In the past few months, there has been an accelerated trend toward the use of plastic money. As...

Standard Charted Bank becomes the latest player in telebanking with the launch of its automated telephone banking service...

Smithkline Beecham International the worldwide health care company has appointed a Sri Lankan, Nalin Jayasuriya as their regional...

Singapore Airlines (SIA) will launch a new passenger service to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from August 3, 1997.The three-times-weekly...

The first of the series of rehabilitated locomotives was launched recently. The project which is funded through an...

Air Lanka has been awarded two awards, 'Best Company in Transport Business in 1996' by the Chartered Institute...

Dr Justin Samarasekera, one of Sri Lanka's architectural pioneers will hold his first exhibition of paintings Impressions of...

The Private Sector Infrastructure Development Company (PSIDC) was formed to give incentives to the private sector investment in...

Imagine how happy your mother would be if her son, living thousand kilometers away, visits her everyday!' says...

'Economists have a full time job in trying to keep a country's economy healthy. A healthy economy is...

Keeping It In The Family The family-run business has been the foundation of Asia's corporate identity for centuries....

The Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 1997 released by the United Nations last month...

It's all Negotiable Bargaining enters our lives every day. We negotiate for virtually everything from buying vegetables at...

Bill Gates' personal fortune is estimated at US$ 29 billion (equal to 9% of India's gross domestic product)....

Asia The stocks strongly responded to the movements in Wall Street and overall the stock exchanges in the...

AImost four decades ago in 1960, Sri Lanka enjoyed the same per capita in come of US$150 as...

It happens every day. There you are, in your car, pulled up in a queue of vehicles at...

Eradicating spam is like trying to cure the flu. A strain appears. A vaccine is developed. The bug...

If you want to buy a fast computer, this is a good year to do it. One of...

The Government of India's Union Budget for 1997-98 promises to galvanize an ailing economy. It has offered to...

0ne of the growing trends of work in the Nineties is that of performance evaluation. Here, your boss...

It is every manager's goal, everyone's dream, to build a winning team; certainly within. the world of sport....

Studies show that only 4% or so of dissatisfied customers ever give you a feedback about their issue....

Life in the world of big business, particularly in Colombo and the ever growing industrial suburbs of the...

Michael Crichton is well known to Sri Lankans as the author of Jurassic Park, one of the most...

If you were to pick up a dictionary to get the meaning of the word 'Mentor', you would...

In the last few weeks most investors were preoccupied in trying to predict the impact of the local...

Is privatisation a viable policy option in Sri Lanka? Is it being carried out purely at the behest...

A 3 Month strike launched by the employees of Pure Beverages ended on March after a joint 6th...

Why has employer-employee relations in the industrial world remained one of conflict ever since the industrial revolution? Today,...