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BEIJING (AFP): China pledged yesterday to boost cooperation with fellow BRICS countries in response to soaring frictions with the US, as it seeks to cultivate alliances to help it weather a bruising trade war.
SEOUL (AFP): A US hedge fund is demanding almost US$800 million from South Korea at an international tribunal over the controversial merger of two units of the giant Samsung conglomerate, officials said yesterday.
A meeting between President Maithripala Sirisena and the representatives of the country’s gem and jewellery industry has discussed the difficulties faced by the industry due to new taxes imposed by the government.
NEW DELHI: When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took power in 2014, he leaned on three Indian academics who had predominantly worked in the United States to drive a liberal, globalized economic policy.
Following is the speech delivered by Development Strategies and International Trade Minister Malik Samarawickrama at the Singapore-Sri Lanka FTA Outreach Seminar on July 10, 2018.
Some of Sri Lanka’s large banks still face an uphill task beefing up their capital levels in sync with the global regulatory norms as the country’s Rs.11 trillion banking sector braces for stringent se
The Commercial Bank of Ceylon PLC has announced its plans to raise Rs.5 billion, with an option to raise up to a further Rs.5 billion in the event of an oversubscription, for its capital through a Basel III compliant debenture issue that opens on Mon
In one of the first cases to be filed in Sri Lanka in respect of an infringement of the layout design of an integrated circuit, on or around the 6th of July 2018, A.M.T Nirmala, a young inventor from an eng
The lengthy, inefficient and burdensome exporter registration process is discouraging Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) entering international markets, which has also become abusive, a study conducted by Colombo-based think-tank showed.
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Board of Investment (BOI), Export Development Board (EDB) and Business France yesterday to enhance cooperation, trade
Inconsistencies in Sri Lanka’s taxation policy during the last 4-6 years have created a significant impact on attracting new investments to the country, Sri Lanka’s largest foreign direct
Sri Lanka scores low on providing a conducive business environment for US companies operating in the country owing to policy instability while conditions for attracting For
The country’s tea industry regulator, the Sri Lanka Tea Board (SLTB), has decided to conduct tests on all teas coming into the Colombo Tea Auction, to ensure the quality of Ceylon Tea and
Sri Lanka has made two-position improvement in the 2018 innovation rankings as the country made some limited progress in general infrastructure, ecological sustainability and knowledge and technology outputs, supporting such innovation.
The worker remittances to Sri Lanka rebounded during the first five months, while the earnings from tourism continued to grow, as the two current account flows gave some respite to the country’s worsening external account track record in recent
(Colombo) REUTERS: Sri Lankan shares closed firmer yesterday as investors bought beaten-down blue chips, while many market participants remained on the sidelines due to a lack of bullish news amid concerns over political uncertainty, stockbrokers sai
(Colombo) REUTERS: Sri Lanka’s Central Bank is concerned about the dollar hoarding and market manipulation that’s exacerbating the rupee’s weakness and has the tools to correct any misalignment in the exchange rate, its governor tol
HSBC, the market leader in global trade finance, expressed confidence that the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) rule-based multilateral trading system is likely to survive the current trade war between the US and China with some changes.
The recently published ‘Sri Lanka Development Update 2018’ by the World Bank focuses on creating more and better jobs for an upper-middle-income Sri Lanka. It usefully analyses the state of Sri Lanka’s labour market and identifies t
With the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, the West suddenly woke up with an acute anxiety about the fate of the US-led liberal international order. Until then, the liberal establishment in the United States had assumed that
Colombo is in need of better managed parking as the city continues to grapple with congestion on the streets.
The owners of a company from Old Blighty are an annoyed lot. The approvals for their projects have been hard to come by despite the greasing they have done.
There are essentially two types of ministering types in this country according to a distinguished policy maker. He gives the best type answers over his phone and knows clearly his office is temporary in nature and therefore he needs to be with his pe
A survey done by a paradise non-profit type we hear is very revealing. The majority of the millennial types want a non-political type to come up and emulate Macron of French fame.
The paradise stock market has a taken heavy beating that is unimaginable in an administration led by the green types.
A big corporation under a VVIP is going nowhere. The latest we hear is that the board had been asked to resign with immediate effect,
Upon the requests of depositors, the Central Bank yesterday said it instructed Swarnamahal Financial Services PLC (SFS) to urgently pay 10 percent of deposit liabilities commencing July 10 (yesterday). Both SFS and its parent, ETI Finance Ltd., have
The government has selected Singapore-based Lazard Asia Limited and Sri Lanka’s MTI Consulting to advise on the sale of the government ownership in Hilton and Grand Hyatt Hotels.
Sri Lanka may get its largest convention centre through Chinese investments, which would potentially become one of the main platforms to host Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) related events.
(Colombo) REUTERS: Sri Lankan shares closed steady yesterday, while the turnover slumped to a near three-month low as many investors remained on the sidelines due to a lack of bullish news amid concerns over political uncertainty, stockbrokers said.
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