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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo
THE CEASEFIRE between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers has sparked plans to resume domestic flights to Jaffna town, previously isolated by the group’s insurgency. Columbo officials are examining the standard of the runway, navigation equipment and passenger facilities at Jaffna’s Palaly airport.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo
SRI Lanka’s Parquet (Ceylon) Ltd, the island’s long troubled wooden flooring manufacturer, appears to have emerged from the red during the last financial year, posting a trading profit of SLRupees 15.6 million for the 9 months ending December 31, 2001, up from a loss of SLRupees 13.7 million a year earlier.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE CEYLON Petroleum Corporation has modified its refinery to remove lead additives from petrol marketed in Sri Lanka. It has expanded sales outlets for unleaded petrol throughout the country.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE USA dominates the world’s soft-drinks markets with its Coca Cola, Pepsi and affiliated brands, so can the big players in the European bottled mineral water industry achieve a similar success with brands such as Evian, Volvic and Perrier?…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE SRI Lankan government has announced that it is imposing 10 per cent VAT on bunker and aviation fuel from June 1, from which they have been previously exempt.…

BY MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal
A PROGRAMME to strengthen commercial aviation security on a global scale, primarily through a mandatory audit of national services, has been agreed by all 187 Member States of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) at a two day High-Level, Ministerial Conference held at its headquarters in Montreal, Canada.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE CEYLON Petroleum Corporation is building a SLRupees 10 billion tank farm at Muthurajawela, near Columbo, that will enable tankers to unload cargo from six miles offshore through a single-point buoy mooring system. The corporation has also introduced unleaded petrol to dealers in most larger Sri Lankan cities.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
INDONESIA has emerged as a major producer of desiccated coconut during the last three years, and is now threatening Sri Lanka’s position in the world market, the chairman of the island’s desiccated coconut millers association has claimed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A JAM factory will be opened by the Chunnakam Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society near Jaffna, Sri Lanka, the first food plant launched in this contested region since government forces regained control from the Tamil Tigers in 1996.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A NEW ice cream launch is to be made in Sri Lanka by the country’s largest supermarket chain Cargills, which has brought the island rights to the Walls range off Unilever. The company will not divulge the name of the new brand, but it will not be called Walls.…