The tourism industry is at the zenith in Sri Lanka today. So is cricket. We won the World Cup in 1996. Thereafter we became runners up twice, which is a rare distinction. There are ups and downs in any game. Cricket is no exception. But the fact that we are in the zenith of the ...

Highlights include resettlement, Economic development newsWASHINGTON: Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the United States and Mexico Jaliya Wickramasuriya, is featured on a new webcast produced by the Embassy of Sri Lanka. During the webcast, Ambassador Wickramasuriya discusses post-conflict resettlement, reconciliation and development in Sri Lanka. He calls on members of the Sri Lankan community in...

Justice and fair-play is paramount Justice and fair-play are of paramount importance to all members of the world family consisting of 193 nations expecting justice and fair-play equally. It is the principle on which the United Nations was established in place of the less-effective League of Nations, in order to settle differences among nations based ...

The policy changes, reforms and modernisation since Budget 2011 appears to have been the context of a presentation made to the Joint Apparel Association Forum in July 2011 by the “leading light” in finance, planning, treasury management and economic development. Sri Lanka background 2000-’10 The presentation articulates the background issues experienced from 2000 to 2010. ...

Sri Lanka’s ambition to stage the 2018 Commonwealth Games could receive a further boost today with the arrival of a European delegation that will play a key role in the crucial vote that decides the host city in November. As the race to host the event reaches its final stages, the Hambantota 2018 bid is ...

Last week I received an invite for an ‘Inventors Day Celebration’ in one of the leading schools in the country and the master in charge shared a thought that I felt was a cutting edge idea. Apparently, every one of us is an inventor in some part of our daily life. The issue is that ...

The Small and Medium Enterprise Developers (SMED), the SME arm of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Sri Lanka (FCCISL) is organising a delegation to visit ‘International Gift and Houseware Fair in Bangkok’, on 18 – 22 October 2011 at Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre (BITEC) in Thailand. The SMED was ...

Public service is poised to get a shot in the arm making it  greatly people-friendly soon due  to a project initiated by   the ICT  Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) recently.   As one of the latest phases of the e-Services initiative  ‘the Lanka Gate e-Services Project’ of ICTA, aims at better public service by developing ...

The Central Bank yesterday announced further relaxation of foreign exchange rules with immediate effect. It said that with a view to facilitating the foreign exchange transactions of the growing economy of Sri Lanka, a few new policy measures had been introduced to further relax the foreign

  Central Bank announced today further relaxation of foreign exchange rules with immediate effect. It said with a view to facilitating the foreign exchange transactions of the growing economy of Sri Lanka, a few new policy measures have been introduced by the Central Bank to relax the foreign