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Erste Bank of Austria has provided euro 9.5 million (approx. Rs.1, 810 million) interest-free credit facility to Sri Lanka to enhance the access to quality and modern healthcare facilities in local hospitals.
Finance and Mass Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera has pledged to reduce the Value Added Tax (VAT) by 2.5 percent in 2020 to relieve the country’s poor people from the tax burden.
Airtel Lanka and Wijeya Newspapers Limited, have joined hands to give Airtel customers’ free data to browse online
The tourism and power generation segments boosted Aitken Spence PLC’s profits while the group’s key maritime and logistics sector remained steady as the diversified conglomerate reported a significantly better financial performance for th
Petroleum Resources Development Minister Arjuna Ranatunga this week told reporters that the Cabinet approval has only been granted for a fuel pricing mechanism and not for a formula, as claimed by the Finance and Mass Media Ministry.
REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee ended marginally firmer yesterday on late exporter dollar conversions, but traders expect the currency to be under pressure from a possible slump in the country’s top agriculture export, tea, due to heavy rains.
The Petroleum Resources Development Ministry is planning to present a Cabinet paper within the next two to three weeks on the third round of liberalisation of Sri Lanka’s lubricant industry, based on a 2016 budget proposal, Petroleum Resources
The Yahapalana types, who have been in slumber for far too long by not talking about what they have achieved during the last couple of years, have finally woken up to the reality of working together.
A newly appointed adviser type to the presiding type is hell bent on becoming the key economic man in the country. A state ministering type is said to be of the opinion that the advisor type influenced the presiding type to use Machiavellian tactics
Apparently, the financing type is not happy with how the paradise nation’s currency has been behaving of late and he has found fault with the bank that is central for that. They say a surreptitious move is afoot to appoint an official type clos
Reacting to an increasingly assertive China, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has looked to expand his country’s influence in the Indo-Pacific. Trips to Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives in January 2018 culminated in Abe and Sri Lankan Pre
Thomson Reuters Foundation: On the surface, Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo looks like any other fast-growing South Asian city, with buildings stretching as far as the eye can see and skyscrapers rearing up along its coast.
A ministering type, who was at the centre of gravity, who was given a portfolio that is a money spinner, much to his delight, has been recouping in a hospital last few weeks. We hear the ministering type, who could not resist the Bradby encounter, ha
Three important diplomatic stations have not been filled for the last three months. The foreign ministering type is happily playing ball without making any effort to fill these vacancies. We hear an advertising guy is tipped to be sent to Old Blighty
Everyone wants definitive answers or the ‘the truth’. This is especially the case in the investment world, where people are vying to make correct predictions about the future. We all prefer to listen to people who appear confident about t
The government’s target is to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) worth US $ 2.7 billion this year, Development Strategies and International Trade Minister Malik Samarawickama told Parliament yesterday.
Tourism and power generation segments boosted Aitken Spence PLC’s profits while the group’s key maritime and logistics sector remained steady as the diversified conglomerate reported a significantly better financial performance for the pe
Sunshine Holdings PLC’s (A-(lka)/Stable) plan to bring in new equity worth Rs.775 million from a private placement of shares should help the company deleverage and strengthen its balance sheet, Fitc
Responding to former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal’s claim that govt.’s net borrowings equal to foreign reserves, the Central Bank yesterday without any reference to Cabra
Kerosene sales have declined by a whopping 400 percent since the removal of the kerosene subsidy this month, indicating large scale abuse of kerosene for adulteration of more expensive distillates and greater industrial use of the fuel, Petroleum Res
Sri Lanka’s Inland Revenue Department (IRD) has opened 49,000 new tax files in April with the New Inland Revenue Act coming into force, Finance and Mass Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera revealed yesterday.
Sri Lanka’s Cabinet recently voted to introduce standard or plain packaging to tobacco products with the objective of reducing the appeal of smoking. Australia and the United Kingdom are two countrie
The media in Sri Lanka has often misrepresented the cigarette industry and cigarette taxes in favour of the monopoly producer Ceylon Tobacco Company (CTC). In June 2017, Verité Research (VR) published an Insight titled ‘Who’s respo
Teejay Lanka, one of the region’s largest textile manufacturers, has announced a doubling of capacity of its Indian mill, following the completion of an expansion project involving an investment of US $ 15 million (approx. Rs.2.3 billion at cur
Former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal yesterday charged that the net borrowings by the present government almost equal the country’s current foreign reserve stock and hence, hinted that the pressure on the rupee is not unwarranted a
Baur & Co. (Pvt.) Ltd has announced the appointment of Rolf Blaser as the company’s CEO/Managing Director with effect from October 1, 2018.
On or around May 16, 2018, pursuant to an application made by two directors of Global Grange Lanka (Pvt.) Limited, namely Raj Matharu and Harpal Matharu, the Commercial High Court of Colombo granted interim orders restraining the company and its othe
The Hindu: It’s Goa’s loss and Sri Lanka’s gain as far as Telugu tourist flow to the island nation is concerned. More and more Casino-bound tourists from the Telugu States of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are flying to Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka’s revised National Physical Plan for 2018-2050 is expected to be gazetted shortly and the plan proposes to develop Colombo-Trincomalee as the main economic corridor along with three other sub-corridors,
Many advanced nations from Singapore to the US have open policies that allow people to migrate easily, bringing knowledge and skills to transform economies and create new jobs, a top Harvard economist said.
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