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18 Reasons You Should Start Looking for Another Job

Thinking it's time to quit? Here are a few signs it might be time to move on from your current position.

BY JOHN RAMPTON
Entrepreneur and investor@johnrampton

The alarm clock goes off bright-and-early on Monday morning. What's your reaction? Are you ready to tackle the day head-on? Or, do you hit the snooze button and dread getting out of bed?

CIMA’s flagship event, the Business Leaders Summit, which will be held on the theme ‘Joining the dots’, will focus on how business leaders can take into account value drivers and turn risk into opportunity in an era where the business environment is characterised by its complexity and rapid change, brought about by geopolitical upheaval, digital media, the growth of emerging economies and changing customer loyalty.

By Charumini de Silva

With foreign capital inflow gathering pace during the past couple of months alongside expected debt and equity listings scheduled to take off in the next two months, the country’s capital market is hopeful that the positive trend will continue to end the year on a high note.

The Government enjoyed a 12% gain in revenue contribution from the Ceylon Tobacco Company Plc (CTC) to record Rs. 49 billion during the first half but analysts warned that the steady income stream would be at stake if the State went ahead with its overambitious move to up taxation of cigarettes to 90% of stick price.

US Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Charles H. Rivkin, will visit Sri Lanka and Burma between 8 and 12 August, the US Embassy said in a statement.

Assistant Secretary Rivkin will lead the State Department’s ‘American Innovation Roadshow’ to Rangoon and Naypyidaw from 8-10August in Burma. This trip is part of an ongoing series of State Department Innovation Roadshows across Asia that were launched by US State Secretary John Kerry and are part of US-ASEAN Connect.

Mirroring lacklustre international commodity prices, Sri Lanka’s trade deficit grew 15.7% to $ 814 million from $ 703 million in May 2015 as exports dropped by 12% reflecting contraction in all major sectors as imports edged up marginally by 0.03% to $1.59 billion, the Central Bank said yesterday in its latest external performance report, which also rounded up the deficit of the first five months to $ 3.4 billion, from $ 3.38 billion the previous year.

President Maithripala Sirisena and Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake share a lighter moment on stage during

the inauguration of the Sri Lanka Economic Summit yesterday.

President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday made an impassioned plea of support for small and medium enterprises as their development would directly improve the livelihoods of middle class Sri Lankans and called on his Finance Minister to create avenues to support private sector investment including providing tax concessions where possible.

Sri Lanka and the Principality of Monaco have established formal diplomatic relations, the Foreign Affairs Ministry announced.

Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Dr. Rohan Perera and his Monaco counterpart Isabelle Picco signed the Joint Communiqué on 26 July establishing diplomatic relations between the two countries, at the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in New York.

Source: http://www.ft.lk/article/558937/Sri-Lanka- establishes-formal- diplomatic-relations- with-Monaco

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Many are mediocre. Some are bad. And some are absolutely toxic. Here's how to tell.

BY JEFF HADEN | Contributing editor, Inc.

We can all spot terrible employees: they under-perform, they don't work well with teams, they struggle to meet expectations... but oddly enough, it isn't the obviously terrible employees who cause the real problems.

You could be making a big mistake if you blend the personal and professional too often at work

BY BRUCE POON TIP | Founder, G Adventures

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Saturday is the United Nations' International Day of Friendship, a day that's designed to "strengthen bonds among individuals and generate greater respect and understanding in our world." During these turbulent times, we certainly need more of that.