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(Colombo) AFP: Sri Lanka’s toppled premier likened the president to Hitler yesterday as he demanded to be reinstated, almost six weeks into a paralysing political crisis in the Indian Ocean nation.
Sri Lanka will launch the much-awaited Rs.4.5 billion global tea promotion in Russia next February, followed by Japan, China and Ukraine, the Sri Lanka Tea Board (SLTB) said.
The new credit granted by Sri Lanka’s banks marked a record growth for the year during the month of October, accelerating from the previous high in September, as the borrowings appear to be continuing defying the rising market interest rates.&n
(London) REUTERS: Unilever is to buy GlaxoSmithKline’s Horlicks nutrition business for US $ 3.8 billion, boosting the Anglo-Dutch group’s position in India with the addition of the malted drink.
(Colombo) REUTERS: A Sri Lankan court yesterday issued an order preventing Mahinda Rajapaksa from acting as prime minister and holding Cabinet meetings, the latest twist to a political drama gripping the South Asian country.
At the opening ceremony of the first China International Import Expo (CIIE) that was just concluded, President Xi Jinping pointed out that holding the CIIE is “China’s major initiative to still widen market access to the rest of the world
To begin, after the financial crisis, the regulators and funds came up with a new bunch of new governance structures and rules that they wanted their companies to practice and adopt. This new governance regime brought about new challenges for the cha
(Colombo) REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee closed firmer yesterday as banks sold dollars due to month-end inward remittances, but the rupee is still under pressure as investors continue to sell rupee-denominated assets on a credit rating downgrade and a
The Right to Information (RTI) Commission issued an order on November 27, 2018 directing the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) to release data on Employee Provident Fund (EPF) secondary market transactions relating to 2015 and 2016.
The director board of Seylan Bank PLC has decided to raise Rs.5 billion through Basel III compliant debentures, the bank said in a stock exchange filing on Friday. Accordingly, Seylan plans to issue 50 million rated, unsecured, subordinated redeemabl
Sampath Bank PLC said it is raising up to Rs.7 billion in Basel III compliant debentures, following a director board decision on the same on November 29. The debenture issue will have three tranches. The initial issue will see the bank issuing 50 mil
(Colombo) AFP: Sri Lanka on Saturday slashed a tax on sugary drinks in a controversial reversal of an anti-diabetes policy that attracted immediate criticism. The finance ministry ordered an immediate 40 percent reduction in the levy as part of a pac
The National Economic Council (NEC) asserted that a medium to long-term economic policy and programme enhancing economic growth is the best and only viable remedy to address the fundame
Consumer prices in Colombo rose 3.3 percent during the month of November on year-on-year basis, accelerating from 3.1 percent recorded for October, the data released by the Census and Statistics Department showed.
Braybrooke Residential Towers (Pvt) Ltd, signed an agreement with the Board of Investment (BOI) for TRI-ZEN, a pioneering residential development. The project is a joint venture between JK Land (Pvt) Ltd., a subsidiary of John Keells Holdings P
The National Development Bank (NDB) for the first time has won the coveted ‘Bank of the Year’ award presented by The Banker of the UK, ending the year 2018 on a high note.
BOI signed an agreement with Braybrooke Residential Towers (Pvt) Ltd to set up an apartment complex in Colombo 2. The total investment of this proj
(Tokyo) AFP: A Tokyo court yesterday extended the detention of former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn, local media said, after his arrest on allegations of financial misconduct that have shake
(Washington) AFP: Marriott International said yesterday that up to 500 million hotel guests may have had their data compromised in a hack of the Starwood reservation database.
Sri Lanka’s overall computer literacy reported for 2017 was 28.6 percent, while the urban sector showed the highest computer literacy rate of 40.5 percent among residential sectors.
(Colombo) REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee closed firmer yesterday as banks sold dollars due to month-end inward remittances, but the currency is still under pressure as investors continue to dump rupee-denominated assets on a credit rating downgrade an
(Mumbai) AFP: India’s economic growth slowed to 7.1 percent in the second quarter, official data showed yesterday, as its banks endure a liquidity crunch that is hampering investment in Asia’s third-largest economy.
(Colombo) REUTERS: Sri Lanka’s parliament yesterday voted to halt payment of ministers’ salaries and travel expenses, but it remained unclear how the move would impact the disputed government of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa whose mini
HONG KONG (AFP) - Asian markets mostly rose yesterday bringing a broadly upbeat week to a positive end as attention turns to the much-anticipated meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.
(Colombo) AFP: Sri Lanka’s parliament voted yesterday to block any spending by the Prime Minister’s office, further paralysing a government adrift from weeks of conflict as two rivals claim to run the country. The island has been in crisi
(Colombo) REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee closed marginally weaker yesterday as investors dumped rupee-denominated assets on a credit rating downgrade and a delay in an IMF loan discussion in the wake of a political crisis.
(Colombo) REUTERS: Sri Lanka signed two multi-million dollar contracts with Chinese firms for a port upgrade project yesterday in the middle of a political hiatus that has raised doubts over the legitimacy of the government and the legality of the d
The Free Trade Zone Manufacturers’ Association (FTZMA), one of the largest manufacturing associations in Sri Lanka’s largest free trade zone in Katunayake yesterday said the current political crisis is having implications on the future or
Samsung says it retains the top spot in Sri Lanka’s smartphone market with a 43.84 percent market share as of October, despite the reports that Huawei has taken over the top spot in the first half of this year from Samsung.
Vehicle imports by Sri Lankans shot up while the fuel bill rose sharply in the month of September, expanding Sri Lanka’s trade deficit, and pushing the island nation currently embroil
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