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Telairity Consolidates Its Position in Asia with Win at Sri Lanka Telecom

Telairity Encoders and Integrated Receiver Decoders (IRDs) selected for multi-city video network deployed over Sri Lanka Telecom’s “Next Generation” IP Network U.S.-based Telairity, Inc., the broadcast industry leader in H.264/MPEG4 encoding technology, in partnership with systems integrator Mitter International Pvt. Ltd., has announced another milestone in providing encoding technology equipment to countries in the Asia-Pacific…

(0)Comments | August 25, 2016 12:01 pm

Bond Market Smackdown: SolarCity vs. Sri Lanka

Elon Musk’s big bond purchase should give his investors and Tesla shareholders pause The raging bond bull market evidently has its limits. That is a problem for SolarCity, and quite possibly Tesla Motors shareholders. SolarCity said Tuesday afternoon that Chairman Elon Musk, Chief Executive Lyndon Rive and technology chief Peter Rive would together purchase more…

(0)Comments | August 25, 2016 10:25 am

Sri Lankan stocks slip from over 3-mo closing high on month-end settlements

Reuters – Aug 24 Sri Lankan shares ended weaker on Wednesday, slipping from their highest close in more than three-months posted in the previous session, due to month-end settlements, brokers said. Analysts said turnover was higher on expectations of better economic performance after the government said it would achieve its revenue target for this year….

(0)Comments | August 25, 2016 9:34 am

Sri Lanka makes first ever appearance at the NY Trade fair

Sri Lanka pavilion at the ‘Artisan Resource at NY NOW 2016’ trade fair was opened by Dr. Rohan Perera, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, New York on 21st August 2016 at the Jacob Javits Center, New York. The trade fair is held from 21st to 24th August 2016 and…

(0)Comments | August 24, 2016 3:56 pm

Ceylon Chamber lines up top trade experts to speak on ‘FTA’s

The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce will conduct a seminar titled “Free Trade Agreements: What to Look out for and How to Benefit from Them,’ in a bid to help create awareness among its the business community. The seminar, which is held under the Chamber’s newly launched ‘Trade Intelligence Platform,’ will take place on the 19th…

(0)Comments | August 24, 2016 12:32 pm

Jacqueline to open a Sri Lankan restaurant in Mumbai?

Jacqueline Fernandez turned restaurateur two years ago, when she teamed up with chef Dharshan Munidasa to open an eatery called Kaema Sutra in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The actor is now contemplating expanding her restaurant business. A source says, “Jacqueline spends most of her time in India due to her acting assignments. So, she feels it…

(0)Comments | August 24, 2016 11:26 am

After meeting interim allowance obligations, Regional Plantation Companies call on stakeholders to urgently finalize productivity-linked Collective Agreement

States that continuing to resist the revision of the present archaic attendance-based wage as losses increase, without any other viable alternative, is putting the industry in peril Amidst mounting and huge losses in both tea and rubber brought about by rapidly falling commodity prices, crop losses due to abnormal weather, the resultant high cost of…

(0)Comments | August 24, 2016 9:51 am

George Steuarts proudly appoints Paddy Weerasekera as CEO- Consumer Sector

In an effort to strengthen the Group’s dynamic expansion and consolidation program with industry’s outstanding young professionals joining the top management, George Steuart and Company Limited, one of the fastest expanding conglomerates in Sri Lanka, recently announced the appointment of Mr. Paddy Weerasekera as the Chief Executive Officer of the groups’ Consumer Sector. Mr. Weerasekera…

(0)Comments | August 24, 2016 9:47 am

Sri Lankan stocks post 3-month closing high in high turnover

Reuters – Aug 23 Sri Lankan shares ended marginally higher on Tuesday and posted their highest close in three months, led by financials while turnover hit a 4-1/2-month high on expectations of better economic performance after the government said it would achieve its revenue target for this year. Tax revenue in the first seven months…

(0)Comments | August 24, 2016 9:42 am

Euro zone business growth stable in August; no Brexit hit yet

Reuters – Aug 23 Euro zone private business activity was stable in August, albeit at a muted level, but factories possibly face a tougher September as new order growth stumbled, a survey showed on Tuesday. Muddying the outlook for the coming months is the United Kingdom’s vote in late June to leave the European Union,…

(0)Comments | August 23, 2016 4:19 pm

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