Common Issues
Sep 04, (LBO) - Finance ministers of commonwealth countries will try to find ways to improve aid delivery to developing countries and made aid more effective, …
Sep 04, (LBO) - Finance ministers of commonwealth countries will try to find ways to improve aid delivery to developing countries and made aid more effective, …
Sep 04, (LBO) - Sri Lanka’s central bank, which froze the bank accounts of a charity operating in the country’s North and East areas said Monday, …
September 04, 2006 (LBO) – The Distilleries Group is in talks to increase their equity stake in its fund management unit National Asset Management Ltd or …
Sept 04 (LBO) – NDB Bank said Monday that it had picked up a balance 70 percent stake in NDB Housing Bank, following Central Bank approval. NDB Bank held …
MUMBAI, Sept 4, 2006 (AFP) - Bollywood is bucking a global trend of outsourcing technical film work to India by using experts from abroad to provide special …
Sept 4 (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops Monday captured an eastern coastal town used by Tiger rebels to launch artillery attacks against the strategic naval port of …
Sept 4 (AFP) - Sri Lankan troops Monday captured a town used by Tiger rebels to launch artillery against the key naval port of Trincomalee, but President …
Sept 04 (LBO) - Ceylon Petroleum Corporation said Monday that it would jack up fuel prices with effect from midnight Monday, to offset losses made by the state …
Sept 04 (LBO) - The government has shelved a bidding round for oil exploration until it sorts out a battle with Norwegian company TGS Nopec to buy up three …
Sept 3, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lanka on Sunday stepped up its campaign against Nordic truce monitors who accused government forces of involvement in the killing of …
Sept 3, 2006 (AFP) - Fighting between troops and Tamil Tigers near a key northeast port hit a lull Sunday, residents said, a day after 80 rebels were …
NEW DELHI, Sept 2, 2006 (AFP) - India should make the rupee more freely convertible over the next five years to realise the country's "maximum" economic …
CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh, Sept 2, 2006 (AFP) - Bangladesh's trade shipments ground to a virtual halt Saturday as shipping firms refused to use the nation's main …
Sept 2, 2006 (AFP) - A second cargo ship was loaded here Saturday with supplies for desperate residents of Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna peninsula, where the …
Sept 2, 2006 (AFP) - Sri Lanka's navy killed at least 80 Tamil Tiger guerrillas after a six-hour battle with a flotilla of rebel boats off the island's …
September 01, 2006 (LBO) - James Finalys & Company says its export revenues fell for the six months to June as the firm shipped more low value added bulk …
GUWAHATI, India, Sept 1, 2006 (AFP) - India, the world's largest tea producer, will boost tea imports to cover growing domestic demand despite an expected …
September 01, 2006 (LBO) – Lanka Bell, one of Sri Lanka's privately held wireless telecom operators, is in talks with India's FLAG Telecom to lay an …
PARIS, Sept 1, 2006 (AFP) - Only a week after Pluto was stripped of its status as a full-fledged planet of the Solar System, rebel astronomers have launched a …
NEW DELHI, Sept 1, 2006 (AFP) - Millions of Indian television viewers will pay a maximum five rupees (11 cents) a month for each pay channel under a new system …