ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has restored a 20-dollar double entry visa for South Asian visitors and a 20 dollar double entry visa for other countries, according to the online visa website after the new administration restored an earlier e-visa system,…
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka is restoring the easy online visa system for tourists from midnight and the distress suffered by foreign visitors as a result of giving ETA process to VFS Global has ended, Foreign Minister Viitha Herath said. Herath…
ECONOMYNEXT – The Colombo Stock Exchange closed up on Thursday, data on its site showed. The broader All Share Index closed up 0.10 percent, or 12.16 points, at 11,671; while the more liquid S&P SL20 Index closed up 0.50 percent,…
Minister of Public Security, Vijitha Herath addressed the recent visa issues, stating that the government has taken swift action to resolve the challenges faced in obtaining visas over the past 24 hours. Starting from 12.00 midnight today (26), all foreigners…
ECONOMYNEXT — Sri Lanka’s outgoing Power & Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekara said he leaves the ministry and institutes under his purview in stronger financial positions with adequate stocks of petroleum products and coal for power generation and fuel supply. All…
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government and private borrowers has serviced 2.58 billion dollars of debt in 2023 and 2.48 billion in 2022, the year that the country defaulted on external debt, the Finance Ministry said. In 2022, central government principal…
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said he is hopeful the trend on focusing on the economy during election instead of race and religion will continue. “It is always said, you must look after the stomach before you…
ECONOMYNEXT – Refusing to work with the International Monetary Fund’s debt sustainability analysis for Sri Lanka will lead to un-quantifiable delays in the program with Sri Lanka, the Finance Ministry has said in an explainer on the matter. “Any country…
ECONOMYNEXT – Gagan Malik, an Indian film actor famous for playing the role of Prince Siddhartha in the film ‘Sri Siddhartha Gautama,’ has visited Sri Lanka with 65 Buddhist pilgrims from Maharatshtra, Madhya Pradesh and Telengana. Malik, who is also…
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s economy will not collapse under a National People’s Power administration but will be taken forward, leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake told the business community. “We will first give a guarantee that this economy will not be allowed…
