The CIMA Business Leaders Summit 2010 will take place at the Cinnamon Grand Colombo on July 28 and 29. The two-day flagship event in the CIMA calendar is expected to attract over 400 diverse groups of corporates, business leaders and professionals. Given the opportunities available with the end of the war the focus of the [...]
Leaving the mountains, lakes and valleys where they are, Chef Siegler Serge and Fery Stockbauer brings the best of Switzerland to Sri Lanka to celebrate the founding day of the confederation. Mount Lavinia Hotel will begin a week long celebration particularly the day dedicated to the founding of the confederation, from July 26 to August [...]
Italy have been dumped out of the Football World Cup, losing 3-2 to Slovakia in one of the surprise results of the tournament. Mark Duff reports from a football-obsessed nation in mourning. On a balmy Summer evening in July 2006, Italians from Naples to Milan gathered round television screens in bars and piazzas, hardly believing [...]
Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association The Lemonade Super 17 Schools Cricket Tournament Organised by Sri Lanka Schools Cricket Association and Masscom (Pvt) Ltd is currently taking place and will go on until the end of August. The main sponsor of the tournament is Ceylon Cold Stores (Pvt) Ltd. Masscom (Pvt) Ltd signed up a five [...]
By Rohan Samarajiva When the first bilateral agreement setting a legal framework for services trade, the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement, went through, it became the main issue in a general election that saw Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, its principal proponent, win. When the India-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement went through in 1998 there was barely [...]
By Sharm de Alwis The saga of Thomian rugby began with Justice Noel Gratiaen urging Warden de Saram to include rugby in the sports curriculum despite the warden’s reluctance as there had been a fatality in soccer after which soccer was banned. In 1955, together with St. Joseph’s, the Thomians joined Trinity, Royal and St. [...]
MindWave Technology Training is an institute specialized in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) related training. The company was setup by individuals who collectively had 30+ years of experience in the field of ICT. Having worked in various roles locally and overseas, across the software development life cycle and also in roles of capacity building, coaching [...]
LESON Lecture Series On Study And Career Opportunities Aspirations Education, the premier career guidance and placement services centre for the fourth successive year, presents, “Aspirations 2010 – International Education Exhibition” on July 3 and 4 at Ceylon Continental Hotel, Colombo and July 6 at Light House Hotel, Galle from 9 am to 6 pm. The objective [...]
By Emil van der Poorten First, I need to make a few follow-up comments with regard to last week’s column about family dynasties in Sri Lankan rugby. Several readers called me with a whole slew of instances where more than one sibling in a family had played club rugby during the time when I was [...]
Odel, an upmarket clothing retailer will open its initial public offering (i.p.o.) on July 5, with plans to raise Rs. 250.5 million after listing 11.52% of its equity, with Ms. Otara Gunewardene being its principal shareholder with 55.77% equity of the company followed by her brother Ajit (John Keells Holdings p.l.c. Deputy Chairman) with 27.88% [...]
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