China is considering a new request for $ 2.5 billion ($ 1 billion financing facility and $ 1.5 billion buyers’ credit) from the Government of Sri Lanka, , Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Qi Zhenhong said.
He said the Chinese authorities are promptly studying the request. The Ambassador said this at a press briefing coordinated by the Sri Lanka-China Journalists Forum held at the Kingsbury hotel in Colombo in yesterday.
China and Sri Lanka celebrate 65 years of diplomatic relations as well as the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Rubber-Rice pact this year.
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Popular grade five tuition teacher, Hayeshika Fernando wanted over assaulting a 21 year old youth was granted bail today after she surrendered to courts.
A British national had been arrested over attempting to smuggle in the largest haul of kush( drugs) from Thailand, customs said.
First Bishop of the Batticaloa Diocese, Retired Bishop Joseph Ponnaiya, passed away today at the age of 74, following a brief illness.
The Government of Sri Lanka maintains that the allegation of genocide during the final phase of the conflict in Sri Lanka is unsubstantiated by any credible authority, either nationally or internationally, and is based on misleading information. Sri Lanka firmly rejects this false narrative and believes it has been propagated primarily for electoral gains within Canada.
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