Sri Lanka’s LTL Holdings is on aggressive expansion and diversification plans in Bangladesh, where it has the largest investment outside Sri Lanka through its branch, Lakdhanavi in Dhaka. Amongst these plans going public with one of the subsidiaries, and diversifying into agriculture, leisure, animal feed production, fishing, and poultry are on the cards. “Bangladesh has provided us with many investment opportunities after the decade we have been in the country,” U Gamini Sarath, Country Director Lakdhanavi Ltd. Bangladesh told the Business Times at the company’s head office in Dhaka recently.
The UK government has unveiled a package of reforms to simplify imports from developing countries which allows for more garments manufactured in Sri Lanka to enter the UK tariff-free.
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Cabinet has approved the appointment of Commodore (retired) M.B.N.A. Premaratne of the Sri Lanka Navy, as the new Commissioner General of Excise.
Villagers in Nirmalapura, Daluwa, Norochcholai today staged a protest over an incident where a group of Navy officials and sailors had assaulted a resident in the area over night, Police said.
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