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Sri Lanka to raise fines after high inflation

Old fines do not match the recent substantial rises in prices of goods and services, only small fines are made: Minister

December 7, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka Water Board makes Rs5.6bn rupee profit

Non-revenue water rise slightly

November 27, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka shipbuilder battered in currency storm

Currency crises, global inflation, default pushes up costs and delays deliveries

November 23, 2023 3 min read

Sri Lanka beer battle to froth after Heineken purchase

Will require new investments

November 20, 2023 3 min read
India-based Pepsi bottler to buy Sri Lanka cooler maker Everest

Everest Industrial Lanka (Pvt) Ltd makes commercial bottle coolers

Sri Lanka to start insurance plan for miners

the number of young people engaged in mining is gradually decreasing,

Sri Lanka export firms to run during curfew, helpdesk set up

Export firms will continue to operate during curfews and a help desk has been set up to support companies, Sri Lanka's E...

October 29, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka Hirdramani group says 250 Coronavirus test at Kahathuduwa factory negative

Sri Lanka's Hirdramani group said 250 Coronavirus tests conducted on colleagues of a confirmed staff member at a factory...

October 21, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka conducts 15,000 Coroanvirus tests in BOI factories, 200 Covid-19 cases confirmed

Sri Lanka has conducted around 10,000 tests in industrial zones under the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka and 5,000 in ...

October 19, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka export factories conduct over 7000 Coronavirus tests, follow health rules to control Covid...

Companies in export under the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka are following Covid-19 health guidelines, running random ...

October 16, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka exporters testing staff for Covid-19, EDB curfew support for non-BoI firms

Sri Lanka's Export Development Board said it has set up hotlines to help non-Board of Investment companies move staff th...

October 15, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Katunayake Coronavirus curfew to contain Covid-19 infections from factories

Sri Lanka has imposed a Coronavirus curfew in Katunayake police area to reduce the chances of Covid-19 spreading from fa...

October 15, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka factory attendance drops as Covid-19 found in more firms

Sri Lanka's export firms are seeing attendance drop to the current Coronavirus wave which raising concerns over producti...

October 14, 2020 4 min read

Second Sri Lanka factory under coronavirus cloud - Updated

A factory in the Katunayake Export Processing Zone is being sanitized and associates of a suspected coronavirus patient ...

Chanka Jayasinghe
October 9, 2020 2 min read

Hemas Holdings start Sri Lanka pharma plant to make five billion pills

Morison Plc, a unit of Colombo-based Hemas Holdings Plc, has opened an 18.5 million dollar pharmaceuticals plant which c...

Chanka Jayasinghe
October 3, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka's CEAT ups tyre output amid import controls, holds prices

Sri Lanka's CEAT KELANI Holdings Plc, a joint venture with India's CEAT group has boosted output 35 percent and is addin...

October 2, 2020 5 min read
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Sri Lanka auto workshops say they can fix state vehicles at a lower cost

Sri Lanka Automobile Service Association representing automobile repair workshops around the country say they could repa...

Chanka Jayasinghe
September 18, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka to set up new industrial zone for Gampaha-Kegalle

Sri Lanka will set up a new industrial zone in an area spanning the Gampaha and Kegalle districts with a dozens of indus...

September 17, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka PMI: manufacturing, services up August 2020 with Covid-19 control

A Purchasing Mangers' Index for July 2020 showed Sri Lanka's manufacturing and services continuing a recovery seen in Ju...

September 16, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka to set up pharmaceutical investment zone in Hambantota

Sri Lanka will set up a pharmaceuticals investment zone in Hambantota, under a government plan to produce 50 percent of ...

September 12, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka, UK duo looks to commercialize honey coated banana-fibre mask concept

Two Bahrain resident expatriates from Sri Lanka and Britain say they have conceived and are developing a honey coated, b...

Mahadiya Hamza
September 11, 2020 4 min read

Sri Lanka President says to permit gem mining in plantation company land

Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had decided to give the go ahead for gem industry to mine lands under plantatio...

September 8, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's top alcohol maker sales down 12-pct in March 2020 quarter

Distilleries Corporation of Sri Lanka, the island's top arrack producer said sales fell 12 percent to 19.07 billion rupe...

September 5, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka to ban FMCG sachet packs, mulls banning 'quarter' alcohol bottles: report

Sri Lanka's environment ministry will take a final decision on banning 'quarter' arrack bottles this week while a decisi...

September 2, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka export agency to help get US and EU approval for Covid-19 nanotech

Sri Lanka's Export Development Board said it getting ready to help get approval from US and EU medical regulators for C...

August 27, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka renews efforts to draw British FDI

Sri Lanka's investment promotion office said it is ramping up efforts to draw UK investors and has had talks with the Br...

August 26, 2020 1 min read