A near year-long delay in gazetting a 2017 Budget-approved liberalisation move is locking up billions of capital in listed firms and discouraging a hi ..
Monday, 23 October 2017 01:13 Views - 350
Renewing its call for liberalisation, the Tea Exporters’ Association (TEA) last week highlighted multiple issues plaguing the sector and asked the G
Monday, 23 October 2017 01:07 Views - 202
The Sri Lankan Government has received Cabinet approval to enter into several agreements with Qatar to cooperate in the energy, water supply and waste
Monday, 23 October 2017 00:00 Views - 70
Experts called on Sri Lankan logistics firms to embrace disruptive digital technologies for crucial restructuring in business models to remain competi
Monday, 23 October 2017 00:00 Views - 91
Sri Lanka is to witness its first international fashion event this month with Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week. Hosted as a joint coalition between Sri Lank
Monday, 23 October 2017 01:11 Views - 481
Representatives of the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) and the Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC) were recently hosted by NASDAQ at th
Monday, 23 October 2017 00:00 Views - 65
Sri Lanka Retailers Association Chairman Hussain Sadique last week declared that the country’s retail sector was poised to take off, with the indust
Saturday, 21 October 2017 00:02 Views - 428
The latest monthly poll conducted by research firm Kantar TNS, for business magazine LMD, reveals that 42% of respondents have high expectations of Bu
Monday, 23 October 2017 01:05 Views - 56
President Maithripala Sirisena said the devolution of power should be used to fulfil the needs of the people while strengthening them, but not for the
Monday, 23 October 2017 01:03 Views - 80
Teheran: Iran and Sri Lanka have signed an agreement on the transfer of prisoners between the two countries in Teheran.
Monday, 23 October 2017 01:02 Views - 51
The Supreme Court awarded Rs. 300,000 to the victim-petitioner in a fundamental rights violation petition filed against three police officers attached
Monday, 23 October 2017 01:01 Views - 10
A General Amnesty will be offered to Army absentees from 23 October to 15 November this year enabling them to receive their legal discharge.
Saturday, 21 October 2017 00:10 Views - 64
The police yesterday arrested a Buddhist monk who was wanted in connection with last month’s attack on a group of Rohingya refugees that were under
Saturday, 21 October 2017 00:00 Views - 94
A group including Northern Provincial Councillor K. Sivajilingam who recently protested in Jaffna hoisting black flags met with President Maithripala
Saturday, 21 October 2017 00:00 Views - 40
State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene, in a meeting with Minister of National Defence of the Republic of Korea Song Young-mooon held in Seoul th
Saturday, 21 October 2017 00:00 Views - 22
New York-based global rights organisation Human Rights Watch (HRW) has made a submission to the 77th Working Group of the United Nations Committee on
Saturday, 21 October 2017 00:00 Views - 43
With the vision of ‘Re-Connecting the Alumni for Greater Collective Good’, the Pakistan Alumni Society of Sri Lanka (PASS) was launched recently a
Saturday, 21 October 2017 00:00 Views - 39
Text and pic by Ashwin Hemmathagama in Beijing The remarkable and promising report President Xi Jinping presented at the 19th National Congress of th
Saturday, 21 October 2017 00:00 Views - 13
National Scout Teams of five member countries of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) who arrived in Sri Lanka to watch Hermann L
Saturday, 21 October 2017 00:00 Views - 90
A meeting between Special Assignments Minister Dr. Sarath Amunugama and High Commissioner for Australia in Sri Lanka Bryce Hutcheson took place at the
Monday, 23 October 2017
In the first economic policy statement, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe made a number of pledges related to taxes and tax reforms. One was that the Government would review whether the tax concessions given to investors have really delivered the e
Saturday, 21 October 2017
‘Mission Impossible – Geneva’ is an inspiring account of developments at the Human Rights Council in Geneva when Dayan Jayatilleka was our Permanent Representative there. It is written by his wife Sanja, which provides for fascinating insights
Saturday, 21 October 2017
In his keynote address on the opening day of the 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Beijing on Wednesday, the Chinese President and party supremo, Xi Jinping, made two points of great relevance to the rest of the world. One is tha
Friday, 20 October 2017
Here’s a radical idea. What if – instead of liking it or lumping it as you do for years on end – the voter could hold his or her Member of Parliament accountable for their performance?
