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BusinessTags: Print EditionGrowth in developing Asia is forecast at 4.8% this year and in 2024, up from 4.2% last year. The People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) recovery and healthy domestic demand in India will be the region’s main growth…
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BusinessTags: Print EditionPeople’s Bank Chairman Sujeewa Rajapakse presented the People’s Bank’s Annual Report for the year 2022 to Secretary to the Treasury of Ministry of Finance, Economic Stabilization and National Policies K. M Mahinda…
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BusinessDr. Kingsley BernardTags: Print EditionVeteran Export Professional Dr. Kingsley Bernard assumed Chairmanship of the Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB) on April 3. He succeeds the outgoing Chairman Suresh D de Mel who ended his…
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CEB reforms by May BusinessEnergy Minister Kanchana Wijesekere Tags: Print EditionPower and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera identified cost-reflective pricing as the panacea to the problems ailing the energy sector in the country.…
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BusinessTags: Print EditionSri Lanka’s Ministry of Finance is liaising with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) a subsidiary of the World Bank regarding the divestment of state-owned SriLankan Airlines, along with subsidiaries…
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BusinessFaris H. Hadad-Zervos Tags: Print EditionSri Lanka’s heightened fiscal, external, and financial sector imbalances and its fluid political situation pose significant uncertainty for the country’s economic outlook, says the World…
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Will not have a second chance Business Fizel JabirDr. Nandalal WeerasingheTags: Print EditionThe country is gradually coming out of the crisis but not out of the woods yet but making some progress, Central Bank Governor Dr Nandalal…
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Book review:LocalPaul CarrTags: Print EditionThere are literally hundreds of biographies of the Buddha ranging from the Lalitavistara written in the First Century AD to the 1993 film Little Buddha. Without exception these and the countless…
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Law & OrderGayan Kumara WeerasingheTags: Print EditionA thief who entered through the roof of the Kelaniya main post office and broke the locks of the safe had stolen more than Rs.600,000. The Kelaniya Police, who are investigating the…
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Law & OrderBimal JayasingheTags: Print EditionA senior police officer said that the wife of organized drug trafficker Nadun Chinthaka Wickramaratne alias Harak Kata, is to be arrested and brought to Sri Lanka. Nadun Chinthaka was…
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