-for-all (Category: Business)
Independent research by PwC into the IT priorities of European Communications Service Providers (CSPs) has uncovered CIOs’ focus areas for 2012.The research found the majority of CIOs (60%) currently spend more than half of their opex budget on ‘maintenance.’ Addressing this is going to be a major priority in 2012 and CIOs will respond with ...
- Top predictions for IT firms and users for 2012 and beyond (Category: Business)
- DMS Electronics and VMware look beyond virtualisation (Category: Business)
- H One hosts Microsoft Dynamics CIO Roundtable (Category: Business)
- Deadline for motor car loan applications for artistes is 21st (Category: Breaking News)
Organisational sustainability is the ability for a group of persons to endure the internal and external pressures of a culture, through change and innovation, as they endeavour to deliver their specific products.There are seven components to create organisational sustainability. 1.Organisational identity Every organisation needs to distinguish and market its organisational identity. The organisati...
- How to develop an effective marketing plan (Category: Business)
- Driving for ‘value’ (Category: Business)
- Getting induction right (Category: Business)
- Measuring the impact of HR (Category: Business)
By Kusal Perera Groundviews.org: The media these few days, especially the English media, provides unusually high anti government coverage to the government’s latest move to push through a bill, classified as urgent. Titled “Revival of the Underperforming and Underutilised Assets Bill,” it sent many stories spinning round Colombo circles. More politically savvy circles talked abou...
- Harsha reminds Rajapaksa Govt. of Sirimavo’s fall after nationalisation (Category: Business)
- ‘Expropriation Bill’ is evil? (Category: Business)
- Irony Of The “Left” In Opposing Rajapaksa Amidst Buddhists (Category: Breaking News)
- Entrepreneur and the profit motive (Category: Business)
Council calls for govt. intervention on a slew of issues, says production can increase by 50%, plans to launch pepper brand By Uditha Jayasinghe The spice industry yesterday urged the government to resolve a slew of issues to increase productivity and promote the sector. Spice Council Chairman Sarada de Silva making his address at the ...
- Sri Lanka asks exporters to push product quality (Category: Business)
- Spices can be a main sector of Sri Lanka economy: President (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka unleashes Pure Ceylon Cinnamon brand to international markets (Category: Business)
- Government pledges support for spice industry revival (Category: Breaking News)
A thought-provoking new report from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) argues that public sector managers and policy makers are suffering from inadequate management information, and are not making best use of their finance function. Public sector performance: A global perspective suggests that central government has too narrow a view of the role of ...
- Taming the ‘monsters’ (Category: Business)
- SL, Viet Nam to sign agreement on public finance management (Category: Business)
BANGKOK Reuters: Thai authorities tried to stem growing anger among flood victims on Tuesday as water swamped new neighborhoods and the government began mapping out a plan costing billions of dollars to prevent a repeat disaster and secure investor confidence. The floods began in July and have devastated large parts of the central Chao Phraya ...
- Thais tense as floods set to swamp more of capital (Category: Business)
- Residents flee Bangkok after “massive” flood warning (Category: Business)
- Thailand raises minimum wage as firms struggle with floods (Category: Business)
- Thai PM warns on prices as flood fears grip Bangkok (Category: Business)
Haycarb PLC has reported revenue growth of 21 per cent to Rs 3.8 billion for the six months ending 30 September 2011, with stable demand in global markets and the company’s reliable supply stream of high quality carbons with a product mix of value-added carbons protecting its top line in a period of narrowing margins. ...
- Haycarb expands activated carbon biz with Thailand JV buying new unit for Rs. 500 m (Category: Business)
- Haycarb’s 9 month sales Rs 5.9 billion, PBT Rs. 535 million (Category: Business)
- Haycarb posts 1Q net profit of Rs. 217 m (Category: Business)
- Haycarb records Rs. 8.5 b sales (Category: Business)
Beijing (IANS): Air China Friday conducted the first trial flight of a passenger plane powered by a mix of biofuel and traditional aviation fuel. The Boeing 747 landed safely at Beijing Capital International Airport at 9:30 a.m. after it burned more than 10 tonnes of biofuel, reported Xinhua. Analysts believe the successful trial indicates that ...
- Boosters see Northwest future in aviation biofuel (Category: USA, Washington)
- Aviation biofuels a big opportunity for Asian business and governments (Category: Business)
- Planes of the future could fly on sawdust or straw (Category: Business)
- Aviation Fuel (Category: Business)
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s LG Electronics reported a wider-than-expected quarterly loss on Wednesday, with its mobile phone division sinking deeper into the red, dashing hopes of a recovery in its struggling smartphone business. LG’s handset business reported losses for a sixth consecutive quarter, with losses more than doubling to 140 billion won ($124 million) ...
- Samsung unwraps latest Galaxy rival to iPhone (Category: Business)
- Samsung confident of outselling Nokia in 2012 (Category: Business)
- Samsung to post strong Q4 on record smartphone sales (Category: Business)
- Samsung sees higher Q2 handset earnings (Category: Business)
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