After a decade of country-wide efforts involving eight million members, the first ever national policy for Sri Lankaโs historic cooperative sector has finally arrived at Cabinet levels for ultimate approval.more
Sri Lankaโs mining and quarrying sector packs greater potentials in revenues and capacity. Sri Lanka now has the latest technology to create the breakthrough wonder material โgrapheneโ from its own, high purity graphite deposits.more
Having successfully wrapped a three decadesโ run, Sri Lankaโs foremost apparel training body is to expand to the South Asian region next. Meanwhile, for Sri Lanka to sustain its apparel advantage over the longer term, it needs to think beyond its low cost of labour.more
Sri Lanka has called its entrepreneurs to study and make use of the recently launched national SME policy and .more
As part of its vast development efforts in the North, Sri Lanka has stepped up industry expansion in the Province, boosting hopes for new employment and economic resurgence of the region. The expansion work is kicked off from the largest Industry Zone in the Northern Province.more
In an effort to promote green processes in its automotive sector, Sri Lanka has called the sector to switch its gears to UN Sustainable Development Goals 9 framework (SDG 9) introduced in Colombo last year. Meanwhile the Chinaโs famed low cost electric trishaw โXuZhou Furinkazanโ is unveiled in Sri Lankamore
Afghanistan which packs over US $ 3 trillion in identified natural resources has issued an open call to Sri Lankan business sector to visit them, prospect and reap benefits. ย โI found out that Sri Lankan miners to be well skilledโ said HE Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan tomore
Malaysia has expressed its strong interest on moving forward on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Sri Lanka that was initially mulled in 2013.more
Sri Lankaโs Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen has won a Global Leadership Award at Malaysiaโs Global Leadership Awards 2018 (GLA 2018) event at Kuala Lumpur Hilton on 25 July.more
With the recent unveiling of trade related national projects such as NES and SLTIP, there is clear progress in the management of Sri Lankaโs international trade-and now itโs time to leverage these initiatives to move to the next level, stressed Genevaโs International Trade Centre (ITC) in Colombo on 20 July.more
Leader of All Ceylon Makkal Congress