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By Devin Jayasundera Siedles (Pvt) Ltd. in its attempt to expand the Sony customer base in Sri Lanka and to provide a world class service to its cutomers launched a state-of-the-art Sony showroom at 150/3, Ward Place, Colombo 7 last week. The flagship Sony showroom equipped with the latest modern designs and sleek interior is ...
- Sony sees $ 2.9 b loss, reveals daunting task for new CEO (Category: Business)
- Sony launches 360 degree sweep panorama series (Category: Business)
- Sony international signs up Alston (Category: Breaking News)
- Sony launches new BRAVIA line: High Def, 3D and Internet TV (Category: Business)
The controversial video on the final stages of the war in Sri Lanka produced by Britain’s Channel 4 television was careened at the European Parliament yesterday (Wednesday). Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU Ravinatha Aryasinha said the timing of the screening of the film ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ at the European Parliament ...
- No justice done to Sri Lanka or to the EU�s role - Geoffrey Van Orden (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka needs our support says Europe (Category: Breaking News)
- VIDEO: European Parliament (Category: Technology)
- Sri Lanka's Ambassador to the EU says the Human Rights Sub-Committee is not interested in a bala... (Category: Breaking News)
A COLLEGE drop out and global genius is dead. Steve Jobs was a very private person, eccentric and brash. He was fired from the company he founded Apple and was brought back to resurrect it and make it one of the most valuable and admired companies on earth, its stock earlier this year the most ...
- Competing for FDI: An agenda for Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- More and better jobs: Policy prescription for South Asia (Category: Business)
I like to be an optimist. No matter what may happen around us, I would like to retain feelings of hope I have for all human-kind and on a more intimate level for you, for me, the newborn and the to-be-born. Yet, what has already happened around me, happening now and may happen in the ...
- IMF MD calls for anchoring stability to sustain higher and better growth (Category: Business)
- Asia sees red over ‘green economy’ (Category: Business)
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka in ancient times exported its elephants, peacocks, gems, spices and even monkeys (!) to the then known world. Old Europe, more precisely the writers of ancient Rome and Greece have made reference to such imports from Taprobane, the name referred to by them to Sri Lanka then. It was not only the Europe ...
- Inflation Targeting Key To Attracting FDI (Category: Breaking News)
- Import Substitution (Category: Breaking News)
- Economist Debunks Mahinda Chinthana (Category: Breaking News)
- Aid, So Near, But Yet So Far (Category: Breaking News)
Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunge stated that despite the view of certain sectors that the local economy would crash under the pressure of the global crisis, the Sri Lankan economy has achieved considerable growth. He said that some experts and politicians were of the view that the Sri
- Sri Lanka’s economy remains positive - CB (Category: Breaking News)
- Slow Forecast (Category: Business)
- Economic Concern (Category: Business)
- Economic Fix (Category: Business)
Banks’ Profits Up 111% The banking industry achieved a considerably high level of profits in 2010. Profit after tax amounted to Rs. 57.5 billion last year, a 111% growth in comparison to a Rs. 27.2 billion profit in 2009. The significant growth in profitability was mainly attributed to a higher increase in fee-based income, a ...
- Market Expects Rate Hike (Category: Breaking News)
- Ceylinco Insurance announces 65% dividend (Category: Business)
- Rupee Strengthens, But Illiquid Status Worsens (Category: Breaking News)
- JKH forges with solid growth (Category: Business)
by Palitha Kohona (Text of a recent speech at Harvard University,USA by Ambassador Dr. Palitha T.B. Kohona, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York ) At the outset I would like to state very clearly that what happened in Sri Lanka cannot be characterized as a simple case of countering an insurgency. There was a group, proscribed by most of the democratic world as a ter...
- Sri Lanka emphasises that terrorists suspects cannot be treated as ordinary criminals. (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka is not being militarized - Defence Secretary (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Cricket denies fixing allegations (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka should address accountability issues on its own: Judge (Category: Breaking News)
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “People want their freedom. People want their bread. People want to stop their lousy dictators from looting their countries”. — A Jordanian Dissident (New York Times – 30.1.2011) Tunisia and Egypt, in revolt, are at the end...
- JVP for Tunisia style option (Category: Breaking News)
- Tyrants and Their Families: Gaddafis and Rajapaksas (Category: Breaking News)
- Telephone call from Gaddafi tp Rajapaksa shows Mahinda is on the wrong side of history (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksa project of establishing familial control over the State Army and the SLFP (Category: Breaking News)
By Malathi De Alwis On 18 May 2009, Sri Lanka officially declared the end of a 30-year civil war fought between. Sri Lankan government forces (GoSL) and Tamil militants, namely the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE). Such a sea...
- India’s Chinese Bogeymen (Category: Breaking News)
- Cuba out voted at UN Human Rights Council over Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- China and India playing the great game in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- For India, Sri Lanka is not indispensable, but for Sri Lanka, India is indispensable (Category: Breaking News)
by Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka “The contest is never over, the field never quite ours.”- Dave Robicheaux in James Lee Burke, ‘The Tin Roof Blowdown’ (2007) Is it only me, or is not sad that there is no review in the Sri Lankan public space, of the first decade of the 21st century and the new millennium? Should we not be looking back at the road that has been travelled by the world, by our co...
- International investor confidence on Sri Lanka improving Minister Amunugama (Category: Breaking News)
- One year on, Sri Lanka still divided (Category: Breaking News)
- One year on, Sri Lanka still divided (Category: Breaking News)
- One year on, Sri Lanka still divided (Category: Breaking News)
By Dr.Harsha de Silva Mr. Speaker, I am glad that important Ministers and Members from the Government side have come to listen to this speech. I must first state that I am happy to have been able to join the...
