Standard Chartered Bank (S.C.B.) with Arpico Supercentres/Superstores and Hameedia has launched a ‘Spin & Win’ seasonal bonanza. S.C.B. credit cardholders will be rewarded with gift vouchers of varying denominations for purchases at the aforesaid establishments. The offer ends on December 31, 2009. S.C.B., Credit Cards Head Sheahan Arasaratnam said, “This festive season too we at [...]
Dankotuwa developed a new customer and shipped the first container in October to “Zara Home” in Spain. Zara Home is a specialty home store in Spain. Dankotuwa already supplies to the well known department store “El Corte Ingles” and to several other retailers in Spain, and with this new opening will have a wide portfolio [...]
By Risidra Mendis Controlling a tree’s growth, reducing it to more than half its size and admiring the finished product is known as bonsai. However bonsai artistes have failed to see the manipulation and harassment imposed on these trees for many weeks and months, while they cut, wire, clamp, defoliate and chop to get the [...]
Escape the pace of the holiday season and celebrate December at Mount Lavinia Hotel in a relaxed, tropical style. Its incomparable location, around-the-world food, Gospel Sunday brunch, and convenient access makes the Mount Lavinia Hotel a favourite destination. The Mount Lavinia Hotel takes on a special lustre in December, with traditional holiday decorations that is [...]
The hype has built up over the past few months ever since Mount Lavinia Hotel (MLH) had a standing ovation for Jazz At The Mount 2009, now an annual event on the calendar of MLH. But you need not wait any longer for unique entertainment, professional service and authentic retro grooves. Little Hut known to [...]
By Michael Hardy On Friday (27) President Mahinda Rajapaksa laid the foundation stone for a new USD $200 million international airport in Hambantota. The government says that the airport is necessary as a second gateway to Sri Lanka and as an alternate airport for aircraft arriving at Katunayake International Airport, but some aviation professionals see [...]
By Cassandra Mascarenhas The lone black flag with the white cross emblazoned over it fluttered over the threshold of No.46, Ferry Road, Welisara, while more white flags, banners and death notices lined the driveway leading up to the house where a sombre crowd sat silently on the veranda watching, in their midst, a little girl [...]
Following several years of unprecedented growth, MSC Cruises — the cruise division of the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC), the second largest container transporter in the world — boasts the most modern cruise fleet in the world, with 10 ships currently in operation and another scheduled for delivery in 2010. At this point, the company will [...]
Members and passed finalists of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (ICASL) can now take advantage of an offer made by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA ) and fast track to qualify as a Chartered Management Accountant. CIMA is today widely recognised and is seen as a truly global qualification, with [...]
Yang Xiuping Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China declared the Dalian Building open on November 26 at the CINEC Maritime Campus, Millenium Drive, IT Park, Malabe. Professor Wang Zhaohe, Chairman of the University Council Dalian Maritime University of China, unveiled a plaque. The signing of the agreement between Colombo International Nautical and Engineering College [...]
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