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Worldโ€™s top ICT economy in rare opening for Lankan start-ups โ€˜Time for first Biz Councilโ€™-Finnish Minister Anttone First Finnish delegation highly upbeat! โ€˜Starting new bilateral effortsโ€™โ€“Rishad Lankan ICTs in first entry to Slush 2015 In a major renewal of its economic cooperation with Sri Lanka, Worldโ€™s ICT innovation leader hasmore

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All Ceylon Muslim congress (ACMC) will announce it decision on whom to support at the forthcoming Presidential Election on 12 December. A delegation of ACMC, led by party leader Minister Rishad Bathiudeen met President Rajapaksa on Saturday (07) at the Temple Trees. “Aย delegation of ACMC, led by me as themore

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Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen greets Colleen Cervantes (President of Chevron Lubricants) at the ceremonial opening of the state-of-the-art lubricant blending plant and the warehouse facility at Sapugaskanda on 04 December.  more

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ย Viet Nam calls for FTA โ€˜Appointing Lankaโ€™s first trade official to โ€˜Namโ€™-Rishad โ€˜Bilateral trade should not be just rice & tea!โ€™-(HE) Kieu Thu ย YoY Bilateral tradeย surges by 88% โ€œTime to explore joint apparel synergies tooโ€™-(HE) Kieu Thu Stepping up its trade cooperation with Sri Lanka to new levels, Viet Nammore

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Rishad Bathiudeen (Vanni District MP &ย Minister of Industry and Commerce) celebrated his 42nd birthday with his staffย on 27 November. “Thank you all for your warm wishes…I am so pleased and happy” Minister Bathiudeen responded!    more

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Bโ€™Deshi biz steps in to accelerate historic trade pact โ€˜Taking a personal interest!โ€™โ€”ICCBโ€™s Rahman โ€˜A Pact will boost bilateral tradeโ€™-Rishad YoY Bilateral tradeย up by 67% As both Bangladesh and Sri Lanka moved closer to their historic trade pact, the process took a new turn as a keen Bangladeshi private sectormore

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Lanka hosts World Packaging confab for the third time โ€˜Lanka FMCG packaging sales up 15%โ€™-Rishad โ€˜New era in packagingโ€™–WPO President Schneider Packaging related exports up by 25% Bringing global packaging honour to Sri Lanka, the World Packaging Confab kicked off in Colombo for the second time on 20 November-.and notmore

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Indo-Lanka FTA study team arrives in Colombo First ever ISFTA scoping study underway โ€˜Great trade since ISFTAโ€™-Rishad โ€˜Not just policy BLAH but specific issuesโ€™-ISECโ€™s Prof Pattnaik Trade under ISFTA up by 40% in โ€˜13 First research at $20000 Biggest supplier to SL in 2013 was India In a new developmentmore

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โ€˜Sri Lanka moving for industrial sustainabilityโ€™-Rishad to Vienna Viennaโ€™s 2nd ISID Forum closes successfully โ€˜We strengthened institutionsโ€™-Rishad Mission 09, Haritha, among Lankan initiatives   Industrial development is a partnership based effort-and Sri Lanka tells the worldโ€™s topmost Industrial Forum in Vienna that inclusivity and sustainability goes hand-in-hand to this end,more

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“Economic policies, under the Mahinda Chinthana framework, are paying dividends to the country. Upon reflection of the proposals of this budget, I feel that it is a constructive effort, to reduce poverty levels as well as the deficit so that the economic development is felt stronger” said Rishad Bathiudeen (Ministermore