Monday, 13th October 2014 Foreign direct investments (FDIs) to the country have reached a new high of US $ 1.364 billion by end-3Q14, a 57 percent increase from the same period last year. Sri Lanka attracted US $ 870 ...
Daily Archives: October 13, 2014
YARL DEVI: to Jaffna to be resumed after 24 years
Monday, 13th October 2014 Sri Lanka’s popular Yarl Devi express train service which connects the North with the South will ply up to Jaffna Railway Station after 24 years since the service halted in 1990. The service wa ...
Shangri-La plans mega residential complex in Colombo
Monday , 13th October 2014 The Hong Kong-based luxury hotel developer, Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts is to invest on a residential apartment complex in Sri Lanka, and the land transfer towards it is expected to take pla ...
SRI LANKA: ASIA’S FASTEST GROWING ECONOMY
Monday, 13th October 2014 Lakshman I.Keerthisinghe LLB, LLM.MPhil, Attorney-at-Law “Singapore is showing signs that its extraordinary growth of recent years may be reaching an end as it reaches its 50th birthday. Sri L ...
Sri Lanka welcomes 100,000th Chinese tourist
Monday, 13th October 2014 The 100,000th Chinese tourist to visit Sri Lanka in 2014 was welcomed at the Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake on Saturday by Sri Lanka Tourism Chairman Bashwara Gunaratne. ...
PRESIDENT FOR ONE AND ALL
Speech in Kilinochchi Monday, 13th October 2014 The people of the North, South, East and the West are all equal in my eyes and I am the President of all of them, said President Mahinda Rajapaksa . “I am the President n ...
Reflections on child rights in Sri Lanka, during the past 25 years
Sunday, 12th October 2014 By Dr. Hiranthi Wijemanne View(s): The origin of rights based services for Sri Lankan children began soon after independence. It started when the post-independence political leadership at that ...