Tag: Sri Lanka

Dec 03, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka Cricket, the islands’ governing board for the sport where state intervention has increased over the years, has a three billion rupee hole in its balance sheet, a parliamentary committee on state enterprises has found. A report by a committee on public enterprises (COPE) said SLC had 6. 1 […]

Dec 02, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is in talks with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) to reclaim 500 acres from the sea next to Colombo Port for a 750 million dollar project, an official said. Sri Lanka has said five acres of land in Colombo’s Galle Face beachfront, which is near the port, will […]

De 02, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka built up foreign reserves as a buffer to be used during tough times, Central Bank Governor Nivard Cabraal said, as reserves came off record highs seen in August 2011. “We have thought through carefully and built up are reserves carefully in order to ensure that we are able […]

Nov 30, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lankan firms can diversify into new areas by acquiring international talent when local resources are in short supply, the head of an emerging diversified group said. “If you don’t have a particular expertise are you buy that expertise,” LOLC group managing director Kapila Jayawardena told a business forum in […]

Nov 30, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s inflation rose to 4. 7 percent in November 2011 from a year earlier decelerating from 5. 1 percent in October, but prices rose 0.7 percent during the month, the state statistics office said. Central Bank Governor Nivard Cabraal has said that policy rates will be kept steady in […]

Nov 28, 2011 (LBO) – A unified South Asian institutional framework to handle migration issues would help improve the status of millions of expatriate workers and combat human trafficking, economists and officials said. Richard Denziger, chief of mission of IOM Sri Lanka said a regional consultative process would bring together governments and international organizations for […]

Nov 25, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s food processing, education and health sectors and business process outsourcing sectors are of interest to the United Arab Emirates, visiting minister of foreign trade Lubna Al Qasimi has said. Minister Bathiudeen said Sri Lanka has free and preferential trade agreements with India and Pakistan and South Asia giving […]

Nov 23, 2011 (LBO) – China has emerged as the top lender to Sri Lanka in the nine months to September 2011, in terms of money actually disbursed and loans committed for new projects, finance ministry data shows. Up to September 2011, China has disbursed 599. 9 million US dollars out of a total of […]

Nov 24, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka has appointed competent authorities, a ministerial committee and a three member compensation committee to deal with 37 expropriated assets and enterprises. It is made up of foreign employment minister Dilan Perera, minor export crop promotion minister Reginald Cooray, productivity promotion minister Lakshman Seneviratne, deputy finance minister Geethanjana Gunawardena. […]

Nov 23, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s private sector has been called upon to make big investments using tax savings and gains from incentives given by government, and banks urged to lend more to small business. Treasury secretary P B Jayasundera said the government was managing to maintain public investment at around six percent of […]