Channa Suraweera was shocked when the picture of a dead dugong jumped into his eyes for the first time.
Giri Kadurugamuwa climbs onto a mountain slope by the roadside and breaks off a big chunk from the exposed root of a tea tree. Without little apparent effort on his part the chunk falls off like a piece of dried biscuit.
A fact-finding journey across Sri Lanka these days might well be expected to take in the country's modernization and its port city construction, partly undertaken by Chinese engineers and workers.
Gregory Hayes, chairman and chief executive officer of United Technologies Corp, believes that globalization will not only increase trade among countries - but will also create global supply chain networks across developed and developing countries.
SAN JOSE, Califonia - Facebook wants you to sit in your bedroom wearing a headset and take a virtual vacation with faraway friends and family. Or use your smartphone's camera to spruce up your dinky apartment, at least virtually.
Vanke, China's largest residential property developer by market value, plans to spend 3 billion yuan ($441 million) on purchasing shares of Homelink, as the developer is bullish about the Beijing-headquartered real estate agency's development prospects.
HONG KONG/RIYADH/DUBAI - China is creating a consortium, including State-owned oil giants and banks and its sovereign wealth fund, that will act as a cornerstone investor in the massive multibillion dollar initial public offering of Saudi Aramco, people with knowledge of the discussions said.
China's manufacturing sector is set to climb the adoption curve of cloud computing and artificial intelligence this year, after the service industry reaped early gains from the internet, said Pony Ma, chairman of Tencent Holdings Ltd.
Chinese smartphone vendor Xiaomi Corp, best-known for its online sales strategy, said on Wednesday that it aims to generate 70 billion yuan ($10.2 billion) in revenue from its bricks-and-mortar stores in the next five years.
HONG KONG - CDH Investments Fund Management Co is working with the management of shoe retailer Belle International Holdings Ltd on a buyout that could be the largest-ever such deal for a Hong Kong-listed consumer company, sources said on Wednesday.
A top executive of chemicals, pharmaceuticals and life sciences multinational Merck Group said that its life science customers in China now order twice the levels ordered by customers globally, and it was poised to harness the Chinese e-commerce fever to boost that performance to even greater levels.
Some 500 Chinese sturgeon were released on April 8 into the Yangtze River in Hubei province in central China, as part of the ongoing repopulation program to boost the critically endangered species' flagging numbers in the wild.
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