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...There were also three security guards — two Sri Lankans and one Nepalese....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is I Am That, by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj....
...Smart reads Bad beauty Pond’s, the cosmetics brand owned by consumer product group Unilever, tried to pressure a former editor of Cosmopolitan Sri Lanka to promote its skin whitener products....
...Once you start playing your old LPs on it, you can’t stop. I absolutely love this product that was designed in Milan by a Swede, and engineered in Boston, with a Czech turntable and a Danish cartridge....
...The man who knows about the size of central bank reserves needed to defend domestic economic stability says this on Thursday at an economic forum in Sri Lanka (via Bloomberg): “China has a major adjustment...
...January capacity utilisation13.00: Singapore January retail sales14.30: BoJ’s Haruhiko Kuroda holds post-meeting press conferenceIndonesia’s imports, exports and trade balance are due today, as well as Sri...
...Armed with ‘excel spread sheets’ and taking along emerging markets investors such as Mark Mobius, he visited Kenya, Myanmar, Romania, Argentina, Vietnam, Nigeria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, and Ghana...
...(WSJ$) Catholicism in Asia The Pope returns to Asia for the second time, starting his trip in Sri Lanka before going to the Philippines....
...Related reading: Sri Lanka Tamil opposition wins in first polls since civil war, FT Sri Lanka chases the Chinese bandwagon, beyondbrics Sri Lanka: why the unexpected cut?...
...Chairman Tan Sri Razali appears not to think so. A vehicle in which he has a stake owns 14.4 per cent of Kentz and is backing the bid....
...Plus: why Beijiing is right to hold back; the democracy-elections trap in Egypt; why India needs its own Thatcher; Russia should follow Sri Lanka’s example; and thoughts on a Lula comeback....
...* EBRD: sharpish cut in forecasts * Indian industrial output up, but underlying growth weak * Sri Lanka: why the unexpected cut?...
...Other markets to give investors fright are Bahrain and Sri Lanka....
...ftcamp=rss#axzz1nYXozFkd Sri Lanka’s biggest policy overhaul since civil war risks inflation bump Sri Lanka’s biggest overhaul of economic policy since the end of its civil war risks a bump in inflation...
...As the Iron Lady put it: “From France to the Philippines, from Jamaica to Japan, from Malaysia to Mexico, from Sri Lanka to Singapore, privatisation is on the move.”...
...http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/f77a9768-62e8-11e1-9245-00144feabdc0.html Sri Lanka’s biggest policy overhaul since civil war risks inflation bump Sri Lanka’s biggest overhaul of economic policy since the...
...Operations in seven Asian countries — Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Macau, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines and Sri Lanka — likely to be sold or shut, sources say....
...Born in Sri Lanka to a business executive and homemaker, Rajaratnam was the second oldest of five children....
...Following business school, Mr Rajaratnam abandoned plans to work in Sri Lanka after civil unrest resulted in the death of 2,000 Tamils, the ethic group Mr Rajaratnam’s family belonged to, his lawyers said...
...Sri Lanka backs renminbi bank deals Sri Lanka’s central bank has given approval for the renminbi to be used in cross-border banking transactions, in a move that underscores the growing internationalisation...
...eastern Europe businesses are in Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic and analysts have valued them at about £100m, while the Asia businesses, including Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Indonesia, Sri...
...The jury did not hear from Mr Rajaratnam, the Sri Lankan-born American who rose through Needham & Co as a semiconductor analyst to form Galleon 14 years ago....
...MillenniumIT claims that its trading system, developed partly on an IT campus at the company’s base outside Colombo, the Sri Lankan capital, is the fastest in the world....
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