( In remote country side people has to travel in smaller trucks)
Today the European Commission will co-sign two new support programmes worth €38 million...
(A protest launched by several professional organizations against the ECTA in Colombo)
The Ceylon Chamber has reaffirmed its fullest support towards an agreement that widens...
(Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe being greeted by President Maithripala Sirisena during the former's swearing-in ceremony.)
-By Jayatilleke de Silva.
Journalists, especially political columnists whose vocation is...
In the wake of general elections earlier this year, Sri Lanka has emerged with a renewed emphasis on economic reforms and fiscal consolidation, which...
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday reiterated his government’s position that it would not sign the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with...
The 2016 Budget has been welcomed by the business and economic establishment. The big question is whether economic policies good for business are necessarily...
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s main business lobby, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, has urged the government to improve tax revenues and public sector efficiency...
(The US$1.4 billion Colombo Port City project was shelved after Mahinda Rajapaksa lost power. Original photo: Reuters)
In a significant move, China has dispatched a...
by Nimal Saderathne.
Enormous economic challenges confront the coalition government. Facing up to these economic problems after months of political preoccupations and electoral politics is...
Before more women enter booming, male-dominated sectors, what about harassment and violence? And who does the housework? "Unless men enter the kitchen, women cannot...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the shamed former IMF Managing Director involved in many sex scandals, unknowing to many had been hired as a costly advisor to...
By Verite Research--
Explaining the mirage of GDP growth optimism
Optimism about Sri Lanka’s future growth abounded at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce’s economic...
The country currently confronts a worsening economic crisis and the debt accumulation exceeds the annual household income, Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said. The Minister...
SL AMB Ravinatha at UNHRCThe resolution against Sri Lanka which was passed in Geneva on Thursday has been condemned as “counter –productive,” by the...
Consider this simple question: “Does the present government have a strong commitment to high levels of capital expenditure?” Today in Sri Lanka most analysts...
Increasing foreign debt burden despite improved external financesIn spite of the Central Bank announcing that “Gross Official Reserves increased to US$...
Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL), the national chapter of the global anti-corruption movement,has requested Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa and all the party leaders to take...
Economic downturn Sri Lanka’s key business chambers have called for a probe on official statistics following reports on how an official was allegedly asked...
The Census and Statistics Department’s National Accounts Division Director H.S. Wanasinghe in a revelation made during an investigation, the report of which is now...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is filling government with ex-top brass in the name of 'professionalizing' island-nation's politics.
by Salman Rafi Sheikh
Even at the height of the Sri...
