Sri Lankaโ€™s apparel sector is assured that potential effects, if any, from the biggest global trade agreement in two decades are likely to be balanced out by the return of GSP Plus, according to a top Cabinet Minister on 18 December. Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen, speaking atmore

Sri Lanka has decided to verify the calibrations used in three newly utilities and services in its retail sector. These new verifications are a first for these three sectors which are largely free of close supervision hitherto said the Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen on 8 December. Themore

Sri Lankaโ€™s FMCG marketโ€™s price leader LAK SATHOSA is ranked second among retail chain brands in the country -and that too, by a few marginal points behind the countryโ€™s top ranked retail chain. As part of its busy preparations for the coming festival season, SATHOSA has stocked up a three-monthmore

โ€˜8500+ cars driven here Lankan assembledโ€™-Rishad โ€˜Two firms already assembling cars!โ€™-Rishad Colombo Motor Show 2016 launched Says 566000 motor cars in Sri Lanka โ€˜Global car market slump overโ€™-Rishad Emerging here: Super lux car market Sri Lankaโ€™s automobile assembly industry has the potential to save valuable forex sacrificed for vehicle imports,more

โ€˜Each SME employs three Lankansโ€™-Rishad ย  2015 National Handicrafts show commences in Colombo SLT & MIC in digital venture to link SMEs to global chains! โ€˜Our handicrafts historicโ€™-Rishad New loan scheme for craftsmen 22000 Lankan craftsmen with NCC! The heady contribution of Lankan SMEs are not only for countryโ€™s economicmore

First Philippine delegation headed to Colombo looking for Lankan ICT, electronic partnering Pioneering delegation from Manila in March โ€™16 โ€˜Big biz, led by top officialโ€™– HE Bandillo โ€˜Time to activate trade agreementโ€™-Rishad Bilateral trade jump by 59% in โ€™14 โ€˜Looking for ICT, Electronics, Education partneringโ€™– HE Bandillo As Sri Lankaโ€™smore

โ€˜Third generation of reformsโ€™-Rishad in Parliament Thermal power affecting industry-Rishad Calls for lowering of energy costs Says youth drawn to Services, not manufacturing Sri Lankaโ€™s proposed economic reforms are of such a magnitude that it is possibly the third generation of reforms in the countryโ€™s economic history-and Lankan youth aremore

โ€˜Lankaโ€™s post war transparent growth grabbed our attentionโ€™-China Zhejiang Biggest Chinese delegation in a decade lauds openness โ€˜We too are modernisingโ€™-Rishad Lanka-Zhejiang biz at $100 Mn It is Sri Lankaโ€™s post war transparent growth that has drawn the attention of Chinaโ€™s most prosperous province to the country. โ€œAfter the war,more

Sri Lanka biz ink pioneering MoU with Chinaโ€™s richest province Biggest Chinese biz delegation in a decade now in town โ€˜Ready to help Lanka to maximiseโ€™– HE Chinese Amb Xianliang โ€˜Welcoming the richest Provinceโ€™-Rishad Lanka-Zhejiang biz at $100 Mn The largest business delegation to arrive in Sri Lanka from Chinamore

โ€˜China contributed $10 Bn to Lanka so farโ€™-HE Amb Xianliang First China Product Expo opens in Colombo โ€˜Lankaโ€™s strategic location is not uniqueโ€™– HE Chinese Amb Xianliang โ€˜Calling Chinese manufacturing to set up hereโ€™-Rishad โ€˜We believe in business for peopleโ€™s sakeโ€™-– HE Chinese Amb Xianliang China has contributed almost $10more