Sri Lanka Cricket have roped in former Australia leg-spinner Peter Sleep to conduct a two-week coaching clinic with the country’s spin bowlers. Sleep, 60, is expected to arrive in Colombo later this month. An SLC official told Cricbuzz that the former leg-spinner was hired on the recommendations of head …
ECONOMYNEXT – Ocean Network Express, a new global container carrier alliance of three Japanese liner companies, has included Sri Lanka’s … of ONE Lanka, said ONE Lanka “looks forward to the partnership with SAGT and Port of Colombo to exceed customer expectations in Sri Lanka and in …
Neither Pakistan nor Sri Lanka have won a Test series in South Africa, but they will each look to change that in 2018-19.
China on Monday dismissed as “baseless” reports that it will militarise Sri Lanka’s southern port of Hambantota, saying the facility was part of Beijing’s “pragmatic cooperation” with Colombo for economic development. Chinese ambassador to Sri Lanka Cheng Xueyuan recently met Prime Minister Ranil …
Sri Lanka’s unity government will come up with a new plan to identify its weaknesses and find suitable remedies for them, a senior minister has said, amid the ongoing tussle between the country’s president and the prime minister. A new programme and pact is being prepared by President Maithripala …
COLOMBO, April 23 (Reuters) – The Sri Lankan rupee slipped to an all-time low on Monday, with dollar demand from importers outpacing limited selling of the U.S. currency by exporters, dealers said. The rupee hit a record low of 156.90 against the dolla…
COLOMBO, April 23 (Reuters) – Sri Lankan share index ended marginally weaker on Monday, hitting a one-week closing low, as investors awaited fresh cues as a new cabinet is expected to be sworn in this week, stockbrokers said. The market has been waitin…
Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Monday announced another bumper programme of home international fixtures for the 2018/19 season against Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The international seasons starts with three-match series against Zimbabwe in both wh…
COLOMBO, April 23 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s national consumer price inflation in March was at 2.8 percent from a year earlier, easing from 3.2 percent hit in the previous month, the Department of Census and Statistics said on Monday. On a month-on-month basis, consumer prices fell 0.7 percent in March …
COLOMBO, April 23 (Xinhua) — Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said his government will work with China to accelerate ongoing projects and attract more Chinese investment in order to promote economic and social development in the isla…