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Human resource (HR) personnel need to come out of the box and integrate more to improve corporate performance, says three of Sri Lankas leading businessmen. …
Human resource (HR) personnel need to come out of the box and integrate more to improve corporate performance, says three of Sri Lankas leading businessmen. …
Chinese millionaire Tao Shing Pee is 88, but his more than half-a-life-time love affair in tropical Sri Lanka is still going strong endash in fact Tao is …
The Ministry of Health hired 2,000 new nurses on Monday to ease pressure on public sector demand for trained nursing staff. The country has around 16,000 …
The Institute of Personnel Management (IPM) is trying to leverage growing local and regional interest in people management to position Sri Lanka as a human …
The latest threat to Colombos privileged is small, pesky and deadly. Municipal authorities reveal that Colombo citys better off are under attack by dengue …
Twenty five per cent of Sri Lankan households now have some form of motorized transport up from 15 per cent in 1996. 28 percent have refrigerators, up from 16 …
Accounting experts say local companies should invest more in voluntary social and environmental reporting, since indifference could be costly.It is cheaper for …
Investment in teacher training in Sri Lanka is paying off with signs of improvement in both teaching and learning, says the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) …
Ten flood damaged rural health centres in the Matara district were reopened for patients on Thursday, with a US$18,000 USAID aid injection for …
As a last ditch attempt to preserve dwindling water reserves, the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) rolls out a pilot project on Thu. to fix a meter on each City …
Old age is catching up with Sri Lanka but taking it slow and easy in comfortable retirement is just not an option available to this islands 19 million people. …
Sri Lanka is drumming up support for an annual regional export sector exhibition, kicking off its campaign with a 4-day local event in November 2004. A …
The HSBC Group on Friday finalized plans to pump in US$ 25 mn to set up its seventh group service centre in Sri Lanka, generating over 2000 jobs.The call …
Sri Lankas national accounting body is pumping more money into spreading the gospel of good accounting practices throughout the country.The Institute of …
The advertising industry is riding the spending wave from the last two years of economic growth and the SLIM awards organisers are looking at maintaining …
Although once lucky with SARS and twice lucky so far with the Avian Flu the next outbreak of a new infectious disease could push luck beyond its limits - but …
A new law to label food items gets activated from April 1, giving traders barely a month to redesign their packaging materials.April is certainly looking to be …
The government will amend its newly minted labour retrenchment formula to raise the maximum compensation ceiling from 30 to 50 months of salary.rnrnThe new …
Koreas Myunghim Lanka (Pvt) Ltd has signed up to build a US$ 18 mn township development project in Kalutara.The Board of Investment says the 100 percent South …
Nawaloka Hospitals says it is forced to nurse a Rs. 85 mn in debt and interest payments as its initial share issue gets delayed due to political theatrics. …