Mar 29, 2018 (LBO) – President and CEO of Coca-Cola, James Quincey has met with Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe during his maiden visit to Sri Lanka. Affirming the company’s commitment to Sri Lanka, the company and its bottling partner has committed to contribute 50 million dollars into the …
The United States president, Donald Trump reauthorised special trade tariffs for a number of countries, including Sri Lanka. Signing the US Omnibus Spending Bill on March 23, Mr Trump ensured GSP was authorised until December 2020. The previous program…
Startling revelations are now coming to light as to how Sri Lankans too are getting actively involved in human trafficking. But there is a failure on the part of the authorities concerned in taking adequate action against these law breakers which has r…
Mar 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka’s rubber sector received a major opening from a world’s leader in car production when Slovakia called for using Sri Lankan rubber, especially rubber tires in its record setting car manufacturing industry. “We want to diversify our rubber intake and to this end want to expand the …
The International Federation of Journalists joined organisations in condemning the detention and threatening of a Tamil journalist by Sri Lanka’s military. Shanmugam Thavaseelan, of ABC media network was detained for more than two hours by the military and was only released after the newsroom …
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena (R) arrives to attend the Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2018.<br />Pakistan National Day commemorates the passing of the Lahore Resolution, when a separate nation for the Muslims …
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday reduced the responsibilities of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in the backdrop of the ongoing political turmoil in the country. The unity government of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and t…
In an Extraordinary Gazette issued today, President moved Central Bank of Sri Lanka and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Sri Lanka which were under the National Policies and Economic Affairs Ministry headed by the Prime Minister Ranil Wi…
Last December, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in a small hotel game room with decent acoustics — and with a tropical storm brewing outside — ten Global Voices contributors from around the world gathered in a room to talk about international friendship, cross-c…
The Sri Lankan government has decided to postpone International Workers’ Day celebrations to May 7 this year, to avoid an overlap with the famed Buddhist festival of Vesak. The government announced a Cabinet decision to this effect on Wednesday. May Day is being postponed to 7th of the month, …