Thursday, 2nd October 2014 The Cabinet of Ministers this week gave approval to initiate activities to establish a Centre of Excellence on Ocean Sciences and Environment. The proposal, made by the Minister of External Af ...
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SLT and multi carrier-led SEA-ME-WE 5 cable system deployment starts
Thursday, 2nd October 2014. * SLT says its partnership is a giant step towards achieving SMART Sri Lanka in 2020 Sri Lanka Telecom Plc yesterday announced that the new South East Asia-Middle East-Western Europe (SEA-ME ...
Getting the FTAs right: Benefiting from both China and India
Thursday, 2nd October 2014 MirrorBusiness Pathfinder Economic Alert A winning combination The combination of Sri Lanka’s geographical proximity and multifaceted ties with India which stretch back millennia, not least t ...
Lanka rejects allegations on returnees
Wednesday, 1st October 2014. The Sri Lankan Government has dismissed as ‘baseless’ the findings of an investigation by the Australian media into the alleged mistreatment of failed asylum seekers sent back to ...
Sri Lanka seeks to trademark cinnamon spice success
Agence France Presse. (Hikkaduwa, September 28.) Ten years after the Asian tsunami devastated Sarath Kumara's cinnamon plantation in Sri Lanka, forcing him to start over with nothing, the farmer faces a new thre ...
THE GOLDEN VALLEY OF CEYLON TEA
Saturday, 27th September 2014 Lakshman I.Keerthisinghe LLB, LLM.MPhil, Attorney-at-Law Not often is it that men have heart when their one great industry is withered, to rear up in a few years another as rich to take ...
President congratulates new Afghan Leader
Saturday, 27th September 2014 President Mahinda Rajapaksa extended warm congratulations to Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, on his election as the President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, and wished him a successful ...