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Sri Lanka can up exports, workers can get inflation linked wages on small holder model: PA

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February 2, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka coconut prices ease at auction

The average price for 1,000 nuts fell to 80.811.89 from 84,116.85

February 1, 2023 1 min read

Sri Lanka's JKH in talks for international gaming expertise

Hotels and retail sections at Cinnamon Life in progress

February 1, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka utility to continue power cuts, regulator says no

CEB, regulator and Human Rights Commission

January 28, 2023 2 min read
FCCISL congratulates Sri Lanka President, hopes for good governance

Urges new government to entrust capable, experienced leaders with responsibility of steering key national institutions

Sri Lanka tourist arrivals up 22-pct in March, India surges ahead of China

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's tourist arrivals surged 22.8 percent in March 2016, from a year earlier, with India surging ah...

April 5, 2016 2 min read

Indonesia frees visa for Sri Lanka tourists

ECONOMYNEXT - Indonesia has relaxed visa requirements for Sri Lankan citizens who will be given a 30-day visa on arrival...

April 4, 2016 1 min read

India to gift 150 boats, equipment to northern Sri Lanka fishermen

ECONOMYNEXT – India is to gift 150 boats and fishing equipment to 300 fishermen of Mullaithivu, in northern Sri L...

April 3, 2016 1 min read

Biodiversity safeguards mooted in Sri Lanka building contracts

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s private sector is considering ways to introduce safeguards in construction contr...

Rohan Gunasekera
April 1, 2016 2 min read

China wants to invest in Sri Lanka fisheries

ECONOMYNEXT – China wants to import more fish from Sri Lanka and invest in increasing the island's fisheries prod...

March 31, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka plantations oppose political influence on wage talks

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s regional plantations companies have called on the government not to interfere in...

March 31, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka plantations wage talks deadlocked

ECONOMYNEXT – Talks on a new collective wage agreement between Sri Lanka’s regional plantations companies ...

March 31, 2016 1 min read

India's Vista Rooms says links up 200 properties in Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT - India-based VistaRooms said it had linked up over 200 properties in 25 cities in Sri Lanka ranging from bu...

March 30, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka allocates Rs2bn for tea, rubber small farmer subsidies

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s plantation industries minister Navin Dissanayake said the Treasury has agreed t...

March 30, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka hosts travel bloggers to boost destination on social media

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka will host its second gathering of travel bloggers in June as part of an effort by the tou...

March 28, 2016 2 min read
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Sri Lankans warned of looming water cuts amid drought

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's state-run water supply agency has asked customers not use piped drinking water to wash cars or...

March 27, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea exports recover in February 2016

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s tea export shipments and local currency earnings rose slightly in February 2016 ...

March 25, 2016 1 min read

Watawala Plantations, Duxton Asset Management invest in Sri Lankan dairy farm

ECONOMYNEXT – Singapore-based fund manager Duxton Asset Management has tied up with Watawala Plantations to set u...

March 24, 2016 2 min read

India's Hero buys Sri Lanka bicycle maker eyeing EU exports

ECONOMYNEXT - India's Hero Cycles Ltd, has bought controls of BSH Ventures Ltd, a Sri Lanka based bicycle maker with Ban...

March 23, 2016 2 min read

Google Street View Sri Lanka allows virtual travel through the island

ECONOMYNEXT - Google has launched 'Street View' allowing viewers to travel virtually around the island, going through hi...

March 22, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka tea plantations improve harvests with mechanization

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) say experiments with mechanization like use...

March 22, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka seafood exporters eye China market under FTA

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan exporters have asked the government to take up an import tariff charged by China on seaf...

March 18, 2016 2 min read

Australian property investments promoted for Sri Lankans

ECONOMYNEXT – Dwellings Group real estate firm is offering Sri Lankan investors a chance to buy apartments in Mel...

March 16, 2016 1 min read

Carl Cruz takes over as Chairman of Unilever Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT - Carl Cruz, a senior Unilever executive from the Philippines has taken over as head of Sri Lanka operations...

March 16, 2016 1 min read

China Port City company in Sri Lanka expects "mutually beneficial solution"

ECONOMYNEXT - CHEC Port City Colombo (Pvt) Ltd, a Chinese state-run firm which was allowed to resume sea reclamation ahe...

March 16, 2016 2 min read