In a significant step toward fostering community resilience and inclusive development, NDB Bank has partnered with World Vision to implement a targeted initiative aimed at uplifting women-headed ...

The Commercial Bank of Ceylon has partnered with Hayleys Agriculture to offer customised leasing and loan facilities to ...

For something a little more laid back, Bali offers family-friendly beaches, rice paddies to cycle through, and traditional crafts to try, all with an easygoing rhythm. While Sri Lanka and Thailand ...

Sri Lanka’s drive towards agricultural modernisation has brought to the fore children of farmers to be trained to man the smart technology – drones for paddy cultivation. Sons and daughters of farmers ...

The execution of the project on the ground will be driven by the collaboration between the ‘Our Movement Lanka’ organisation and Nativa Capital, with oversight from the Government of Sri Lanka. This ...

A majority-farming nation, agriculture plays a central role in Sri Lanka’s economy and constitutes 21.7 percent of total exports. But for more than seven years, Thennakoon has been coping with ...

In the sleepy, verdant village of Ambagaswewa, in the Polonnaruwa district of Sri Lanka’s North Central province, 63-year-old TMH Gamini Sunil Thennakoon’s life is peaceful for the most part. On the ...

The tank farm of around 100 massive oil tanks was built in the 1930s to sustain the British fleet in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The Royal Navy stayed on after Sri Lanka’s independence, but was ...

NEW DELHI : Fuel storage tanks from World War II may come to life again in Sri Lanka’s Trincomalee, with state-run Indian Oil Corp. Ltd (IOCL) planning to redevelop them at a cost of around ...

In 2020, Sri Lanka's Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development announced that it had signed an agreement with a Chinese company to set up a sea cucumber farm in the eastern province ...

As part of a drive to reduce tobacco usage, the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) declared in 2017 that tobacco farming would be banned in the country by the end of 2020 and initiated a program to ...