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While acknowledging the challenges confronting the apparel industry, President Anura Kumara Disanayake has said tax ince...
13/09/2025

While acknowledging the challenges confronting the apparel industry, President Anura Kumara Disanayake has said tax incentives would depend on improving fiscal revenues and economic stability but ensured the Government would direct every rupee towards productive initiatives and developing essential infrastructure required by industries and investors.

Read The DailyFT for more: https://www.ft.lk/top-story/President-says-tax-incentives-depends-on-Govt-revenue-performance-economic-stability/26-781634

Israel would “form a part of a wall of defence for Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilisation against barbarism”. This w...
13/09/2025

Israel would “form a part of a wall of defence for Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilisation against barbarism”. This was how Theodor Herzl, the founder of political Zionism – the Jewish response to Christian Europe’s antisemitism, couched his idea of Israel to win the hearts and minds of European powers that were no strangers to settler colonialism. Just as Europe justified its conquest and colonisation of Americas, Africa and Asia five centuries ago as mission civilisatrice designed to pull the indigenous, uncivilised and barbaric communities out into the world of modernity and civilisation so was Herzl selling his future Israel as a blessing in disguise to barbaric Palestine. “It is their wellbeing, their individual wealth, which we will increase by bringing in our own,” he added.

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As the dust settles on the hullabaloo surrounding the arrest of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, we the public, ar...
13/09/2025

As the dust settles on the hullabaloo surrounding the arrest of former President Ranil Wickremesinghe, we the public, are left wondering what all the fuss was about.

In the aftermath we learn that there is a species of corporeal property deemed “public property”, which you may offend only with dire consequences. Bump into a private car, it is just an accident to be taken care of by your insurance company. You knock into one of those much-misused Government-owned cars (State property), and you stand at the edge of an endless ordeal, surely you must account for your bad karma!

Read The DailyFT for more: https://www.ft.lk/columns/Public-property-ours-or-theirs/4-781611

Main Opposition SJB MP Kabir Hashim was yesterday appointed as the new Chair of the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA)....
13/09/2025

Main Opposition SJB MP Kabir Hashim was yesterday appointed as the new Chair of the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA).

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Ex-President Ranil Wickremesinghe met Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong in Colombo on Thursday.The meeting, he...
13/09/2025

Ex-President Ranil Wickremesinghe met Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong in Colombo on Thursday.

The meeting, held at Wickremesinghe’s political office on Flower Road, took place at the request of the Chinese envoy. Discussions were centred on Sri Lanka’s political environme

Read The DailyFT for more: https://www.ft.lk/front-page/Chinese-envoy-meets-Ranil/44-781628

Last week, Nepal was rocked by its most violent upheaval in recent memory. What began last Monday as a self-styled “Gen ...
13/09/2025

Last week, Nepal was rocked by its most violent upheaval in recent memory. What began last Monday as a self-styled “Gen Z protest” against corruption, nepotism, and a clampdown on social media, spiralled into nationwide chaos after security forces opened fire on crowds.

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The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Bangkok concluded a key trade and tourism promotional event titled “Ceylon Tea – Finest Even...
13/09/2025

The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Bangkok concluded a key trade and tourism promotional event titled “Ceylon Tea – Finest Evening” held on 1 September, at Hyatt Regency Hotel, Bangkok.

This flagship initiative was organised with the objective of promoting Sri Lankan tea brand –Ceylon Tea, while also fostering stronger ties in trade and tourism between Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Read The DailyFT for more: https://www.ft.lk/business/Sri-Lanka-hosts-Ceylon-Tea-Finest-Evening-to-promote-trade-tourism-and-Ceylon-Tea-in-Thailand/34-781620

Expo Lanka Freight Ltd., (EFL) Project Division, has been the logistics partner for the Richardson Serendib 5 MW Solar P...
13/09/2025

Expo Lanka Freight Ltd., (EFL) Project Division, has been the logistics partner for the Richardson Serendib 5 MW Solar Power Plant in Hiripitiya, Kurunegala, a landmark project that strengthens Sri Lanka’s renewable energy portfolio. This project falls under the category of establishing a renewable energy generation facility with an installed capacity of 5 MW, which exceeds 1 MW, thereby meeting the minimum power generation capacity requirements specified in Gazette Notification No. 2083/33 dated 10 Aug 2018. This compliance also made the project eligible for the Bonded Warehouse Facility scheme, a critical enabler that ensured smart import handling and an efficient project facilitation process.

Read The DailyFT for more: https://www.ft.lk/business/EFL-delivers-seamless-logistics-for-Richardson-Serendib-5-MW-solar-power-plant/34-781621

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