Category: General Services

Feb 18, 2015(LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Export Development Board (EDB) said that it has opened a web portal for service exporters as a one stop for them to link with international partners.Sri Lanka™s exports of ICT and construction services increased by 8 percent to 774 million US dollars in 2013 from 2012™s 714 million US […]

Feb 17, 2015 (LBO) – The United Nations had delayed the report of alleged human rights violations in during the Tamil tiger war in Sri Lanka until September 2015, given the changing political context in the island. He said that the three experts, who were appointed by his predecessor Navi Pillay to advise the investigation, […]

Feb 12, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Urban Development Authority (UDA) said Ranjith Fernando, a senior retired banker was appointed as the chairman of the authority. Nayana Nadeesha Mawilmada also been appointed as the new Director General of the Authority , the UDA said in a filing to stock exchange. The earlier office bearers had […]

Jan 30, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka™s Customs service will work round the clock in order to improve the service offered to the people and the improve island™s trade efficiency, Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said. The government expects around 50 billion rupee income from this measure. In an endeavor to improve the service offered to […]

Jan 03, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka inaugurated the newly built railway track between Jaffna and Kankasanthurai covering a distance of 18 kilometers, which established a direct train link with Colombo a media release said. This track corridor has two crossing stations at Kondavil and Chunnakam and five halt stations at Kokuvil, Inuvil, Mallakam, Tellipalai […]

Jan 01, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka™s cabinet has granted approval to recommence the Dual Citizenship which had been temporarily suspended during the end of 2011 has been reinstated from today, official of Ministry of Defence and Urban Development said at the briefing yesterday. The granting of Dual Citizenship will be in force from 31st […]

Oct 29, 2014 (LBO) – A Landslide destroyed a plantation in Haldummulla, Central Sri Lanka on Wednesday (29) morning and have killed at least 100 people and leaving more than 150 trapped, a media report said. An about 330 people had been living at the location at the time of the tragedy. The mobilized armed […]

Oct 29, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has slipped to 99 from 85 in a global ranking compiled by the World Bank group as several other nations raced ahead despite an improvement in the score between 2013 and 2014. The report further said Sri Lanka has made paying taxes more costly for companies by increasing […]

August 29, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is to launch an online support system focusing on the issues faced by the small and medium entrepreneurs in the island, Ministry of Industry and Commerce said in a media release. The tool will periodically present views and experiences of entrepreneurs and micro biz operating in formal and […]

Aug 15, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s cabinet of ministers had approved a plan to haul solid waste from Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo to sanitary land in the northwest of the island by rail as part of a plan to produce power, a top official said.Waste will be taken in special locomotives and rolling stocks.The […]

Aug 05, 2014 (LBO) – A regional consultant who works with mainly multinational businesses in South Asia and the Middle East says he wants to measure compassion in Sri Lanka business, after initiating the process in Pakistan.“I want to go deep and see how Sri Lankan organizations are different from Pakistan, even if they are […]