Business Today Sri Lanka - April 2024

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President Ranil Wickremesinghe highlighted Sri Lanka’s commitment to agricultural modernization and emphasized the nation’s goal of reducing multidimensional poverty.

A meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena was held in Beijing.

The Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Dinesh Gunawardena, addressed the BOAO Forum for Asia Annual Conference held in Hainan, China.

Suresh Edirisinghe, Chairman and Managing Director of Global Conversions, is making Sri Lanka proud. The UAE-based Sri Lankan company he founded in 2022 is in the business of converting vehicles for the right-hand drive market. He and his team of Sri Lankan mechanics are celebrating the milestone of converting a Hummer EV SUV into a right-hand drive. It was the world’s first.

Larry Summers and Eric Schmidt discussed technology and the Global Economy at FII PRIORITY Miami.

Nishelli Perera co-founded a home-grown nutraceutical company driven by science-based
innovation. In 2016, she and her business partner, Dr Dilshan Balasuriya, launched YETI, a range of isotonic beverages in Sri Lanka. She fuses many experiences, her childhood growing amid extended family members heavily into entrepreneurship, higher education in the United States, and navigating two different work cultures on two continents.

The Governor of the Eastern Province, Senthil Thondaman, emphasized the importance of successfully executing the development projects outlined for the Eastern Province to overcome the country’s debt crisis.

A book launch titled Press Vs. Prez was dedicated to President Ranil Wickremesinghe.

The Japanese Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Mizukoshi Hideaki, expressed Japan’s support for the current program to rebuild the Sri Lankan economy.