The Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) will earn Rs. 700 per vehicle for each PickMe taxi which operates from the airport, the app-based ride hailing company said.

Sri Lanka’s first AI-Human marketing agency, vAIral, has been launched by Enfection, a trailblazing force in the marketing industry.

Within 48-hours of an attempt by five Sri Lankan males to illegally migrate to Italy and seek asylum by using forged travel documents, the Immigration and Emigration Department officials arrested a couple at the airport on Tuesday evening using the same modus operandi to flee the country.

Sri Lanka’s Ceylon tea and cinnamon prices were coming down rapidly making it difficult for tea small holders and cinnamon cultivators to survive in the plantation sector, small plantation owners claimed.

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka organised an awareness program for the gem and jewellery sector on “Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Compliance Obligations and New Developments” on 4 July 2023.

Gross foreign investment in the Government securities market has crossed the $ 500 million mark in the first half of this year.

A special group of 93 Japanese nationals including 16 children arrived in Sri Lanka on Saturday 29 July 2023 via SriLankan Airlines for a 5-day tour of Sri Lanka.

As per the latest data from the Central Bank, cumulative export earnings during January to June 2023 registered a 10% decrease year-on-year (YoY) to $5.87 billion, whilst import expenditure during the same period saw a substantial decline of 18.6% YoY to $ 8.16 billion.

Provisional data from the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) reveals that tourist arrivals in the first seven months of 2023 have already exceeded the total tourist arrivals recorded for the entire year of 2022.