COLOMBO, April 19 (Xinhua) — Over 500,000 people still remain affected by the drought in 10 districts of Sri Lanka, according to the situation report issued by the Sri Lankan Disaster Management Centre (DMC) here on Thursday. The DMC said the 10 distr…
COLOMBO, April 19 (Xinhua) — The Sri Lankan government will target a revenue of 4.4 billion U.S. dollars through its tourism sector this year, Tourism Minister John Amaratunga said Thursday. Sri Lankan Tourism earned a revenue of 3.9 billion dollars i…
Lord Baron Naseby, a member of the British House of Lords, noted that the true picture on Sri Lanka has not been given to Geneva and this has … Lord Baron Naseby, appreciating the development programme conducted by Sri Lanka, assured to provide his f…
( April 19, 2018, Sydney, Sri Lanka Guardian) For the last three four months, Sri Lanka has not been moving forward as it should have been. The most affected are the economy and the people’s living conditions. Only consolation is that there is no overt political repression by the government despite strong …
The UK’s Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox said that Britain is ready for direct investments in Sri Lanka, while increasing the investments in the country. He further said that the necessary process in this regard will be implemented in the near future. President Maithripala Sirisena who is in …
His question was how Zuckerberg managed to keep Facebook free. While the internet has gone to town with sticking the quote on any stick-able surface, those of us reading between the lines saw more. Here we explore why Facebook is in a soup these days a…
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka Telecom said broadband data will dominate revenue despite thinning margins and rising capital expenditure with the telco developing its own over-the-top (OTT) platforms for voice, audio, picture and video messaging services like…
Reduced authoritarianism and a significant widening of the space for dissent constitute the Sri Lankan government’s greatest accomplishments. In the wake of coordinated anti-Muslim violence, the Sri Lankan government announced a state of Emergency last month. Colombo also placed restrictions on …
“Iran has always have had good relations with Sri Lank in areas of trade and politics, although with tides and ebbs but it has always been in place,” said the Speaker of Iranian Parliament Ali Larijani on Wednesday upon arriving in Sri Lanka while addr…
When Fernando closed 13 years ago on Castlereagh, Sri Lanka’s government was in a cease-fire with a secessionist militia, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, and optimism was in the air. He saw an opportunity to cater to fans of his family’s burgeoning tea farms, who were flocking here from around …