The Ambassador of Finland to Sri Lanka Rauli Suikkanen said that he would call leading entrepreneurs of his country to invest in Sri Lanka. 

The Sri Lanka’s Commerce Department is currently fighting what it calls an erroneous imposition of countervailing duties on Sri Lankan made pneumatic off-the-road (OTR) tyre exports to the US, with the aim of reducing or removing the duties, Mi

Renuka Agri Foods PLC, a Renuka group company, which has interests in food manufacturing and plantations, posted a Rs. 75.67 million net profit for the quarter ended December 31, 2016, up from Rs. 65.19 million year-on-year (YoY), financial statement

REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee ended slightly weaker yesterday due to dollar demand from banks as foreign investors continued to sell government securities, while the Central Bank revised the spot reference rate to a record low of 150.75, dealers said

Leading insurer, Ceylinco General Insurance Ltd, has announced excellent results for the year ended December 31, 2016, with premium income growing by Rs.2.5 billion or 18.9 percent year-on-year (YoY) to Rs.16.1 billion.

AIA Insurance Lanka PLC has entered into an exclusive, long-term, strategic bancassurance partnership with DFCC Bank PLC, marking another key milestone in the AIA-DFCC relationship. 

With Viber users in Sri Lanka reaching over six million and Viber being the most downloaded app in Sri Lanka, Seylan Bank decided to launch a sticker pack to promote its new youth banking product – Seylan Seylfie – to reach the youth of S

The 27th J.E. Jayasuriya Memorial Lecture, to take place on Monday, February 13, 2017, will be delivered by Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka Executive Director Dr. Saman Kelegama on the topic ‘Non-State Actors in Higher Education in Sri

Good governance activist and retired private sector executive, Chandra Jayaratne has written to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) to come forward to protect the independence of the country’s Auditor General (AG)

A US $ 15 million project for the establishment of a solar power plant in Sri Lanka is underway with investments from three Japanese companies through a Japanese consortium.  

The leading infrastructure developer, Access Engineering PLC (AEL), performed better during its December quarter due to the rebound in construction activities, but the steeper rise in tax expenses took the glow out of otherwise excellent results, the

REUTERS: The Sri Lankan rupee closed slightly weaker yesterday due to dollar demand from importers and banks as foreign investors continued to sell government securities, dealers said.

REUTERS: Oil steadied close to US $ 57 barrel yesterday as the rising tensions between the US and Iran and OPEC supply cuts were countered by ample inventories and signs that higher prices will revive US output.

The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce(CCC) together with the Council for Business with Britain organized a business forum with a visiting business delegation, which was led by the British Sri Lankan Association (BRISLA), United Kingdom.

CFA Sri Lanka announced that Royal Institute of Colombo won the local competition of the CFA Institute Research Challenge 2017 and would advance to the Asia Pacific Regional round where they will compete against leading universities from the region.&

REUTERS: Sri Lanka’s Central Bank could raise its key policy rates in coming months if it skips a chance to tighten next week, a Reuters poll showed, underlining renewed pressure on the rupee after the Federal Reserve’s rate hike last mon

An Appeal to safeguard the independence, integrity and professional position of Auditor General I write this appeal to you, this day our nation celebrates its 69th Anniversary of Independence,

The Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China Yi Xianliang is scheduled to deliver the 13th Sujata Jayawardena Memorial Oration on the topic “One Belt, One Road - Sri Lanka - China Relations.” on 15th February at the BMICH. 

Solar power solutions provider JLanka has taken an initiative to install solar photovoltaic systems to the country’s major religious places of worship and religious institutions.

Denim never goes out of fashion, but the ubiquitous fabric gets fresh expression in a dynamic and chic new Spring collection unveiled by Odel, already the largest fashion repository in the country. The new collection reinforces Odel’s status in

South Asia Gateway Terminals (SAGT), the first private container terminal operator in Sri Lanka with approximately 60 percent Sri Lankan stake, has yet again featured Sri Lanka prominently on the world maritime stage.   

A delegation from Sadaharitha Plantations Ltd, including the company’s Chairman Sathis Nawarathne, toured Assam, in the south of the eastern Himalayas recently, to get a hands-on experience of growing and marketing agarwood, which is considered

The 12th lucky winner of Cash Bonanza Montero Extravaganza 2016, introduced by the national mobile service provider, SLT Mobitel, to walk away with the Montero for December 2016 was Gunarathnarajah Ariyarathnam from Dehiwela. 

Giving effect to a long awaited reform to consolidate the overcrowded stock broking industry, Sri Lanka’s capital market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),

REUTERS: Sri Lanka aims to finalize a free trade agreement with China this year and the country’s Prime Minister will visit Beijing in May, the Sri Lankan Ambassador said on Saturday, amid rising concern in the South Asian nation about Chinese

The Hayleys group knitted fabric manufacturing unit, Hayleys Fabric PLC, reported a net profit of 6 cents a share for the quarter ending December 2016, against 34 cents a share recorded during the same quarter last year, the interim report of the com

Certain new pneumatic off-the-road tyres imported to the US from Sri Lanka and India will shortly be subjected to anti-dumping and countervailing duties following a recently concluded United States International Trade Commission (USITC) investigatio

Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka this January grew by 12.9 percent year-on-year (YoY) to 219,360, despite the country’s main airport in Katunayake being closed for a considerable period of time.

Senkadagala Finance PLC, a licensed finance company with an asset base of just under Rs.29 billion last week announced its plans to raise equity capital via a rights issue to maintain the minimum regulatory capital requirements, a disclosure to the C

Diversified freight and logistics firm, Expolanka Holdings PLC, saw its December quarter (3Q17) performance being hampered through the “challenges arising from constrained returns from passive investments combined with the impact of a drop in e