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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo
ANGER has been sparked amongst Sri Lanka’s footwear importers by the imposition of a SLRupees 100 (US$1.03) tax on imported pairs of footwear, causing traders to claim they are suffering heavy losses. The secretary of the island’s Footwear Importers’ Association, Sarath Pathirana, has claimed that when combined with other sales taxes, shoe importers now pay almost SLRupees 200 (US$2.03) in tax per pair.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
LANKA IOC Private Ltd. is to create a US$38 million Sri Lankan joint venture with the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, to take over the corporation’s existing storage assets and the construction and operation of new oil terminals at Muturajawela and Katunayake International Airport.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane, EDWARD PETERS, in Hong Kong, RICHARD HURST, in Johannesburg, MARK ROWE, in London, SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal.
FRAUD is fraud, jurists might say. And although jurisprudence generally has a universal flavour and there are frauds that are committed the world over, it would be a travesty of the truth to say that crimes involving deception uniform by nature.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
SRI LANKA’S Cargills has introduced five new flavours to its Magice ice cream range: fresh strawberry, fruit and nut, vanilla with jaggery, mint with chocolate chips and butterscotch with nougat. The company claims the flavours are new to Sri Lankan consumers.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE SRI Lankan government will release a ‘National Policy on River Sand Removal’ in the coming weeks, to restrict an environmentally damaging boom in unregulated extraction. The country’s Minister of Irrigation and Water Management Gamini Jayawickrema Perera announced that permits for sand mining had already been blocked in two areas Deduru Oya and Ma Oya, where extraction had damaged river banks and flood protection.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
SWADESHI Industrial Works Ltd, of Sri Lanka, which manufactures and sells personal and fabric care products, has entered the island’s herbal toothpaste market with the launch of Protekt. It contains fluoride, calcium and herbal ingredients such as clove oil, cinnamon oil, aralu, kohomba and munamal pothu, being packaged in a flexible laminated tube.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE SRI Lankan government will release a ‘National Policy on River Sand Removal’ in the coming weeks, to restrict an environmentally damaging boom in unregulated extraction. The country’s Minister of Irrigation and Water Management Gamini Jayawickrema Perera announced that permits for sand mining had already been blocked in two areas Deduru Oya and Ma Oya, where extraction had damaged river banks and flood protection.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WAY back when….last December….the International Maritime Organisation agreed a compulsory maritime security code for its member countries, covering ships and ports involved in international trade. Governments have to write the code into their laws by December 31 and shipping companies and port authorities are supposed to comply by June 2004.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE SRI Lankan government will release a ‘National Policy on River Sand Removal’ in the coming weeks, to restrict an environmentally damaging boom in unregulated extraction. The country’s Minister of Irrigation and Water Management Gamini Jayawickrema Perera announced that permits for sand mining had already been blocked in two areas Deduru Oya and Ma Oya, where extraction had damaged river banks and flood protection.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A NEW subsidiary has been launched in Sri Lanka which will import cheaper generic drugs. STC Medical Ltd has been created by the country’s STC General Trading Co. Ltd. It will start commercial operations in January, initially importing five widely used generic drugs, namely Amoxicillin, Cefalexin, Enthromycin, Metfomin, and Atenolol.…