by Jayasri Priyalal Jayasripriyalal59@gmail.com The greatest challenges confronting the nation-states in the current era revolve around; deplorable debt, depleted natural resources, and degraded environment. Economic growth and future prosperity for all living beings are stalled due to the varying degrees of the 3D problems emerging out of ill-conceived policy divergences propelling the linear eco...

By Shamindra Ferdinando Against the backdrop of Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena’s quite belated (but better late than never) public confirmation of external interventions in Aragalaya, that led to the overthrow of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government in mid-July 2022, former cashiered Flying Officer Keerthi Ratnayake, with a never-say-die attitude even when odds are overwhelmingly stacked ag...

Emirates’ A380 route network has extended to the Netherlands with the launch on 1 August of services to Amsterdam. Emirates is the first carrier to offer a scheduled A380 service to the Netherlands, after just two years since its first flight to Amsterdam. The double decker will operate as EK 0147, departing Dubai to Amsterdam ...

The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) hosted the PATA Hub City Forum, London, 5 July at the Institute of Directors in Pall Mall. The objective was to engage on a variety of strategic matters including UK border issues, inward investment for the UK, Heathrow Airport, crisis response, the 2012 Olympic impact, and the UK’s controversial ...

TOURISM entrepreneur Rob Pennicott has won the right to keep running Bruny Island Cruises from Adventure Bay - until it relocates.

A tourism strategy has identified the value to Bruny Island of Rob Pennicott's award-winning cruise business.

BANGKOK (AFP): Thailand’s worst floods in decades have jolted a global supply chain already straining under the impact of Japan’s tsunami, as deluged factories threaten some of the kingdom’s key export industries. The floods have killed about 300 people, damaged one-tenth of Thailand’s rice paddy and made major roads north of Bangkok impassable. Toyota, Ford, ...

TASMANIAN tourism entrepreneur Rob Pennicott has made it to Mooloolaba on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

Roads Bring Development Roads, bring forth with it development, Sujeewa Mudalige, senior partner PriceWaterhouseCoopers Sri Lanka, an audit firm, told this reporter. Mudalige, who holds other key appointments such as being the President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, said that he has impressed upon Central Bank of Sri Lanka Governor Ajith ...

The Galle Literary festival is a haven of civilised values in a country that is no stranger to strife by Robert McCrum Associate editor, The Observer, UK [Click for more pictures] Ever since the Hay festival set up shop overseas...

Whether South Carolina should give a mall developer $100 million in tax incentives could be debated as early as today in the state Senate.Okatie Crossings, a proposed $400 million shopping mall outside Hardeeville, has stirred a heated debate over when the state should give businesses money to set up shop.The Okatie project has gained wide support in the General Assembly because it is expected to ...