Honourable Deputy Minister Wickramaratne, Mr Shirendra Lawrence, Chairman of the Council for Business with Britain; Ladies and Gentlemen. It is an honour to address such a distinguished audience and I thank you for your warm welcome. I am delighted to be back in Sri Lanka. And I want to take this opportunity to share my…
JLL Releases Report On Sri Lanka’s Hospitality Industry Leading International property consultancy JLL released an incisive report investigating Sri Lanka’s rapidly evolving hospitality industry. The report provides insights into the robust growth of the tourism sector in Sri Lanka, which Forbes magazine ranked among the world’s Top 10 ‘Coolest Countries’ to be visited in 2015….
Brings Even More Economical Personal Mobility Options To Sri Lankans Uber, Sri Lanka’s fastest growing on-demand personality mobility app, today announced the launch of uberGO in Colombo. uberGO which introduces smaller hatchback vehicles brings the same high standard of reliability, convenience and safety Sri Lankans have come to rely on through Uber at the most…
Australia is the second home to over 100,000 Sri Lankans who had benefitted tremendously on almost every measure of excellence, from health to wealth, from success in business to educational attainment, says Sri Lanka’s leading Australian Immigration Law Specialist – Don Susantha Katugampola of Australia Gateway. “Out of these 100,000 Sri Lankans majority live in…
The foreign exchange value of the Rupee as against the US Dollar, Japanese Yen, Sterling Pound etc are rising speedily now and this is likely to push up the prices of imported vehicles by around Rs. 500,000 to 600,000 each said Sri Lanka Motor Vehicle Importers’ Association chairman Mahinda Sarathchandra. Hence, the association requests future…
The Minister for Asia, Hugo Swire, will visit Colombo, Jaffna and Galle in his third official visit to Sri Lanka. The visit is the latest in a series of high level engagements between the governments of the United Kingdom and Sri Lanka over the last year. Relations between the two countries have been reinvigorated since…
Colombo stock market spun back to the greener zone on Wednesday snapping the seven day losing streak. Benchmark index rebounded strongly to touch 6,587 mark during the opening hours but failed to sustain the momentum and closed with mild increase of 20.02 index points or 0.31% to end at 6,554.37. Reducing losses in blue-chips, 20-scrip…
The Sri Lanka Customs says that it is prepared to release the vehicles under its charge for which Letters of Credit (LCs) had been opened before the budget. The importers could get their vehicles released under the relevant conditions from morning on 13 January, Customs spokesman Leslie Gamini told the Ada Derana Biz.
What this government did was to free the controlled value of the Rupee and that currently the real value of the rupee as against the dollar is being decided according to the supply and demand in the market, said State Minister for International Trade, Sujeewa Senasinghe. While speaking at a media conference the State Minister…
Boosting Sri Lanka’s international investment profile, two top global multinationals are moving for Sri Lanka entry –they are the world’s largest shipper Maersk Line and the frontline warrior battling the global diabetes pandemic, Nordisk A/S-and yet to be identified two other giants in green-tech and water management are also busy studying a Sri Lanka entry,…
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