Sri Lanka’s strategic location, astride the main shipping lanes in the Indian Ocean, has kept in the gaze of the world powers more and more. The latest example of such attention turned out to be the visit of Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono to Sri Lanka last Thursday just for a couple of days, for the …
Other special guest at the programme was Renuka Dasanayaka, Senior Deputy Director, Industrial Relations BEPZ, Board of Investments of Sri Lanka. Approximately 4000 staff at Ansell Lanka, Biyagama and Ansell Textiles Lanka, Seeduwa manufacturing sites …
Sri Lanka’s once stubborn private sector credit has finally started to ease, a sign that the monetary policy tightening measures put in place finally are … Meanwhile, on a cumulative basis, Sri Lanka’s banks and other financial institutions have given out Rs.557.5 billion in credit to the private sector for their …
I first met D. Eassuwaren at the National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka in 1993 and since then, up to his demise a few days ago, I had been … trade chamber in the country and a social worker, contributed immensely towards the socio-economic develo…
Hey, I read alot of threads about railway and Eriks manual about Sri-Lanka and I understand that i wont get a ticket for my ride that is planned for 24/1 from nanu-oya (Nuwara eliya) to ella. I have following question: 1. Is it better to take a…
Sri Lanka Army, now recognized globally as a UN Troop Contributing Country (TCC) in this way has now had one more feather in its cap following the induction of a new contingent of 200-strong Combat Convoy Company (CCC) to Mali, a landlocked West Africa…
And Louisa Lytton proved she had fully left behind her onstage character Betty Rizzo, as she celebrated the end of her theatre gig with a sun-drenched holiday in Sri Lanka. The EastEnders actress, 28, swapped the 1950s garb for a sizzling bikini as she…
President Maithripala Sirisena said today even though two factions accused in Parliament each other of being thieves, people know who the real thieves were. “Just as a pick-pocket calls out “there is a thief, there is a thief” while he is snatching someone’s purse, two factions in Parliament today accused …
COLOMBO, Jan 10 (Reuters) – Access Engineering Company Plc , a listed Sri Lankan firm that has partnered with Chinese companies on construction projects, expects its net profit to grow by more than 10 percent in the 2017/18 financial year, its chairman…
Women over 18 years of age in Sri Lanka will now be able to legally purchase alcohol, the country’s finance minister said Wednesday. According to Mangala Samaraweera, the Sri Lankan government is amending the law that installed the ban 63 years ago. The amendment will also allow women to …