โ€˜Restart biz visa for JPN bizโ€™ – Minister Akaba Links prospective FTA to Lankaโ€™s trade, investment changes โ€˜Sri Lanka quite promising!โ€™-Japanese Minister Akaba Lanka-Japan trade tops $ 890 Mn As Sri Lanka-Japan bilateral trade jumped $890 Mn and edged to $ 900 Mn mark, a keen Japan signalled towards amore

โ€˜232 Chartered Acc. firms serving Lanka bizโ€™ โ€“Rishad Says total Registered Societies at 12086! Sri Lanka now lists companies much faster -in two days, to be exact. Meanwhile, no less than 232 Chartered accounting firms are actively serving Lankaโ€™s business sector. โ€œWe have now modernized the day to day activitiesmore

  Packaging Ind. hails Rishadโ€™s call for greenfield FDI โ€˜Time we make it priority exports support sectorโ€-Rishad Industry praised Govtโ€™s supportย  ย  โ€˜Want intโ€™l investments & techโ€™–SLIPโ€™s Perera Despite the battering in green field FDIโ€™s to the South Asian region, Sri Lanka emerged stronger as such inflows continued unabated tomore

Colombo Ifhtar Rishad Bathiudeen (Minister of Industry and Commerce and Leader, ย ACMC) became the proud host of #Ifhtar ceremony held on 07 July at Colombo’s Kingsbury Hotel…..Many Lankan and foreign dignitaries were in attendance.more

Lanka-Bโ€™Desh trade crosses critical $ 100M levels for the first time โ€˜Good going & our wishes!โ€™-Rishad Investment Protection Agreement coming! โ€œInvestment the way forward to drive our bilateral tradeโ€-(HE) Rahman Trade with Bโ€™Desh jumps by 67% in 2013 As bilateral trade crossed the critical $100 Mn mark for the firstmore

Five Muslim ministers issued a joint statement in Parliament on Thursday (10) condemning the recent propaganda activities alleging that terrorism and extremism existed within the Muslim community in Sri Lanka.more

Rishad Bathiudeen (Minister of Industry and Commerce of Sri Lankaโ€“left) meets (H.E) Valentin B. Rybakov (Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus-centre) ย on 09 July at Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Colombo as (HE) Vitaly Prima (Delhi based Belarus Ambassador for Sri Lanka- right) looks on. โ€˜Historicmore

[VIDEO COMING SHORTLY] [fvplayer src=”http://english.rishadbathiudeen.lk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/09JULY-BELARUS1.mp4″ width=”720″ height=”576″] The first ever #Sri Lanka – #Belarus official trade talks commenced in Colombo on 09 July amidst avowed assertions from both sides towards forging sustainable trade links while making inroads to the huge โ€˜New Asian; and upcoming Eurasian Union markets. And the firstmore

โ€˜This is opening for Belarus Presidentโ€™s future visit to Lankaโ€™-Belarusโ€™ Rybakov โ€˜Access rising SA, China markets from Lankaโ€™-Rishad Worldโ€™s largest agro machinery maker in visiting team โ€˜Lanka a very important partner for us in SAโ€™-Belarusโ€™ Rybakov Leading Lankan Ministries & BoI in 28 member Lankan team โ€˜EEU & Belarus promisingmore

โ€˜Index moves up to 115.9โ€™ โ€“ Rishad 12th INCO now on in Colombo โ€˜Global Competitiveness Ranking up by three placesโ€™ -Rishad Participants from India, Italy and UK โ€˜Good support from the governmentโ€™ – INCO Despite cost pressures, Sri Lankaโ€™s manufacturing signalled an expansion in the first quarterโ€“while the countryโ€™s globalmore