Oct 31 (ST) The Board of Investment (BOI), Sri Lanka’s premier investment promotion agency is in a state of limbo after officials were instructed not to proceed with new investment project proposals in eight sectors until the presentation of the budget on November 22, highly-placed government sources said. The sources were unable to say what these sectors were. A senior BOI official confirmed, reluctantly however, there was a suspension of projects in
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Oct 31 (ST) The Sunday Times front page photograph and caption last week has drawn a response from Deputy Head of Delegation, Babak Ali Naraghi. He states: “This photograph and caption relates to a distribution the ICRC carried out on 17.10.2010. On that day, the ICRC distributed 25 two-wheeled tractors to Farmers Organisations in Vavuniya South. The distribution was part of an ongoing ICRC response to meet the immediate needs of returnees and