Sri Lanka's wage board has mandated daily wages for tea and rubber workers effective from September 10, according to a ...

Sri Lanka's goods exports grew 4.1 percent from a year ago to 1.1 billion dollars in August 2024, the island's export ...

COLOMBO, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka's total exports for August 2024 were recorded at 1.4 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 4.67 percent compared to the corresponding month of last year, ...

As Sri Lanka goes to the polls, workers picking tea – the backbone of the economy – have heard all the promises before.

It's 8am and there is sleeting rain — miserable conditions to be outside, let alone work in Sri Lanka's tea fields. But for Sagunthla, a mother of two, it's just another day. She wraps a plastic ...

The establishment of Sri Lanka’s iconic tea industry dates back to 1865, when tea seeds from the Botanic Gardens in Peradeniya were planted by the then superintendent of the ‘Loolkandura’ estate in ...

Sri Lanka Embassy in Riyadh, in collaboration with the Export Development Board and the Tea Board of Sri Lanka, facilitated the participation of 12 Sri Lankan food and beverage exporter companies, for ...

Sri Lanka’s tea production is expected to fall to its lowest levels in recent history this year, dropping well below the target of 300 million kilograms, according to the Planters’ Association of ...

THE backbone of the economy, Sri Lanka’s tea pickers are determined to use their powerful vote to choose a president this month who will change grim working conditions for good. Tea pickers largely ...

Hatton (Sri Lanka) (AFP) – The backbone of the economy, Sri Lanka's tea pickers are determined to use their powerful vote to choose a president this month who will change grim working conditions ...

The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Brussels organised a ‘Ceylon Speciality Tea Mocktail Evening’ to promote Ceylon tea in a creative and innovative way in the Belgian market. The event was held at Sri Lanka ...