First Capital Holdings PLC, a member of the Janashakthi Group, announced that Ms. Manjula Mathews has been appointed as the Deputy Chairperson to its board and Dilshan Wirasekara the current Director/CEO has been promoted to Managing Director/CEO. Manjula Mathews, a Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (UK) and an Alumnus of the…
President Ranil Wickremesinghe instructed the Nuwara Eliya District Secretary and Commissioner to immediately provide 30 acres of abandoned land adjacent to the Ambewela Farm to them and provide the necessary facilities to develop it as grazing land to meet the food requirement of the dairy cows. President Ranil Wickremesinghe issued these instructions yesterday (27) during…
Reuters – When Sri Lanka slid into its worst economic crisis in seven decades leading to deadly riots and alarming shortages of fuel, food and medicines earlier this year, its giant northern neighbour stepped into the breach. India provided about $4 billion in rapid assistance between January and July, including credit lines, a currency swap…
Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in Bangkok coordinated the participation of Creative Director of Buddhi Batiks Darshi Keerthisena at the “3rd International Thai Silk Fashion Week” held at Royal Paragon Hall, Siam Paragon, Bangkok. SriLankan Airlines was one of the sponsors of Sri Lanka’s participation. The “3rd International Thai Silk Fashion Week”, the biggest fashion…
The Commercial Bank of Ceylon recently had the distinction of being featured to a global audience as one of 25 banks around the world that are working to promote environment consciousness among their customers. The occasion was the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 27) at which Doconomy AB, the Sweden-based impact-tech solutions company which…
Business Sentiment – The Mercury Drops As 2022 Ends As nitty-gritties with regard to the IMF bailout are still to be resolved – especially with regard to debt restructuring with Sri Lanka’s creditors and the implications of Budget 2023 sink in – it would seem that corporates have retracted their optimism. THE INDEX The LMD-NielsenIQ…
Minister of Tourism Harin Fernando states that 701,331 tourists visited Sri Lanka between January 2022 and December 26, 2022. The minister pointed out that the government expects tourist arrivals to hit 720,000 in total by the end of 2022. The number of tourist arrivals in the year 2021 stood at 194,495. According to the summary…
The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Brazil had a networking session with Brasilia based Printed and Electronic Media Journalists to promote Sri Lankan Tourism, Food and Ceylon Tea as part of the Trade and Tourism promotion initiatives of the Embassy, at its premises on 21 December, 2022. In his address to the journalists, Ambassador of Sri…
The Agreement on Exemption of Visa Requirements for holders of the Diplomatic and Official Passports between Sri Lanka and Cambodia signed on 10 May 2022, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation at Phnom Penh by Ambassador and Permanent Representative, C.A. Chaminda I Colonne of Sri Lanka, and Koy Kuong the Secretary of State…
Amount of fertilizer allocated per farmer displayed at all Agrarian Service Centers until 5 January The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with funding through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), will distribute 36,000 metric tonnes of Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) fertilizer to all paddy farmers in Sri Lanka through…
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