Category: Local News

Sri Lankan High Commissioner Major Gen (R) Jayanath Lokuketagodage Wednesday reiterated his country’s commitment to enhance trade and investment ties with Pakistan.

“Let’s determine to rise as One Country – One Nation unhindered by divisions or disparities, but genuine peace and equality, and to build a drug-free, alcohol-free country in the New Year commencing today”, said President Maithripala Sirisena.

India and Sri Lanka could soon finalise an agreement for building a bridge connecting both the countries, Indian Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari has said.

The Hong Kong Immigration Department yesterday issued a stern warning that human traffickers who arrange unauthorized entrants to Hong Kong from Sri Lanka and seven other countries would face a HK$5 million fine and a jail term in the future

Sri Lankan five-day rupee forwards edged down on Monday due to late importer dollar demand ahead of holidays for the Sinhala-Tamil new year later this week, dealers said.

Chinese investment in Sri Lanka will not pose a threat to other countries, including India, according to the island nation’s prime minister.

Home Affairs Minister Vajira Abeywardena has declared April 15th Friday as national holiday due to the Sinhala and Tamil New Year celebrations which falls on April 13 and 14.

Sri Lankan migrant workers may soon have a say in the elections happening back in their home country as the Lankan parliament unanimously approved last Wednesday the appointment of a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) to formulate a mechanism to enable them to vote.

Sri Lanka has asked China to swap some of the $8 billion the Indian Ocean country owes Beijing for equity in infrastructure projects and offered to sell stakes in Sri Lankan companies to Chinese ones, Sri Lankan officials said on Saturday.

Chinese President Xi Jinping met with visiting Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in Beijing on Friday.

“Though some people are accusing me stating that I created a government together with the UNP by defeating the SLFP, what I did was to defeat the system which is not suitable to the country by bring in a new system ”, says President Maithripala Sirisena.

Thirteen suspects including 10 Iranians and a Pakistani allegedly involved in the largest ever heroin smuggling in the sea were yesterday ordered to be remanded until April 19 by the Colombo Fort Acting Magistrate.

The LTTE cannot revive its separatist movement in Sri Lanka without its leader Velupillai Prabakaran, a senior Northern Province official today asserted

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is heading to Beijing on Wednesday to negotiate a $125 million penalty that a Chinese state firm is seeking from Sri Lanka for suspending work on a big port development project.

Claiming continuing LTTE threats to his life, former President and Kurunegala District MP Mahinda Rajapaksa has appealed to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to rescind a government decision to withdraw a contingent of army commandos assigned for his security.

World’s largest wastewater service firm is looking to enter Sri Lanka and help modernize the country’s disposal methods.