Search Results for: Sri Lankan

BY MUNZA MUSHTAQ

As Sri Lanka’s military makes its final thrust against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the country’s government is trying hard to ensure the safety of its only international airport and its passengers, because of an enduring risk of attack from the separatist group.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has issued a European Union (EU)-wide alert about the discovery of melamine contamination in lemon puff biscuits from Sri Lanka. The warning was made via the EU’s RASFF food safety alert system. This network also recently warned about the discovery in Finland of aflatoxins in groundnut kernels imported from Germany, originally grown in India.…

By Katherine Dunn

The travails of Roman Polanski in Switzerland this autumn have offered some lessons to the world’s wanted over extradition laws and how to deal with them. The Polish director has of course been living in France, with little fear of extradition, since 1978, when he fled the USA facing statutory rape charges.…

BY MUNZA MUSHTAQ

DOING business in a country wracked by civil war is never easy, and involves extra cost, but with care and good management, oil and gas companies can still turn profits in such circumstances. Sri Lanka is a good case in point: multinationals Shell, Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) and Chevron Lubricants are trading successfully in this country, even as its government’s armed conflict with Tamil Tiger separatists reaches an expected military climax.…

By Keith Nuthall

Should society worry about the impacts of a civil war on wildlife when people are dying? This June, Sri Lanka wildlife officials treated elephants for gunshot injuries. Of the 74 recorded elephant deaths in north and northwestern Sri Lanka in 2007, 44 were killed by gunfire.…

BY SAEED AKHTAR BALOCH

PAKISTAN’s automobile industry, contributing 2.8 % to the country’s GDP by financial year (FY) 2006-7, has grown impressively this decade. But the sector’s growth may turn negative this year because of high inflation, especially rising steel prices, political uncertainty and overall economic recession in Pakistan and elsewhere.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI

LIKE other nurses in the remote Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, religion played a part in convincing Dechen Om that she should become a nurse.

A Buddhist, like most of her co-patriots, she believed that by becoming a nurse she would get the chance to serve ill people and earn good karma so in the next life she would be born into a good family.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New Delhi; SAEED AKHTAR BALOCH, in Lahore; and KEITH NOYAHR, in Colombo

THE SOUTH Asian knitwear industry is experienced mixed fortunes at present, with the impact of China’s production boom and the global liberalisation of the textile sector still changing sub-continental fortunes.…

By Keith Nuthall

A UNITED Nations-sponsored global initiative to encourage business schools to teach and promote social and environmentally responsible commercial practices has gathered a critical mass of support. More than 100 business schools worldwide have now signed up to the Principles for Responsible Management Initiative.…

BY KEITH NOYAHR, in Tudella, Sri Lanka

A UK-based company, which imports fresh fish from 35 countries worldwide, for resale in Europe, has created an alliance with two Sri Lanka domestic fishing and export companies to form Ceylon Fresh Seafood (Pvt.)…