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Tax experts urge new Govt:
Practise good governance, not reckless extravagance
Tax experts said that adherence to principles of
good governance will save large amounts of public money which the
previous regime spent extravagantly on non-lucrative projects,
foreign tours, tamashas and maintaining jumbo cabinets and
loss-making State entities.
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Tea industry:
‘Innovation, a must to survive’
The tea industry needs to market itself in the
light of new world trends affecting the trade. With Sri Lanka
producing only a fraction of the total tea produced in the world,
the efficient marketing of ‘Ceylon Tea’ is the only way to survive,
a front line tea exporter said recently.
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Attracting FDIs:
Lanka should focus on ethical investors - Cherie Blair
Human rights is not the business of the
government anymore, but it is the business of business. Economic
development is not about the improvement of statistics and
indicators, but about people and their aspirations,
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Industry expert says:
Suez canal expansion may benefit SL
The Suez canal expansion at a cost of over US $
8 billion was completed recently. The Egyptian Army supervised the
construction work. For one year, 400 private companies and 25,000
workers were mobilized to work on the project.
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Lanka to export butter next year - Pelwatte Dairy chief
Pelwatte Dairy Industries will produce over 700
tonnes of butter a year and will begin exports next year, Chairman,
Pelwatte Dairy Industries, Ariyaseela Wickramanayake said. He said
Sri Lanka imports around 700 tonnes of butter a year and added that
with the increase in local production,
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