SRI LANKA: Gov’t, EU in Back-channel Talks Over Fate of Trade Pact
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By Feizal Samath COLOMBO, Nov 8 (IPS) - Sri Lanka has reacted strongly to a European Commission (EC) probe on its human rights record, saying it is politically motivated. On Friday, Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama... [read full story]
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Sri Lanka:Sri Lanka gears up to hold first Design Festival
Sri Lanka is gearing up to hold its first annual Design Festival at the end of this month in a bid to put the country on the map as a source of design as well as a manufacturing destination. The event, which has been organised...
Record Turnover
Nov 21, 2009 (LBO) - Turnover at Sri Lanka's Colombo Stock Exchange has hit an all time record of 115.2 billion rupees by November 21, topping a previous annual high of 114.6 billion reached in 2005, the bourse said. Average...
Leisure Spend
Nov 22, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's John Keells Holdings is ready to invest nearly 6.0 billion rupees over the next two to three years in upgrading and building new hotels if tourism arrivals pick up after the end of a 30-year war...
George F. Will: Fossil fuels belie environmentalism
What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism? London, seat of parliamentary democracy and center of finance?...
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