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Sri Lanka minister plans to lift VAT on brown sugar made at expropriated SOE plants

Ethanol is also not sold amid weak legal alohol sales

December 6, 2024 3 min read

Sri Lanka's Colombo Dockyard seeking strategic investment

Actively seeking potential investors who can revitalize the company and ensure its long-term sustainability

December 6, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Lion Brewery in talks with Diageo to license foreign brands

Lion Brewery already license produces Guinness from Diageo

December 4, 2024 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Lion Brewery eyes export boost with innovative beers

A Rs4bn hi-tec brewery with a small production run allows the firm to innvoate new beers

December 3, 2024 2 min read
Sri Lanka's Colombo Dockyard builds Maldives underwater restaurants

Colombo Dockyard had built two under water restaurants in 2025 and towed them to the Maldives

Sri Lanka's Elephant House drinks distribution begins in India

Market surveys find that the flavour palate is the similar

Sri Lanka Phosphate SOE taken out of industries ministry

Placed under Agriculture Ministry

June 20, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka manufacturing, services buckle in May as Coronavirus wave bites: PMI

Absenteeism hits manufacturing

June 20, 2021 3 min read

Sri Lanka's Brandix focusing on worker safety as exports face triple whammy

Though orders are picking, so is price competition

June 18, 2021 4 min read

Sri Lanka to vaccinate export zone workers from July: Namal

Health Ministry has approved

June 14, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka to make 13mn Sinovac vaccines: Treasury Secretary

A plant is being readied in Kundasale in Kandy to co-produce the vaccines.

June 7, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka to co-produce Sinovac vaccines: Minister

Plant being readied in Kundasale

May 27, 2021 1 min read
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Sri Lanka PMI shows manufacturing, services drop in April

Covid-19 third wave hits activity except hotels

May 18, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka export firms to run with workers from outside Covid-19 lockdown areas

Export firms should operate a bio-secure bubble by ensuring secure transport and accommodation

May 16, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka to run long-distance office trains for essential workers

Employers asked to only the bare minimum workers

May 13, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka Air Force to produce high flow oxygen units for Covid-19 patients

The Air Force was planning to produce 50 machines and was ready to make more

May 13, 2021 1 min read
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China looking at Sri Lanka to fill and finish Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines

World Health Organization has approved the emergency use of Sinopharm vaccine

May 8, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka to start trial production of RT-LAMP Coronavirus test kit: SLINTEC

Manufacturing of trial batches will commence soon, which will then be followed by commercial production

May 1, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Ocean Lanka develops new fabric dying technology

Process slashes water use by over 60 percent, cuts energy use by 20 percent and is 30 percent faster

April 26, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Hayleys buys South Asia Textiles for Rs3.9bn

Hayleys Fabrics, a unit Sri Lanka's Hayleys group said it had bought 98.84 percent of South Asia Textiles Limited, weft-...

April 24, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka manufacturing, services expands in March 2021: PMI

Sri Lanka's manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index reached a 9-month high as activities continue to recover backed by p...

April 16, 2021 2 min read

Hemas Holdings 'AAA(lka)' rating confirmed by Fitch

Fitch Ratings has confirmed at 'AAA(lka)' domestic rating of Sri Lanka's Hemas Holdings Plc, with a stable outlook based...

April 13, 2021 7 min read

Sri Lanka food, shampoo firms hit by midnight 'regime uncertainty' as palm oil banned

Sri Lanka firms producing a range of foods and personal care items would be hit by a palm oil ban, in addition to public...

April 7, 2021 2 min read

Blackstone group enters Sri Lanka taking over Piramal Glass unit

US-based Blackstone Capital has taken over Sri Lanka's publicly traded Piramal Glass (Pvt) Ltd, paying 6.2 billion rupee...

March 30, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka to set up pharmaceutical zone in Horana

Sri Lanka will set up a pharmaceutical investment zone in Millewa, Horana with an initial investment of 8 billion rupees...

March 9, 2021 2 min read
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Sri Lanka PM opens DAG Apparel factory in Moneragala

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has commissioned a 500 million rupee export apparel factory in Moneragala, ...

March 7, 2021 1 min read