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SriLankan Airlines yesterday welcomed its newest and final addition to the Airbus A321 Neo fleet. The aircraft arrived from Hamburg via Abu Dhabi on July 29, 2018.
Mention Sri Lanka and tea, cricket, sea and safari typically come to mind. These are the more positive perceptions of the country. But political turmoil, policy confusion, currency depreciation and a bond scandal remain some of the negatives that the
According to the statistics released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics, China’s gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate in the first half of 2018 reached 6.8 percent. The national economy sustained the momentum of steady and sound
GlobalData has ranked Sri Lanka as the fourth fastest growing tourism market in the world.
(Sydney) REUTERS: Australian investment bank Macquarie Group has appointed its first female CEO last week, promoting the 10-year head of its funds unit Shemara Wikramanayake to t
The Appeal Court last week allowed Hayleys Advantis Ltd and McLarens Investments (Pvt) Ltd to enter as intervenient petitioners to the writ petition filed by Parliamentarian Vasudeva Nanayakk
A dispute between Central Bank and the Finance Ministry has delayed the re-payment of above Rs.10 million deposit holders of the failed Golden Key Credit Card Ltd (GKCCL), failing to honour a pledge made to the Supreme Court by the government, Mirror
John Keells Holdings PLC (JKH), Sri Lanka’s highest valued business conglomerate, could not escape from the dampened economic activities in the country, as the group performance was hampered by its key consumer business segments.
India is concerned by the growing Chinese influence in the North and East of Sri Lanka. Some of this concern stems from a housing project recently awarded by the Sri Lankan Resettlement,
The seventh World Peace Forum, organised by the Tsinghua University in association with the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs, was held in Beijing from July 14 to 15. The theme selected for this year’s event was ‘Constru
Moody’s Investors Service yesterday affirmed Sri Lanka’s foreign currency issuer and senior unsecured ratings at B1 but maintained the negative outlook, which it first assigned to the island nation’s credit rating in June, 2016 and
The recently launched Delegation of German Industry and Commerce in Sri Lanka (AHK Sri Lanka) plans to carry out investment promotions for Sri Lanka’s Rubber, IT, apparel and logistics industries in Germany as the German businesses are increasi
(Colombo) REUTERS: Sri Lankan shares extended their losses to a fourth straight session yesterday as foreign investors sold blue-chip stocks such as John Keells Holdings Plc and Hemas Holdings Plc. The Colombo stock index ended 0.14 percent weaker at
(Colombo) THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION: Dinesh de Alwis has lived all his life in Ratmalana, a suburb of Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo. When he was young, he remembers, he would rush outside every day at 4 p.m., to play with friends after school.
(Colombo) REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee ended steady yesterday as dollar demand from importers offset greenback selling by exporters in dull trade ahead of the long weekend, traders said. The rupee ended flat at 159.50/60 per dollar. It has declined
Sri Lanka’s Tourism and Christian Religious Affairs Minister John Amaratunga this week called the “grumbling Colombo hoteliers” to re-commence night club operations to retain more tourists in Colombo.
Sri Lanka’s traditional lacework famously known as Beeralu is slowly moving into the spotlight of the global fashion industry. Udeni, who is a traditional Beeralu lace maker from Galle, learned the technique from her mother and developed it int
Asia and the Pacific has enjoyed robust economic growth and experienced large reductions in poverty in the past few decades. Nevertheless, with the region home to 1.2 billion people living on less than US $ 1.9 per day (in 2011 PPPs), the internation
The origination of financial reporting can be closely connected to the requirement to collect and record data which evolved into a stage where the capacity of the human brain was not sufficient to accommodate and memorize the evolving volume of data
The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) will launch Sri Lanka’s first-ever tourist-friendly tuk tuk service on July 30, 2018, at Galle Face Green, under the patronage of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe.
Sri Lanka yesterday signed a US $ 100 million credit agreement with the World Bank to support Sri Lanka’s efforts to strengthen and modernise the general education system in the country.
A Chinese state-owned gold mining giant has expressed interest to set up a US $ 30 million gem and jewellery exchange in Sri Lanka with the support of the Sri Lankan government and a major local gem and jewellery supplier to China.
The Monetary Board of the Central Bank yesterday announced the cancellation of the licence issued to Standard Credit Finance Limited (TSCFL), with effect from July 25, 2018.
The decline in consumer discretionary spending and shift in consumer demand for healthier alternatives appear to be continuing to hurt the performance of the John Keells group subsidiary, Ceylon Cold Stores PLC (CCS).
The Sri Lankan banks may still be far from a full-blown non-performing loan (NPL) crisis. But cracks are appearing in the asset quality with the rise in sour loans, hindering the banking sector’s future growth prospects.
The Lanka Microfinance Practitioners’ Association (LMFPA) yesterday called for government intervention to formulate a national micro credit policy framework to regulate over 1000 micro finance businesses as concerns over indebtedness caused by
Diversified conglomerate Hayleys PLC yesterday said its Rs.3 billion debenture issue, which had an option to raise a further Rs.1 billion, was oversubscribed on the opening day.
Union Bank of Colombo PLC reported slightly higher profits during its April – June quarter (2Q18) as the bank could not escape from the industry-wide phenomenon of stress building up on loans amid challenging economic conditions.
Sri Lanka’s maritime sector master plan, developed by Maritime and Transport Business Solutions (MTBS), a consultancy firm from the Netherlands, and funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is nearing completion, according to Ports and Shippi
Rigid Tyre Corporation (Pvt.) Ltd, which is said to be building Sri Lanka’s largest tyre plant, will generate 3,000 direct employment opportunities and possibly three times as many indirect jobs, the country’s apex investment promotion ag
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