Sri Lanka improves steadily in Doing Business ranking
Sri Lanka will map out strategies to achieve
better rankings in the ease of Doing Business index compiled by the
World Bank Group, in which the country has secured the 81st position
for 2013. Sri Lanka’s Doing Business ranking has steadily improved
from 98 in 2011 to 89 in 2012 and 81 in 2013. This ranking is out of
185 countries.
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APE Awards 2013
Asia Pacific Entrepreneurship (APE) Awards 2013
organised by Enterprise Asia will be held in Sri Lanka for the
second consecutive year on February 17, 2013 at the Cinnamon Grand.
Country Director of Enterprise Asia, Ananda Rajapaksa said that this
award gives international recognition and is a regional platform for
Sri Lankan entrepreneurs.
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Lanka on track to achieve MDGs
Sri Lanka is on track to achieve many of the
Millennium Development Goals (MDG), said UN Resident Coordinator in
Sri Lanka, Dr. Subinay Nandy. He was addressing the 67th United
Nations Day in Colombo on Wednesday. He said that Sri Lanka has done
well despite the global crisis but still youth unemployment,
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Lankan chefs excel at Culinary Olympics
Fourteen Sri Lankan chefs brought honour and
pride to the country by winning 15 gold medals at the World Culinary
Olympics in Frankfurt, Germany recently. It was the first time that
a national team of Sri Lankan chefs participated in the World
Culinary Olympics, the world's prestigious culinary shows held once
in four years.
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Price increase hits small-scale poultry farmers
Small-scale poultry farmers say that the recent
price increase of chicken by Rs 30 has not yet been passed on to
them and the price of live chicken that the small-scale producers
mainly sell, remains unchanged at between Rs. 285-290. The Chairman
of the All Island Poultry Association (AIPA) said that the
Association continuously demanded a price increase of Rs. 80 per
kilo to compensate for the increased cost of production,
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