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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKE
THE SRI Lankan government has announced that it is to furnish its cabinet and junior ministers with 115 new photocopiers, bought in a multi-million rupee deal from John Keells Office Automation (JKOA), part of the John Keells Holdings group, one of the country’s largest companies.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Colombo
THE INTRODUCTION of protective duties or quantitative import quotas is being considered seriously by the Sri Lankan government, as a response to complaints from local shoe producers that foreign rivals – notably from China – are dumping cheap product on the island’s market.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE SRI Lankan Cabinet of Ministers has taken a long awaited decision to approve the establishment of a coal fired power plant, generating 300MW of energy from imported coal, (the island does not produce its own coal).…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE Coconut Cultivation Board of Sri Lanka is complaining that 18.5 per cent of the island’s nut bearing palms have grown “senile,” being past their productive peak at 60 years plus. The board wants to replenish stocks with younger trees.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
LAUGFS Lanka Gas Ltd. is to start importing LPG to boost its Sri Lanka supplies, despite agreeing last October to purchase Ceylon Petroleum Corporation’s entire production for three years. Laugfs said demand had outstripped supply after selling LPG at SLRupees 100 less than competitor Shell.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
CARGILLS Quality Dairies Ltd is launching the ‘Cargills Magic’ ice-cream brand in Sri Lanka, the first based on Cargills’ takeover of the island’s Walls factory.”…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
MINERAL processing is set to resume in earnest at the Pulmoddai beach mine in northern Sri Lanka, because the ceasefire between the island’s government and the Tamil Tiger separatists has removed the threat of violent disruption to its operations.…

BY SWINTEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE SALE of Sri Lanka’s state owned Insurance Corporation is underway, with the appointment of a tender board and technical evaluation committee to handle the privatisation and the award of an overseeing contract to Pricewaterhouse Coopers.

As the south Asian country’s only state owned insurance venture, the Insurance Corporation commands a 44 per cent market share in general insurance and 35 per cent in life portfolios and has been prospering from a 1.2 per cent growth rate.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
MINING is set to resume in earnest at the Pulmoddai beach mine in northern Sri Lanka, because the ceasefire between the island’s government and the Tamil Tiger separatists has removed the threat of violent disruption to its operations.…

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.…