2011-13 factory output growing!
Sri Lankaโs factory output, an important industrial growth driver, continues to rise. โNational Factory output that recorded $ 2.4 Billion in 2011, increased to $ 2.6 Billion, in 2012. Since there is a strong contribution by local industries to exports, there is also growth in our overall exports thanks tomore
$1.3Mn at Gulfood -with no cost to taxpayer
The Sri Lankan food and beverages sector has reported success from its recent participation in one of the worldโs leading food eventsโGulfood 2014. โI praise your efforts to promote Sri Lankan food to this Gulf marketโ said Rishad Bathiudeen (Minister of Industry and Commerce of Sri Lanka) on 27more
Follow 2014 Peacock Campaign…
New page on the 2014 Campaign added (See top right-hand menu, “2014 Peacock Campaign”) Or click http://english.rishadbathiudeen.lk/peacock-2014/more
Sri Lanka’s Victory in Baghdad!
ย ย ย โ8thย SL-Iraqi JECย in Baghdad a hit!โย โ Rishad Iraq, the top Middle Eastern buyer of Ceylon Tea, has thrown its state controlled market doors wide-open to Sri Lanka for the first time agreeing for import of Ceylon Tea to the country directly -and also removed its import ban on Srimore
Iraqi-SL trade talks begin in Baghdad
The latest Sri Lanka-Iraq Joint Committee for Economic Cooperation (JEC) commenced on 25 February in Baghdad. โIraq is certainly an important market for us not only for tea but even for other prospective products. Similarly, there would be good opportunities for Iraq to promote its products with potential inmore
No Communal Politics!
The peacock branded All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC), is fielding a diverse set of 40 candidates at the forthcoming Western Provincial polls- a Corporate Accountant amongst them. โWe are not a communal party. We stand for a society and a governance model that ensures equal and fair opportunity formore
Basra Light!
30 API Basra Lights up unprecedented Iraqi-SL session As bilateral trade topped $90 Mn, Iraq and Sri Lanka are aiming to break new grounds when largest joint trade session will commence in Baghdad next week-and OPECโs second biggest oil power is now ready to channel its Basra Light crudemore
Emergence of Medical Tourism…
Merging its latest tourism arrivals to its modernizing healthcare, Sri Lanka is mulling to be a medical tourism destination next-while also opening a new niche service niche in its surging exports. โDue to the support of well-trained, high quality healthcare professionals, availability of treatment centres as well asmore
Six-Fold increase in trade!
In yet another major success in its export diversification efforts, Sri Lanka is moving towards considerable exports push with the easternmost NATO power in the world. And this G20 economy has made Sri Lanka a โPartnerโ in the ฤฐzmir International Fair, the oldest tradeshow in Turkey, taking place formore
โI am pleased!โ – Rishad
Spot sales totaling $30592 (Rs 04 Million), $3.82 Mn investment inquiries and a strong attendance are among the outcomes at the EDBโs sixth intโl Footwear and Leather Fair in Colombo. The sixth edition of Footwear and Leather Fair that began on 07 February at BMICH, came to a closemore