An innovative service, Telebanking, which enables the bank's clients to carry out a variety of banking transactions over the phone...

by Angie K'Singam The NDB has spearheaded Rural Entrepreneurship by opening branches in strategic suburban and rural areas and by...

Ajita Kadirgamar has been in the field of Television for 14 years as a Producer, Presenter and Interviewer. For the...

CTC Trading, now owned by Collettes, has progressed into the international market by opening two branch offices in Myanmar and...

Peter Sutch China National Aviation Corporation Group, CITIC Pacific, Swire Pacific and Cathay Pacific Airways(CPA) are pleased to announce that...

by Sarath Ranasinghe The concept of Unit Trusts is relatively new to investors in Sri Lanka, but this investment vehicle...

IBM Personal Computer Company announced plans to deliver and support Microsoft's Windows. NT Workstation 4.0 preloaded on selected IBM Commercial...

Plans to build a new 200-room teaching hospital in the premises of the Institute of Technological Studies at a cost...

A subsidiary of Bartercard International, Bartercard South Asia Ltd., embarked on Sri Lanka's first cashless trade exchange called Bartercard Lanka...

Unilever Ceylon, one of the leading manufacturers of detergents, foods and personal care products conducted a week long "Safety Week"...

The Galadari Hotel in Colombo has a facility ideally suited for businessmen in its "Executive Floor", an entire floor of...

by Hiran Perera Hiran Perera works for a leading bank, and contributes regularly to "The Island" newspaper. Today entrepreneurs, businessmen...

Strategically situated at the crossroads between the East and the West, Singapore has fully exploited its prime geographical location to...

by Lucien Rajakarunanayake A major step forward in the direction of privatization was taken when the Public Enterprises Reform Commission...

President Kim Young-Sam told a banquet held in honour of the visiting Sri Lankan President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga that bilateral...

President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge in her address at the Banquet held in her honour said that the Korean people had...

Bitelli s.p.a Italy, one of Europe's leading specialists in road building and maintenance equipment has ap pointed Allied Trading &...

The articles on "Investment" published in the August 1996 issue of Business Today were taken from "Sri Lanka Investment Policy...

The Sri Lanka Rubber Manufacturing and Export Corporation Ltd., (SLRMC), has launched an extended latex collection programme to support the...

The Ministry of Industrial Development has, with the aid of other related agencies, pepped up the match manufacturing industry which...

DIMO International Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dimo Auto Industries, recently exported a consignment of 50 buses to Nitol...

Rajah Abeyasinghe with Malcolm Godbold Hyster, the world's second largest manufacturer of lift trucks, has appointed Allied Trading and Engineering...

The Sri Lanka-Korea Economic Co-operation Committee (SLKE- CC) of the Ceylon Chamber of commerce is organizing a Business Promotion Mission...

The Radio Communications Division of Bartleet Electronics has been sold to the Red Alert Group of Companies. This is part...

A core element of the restructuring program of the Board Of Investment is the appointment of Manilal de Mel as...

The Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) has been rated as the number one research house in the Indian Subcontinent according...

Mrs T. J. Bata admiring the trophy At the annual "Shoecon 1996" conference held in Italy, BATA, Sri Lanka literally...

Singapore Airlines' (SIA) Managing Director and Chief Executive Cheong Choong Kong signed a record order for up to 77 Boeing...

A reception was held at the Hotel Galadari recently to introduce Peter Davidse, the new General Manager of KLM Royal...

James William Spain, former U.S Ambassador to Sri Lanka, talks to Ajita Kadirgamar on why he decided to stay on...