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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has allocated a US$ 600,000 grant from the Health System Enhancement Project to the Government of Sri Lanka to finance preventive and response efforts to fight a potential
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Disney will close its giant theme parks in Florida, California and Paris and pull the releases of major blockbusters including ‘Mulan’ over the coronavirus, it announced Thursday.
Entertainment in Sri Lanka is now set to reach new heights, and break mundane lifestyles and routines, with the launch of something truly exciting. With the purpose of giving people a unique experience of fun beyond bowling, with family and friends,
KATHMANDU (AFP) - Nepal yesterday barred climbers from all mountains - including Everest - over the coronavirus pandemic, in a major blow to its tourism industry. The Himalayan country, which has so far confirmed one coronavirus case, earns 4.4 milli
TOKYO (AFP) - Asian markets opened in freefall yesterday, extending a global rout that saw bourses experience their worst day in decades on fears of a recession caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei index n
The Lanka Exhibition & Conference Services (LECS) has announced the indefinite postponement of ‘Construction Expo’ exhibition.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Banks have hundreds of billions of dollars in credit lines extended to corporate America. Some companies are no longer banking on them. Airplane maker Boeing C
SINGAPORE (AFP) - Oil prices swung more than six percent yesterday, but were still on track for their biggest weekly loss in more than a decade owing to a price war and the spreading coronavirus pandemic.
Sri Lanka’s apparel sector has presented a paper assessing the possible impact of coronavirus (COVID-19) on the industry, which also contained proposed measures that would help safeguard the small and medium-sized industry players.
Sri Lanka’s hotel room occupancy levels have plunged below 40 percent amid the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in several key tourism markets of the country and global and local travel restrictions.
The director board of Browns Investments PLC has decided to raise Rs.19.1 billion through a rights issue.
Sri Lanka will be able to reap considerable socio-economic benefits from improved food security if the government stands ready to commit a budgetary commitment of US$ 122.5 million over the next 10 years, according to a United Nations Industrial Deve
Tighter regulations on classification and measurement of credit facilities for finance and leasing companies (FLCs) will accelerate recognition of bad loans in 2020-2022, which is likely to exert pressure on FLCs’ capitalisation due to the knock-on
ICRA Lanka, a part of Moody’s Investors Service, assigned a bullish outlook to Sri Lanka’s burgeoning real estate sector with higher prospects for vertical living being envisaged with limited availability of land.
Chicken farmers have been squeezed as the government banned the import of maize this week, in view of a bumper harvest, issuing import permits to political surrogates and price controls slapped on chicken.
The Central Bank has extended its credit support scheme introduced in January for small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) borrowers of the banking sector to non-bank financial institution (NBFI) borrowers.
Australia yesterday unveiled a massive US$ 11 billion spending plan designed to curb the economic hit from the coronavirus pandemic and avert the country’s first recession in 29 years.
The construction industry has been going through a crisis during the last two years. The industry, which contributes almost 7 percent to gross domestic product (GDP) of the country and was at the forefront in driving the infrastructure development of
5G is poised to transform our future sooner than we expect. Once deployed, 5G is expected to help evolve the communication paradigm, and give birth to new products, Internet of Things (IoT) devices and industries, as it offers a huge leap forward in
The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) and Labour Relations Ministry request the Sri Lankans who intend to migrate to foreign countries for employment to temporarily postpone their plans, due to the coronavirus.
The workers’ remittance flows to Sri Lanka are expected to take a hit from COVID-19, which is playing havoc in at least two of the countries from where Sri Lanka gets a substantial amount of remittance income.
National Development Bank PLC (NDB) is confident of achieving 16 percent credit growth for this year but does not rule out the possible hiccups from the deadly coronavirus, which is threatening global growth and international trade.
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC) convened a special meeting yesterday to assess the current situation in the stock market and determine what regulatory relief and assistance needed to manage the impact arising from the global
Sri Lanka will come under pressure to sign the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) Information Technology Agreement (ITA) this June, the Department of Commerce (DoC) said, as the government is expected to put forward its position at the agency’s upc
Oil prices tumbled yesterday after Saudi Arabia and Gulf partner UAE stepped up the price war with plans to flood the global markets while a rally in equities evaporated as investors nervously await a US coronavirus relief plan.
The Bank of England (BoE) yesterday slashed its main interest rate to 0.25 percent in an emergency move to combat the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak on the UK economy.
As the role of smart tech in people’s lives expands even further, developers have become a driving force for software innovation. At Microsoft, we are working to enable even greater developer opportunity and innovation by providing the best experie
The Pathfinder Foundation from its inception has been an active contributor and participant in the economic policy and the development dialogue in the country. When the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) was established in 2004, we were keen to a
The local apparel sector, following a series of stakeholder consultations, has assessed that the immediate revenue loss for the industry due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak in China would be about US $ 510 million, which amounts to approximate
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