The International Organisation of Migration (IOM), a UN agency, will be monitoring the progress of the first batch of around 500 Sri Lankan workers who leave for Libya next month in a pilot project aimed at improving the status of workers overseas, officials said.
Documents filed in the Supreme Court in the oil hedging cases have revealed that Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) and Citibank have entered into hedging deals not only with the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) but also with SriLankan Airlines.