- "'Mahinda Chinthanaya’ has moved to ‘Mahinda Hinsanaya’ and ‘Mahinda Vindanaya'" (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka In Dire Straits (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition alleges govt. conspiracy to oust CB Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- Actually, The Foreign Ministry Certainly Seems Foreign Now (Category: Breaking News)
by Ranil Wickremesinghe By the 4th century BC, Asia had begun its first cycle of economic growth and power. This was the reason why Alexander the Great decided to travel eastward to establish an empire. At that time there was...
- Asia economy: Consumers to the rescue? (Category: Business)
- Economic power shifting to Asia from the West? (Category: Business)
- No inflation respite for Asia despite fall in food, fuel prices (Category: Business)
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka cable TV firms face crippling tax
Dr. Muttukrishna Sarvanathan is the principal researcher at the Point Pedro Institute, which is a non-for-profit think tank that provides analysis and advocacy on political and economic issues afflicting the Sri Lankan Tamil population in the north. In an exclusive...
- “I do not think the LTTE can revive” - Thirunavukkarasu Sridharan (Category: Breaking News)
- "The 13th Amendment to the Constitution must be properly implemented": Dharmalingam Siddharthan (Category: Breaking News)
- The defeat of the LTTE is being systematically transformed as the defeat of the Tamil and Muslim... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sarath Weerasekera Thinks The Tamils In Sri Lanka Are Born Slaves (Category: Breaking News)
A newspaper reported on its first page, Monday, October 25, that Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says the on-going crisis at universities is an international conspiracy. And we need to believe him since he knows what he is talking about and further, he is the third, fourth, or fifth
- University Dons accused of aspiring to put the Government into difficulty (Category: Breaking News)
- PERADENIYA VC READY TO UPROOT RAGGING (Category: Breaking News)
- Omaha's Symone Sanders will be chief spokeswoman for VP-elect Kamala Harris (Category: USA, Nebraska)
- Omaha's Symone Sanders will be chief spokeswoman for VP-elect Kamala Harris (Category: USA, Nebraska)
Bedevil: In the same boat by Channa Wickramasekera Colombo: Bay Owl Press, 2010 Reviewed by Sivamohan Sumathy ‘We may have all come on different ships, but we are in the same boat now’. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Why has...
- Sri Lanka – Literary Essays And Sketches By Charles Sarvan (Category: Breaking News)
- The Perfect Guide (Category: Breaking News)
- Sumathy’s Ingirunthu : (Here and Now) (Category: Breaking News)
- How I Have Used Obeyesekere In My Teaching (Category: Breaking News)
by Eran Wickramaratne Parliamentary oversight on Finance Article 148 of the Constitution gives Parliament full control over public finance. Since President Wijetunga retained the finance portfolio the authority of the Parliament over finance has been usurped, and created a conflict between the powers of the legislature and the Executive. Even though Article 44(2) of the Cons...
- Government tables 2021 budget ; eyes reduction of public debt (Category: Breaking News)
- Government tables 2021 budget ; eyes reduction of public debt (Category: Breaking News)
- Government tables 2021 budget ; eyes reduction of public debt (Category: Breaking News)
- Government tables 2021 budget ; eyes reduction of public debt (Category: Breaking News)
by Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Sri Lanka is a sovereign state which belongs to the international system. It must safeguard its sovereignty as well as its membership of that system. Sri Lanka’s enemies have a main objective – a separate state...
- Saving Sovereignty Or Shaming Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- The resistance to Ban-Ki-moon by Wimal Weerawansa (Category: Breaking News)
- Inaction on Sri Lanka undermines UN Convention: Canadian foreign minister (Category: Breaking News)
- UN On Alert (Category: Breaking News)
Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Sri Lanka is a sovereign state which belongs to the international system. It must safeguard its sovereignty as well as its membership of that system. Sri Lanka’s enemies have a main objective – a separate state – and two subsidiary objectives which are a prelude to the main objective. Those subsidiary objectives ...
- Weerawansas actions may be legal but they endanger Sri Lankas international legitimacy (Category: Breaking News)
- The resistance to Ban-Ki-moon by Wimal Weerawansa (Category: Breaking News)
- Inaction on Sri Lanka undermines UN Convention: Canadian foreign minister (Category: Breaking News)
- World court on Kosovo: Lessons for Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
By Mangala Samaraweera Mr. Speaker, The Rajapakse administration has shown an uncanny ability to create world records in the last few years; prior to the General Election, Sri Lanka had the dubious honour of having the world’s largest number of...
- Sri Lanka must be concerned how Russia and China let down Sudan at the UN (Category: Breaking News)
- UNSG Panel-Report on Sri Lanka: Revisiting 'Accountability' (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan president at the UN denies war crimes (Category: Breaking News)
- Minister Weerawansa began his ‘hostage-taking demonstration’ with the connivance of the Rajapakses (Category: Breaking News)
by Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake “Just then they came in sight of thirty or forty windmills that rise from that plain. And no sooner did Don Quixote see them that he said to his squire, "Fortune is guiding our affairs better than...
- Sri Lanka: War on the diaspora continues to annihilate idea of Tamil Eelam: Dr. Sentas (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka @ 63: The ‘Military business model’ of post-war economic development (Category: Breaking News)
- The Final Report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission – A response (Category: Breaking News)
- Harmonizing our multi ethnic multi religious society without polarization is the way forward (Category: Breaking News)
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