Colombo (News1st) – Foreign Media has begun to report on the current status of the Sri Lankan rupee. One report published by Nikkei Asian Review says Sri Lanka which has loaded up on Chinese-funded infrastructure, is sinking deeper into a debt trap as …
First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Serbia, Ivica Dacic would visit India, Nepal and Sri Lanka from May 2 to 8, the B92 News station reported on Monday. The Serbian Foreign Ministry has said in a statement that PM Dacic would be meeting…
TRINCOMOLEE, Sri Lanka (April 28, 2018) Chief Musician Andrew Conover (left), native of Richmond, Va., assigned to U.S. Pacific Fleet Band plays with the Sri Lanka Navy Band during a performance for local Sri Lankan’s at Mattur public grounds as a part of a community relations event for Pacific …
TRINCOMOLEE, Sri Lanka (April 28, 2018) Sailors assigned to Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) dance with students from T/mu/Paddithidal Maha Vidyalayam School during a U.S. Pacific Fleet Band performance in support of Pacific Partnership 2018 (PP18). PP18’s mission …
TRINCOMOLEE, Sri Lanka (April 27, 2018) Chief Naval Air crewman (helicopter) Jesse Peterson (right), and Naval Air crewman (helicopter) 3rd Class Daniel Lewis (left), assigned to the “Wildcards” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23, demonstrate r…
The Sri Lankan film-maker Lester James Peries, who has died aged 99, was, like his Indian contemporary Satyajit Ray, more highly regarded abroad than in his native country. His career was dominated by a constant struggle to obtain finance and, during 5…
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s former minister of finance minister Ravi Karunanayake who fell from grace after being implicated in the bond scam, … Sirisena had maintained that it was against Sri Lankan culture to allow women to buy or sell liquor and wanted the archaic law kept in statute books …
The third gazette has been changed to read "Know Ye that by virtue of the powers vested in me by Article 70 of the Chapter XI of the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, I Maithripala Sirisena, President do by this Procl…
A network of regional refugee support groups in Australia are to hold a peaceful gathering in Hargreaves Mall in Bendigo, Australia on Tuesday to show their support for a Sri Lankan family facing deportation. RAR Bendigo chairperson Chris Cummins said …
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Chevron Lubricants profits fell 15 percent to 697 million rupees in the March 2018 quarter from a year earlier, while revenues slid 4 percent on top of a 9 percent drop last year, interim accounts showed. The firm reported earnings of 2.91 rupees per share. The stock closed …