National carrier SriLankan Airlines aims to reach greater heights next year and several efforts are underway to pull it towards a positive growth trajectory after years of reported losses.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) on Wednesday announced the official rebranding of the prestigious Annual Report Awards Competition, as TAGS Awards, from this year onwards.

CFA Society Sri Lanka is hosting an information session on the CFA Programme on Tuesday, March 15, 2022, at 3:00 pm, with speakers CFA Society Sri Lanka President Dinesh Warusavitharana, CFA, Investment Research Managing Director and Acuity Knowledge

The CEO Forum of the Sri Lanka Institute of Directors (SLID) recently arranged a panel discussion and webinar titled ‘How the Pandemic has Changed the Way CEOs Must Lead’, to discuss and share insights on the pandemic-led leadership style changes

The Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) entered into an understanding with Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) in 2018 to foster effective sustainability performance and communication among the listed companies.

The Support for Integrated Rural Development Enterprise programme was implemented by the British Council in partnership with Chrysalis and Care Germany over the last 4.5 years with the funding of the European Union.

The Sri Lanka Japan Business Council will present a seminar on the theme of Japanese design and Sri Lankan manufacturing excellence on March 16, at Ramada Hotel, Colombo, at 6:00 p.m. onwards.

The private sector stakeholders of the tourism sector met with the officials of the Tourism Ministry this week to share their concerns with regard to the repeated challenges faced in steering forward.

Sri Lanka’s consumer electronic retailer Singhagiri (Pvt.) Ltd has stepped up efforts to revolutionise the history of the television industry in the country by making available locally assembled systems that are equipped with improved technology.

A total of 5.2 MnKgs came under the hammer this week at the Colombo Tea Auction, which was a marginal increase from the 4.98 MnKgs on offer the previous week.

Women entrepreneurs in emerging markets face a daunting gender finance gap when it comes to growing their start-ups, a research by International Finance Corporation (IFC) showed.

Goldman Sachs analysts downgraded their forecasts for U.S. economic growth for this year, reckoning that spikes in oil and other commodities since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will hurt spending.

Sri Lanka’s largest private fuel retailer hiked diesel prices more than 40 percent yesterday, compounding the hardship for ordinary people in the country’s worst economic crisis since independence.

Russia has hit back at western sanctions for invading Ukraine by imposing export bans on a string of products until the end of 2022.

The Fundamental Rights petition filed by the Electricity and Renewable Energy Consumers Association, seeking an interim order staying the proposed ground-mounted solar power projects, has been fixed for May 12 by the Supreme Court.

NDTV: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Thursday issued a notification to initiate the US $ 500 million line of credit provided by India to Sri Lanka, which would enable it to buy petroleum products.

Clearing the confusion and uncertainty surrounding Monday’s Central Bank announcement on allowing a more flexible exchange rate and the behaviour of the domestic foreign exchange market in response to it, the Central Bank yesterday clearly indicate

Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masatsugu Asakawa who is on a two-day visit to Sir Lanka met with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday and reaffirmed ADB’s support for Sri Lanka’s recovery path from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sri Lankan shares surged over 6 percent to their best one-day percentage gain since 2006 after adjustments to spot exchange rate devalued the rupee further and boosted exporters.

Softlogic Holdings PLC has proposed to raise Rs.2.0 billion via rated commercial papers as the company looks to refinance most of its debt given its heavy debt reliance for expansion and acquisitions.

Sri Lanka’s fuel crisis will end soon with the government’s decision to purchase 225,000 MT of oil under 90-day credit lines sought from several countries, Energy Minister Gamini Lokuge told Parliament yesterday.

Dialog Axiata PLC, the first telecommunications service provider in the South Asian region to demonstrate 5G capabilities in 2018, announced the breakthrough achievement of becoming the first in South Asia to successfully trial the 5G Standalone (5G

Sri Lanka’s sudden devaluation of the local currency and imposition of import limits on hundreds of items is likely to disrupt value chains and push up consumer prices that are already sky high, analysts and retailers warned.

Sri Lankan born entrepreneur Ermila Jayasuriya-Curtis has made it to the list of FT 1000 Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies in 2022 for her award-winning brand ‘Winter in Venice’.

Private sector stakeholders of the tourism industry raised fresh concerns yesterday on the aggressive push by the regulatory body to bring in a new Tourism Act, which entails sections that are controversial and pave the way for poor transparency.

Standard Chartered is collaborating with global multi-dimensional women’s fund, Women Win, through its NGO partner in Sri Lanka, SERVE, to launch ‘Shaktheen’ – a women empowerment programme aimed to revive the livelihoods of working women in

Sandra De Zoysa, the first female Chairperson of SLASSCOM and Group Chief Customer Officer of Dialog Axiata PLC, was the recipient of National Vanitha Abhimana Award 2022 for the corporate and professional sector: information technology. The event wa

Satynmag.com, Sri Lanka’s leading women’s magazine in print since 1998 and totally online since 2013, has announced a global partnership with one of India’s most vibrant women entrepreneurship ecosystems, Catalyst for Women Entrepreneurship (CW

MAS Holdings paid tribute to the exceptional contributions of its female employees across multiple countries, recognising their inspirational performances in achieving excellence within the organisation and in their communities, at the company’s 14

Sri Lanka has limited imports of 367 non-essential items, including fish, footwear and wine, the finance ministry said yesterday as the South Asian country attempts to tackle its worst financial crisis in years.