Being the biggest of its kind to ever have been initiated in Sri Lanka, it is also the only one of its kind to offer books at very affordable prices, with discounts between 60 percent to 80 percent. The sale runs for 24-hours a day, non-stop for close …
The GSP Plus scheme of the United States comes into force today to benefit 120 countries including Sri Lanka. The US government has announced the resumption of the duty free entry of around 3,400 items to the country until the end of 2020. A Director o…
ITAK MP Sivamohan also intervened. They reportedly begged at least for two. There was no success with de Silva. The Minister and President were not available. Sri Lanka Guardian learns through a reporter researching the story that an appeal was made to the President’s Secretary Austin Fernando to …
Last month, the 2018 appropriation act for the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs ratified by the US Congress laid down several condition Sri Lanka needed to fulfill before releasing economic assistance funds one of which was…
Torture remained endemic throughout Sri Lanka in 2017, the US has said, highlighting limited progress made by the government in establishing additional transitional justice mechanisms. The US State Department, in a report, mentioned arbitrary or unlawf…
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s economic growth will rebound to 4pc this year from a 16-year low in 2017, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said late on Friday, but urged more reforms of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to temper fiscal risks and bolster the nation’s defences to external shocks. After a brief …
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s worker remittances rose 3.2 percent to 579.5 million US dollars in January 2018 from a year earlier, after climbing 8.8 percent in January, official data shows. Remittances for the first two months were up 3.09 percent to 1,308.9 million US dollars from 1,268.4 million US …
ECONOMYNEXT – Visa Inc, an international payments company said Sri Lanka can boost economic growth by moving to cashless transactions. "For instance, Colombo, with a population of 694,000 and GDP (gross domestic product) of 6.5 billion US dollar c…
In the meantime, rapes and murders of Sri Lankans continued with impunity elsewhere, in the war-torn North East and in remote villages in other parts such as Deraniyagala where a local politician had ‘rape centres’ in the village under his domain. To what ugliness did Sri Lanka descend to then? And to …
Nearly all major achievements in health care in Sri Lanka were made possible by medical administrators, various medical officers working in the field, public health officers, nurses, midwives and other para-medical staff including laboratory staff work…