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oDoc app launches corporate subscription packages for unlimited medical consultations

27Aug

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Business

oDoc app launches corporate subscription packages for unlimited medical consultations

oDoc, Sri Lanka's video medical consultation platform, has introduced an employee healthcare solution for businesses. oDoc's corporate subscriptions present organizations with a compelling new option to offer employees unlimited fully paid doctor consultations from anywhere, including at corporate and factory sick rooms. oDoc is a smartphone app that connects patients with doctors for instant video consultations. It gives patients access to an SLMC registered doctor eliminating the need to brave traffic and spend hours in a hospital waiting room. In addition, patients benefit from expert advice, receive instant E-prescriptions (if medically required), and even have medicine delivered straight to their door, for no extra charge. It all takes place within a few clicks of a smartphon...

Politics business should be made a public service – JVP

20Aug

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LOCAL

Politics business should be made a public service – JVP

Time has arrives to convert today’s business of politics in to a public service, says JVP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayaka. For this, public should be changed from the village-level, according to the MP. He expressed these views addressing a public meeting held in Kottawa area.

ikman.lk Celebrates Six Years of Remarkable Success and Unveils Exciting Future Roadmap

29Jun

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Business

ikman.lk Celebrates Six Years of Remarkable Success and Unveils Exciting Future Roadmap

: ikman.lk, Sri Lanka’s largest online marketplace recognised as the preferred website for buyers and sellers to transact almost anything, celebrated six remarkable years of successful business operations recently, unveiling an exciting future roadmap for its growing customer base. Achieving continuous explosive growth since it was established, ikman.lk now seeks to create the ultimate example of an online marketplace which guarantees customers an exceptional user experience. Unveiling a series of exciting forthcoming plans, ikman.lk aims to focus on developing its main categories including vehicles, property, jobs and marketplace in a specialised manner improving its service offering further. ikman Compare which sources and processes motor insurance and leasing providers in a fas...

Sri Lanka committed to eliminate barriers to business environment, facilitate investments- Finance Minister

21Jun

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Business

Sri Lanka committed to eliminate barriers to business environment, facilitate investments- Finance Minister

The government of Sri Lanka is committed to further facilitate the investment climate through a well thought out program for eliminating barriers in the business environment, Sri Lanka's Minister of Finance Mangala Samaraweera said. Addressing the Sri Lanka Business and Investment Conclave 2018 organized by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, Minister Samaraweera said he believes Sri Lanka is poised to be a major source of investment for companies looking to use the island as a base to tap into the fast growing Indian Ocean region and urged the business community to grab the opportunity. Pointing out that economic stability is an essential condition for a private enterprise led growth model, the Minister explained that with a growing debt stock the government finds it difficul...

Karu urges public sector to “stop bleeding”

11Apr

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Business, Main Story

Karu urges public sector to “stop bleeding”

By Shannon Jayawardena Speaker of Parliament Karu Jayasuriya yesterday urged the public sector and state-owned business enterprises to improve good governance in order to ensure that the economy and society stopped “bleeding” in terms of losses and corruption. “Public enterprises play a vital role in the public delivery system and are major contributors to the national economy. Therefore I appeal to public enterprises to stop the bleeding and improve the quality of life of people,” Jayasuriya said at the launch of the handbook on ‘Good Governance for Chairmen and Board of Directors of Public Enterprises’. He emphasised that the handbook would serve as a guide to manage the affairs of those institutions effectively. “If the enormous losses of the public corporations can be stopped ...

Australia look for redemption after week of crying shame

30Mar

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Main Story, SPORTS

Australia look for redemption after week of crying shame

Embattled Australia go back to the business of playing cricket Friday after a week of scandal, suspensions, confessions and torrents of tears.When Australia take the field at the Wanderers in Johannesburg for the fourth and final Test against South Africa, it will be a very different-looking side which was trounced in the ill-fated match at Cape Town. There will be no sign of disgraced trio Steve Smith, David Warner and Cameron Bancroft while, up in the stands, coach Darren Lehmann will oversee his last match before stepping down. Captain Smith looked a broken man at a tearful press conference in Sydney after being banished and suspended for a year for his role in the ball-tampering scandal which shredded his reputation and rocked the sport. "I take full responsibility, I made a s...

Sri Lanka Finance Minister hopes to promote business climate with new tax system

20Mar

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Business

Sri Lanka Finance Minister hopes to promote business climate with new tax system

Sri Lanka's new tax system, which will be effective from 1st of April would create a level playing field for everyone to do business promoting the business climate, Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera said. A public awareness seminar on the new Inland Revenue Act that will be operational from 1st April 2018 was conducted today under the patronage of the Finance Minister. Today's seminar is one of many such programs to be organized island wide on the new Revenue Act with the purpose of reaching to the general public. Addressing the seminar, Minister Samaraweera emphasized that the new Inland Revenue Act, which received two thirds majority approval in parliament, is a widely endorsed piece of legislation that needs methodical implementation. "My contention is that our work will ...

Indian national arrested in Sri Lanka for illegally conducting business

19Mar

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LOCAL

Indian national arrested in Sri Lanka for illegally conducting business

Sri Lanka Police have arrested an Indian national, who has arrived on a tourist visa and conducting a business illegally. The suspect has been arrested on Saturday (17) in Muttur-Pattithidal area while engaging in business illegally, violating immigration and emigration rules, the police said. He was selling clothes at the time of his arrest, the Police Media Unit said. The suspect is to be produced before the Muttur Magistrate yesterday.

Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry delegation meets the President and the Prime Minister

26Jan

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Business

Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry delegation meets the President and the Prime Minister

A delegation of representatives of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry visiting Sri Lanka with the aim of exploring new business and investment opportunities has met with the country's President and the Prime Minister for discussions. A group of representatives of the 77-member Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JCCI) delegation met with President Maithripala Sirisena at the President's Official Residence Thursday. The delegation met with the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Temple Trees, in Colombo yesterday (25). During the meeting, President Sirisena, recalling the long standing friendship between Japan and Sri Lanka, expressed his gratitude to the Government of Japan for their assistance in various fields including, education, health and agricultural d...

12Dec

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Business, Main Story

Compete to deliver: PM

PM as Chief Guest at Interbrand-Daily FT Best Sri Lankan Brands Awards expresses confidence private sector can compete internationally but must change mindset Understanding branding key to performing well in the global market Embracing competition would be “deliverance” of SL from debt and other challenges FTA with Singapore next year, China to follow By Uditha Jayasinghe An exuberant Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe last night struck an optimistic note throwing his support behind the private sector insisting local companies had the capacity to compete and win globally, and calling on them to embrace competition as it was the “deliverance” of Sri Lanka’s growth challenges. Speaking at the inaugural Best Sri Lankan Brands Awards ceremony as its Chief Guest, Wic...