OPEC could ditch dollars for euros
LONDON, Feb 8, 2008 (AFP) - OPEC could switch the pricing of oil from dollars into euros within a decade, secretary general Abdullah al-Badri told a weekly …
LONDON, Feb 8, 2008 (AFP) - OPEC could switch the pricing of oil from dollars into euros within a decade, secretary general Abdullah al-Badri told a weekly …
COLOMBO, Feb 8, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's legendary former cricket captain Arjuna Ranatunga, who recently took over the running of the island's troubled …
Feb 09, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lankan rebel lawmaker Sripathi Sooriyaarachchi who broke away from the ruling party of President Mahinda Rajapakse last year, …
Feb 9, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lankan government troops and Tamil Tiger guerrillas claimed on Saturday to have inflicted heavy casualties against each other in fierce …
Feb 09, 2008 (LBO) – Pressure is mounting to de-politicize Sri Lanka's new price index, which the authorities are already using as a guide for monetary …
Feb 8, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is setting up public vigilance committees and deploying thousands of policemen in plain clothes to strengthen security …
Feb 08, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Dialog Telekom, a unit of Telekom Malaysia, said it had raised 30 million US dollars from two banks to buy …
NEW YORK, Feb 7, 2008 (AFP) - Tobacco use could kill more than one billion people around the world this century unless governments and civil society act to …
TOKYO, Feb 8, 2008 (AFP) - World finance chiefs will try to bolster confidence in the faltering global economy when they meet Saturday amid signs of …
SYDNEY, Feb 8, 2008 (AFP) - Australia's widely criticised "Pacific Solution" policy of holding asylum seekers on remote islands ended Friday when the last …
Feb 8, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops smashed bunkers of Tamil Tiger rebels in the island's embattled north and kept up attacks elsewhere leaving 39 guerrillas …
Feb 08, 2008 (LBO) – A multi-million dollar project to build a new container port in Colombo is on track despite lengthy delays, a Sri Lankan government …
Feb 07, 2008 (LBO) - Sri Lankan stocks edged up on thin trading Thursday with a big parcel of Distilleries propping up turnover but investors remained worried …
Feb 07, 2008 (LBO) – Sri Lanka's Commercial Bank of Ceylon has tied up with financial giant JP Morgan Chase, to offer a foreign exchange card that can …
Feb 7, 2008 (AFP) - Sri Lanka earned a record one billion dollars from tea exports last year despite a drop in volumes, the island's tea board said Thursday. …
Feb 07, 2008 (LBO) -- Sri Lanka's Aitken Spence, a top leisure group that also runs resorts in the Maldives and India, said it had inked a deal to operate four …
TOKYO, Feb 7, 2008 (AFP) - The euro was slightly weaker against its major rivals in Asian trade on Thursday amid nervousness ahead of an interest rate decision …
LONDON, Feb 7, 2008 (AFP) - A property fund backed by an investment arm of the Dubai government bought prime west London property from the Queen's portfolio, …
US-VOTE - 02/07/2008 01:41 GMT - AFP PRINT WASHINGTON, Feb 6, 2008 (AFP) - Hillary Clinton's race for the White House showed vulnerability Wednesday as she …
Feb 7, 2008 (AFP) - All school sports have been suspended in Sri Lanka after a Tamil Tiger suicide bomb attack in the capital killed nine pupils and a baseball …