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The Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) conducted a well-coordinated media campaign at ITB 2018 in Berlin last week, the Tourism and Christian Religious Affairs Ministry said in a statement. As part of this campaign, a high-profile press confe
The officials behind the now defunct Lanka Rating Agency (LRA) have sent a fresh application to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requesting permission to re-enter credit rating space in the country, Mirror Business learns.
The Laugfs group is expecting its heavily indebted, loss-making hospitality subsidiary, Laugfs Leisure Ltd, to break even by the 2020 financial year, after going public this year.
The country’s largest conglomerate, the John Keells group, has won a government tender for two land plots in the Muthurajawela sand fill area for the next 30 years to conduct logistics operators.
Fitch Ratings Lanka Chief Executive and Country Head Maninda Wickramasinghe last week said Sri Lanka has too many banks, insurance and finance companies, much more than the country needs and the proliferation of such companies has left scant scope fo
The situation in Kandy shamefully took a deeper communal turn after the attacks on the religious sites and shops in the Digana and Teldeniya areas in Kandy. After 30 years of war, we, Sri Lankans, have still not learnt that we should never exploit, i
Communal violence is not new in Sri Lanka and has raised its ugly head periodically since independence in 1948.
‘Nelna’, under its agricultural arm Nelna Agri Development (Pvt.) Ltd, has cultivated 60,000 mango plants following the global good agricultural practices (GGAP), in 650 acres in the Ratnapura and Monaragala Districts. It has achieved its
In the milieu of various risks that banks encounter in financial intermediation, the broadly classified risks are (i) Credit risk (ii) Market Risk and (iii) Operational risk. Despite sufficient regulatory rigor and bank’s own integrated risk ma
Following is based on the speech delivered by Plantations Industries Minister Navin Dissanayake at the National Institute of Plantations Management (NIPM) National Symposium.
The recently concluded Sri Lanka Ceramic and Glass Symposium 2018, the seventh of its kind to be held in Sri Lanka, saw a memorable and insightful keynote delivery by the renowned MAS Holdings Chairman Mahesh Amalean.
Citizens Development Business Finance PLC (CDB) is raising up to Rs.2.0 billion via corporate bonds to fund its aggressive growth during the ensuing financial year, as the company has been seeing some handsome growth in assets and profits during rec
The Sri Lankan government has entered into two emergency power deals with the private sector at a hefty cost to the tax payer, as the inadequate rainfall in main catchment areas has reduced the country’s hydro-power generating capacity.
Sri Lanka’s economic growth is set to pick up pace with reforms largely remaining on track, and the authorities should now push for more liberalised factor markets and take steps to close a “sizeable gender gap” for inclusive growth
Sewing machine producer Singer Industries (Ceylon) PLC is diversifying its manufacturing into components and accessories manufactured and marketed by the Singer Group due to falling demand for traditional sewing machines and resultant excess product
The new anti-dumping laws passed in Parliament last week are vital to protect domestic industry from unfair trade practices but are not aimed at providing blanket protectionism to the domestic industry, the Development Strategies and International Tr
Construction of the office and retail space component of the Havelock City project of Overseas Realty (Ceylon) PLC (ORCL) is expected to start next month, and is to be completed within 3 years.
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) shakes hands with Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena as he arrives to attend the International Solar Alliance Founding Conference in New Delhi.
AFP: US President Donald Trump is “offending” allies and risking a global trade war with his controversial tariffs on steel and aluminium, Germany’s economy minister said yesterday.
Destination Sri Lanka was a hot favourite at the world’s leading travel and trade show ITB which opened in Berlin, Germany on March 7th.
AFP: Austrian steel firm Voestalpine said yesterday it would reconsider its investments in the United States in light of President Donald Trump imposing tariffs on steel and aluminium imports.
AFP: British industrial production rebounded sharply last month on the re-opening of a major North Sea pipeline, official data showed yesterday.
AFP: European stock markets steadied yesterday following an Asian rally, with traders reacting to a shock decision by Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un to hold talks. Markets were tracking also the latest developments in US President Trump’s tariffs
AFP: Florida lawmakers on Thursday passed a law prohibiting the US state from investing in companies that have business ties with the Venezuelan government. Citing the socialist government’s “use of extreme violence and political pe
REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee slipped yesterday as importer dollar demand surpassed the selling of the greenback by exporters and banks, and inward remittances, while communal violence in the central district of Kandy weighed on sentiment, deal
‘Thailand Week’ trade fair and business opportunity with Thailand opened yesterday at the BMICH.
AFP: China's chief central banker said yesterday the country could be more "courageous" in opening its markets, as European and American firms push for greater access to the world's second largest economy.
Despite the politico hubby being under pressure to give up one of his portfolios, the better half undaunted was shopping around for a luxury car for their son-in-law. The wife had visited a car dealer in the city and settled down for Benz E type for
Vidullanka PLC has received the necessary regulatory approvals to construct their second mini-hydro plant in Uganda after a significant delay, and will be issuing shares worth Rs.75.3 million to Timex Garments (Pvt) Ltd to fully acquire Timex Bukinda
Tourism arrivals to Sri Lanka in 2018 continued to grow in double digits for the second consecutive month in February, with China reclaiming the top spot as the largest tourist sourcing country after a lapse of 18 months, according to data released
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