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Car registration sets new record. Maruti Suzukis hog Sri Lankan roads

Latest data reveal that following the new government slashing duties on smaller motorcars through its interim budget, the Maruti Suzuki motorcars registered in Sri Lanka in May 2015 has grown to 2,512. While presenting the latest data, JB Securities Stock Brokers state that only 325 Maruti Suzuki motorcars registered in Sri Lanka during November 2014….

(0)Comments | June 22, 2015 3:14 pm

High-speed elevators at Lotus Tower goes before courts

Micro Constructions has gone before courts claiming that Japan’s Fujitec Corporation and its joint venture company Fujitec Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, the Board of Investment approved Sri Lankan subsidiary established by Micro Holdings Ltd to which the former government had awarded the tender for the supply and installation of high-speed elevators and escalators to the ‘Nelum…

(0)Comments | June 13, 2015 11:23 am

How to obtain 30% from EPF? Labour Ministry secretary explains

An Employees Provident Fund (EPF) member could obtain 30 per cent from his/her total outstanding balance only to build a house, to purchase land for a house, to purchase a house and property, to redeem the mortgage on a house or property or to repay the balance loan obtained from an approved bank, said the…

(0)Comments | June 10, 2015 3:09 pm

What a Sri Lankan academic in the US has to say about the FCID – Video Interview

Wide discussions have currently arisen within society over the Fina Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) of the Police. Kosala G. Thanthula, an internationally acclaimed academic as well as a Tax Consultant who is domiciled in the USA shared his views on the FCID with Adaderanabiz. Below is the video interview held while he was on a…

(0)Comments | June 10, 2015 10:54 am

Who gets Sri Lanka’s gas deposits after Cairns pull-out?

Following India’s Cairns pulling out of off-shore gas exploration activities recently, another international tender would be called for in October for gas exploration in the Mannar Basin, said Minister of Power and Energy Patali Champika Ranawaka while speaking at a function in Colombo. Cairn India which claimed it had discovered natural gas deposits off the…

(0)Comments | June 9, 2015 11:13 am

Ranil wants to create UK-type ‘Serious Frauds’ division

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today said that the government is currently in the process of “cleaning up” the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) and that they intend to establish a ‘Serious Frauds and Financial Crimes Division’ for this purpose. “That’s why we have to start a Serious Frauds and Financial Crimes Division with the intention of…

(0)Comments | June 5, 2015 6:06 pm

Controversy over Chinese investment in Sri Lanka

Chinese investment in Sri Lanka is causing major problems for Sri Lanka’s President Mathripala Sirisena and has become a point of tension in Sri Lanka–China relations. Before taking office, Sirisena had promised that he would look into alleged corruption, stating he would investigate how Sri Lanka is ‘being obtained by foreigners by paying ransom to…

(0)Comments | June 5, 2015 12:16 pm

Don’t give popular promises for votes: Economy in crisis, warns Pathfinder Foundation

The statement by Singapore statesman Lee Kuan Yew that ‘Sri Lankan democracy is a periodic auctioning of non-existent resources’ gained special significance during the past six months and the popular promises given by the new government through its interim budget has pushed the financial stability of the country into a grave crisis, points out the…

(0)Comments | May 27, 2015 3:41 pm

Chinese contractor strongly denies Outer Circular Highway cost is inflated

A spokesman for the Metallurgical Corporation of China Ltd. (MCC), which is the main contractor which has undertaken to construct the Outer Circular Highway Phase III, firmly rejected certain media reports over the weekend alleging that the project’s costs have been inflated. The spokesman said that MCC which is the contractor for the Colombo-Katunayake Expressway…

(0)Comments | May 25, 2015 1:29 pm

Former CB Governor Cabraal refutes government allegations; wants public TV debate with Premier Ranil

While categorically rejecting the recent media reports that Rs. 2,700 billion has been “misappropriated” in the years 2012, 2013 and 2014 through private Treasury Bond auctions, former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Ajith Nivard Cabraal says that it defies all logic and common sense to claim that the entirety of the Treasury…

(0)Comments | May 24, 2015 10:26 pm

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