May 07, Colombo: Many political parties in Sri Lanka mark the international workers’ day, May Day today as the government postponed the May Day celebrations to 7th May this year due to the Vesak festival coinciding with the May Day,. Sri Lanka Freedom party will hold its May Day rally presided over …
People smugglers are marketing New Zealand as a back door into Australia, an Australian government minister said today after Malaysian authorities intercepted a boat carrying mostly Tamil asylum seekers from Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan high commissioner …
May 07, Colombo: Sri Lanka Police acting on information received had arrested three suspects with 69 kg of Kerala Ganja (Kerala Cannabis) in Vavuniya in the Northern Province. Officers of Police Narcotic Bureau division of Vavuniya during a raid conduc…
May 07, 2018 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Ports Authority has recorded a total growth of 15.3 percent in terms of profits for the first quarter of 2018 with Colombo Port alone posting a 16.2 percent growth. In 2017, Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) posted 45.6 bi…
Sri Lanka increases import duties on potatoes as local prices drop … Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Finance has announced that the special commodity levy on imported big onions and potatoes had been increased with effect from midnight Wednesday, May 2nd. … Source: Colombo Pages / Sri Lanka Customs.
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka and Thailand will begin talks on setting broad parameters for a free trade deal from May 2018, officials said. The scheduled for May 16, the ‘scoping’ meeting set out the agenda and the areas covering the free trade deal. Sri Lanka has expanded protectionism over the last …
A good place to start is Sri Lanka: one of many countries where “fake news” is not the slightly jokey notion regularly played up by Trump, but …
The proposed loan support, which is part of IFC’s ‘Sri Lanka Agriculture Finance Program’, is aimed at providing a holistic solution to bridge an estimated agriculture financing gap of $2 billion, the development institution said. “Through the proposed project, Alliance expects to provide funding to an …
Statement made by Mangala Samaraweera, Minister of Finance and Media of Sri Lanka at the Plenary Session of the Asian Development Bank’s 51st …
May 06, Colombo: The World Rubber Summit 2018 organized by the International Rubber Study Group in collaboration with the Ministry of Plantation Industries will be held in Colombo on the 7th and 8th of May, with Minister of Plantation Industries Navin …