The UK Pro Surf Tour has announced it will be returning to Sri Lanka in July this year for the “Sri Lanka Champion of Champions Surf Contest” at Arugam Bay.

Renowned as one of the best ‘point breaks’ in the world, Arugam Bay on the East coast of Sri Lanka is now a surfing hotspot and is accessible as a result of the recent end to the civil unrest in the country.

The 2009 Championships, which take place on July 1-6, will see 48 surfers fighting it out to become the ultimate champion including some of UK’s top professional surfers, international stars and local Sri Lankan surfers.

Every so often we receive questions that remind us, even in these tumultuous times, that some things never change—or at least, they shouldn't.

Take these three, for instance, which came in last week:

Do employees have a right to know about critical decisions taken by management, such as promotions, transfers, and demotions, especially if such events do not favor them?—Colombo, Sri Lanka

How do you keep talented people engaged in relatively boring work that you wouldn't want to do yourself?—New York

Raj Rajaratnam, the Sri Lankan-born founder of the $7 billion hedge fund Galleon Group, bought a 20 percent stake in broking firm Lanka Orix Securities Pvt.

Lanka Orix Leasing Company, which held 30 percent of the stock-broking firm, and Ishara Traders, which owned 40 percent, sold their stakes to Rajaratnam and other investors, said Tushan Wickramasighe, managing director at Lanka Orix Securities.

Moragoda proposed the construction of a hotel in Iran.

He made the remark in a meeting with the deputy head of Iran+s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization for investment and planning, Hossein Fazeli.

Fazeli said investment opportunities in Iran are not comparable with other countries, adding that the government has facilitated investments for building access routes and providing water, electricity and gas to tourism projects, CHTN reported.