Sri Lanka

Professionals in Supplementary Medical Service have launched a token strike against the government’s decision to not provide them with Disturbance, Availability and Transport

Under a special presidential amnesty, 1.004 prisoners are to be released this Christmas, of whom 15 are female

The police have launched a new system to simplify the process of identifying criminals arrested for drug-related activities, with a specialised data system linking all police stations

Sri Lanka's garment exports continued their downward trend, falling 20% year-on-year to $330,95 million, according to data compiled by industry body Joint Apparel Association Forum

The country has started planning to recruit graduate teachers and teaching assistants to fill vacancies in Tamil language schools

President Wickremesinghe issued an extraordinary gazette notification declaring the postal service an essential public service, as postal workers in the country went on strike against the decision to turn post offices in Nuwara Eliya and Kandy into hotels

Food parcels distributions has begun for 10.000 students in 139 schools in seven provinces in Sri Lanka by the Chinese Foundation for Rural Development

A process has begun to release Single Super Phosphate into the country as a replacement for Triple Super Phosphate or Sludge, which is used to provide the phosphorus needed for paddy cultivation and other crops

Sri Lanka's meetings, incentive travel, conference and exhibition market is being affected by price controls on hotel rooms in the capital Colombo, industry officials said

Thousands of people in Sri Lanka have benefited from a blindness prevention program launched by the Saudi aid agency KSrelief

Sri Lanka's efforts to prevent and treat malnutrition among the country's under-two-year-olds will be supported with a €500.000 contribution from France through UNICEF