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Sri Lanka’s trade deficit, which has been contracting since November, last year, expanded in the month of July as exports fell more than the decline in imports, after a steady growth for several months, th
The Central Bank yesterday said it has decided to withdraw the directive issued to impose maximum interest rates on rupee deposits in April, following the lending rate caps ordered on banks from next month. The bank said the Monetary Board has decide
IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announces that Transcom Electronics Pvt. Limited will deploy IFS Applications™ 10 as its ERP backbone for managing core business processes and improving scalability in their retail business.
CNN: A groom who shares the same name as the travel operator Thomas Cook has had his wedding plans ruined by the company’s collapse. Cook and his partner, Amelia B
Business tycoon and Vallibel One PLC Chairman Dhammika Perera yesterday laid out a brand-new tax structure with tax cuts and incentives to guide Sri Lanka to the developed nation territory by 2030, as the current tax regime has failed to attract the
A senior politician in the country recently bemoaned the practice of subsidising loss-making state-owned enterprises (SOEs) through state banks which has indirectly resulted in crippling Sri Lanka’s banking sector.
The Finance Ministry yesterday announced a relief scheme to release the vehicles stuck at the Hambantota port, imported during January 2015 to November 2017, due to sudden hike in taxes.
The Export Development Board will launch Sri Lanka’s country-of-origin trademark for the spices sector today at JAIC Hilton, Colombo. The mark supports growers, processors and manufacturers by helping them clearly identify their products as Sri Lan
The Central Bank yesterday said it ordered all licensed commercial banks (LCBs) to cut lending rates at least by 200 basis points by next month as other policy measures employed by the monetary authority to stim
Hemas won the Grand Award for Asia’s Most Socially Responsible Company of the year at the Asia Corporate Excellence & Sustainability (ACES) Awards Ceremony held in Bangkok, Thailand.
The present regime’s absence of effective communication skills to engage all relevant stakeholders was pointed out as the main impediment for state-owned enterprise (SOE) reforms in Sri Lanka, by an opposition lawmaker, at a recent forum, although
National carrier SriLankan Airlines should be managed by the private sector as the interference by the government had led to its downfall, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday.
Sri Lanka’s vehicle registrations were steady in August from July as the equal number of working days in the month helped the registrations to remain virtually at same levels.
A Colombo-based research firm yesterday charged that the government’s failure to address the issues relating to the highly debated tobacco tax policy has led to a shift towards illicit products, which has already resulted in a considerable loss in
Expolanka Holdings PLC yesterday said it settled a lawsuit against its US subsidiary by agreeing to pay US $ 6.75 million without acceptance of liability.
(London) AFP: British travel group Thomas Cook yesterday declared bankruptcy after failing to reach a last-ditch rescue deal, triggering the UK’s biggest repatriation since World War II to bring back tens of thousands of stranded passengers.
Sri Lanka’s countrywide inflation measured by the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) rose to 3.4 percent in August, from 2.2 percent in July, amid the low base that prevailed in the corresponding month of the previous year and the increases in th
Dankotuwa Porcelain PLC was adjudged as Best Exporter in the Porcelain and Ceramic category at the recently concluded Presidential Awards 2018/19.
Raising the bar higher for excellence in the field of customer satisfaction, application of exemplary facility management practices with a commitment to protect the health and safety of the community at large, Facilities Management Integrated has set
Anverally and Sons (Pvt) Ltd., one of Sri Lanka’s oldest exporters of tea, with a history of 129 years, has won three awards on consecutive days last week, demonstrating the company’s continuing dynamism.
Pearson Lanka this week officially announced the relocation of their 300-strong global Technical Operations team to an ultra-modern facility located at the iconic ‘MAGA ONE’ building in Colombo 5.
Sri Lanka is a country in the shape of an ellipse. While the central part is mountainous, the rest of the island is a flat plain. The distance from the North to South is about 420 km and from East to West, it is about 220 km at the maximum point.
The economic growth of the Western Province could be accelerated by 10 percent per annum with the implementation of the advanced traffic management system proposed under the US$ 480 million Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) grant to Sri Lanka, a
As efforts to introduce a productivity-based wage model to the plantation sector have repeatedly proved futile with politicised estate sector trade unions, Sri Lanka’s Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) now seek State intervention at the Colombo
A leading academic in the country has called for smarter revamping of the local higher education sector, as Sri Lanka falls behind lower middle-income economies in this regard. While a large proportion
Sri Lankan presidential nominee Gotabaya Rajapaksa would ‘restore relations’ with the country’s top lender China if he wins the Nov. 16 vote and met with a senior Chinese official this week, according to an adviser
The Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) has made arrangements to participate at the World Travel Market (WTM) 2019 at a grand scale, which the agency said is set to bring a wide variety of opport
(Colombo) AFP: A fresh inquiry into the Easter suicide bombings that hit Sri Lanka killing at least 258 people was ordered by President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday, after concerns from the Catholic Church that current probes are not independent
(Washington) AFP: It could be a manipulated video embarrassing a candidate. Or a computer voting system locked by ransomware. Or doubts about electronic voting machines with no paper backups.
HONG KONG (AFP) - Asian markets edged up yesterday as investors turn their attention to the China-US trade talks, while keeping an eye on the Gulf region after last week’s air strikes on Saudi oil facili
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