Economic
Introduces environmentally friendly Low-Carbon Aluminium to grow export markets
Pro-circularity model reduces manufacturing energy requirements by 95%
4,020 tourists in first 4 days of Sept. push YTD arrivals to 500,472
India, UK, Australia, Germany, Canada among top source markets
SLTDA Chief Priantha Fernando confident of achieving 1 m arrivals
Eyes $ 1.75 b earnings this year; $ 825 m netted so far in first 7 months
Lankans seeking overseas jobs jump by 340% to 163,522 up to July
Stock and Govt. securities markets see net inflows
Urge govt. to consider including canned fish in temporarily banned list of imported goods into country
Workers’ remittances saw a rebound in August reaching $ 325 million, the highest level so far in 2022.
The Public Debt Department (PDD) of the Central Bank yesterday only sold Rs.10.2 billion worth of Treasury bills, despite offering Rs.75 billion in bills, with yields remaining unchanged across all three maturities from last week’s auction.
The Paris Club has said that it is ready to start the debt treatment process of Sri Lanka following the conclusion of the Staff-Level Agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last week.
The Government’s recent clamp down on sports goods due to the foreign exchange crisis in the country is affecting a lot of sports, especially cricket.
ඇගළුම් ක්‍ෂේත්‍රය හැර සෙසු ක්‍ෂේත්‍රවල ප්‍රගතියක් දක්නට නොලැබෙන්නේ එම ක්‍ෂේත්‍ර ජාත්‍යන්තරයට නිදහස් නොකිරීම හේතුවෙන් බව කර්මාන්ත අමාත්‍ය රමේෂ් පතිරණ පවසනවා.
Leading business LMD reported that ‘confidence barometer has headed north after two successive months of stagnation.”
July imports dip 25% to $ 1.28 b; first 7 months' expenditure down 3.5% to $ 11.3 b
Import volume index down 36% but import unit value index up 18%
Consumer goods import value down by 46.2%
Non-food consumer imports dip by 67%
Investment goods lower by 44% in July and 19% in first 7 months
Fuel imports up 35% in July and 43% to $ 3 b in first 7 months
August arrivals totalled 37,760
Destination SL inches away from reaching half a million arrivals mark for 2022
UK, India and Germany rank as top three source markets for August
SriLankan Airlines, Qatar Airways and Emirates rank as top three carriers that have helped generate tourist traffic to SL
The tourist arrivals for the month of August witnessed a 20 percent dip when compared with the previous month, with the numbers totalling to 37,760.
A major tea export company in Sri Lanka has been evading taxes worth US dollars 300 million every year, a government MP told Parliament yesterday.
වෙළඳපොල කටයුතු කෙරෙහි සංවේදී කරුණු නිසා ණය ප්‍රතිව්‍යුහගතකරණය සම්බන්ධයෙන් තමන්ට අදහස් දැක්විය නොහැකි බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහබැංකුවේ අධිපති නන්දලාල් වීරසිංහ මහතා පවසයි.
ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය අරමුදලේ ණය වැඩසටහන හරහා මෙරට ආයතනික ආදායම් බදු හා වැට් බදු තවත් ඉහළ දමනු ඇතැයි ජාත්‍යන්තර මූල්‍ය විශලේෂණ ආයතනයක් වන ෆිච් රේටින් ආයතනය පවසනවා.
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