ECONOMYNEXT – China’s Yingke Travels said it was partnering Sri Lanka’s Green Leaves Travels to carry 100,000 tourists to the island in the next 12 months, with authorities targeting 300,000 Chinese visitors in 2018. “We are the largest off-line tourism operator in China handling over 12 million …
Bipin Dani. Mumbai. Dayasiri Jayasekara, who last month resigned as Sri Lanka’s sports minister will continue to support the sports persons in the country. Speaking exclusively over hos mobile, he said, “though I am not a sports minister now, will continue to follow the sports and cricket in particular”.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has emarked approximately $2.8 billion wort hof loans over the next two years in a bid to assist Sri Lanka in meeting its key development goals, reports Sri Lanka. The ADB said that it looked to contribute to job creati…
One of Sri Lanka’s greatest stories of recent times– a story that may never be told again—comes to a sublime end today when a grateful nation and the government give a state funeral with full honours at Independence Square to Dr. Lester James Peries, a genius widely acclaimed as the Father of Sri …
Thousands of workers on Tuesday defied an order of the Sri Lankan Government postponing May Day events, by rallying in Colombo’s Fort area to mark the International Workers’ Day. Earlier, the Cabinet decided to defer workers’ day events to May 7, citing an overlap with the Buddhist festival of Vesak …
Sri Lanka’s SportsMinistryhad informed the board that the procedure followed in appointing the election commission was invalid. “The SportsMinistryhad informed us that the composition of the committee to oversee the elections needs to be formed only after an SGM and we will go ahead as we have …
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) selectors are reportedly upset with pacer Lasith Malinga for apparently wasting his time as bowling mentor of Indian Premier League (IPL) side Mumbai Indians and issued the 34-year-old an ultimatum to return home to play domesti…
Headquartered in Singapore, ThreadSol, a technology leader in material management solutions for the clothing industry, has announced the launch of its flagship product IntelloCut, Version 2.0, to boost the top-line growth of the Sri Lankan clothing ind…
Sri Lanka Cricket’s elections, which were postponed on technical grounds from the original date of May 19, will be held on May 31. Instead, their Special … Sri Lanka’s Sports Ministry had informed the board that the procedure followed in appointing the election commission was invalid. “The Sports …
President Maithripala Sirisena says, the challenge faced by the citizens of Sri Lanka is to find politicians who are that of integrity, and are on par with present requirements. The citizens need to identify the correct characters wisely. The President…