Sri Lankaโ€™s footprint in global boats and shipping sector may be smaller, but Lankan exports in it continue to surge in strong numbers. As a result Sri Lanka is ambitiously positioning for $200 Mn boats and shipping exports by 2022.more

Sri Lanka is sending 20 industrialists from ten manufacturers to this weekโ€™s global exposition in Myanmar or the first time as part of the countryโ€™s revived efforts to hit $3 Bn in rubber exports.more

Tehran is upbeat. Buoyed by the outcomes of recently wrapped Sri Lankan state visit, Iran has now called for the pivotal Joint Economic Commission talks to be held in Tehran-as early as this August.more

For the first time, the International Cooperative Day celebrations in Sri Lanka are to be held in the East Province. The 96th international day of celebrations will be followed by a seven-day long, island-wide special cooperative activities.more

Worried workers of a state-owned, rare business success have flocked to HE Sri Lankan Presidentโ€™s office on 31 May bitterly complaining that after the operation has been swapped to a different Ministry from its parent, it now risks falling back to the โ€˜loss-making ventureโ€™ that it used to be.more

Lanka Sathosa, the country’s largest state owned retail chain, has clinched committed support from the people of the United States thereby recording the institutionโ€™s first ever inward global assistance flow on 24 May.more

China hinted Sri Lankaโ€™s growing importance in its ambitious $500 Bn One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative saying Sri Lanka a โ€œhubโ€ in its OBOR strategy. Sri Lanka meanwhile stressed of its own role in OBOR, and revealed that the Colombo Port City project despite the 25 year long timeline,more