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Hela Clothing creates over 2,000 jobs in Kenya during the pandemic
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Sri Lanka's apparel exporters are ready to bear the cost of vaccinating 350,000 workers if the government could help source vaccines, w...
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Sri Lanka's Regional Plantations Companies have proposed a wage model which they say allows daily wage f 1,105 rupees including provident fund contrib...
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Sri Lanka's MAS group said it had been recognized for advancements in female centric technology (FemTech) that improved women's health and well-being,...
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Sri Lanka Design Festival, an annual event showcases fashion, design technology, knowledge sharing, art and creativity will go virtual in 2021 interna...
Sri Lanka’s Minister tasked with dealing with the Covid 19 pandemic Dr Sudharshini Fernandopulle believes that staff at the Minuwangoda Brandix fact...
A Collective of Workers Organisations representing Garment Factory staff is warning that around 50,000 employees in fact...
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Sri Lanka's Joint Apparel Association forum has congratulated President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Ra...
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Sri Lanka's Teejay Lanka Plc, a weft-knit fabric maker for foundation garments which shifted to mask cloth during a Coro...
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The Pathfinder Foundation, a think tank advising the government, wants Sri Lanka to sell more to Asia which it calls the...
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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is saying that the government is facing criticism that the banking system has not passed do...
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Sri Lanka's apparel exporters are facing difficulties in obtaining essential items for manufacturing due to import contr...
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Standard Chartered Sri Lanka said it had provided an 11 million US dollar credit from a concessionary Covid-19 facility ...
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Orders are beginning to trickle into Sri Lanka's apparel export firms as Coronavirus lockdowns are eased in the West and...
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Sri Lanka's Brandix, a top apparel group said it had started shipping 200 million face masks to made at its factories to...
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Sri Lanka's Brandix, an apparel group with operations in India and Bangladesh is turning its factories into making perso...
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| Latest | Last | |
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| US Dollar | 199.9083 | 199.8743 |
| UK Pound | 278.1524 | 276.1663 |
| Euro | 238.0108 | 237.2408 |
| Aus Dollar | 150.3610 | 150.2555 |
| Yen | 1.8104 | 1.8161 |
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| Indian Rupee | 2.6964 | 2.6966 |
| Korea Won | 0.1765 | 0.1763 |
| Oman Rial | 519.2558 | 519.1675 |
| Saudi Riyal | 53.3060 | 53.2970 |
| UAE Dirham | 54.4242 | 54.4150 |
| pts | % | |
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| S&P SL20 | 3,064.45 | -0.61% |
| CSE All Share | 7,726.73 | 0.15% |
| Turnover Rs million. | 1,954,495 |
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| 3-m bill | 5.07 | 5.08 |
| 6-m bill | 5.12 | 5.12 |
| 12-m bill | 5.17 | 5.17 |
| 5-yr bond | 7.27 | 7.30 |
| 8-yr bond | 7.55 | 7.86 |
| today | yesterday | |
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| Overnight Money | 4.67 | 4.67 |
| Gilt Repo | 4.68 | 4.68 |
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Hundreds of Bangladesh's garment factories defied a nationwide coronavirus lockdown to reopen on Sunday, raising fears t...
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Many of Sri Lanka's apparel firms have run out of working capital and credit lines to pay salaries in April and mass une...
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Sri Lanka’s apparel industry is expecting to lose 1.5 billion US dollars’ worth of revenue between March to June as ...
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Sri Lanka's apparel sector has turned their factories to make mask and protective equipment for frontline workers who ar...
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Sri Lanka has an opportunity to combine both design and manufacture of apparel to serve customers with eco-friendly prod...
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Apparel exporters in Sri Lanka, already battered by disruptions of raw materials from China which may trigger factory cl...
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Export industries in Sri Lanka which depend on inputs from China are looking for alternative source markets as a Coronav...
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Sri Lanka's apparel firms that have built brands and would like to sell online are constrained by the lack of Paypal or ...
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Star Garments group, owned by the US-based Komar is now CarbonNeutral certified for its entire portfolio of 14 factories...
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Sri Lanka's garment exports are expected to drop till April 2020 due to poor conditions in key markets after growing 5.1...
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