Shihar Aneez

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ECONOMYNEXT – Two Boeing official had a meeting with the Sri Lanka Civil Aviation and Colombo Airport Authority (CAASL) on the Boeing 777-9 operations at Bandaranaike International Airport, the Airport Authority said, a week after Boeing Dreamliner crash in India. More than 240 people were killed when an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner bound for London crashed moments after taking off from the city of Ahmedabad on June 12 in the world’s worst aviation disaster in a decade.

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ECONOMYNEXT – The World Bank Group will be partnering with Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Women and Child Affairs to provide technical assistance on designing a strategic action plan for the national policy on child day care centers to support the national efforts on child care, the multilateral lender said. The move will be supported by the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) Facility for Investment Climate Advisory Services (FIAS) program.

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ECONOMYNEXT – Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka will officially launch the “China Visa Online Application System” from June 30, 2025, the embassy spokesman said. The spokesman in a statement explaining the new process said the applicants can visit the websitehttps://consular.mfa.gov.cn/VISA/ to fill out the visa application form online, upload the required documents, and the application will enter the preliminary review phase.

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ECONOMYNEXT – President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and his party threatened to sack him . But outgoing Finance Secretary Mahinda Siriwardena earned appreciation from the same leader who threatened to oust him after standing for tough reforms. Siriwardana retired from the post of Secretary to the Ministry of Finance and Treasury on Wednesday (18). He is expected to take up an alternative director post in Asian Development Bank (ADB).

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ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has temporarily closed down its embassy in Tehran in the face of attacks by Israel while attacks have been reported near its mission in Tel Aviv, Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath said. More than 20,000 Sri Lankans are living in Israel as expatriate workers while there are 35 Sri Lankans in Iran. Iran has retaliated to Israel’s Friday (13) attack with UAVs and ballistic missiles.