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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

0ne of the growing trends of work in the Nineties is that of performance evaluation. Here, your boss not...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is clear that the government has yet to get to grips with the nation's inflation problem. The figure...

Seven years ago Celltel broke new ground in Sri Lanka by becoming the first private telecommunications operator offering cellular...

Among the movers and shakers in the brave new world of the Internet, there is a sense not only...

The Internet has provided a faster, cheaper, and more reliable platform for communication of business. data within and between...

Scene Number One: You head a construction company which plans to build a twenty-storeyed office complex in say, Male....

American Internet stock offerings are exempt from US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) registration. This makes their resale in...

It was a point in time to realise that all those rumblings and mumblings about the government not having...

 The process of identifying the characteristics, qualities and skills for a job is known as job analysis or position...

The 1934 Securities Act (US) states that any private company with over 500 public shareholders is public (reporting) company....

The Sri Lankan-British relationship goes back a very long way. It was really under the British Raj that the...