Backdrop Countless images of women carers flitted through April-July 2022 on Sri Lankan television screens, social media, and newspapers. Carers with young children, mothers with …
Sri Lanka and Maldives continue collaboration in construction services sector
The Sri Lanka High Commission in Maldives and the Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB) jointly organized a virtual meeting for Sri Lankan construction services companies to interact with the SME & …
Billionaire Gautam Adani lands in the middle of India-China fight in Sri Lanka
A small group of fishermen ply the shallow coastal water along Pooneryn in northern Sri Lanka, an impoverished, remote area within striking distance of India’s southern tip. It’s where Gautam Adani, …
UK wants Sri Lanka to reduce market access barriers
The United Kingdom (UK) wants Sri Lanka to reduce market access barriers and improve ease of doing business which will further boost the UK–Sri Lanka trade and investment relationship, the UK High …
US Treasury designates Sri Lanka-based business partner of al-Qa’ida financial facilitator
The United States has imposed sanctions on an individual who was identified as the Sri Lanka based-business partner of a sanctioned al-Qa’ida financial facilitator and external operations plotter …
Sri Lanka creates excitement at WTM
World Travel Market (WTM) 2022 in London ended on a positive note for destination Sri Lanka with more international travellers convinced the island nation is safe to welcome and host them. ..
How Geoffrey Bawa’s legacy lives on: Sri Lanka’s celebrity architect left his country with beautiful buildings like Lunuganga and Anantara Kalutara Resort – and now you …
Sri Lanka’s most famous architect Geoffrey Bawa trained in the UK before returning home in the 1950s, where his optimistic designs chimed with the hopes of a newly independent country Since his death …
Ex-UK HC to SL, Gladstone, 87, in legal wrangle over property inherited from late wife
One-time British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka (1987-1991) David Gladstone, 87, has moved the High Court of UK to regain Wotton House, in Buckinghamshire, a Grade 1 listed mansion worth 15 mn pounds, …
US Slaps Sanctions On Sri Lanka Based Businessman
The United States has imposed sanctions on a Sri Lanka-based businessman identified as Mohamad Irshad Mohamad Haris Nizar, over his all …
Airline on the block in Sri Lanka reforms
Dozens of state-owned Sri Lankan companies employing tens of thousands of people could be restructured or closed as part of an IMF bailout of the bankrupt country, with the country’s airline top of …