Around 120,000 Sri Lankans left Sri Lanka in 2021
Posted by Editor on January 2, 2022 - 9:41 am
Around 120,000 Sri Lankans left Sri Lanka in 2021 seeking foreign employment, the State Ministry of Foreign Employment Promotion and Market Diversification said on Friday (December 31).
The State Ministry said 30,000 have gone to Qatar, 27,000 to Saudi Arabia, 20,000 to UAE, 1,400 to South Korea, 1,100 to Singapore,1,600 to Cyprus and 800 to Japan despite the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Well done Sri Lanka providing labour to do menial jobs for rest of the world.
No wonder, chase all citizens away so that the Nation becomes the R Family hermit kingdom!!
This our main export. The days we export Tea Rubber and coconut are things of the past. Once again is these guys, shy (because they were given the false impression and meaningless education to become engineers and accountments) to cultivate paddy, coconut etc. in their own country. might as well go to another country and help them to grow these so we can import them eventually.