SRI LANKA TO START DAILY BUSINESS NEWSPAPER

Posted on: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:41:00 EST


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COLOMBO, Nov 19, 2009 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) --
DMIR | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- Sri Lanka's Wijeya Newspapers,
a new privately owned publishing group, is starting a daily
business newspaper under the brand Daily FT, officials said.

Wijeya Newspapers publishes Sri Lanka's The Sunday Times,
Daily Mirror newspapers in English and The Sunday Lankadeepa
and Daily Lankadeepa in Sinhala and several other specialist
newspapers and magazines.

Daily FT, the country's first daily newspaper to focus on
business news is expected to be launched on November 23.

The business section of the Daily Mirror, which is now known
as Daily Mirror Financial Times will be re-branded Mirror
Business.

The business section of the The Sunday Times, now known as
The Sunday Times FT will be re-branded Business Times.

The Daily FT will be edited by Nisthar Cassim, a senior
journalists who had earlier edited the Bottomline newspaper and
Daily Mirror Financial Times.

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