Sri Lanka holds policy rates amid higher inflation
Feb 12, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s central bank held its main policy rate at which money is injected at 9.5 percent in February after cutting rates …
Feb 12, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s central bank held its main policy rate at which money is injected at 9.5 percent in February after cutting rates …
Feb 08, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will improve infrastructure in the northeastern port city of Trincomalee with an 85 million US dollar loan from the Asian …
Feb 06, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s rulers have reduced a near doubling of an export tax on tea imposed without consultation of the affected parties …
Feb 02, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka and Luxemburg has signed an agreement to avoid double taxation, the island’s embassy in Brussels said. The agreement …
Feb 01, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will rent space to telecom companies in conduits pre-laid under roads being rebuilt in the capital Colombo under a …
January 31, 2013 (LBO) – Consumer prices in Sri Lanka rose to 9.8 percent in January 2013 from a year earlier accelerating from 9.2 percent a month …
Jan 30, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tea exporters are protesting an export tax that they have found has come into effect from January 23, where a cess …
Jan 30, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lankan trade and tax experts have pressed for further simplification of tax systems, saying that it will help generate more …
Jan 29, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is mulling a plan to haul solid waste from Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo to open pit limestone mines in the northwest …
Jan 29, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has begun a fast track execution of a 220 million US dollar World Bank funded plan to cut floods, boost drainage as well …
Jan 28, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will host the 6th South Asia Economic Summit (SAES), a policy forum that brings together academia, government, civil …
Jan 27, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lankan firms can ride out tough times by maintaining a lean culture, grabbing opportunities that are present in such periods and …
Jan 25, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will sign up export-import credits of 34 million Euros from Hungary to rehabilitate two water treatment plants supplying …
Jan 24, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Board of Investment said Lakshman Jayaweera, a Sydney based chemical engineer and entrepreneur, had been appointed …
Jan 24, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has set a minimum age of 25 years for women seeking to work as maid in Saudi Arabia and 23 years for another seven Middle …
Jan 22, 2013 (LBO) – India will begin talks with Sri Lanka’s finance and economic ministry to develop “a framework for a special economic …
Jan 17, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s policy rate at which liquidity is injected to the market will remain at 9.5 percent following a 25 basis point …
Jan 16, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s economic growth will pick up to 6.8 percent in 2013 helped renewed external demand, better agriculture output, the …
Jan 10, 2013 (LBO) – A move by Sri Lanka’s ruling coalition to impeach chief justice Shirani Bandaranaike through a controversial process which was …
Jan 05, 2013 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is entering 2013 with an improving external environment, a stable exchange rate and favourable weather for agriculture, …