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Sri Lanka’s Litro Gas hikes cooking gas price by 7.5-pct

Litro Gas is raising fuel through a price formula every month to prevent losses and borrowings

February 5, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka Coconut auction prices down 6.7-pct

The average prices reached 84,116.85 rupees in mid-January 2023

February 5, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Ceylon Cold Stores sees 315 mln rupee loss in 2022 December quarter

The manufacturing cost for the period increased to 261 million

February 3, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka projects 2.69mn tonnes of paddy in Maha 2023 season

More paddy could have been planted in January 2023

February 3, 2023 1 min read
Ceylon Chamber head, Anil Jayantha advisors to Sri Lanka president

Duminda Hulangamuwa has been appointed Senior Consultant of Economic affairs and Finance to President Anura Dissanayake

Sri Lanka $50 double entry visa, $20 South Asia e-visa restored

IVS-GBS-VFS Global deal to be probed

Sri Lanka unions ready to consider outgrower model: plantations minister

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka intends to try out an outgrower model on its tea plantations, with labour unions having a...

May 8, 2016 1 min read

Nestlé Sri Lanka unit March net up 10-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – The Sri Lankan unit of food multinational Nestlé said March 2016 quarter net profit rose 10.1 pe...

May 6, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka Lighthouse to build hotel in Unawatuna

ECONOMYNEXT – The Lighthouse Hotel said it plans to build a 36-room hotel in Unawatuna, a bay popular with touris...

May 4, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka chamber stresses sustainability in megapolis project

ECONOMYNEXT - The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce urged the government to ensure a “strong sustainability focus” ...

May 4, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka tourist arrivals up 11.6 percent in April

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals rose 11.6 percent from a year earlier to 136,367 in April 2016, with India an...

May 4, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka woman entrepreneur awards in August

ECONOMYNEX - Sri Lanka's 'Women Entrepreneur of the Year' awards will be held on August 5 under the patronage of Preside...

May 3, 2016 2 min read

South Asia clothing industry can employ millions more women, boost growth - World Bank

MUMBAI, April 28 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - South Asia's clothing and textiles industry can create millions of jobs ...

April 30, 2016 3 min read

Sri Lanka raises fines in fisheries inspections

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has decided to double fines on fishing boat operators who try to obstruct inspections by ...

April 27, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka should cut import tariffs to increase apparel exports: World Bank

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka can increase exports of apparel, its main industrial export, by reducing import tariffs a...

April 26, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka Piramal Glass to expand capacity, annual profit up 50-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan glass bottle maker Piramal Glass Ceylon said net profit during the year ended 31 March 2...

April 25, 2016 2 min read
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Sri Lanka expects to resume fishery exports to EU in July

ECOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera has a welcomed a decision by the European Commission to rec...

April 22, 2016 2 min read

Dutch water expertise to tackle Sri Lanka kidney disease

ECONOMYNEXT – Dutch water experts have begun helping Sri Lanka to study a kidney disease believed to be caused by...

April 22, 2016 2 min read

EU to lift ban on Sri Lanka fish exports

ECONOMYNEXT - The European Commission had recommended that a ban on fish exports from Sri Lanka to the European Union be...

April 21, 2016 1 min read

Strike at Sri Lanka Brandix apparel factory in India

ECONOMYNEXT – Workers at Brandix India, a subsidiary of one of Sri Lanka’s top apparel exporters, Brandix ...

April 21, 2016 1 min read

Workers at India unit Sri Lanka apparel maker strike for higher wages

ECONOMYNEXT - Workers at Brandix India Apparel City, run by Sri Lanka's Brandix apparel group are on strike demanding hi...

April 20, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka real estate expo by Lamudi

ECONOMYNEXT - Lamudi.lk, a portal covering Sri Lanka's property listings said it is holding a real estate exhibition in ...

April 18, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka contractors told to avoid costly litigation with better mitigation

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan construction firms will find it more cost effective to comply with biodiversity safeguar...

April 11, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka to assemble Volkswagen diesels for domestic market

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's investment promotion agency said Senok Automobile (Pvt) Ltd, will be given land to build a pla...

April 11, 2016 2 min read

Emotional Harsha firmly behind life-saving EMT service; invites Sri Lanka businesses to support

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Deputy Foreign Minister Harsha de Silva invited businesses to help expand an island-wide param...

April 9, 2016 7 min read

Sri Lanka high grown teas gain in March

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan tea prices in March 2016 remained below those of a year ago with the exception of high g...

April 8, 2016 2 min read