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The United States is the main importer of textile goods from Sri Lanka, accounting for 76% of total exports from Sri Lanka. As of 2009, Sri Lanka ranked 12th among apparel exporters to the United States in terms of value. [15] Sri Lanka's partnership was advanced in 2000 in part by setting up logistics centres at key US ports to smooth the ...
On 8 July 2005 the post office building was gazetted as an Archeological Protected Monument. [9]In June 2017 the United Postal Trade Union went on a three-day strike in order to stop the government's plans to sell the Nuwara Eliya, Kandy and Galle Fort post offices to private developers, in order for the buildings be converted into hotels.
The company started when Otara Gunewardene began selling factory surplus garments and apparel from her car boot to family and friends in 1989. [5] [6] [7]Gunewardene registered Odel (the name is based on her own name, Otara Del Gunawardene [5]) as a private limited liability company on 31 October 1990 [7] [8] and the company opened its first 37 m 2 (400 sq ft) store on Dickmans Road in Colombo.
The first permanent post office in the country was established by the British in Colombo in 1882, when the country was a crown colony. [1] It was housed in several different locations until the construction of the General Post Office building at 17 Kings Street (now known as Janadhipathi Mawatha), Colombo Fort, opposite the-then Governor's residence at King's House (now the President's House ...
The World Trade Center (also known as WTC Colombo or WTCC) (Sinhala: ලෝක වෙළෙඳ මධ්යස්ථානය, romanized: Lōka Veḷen̆da Madhyasthānaya; Tamil: உலக வர்த்தக மையம், romanized: Ulaka Varttaka Maiyam) is a 152-metre-tall (499 ft) twin building in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The 39-storey ...
On 26 December 1990 Sri Lanka Post issued a Rs. 10 stamp with a photograph of the Post Office, to commemorate World Postal Day. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] In June 2017 the United Postal Trade Union went on a three-day strike in order to stop the government's plans to sell the Nuwara Eliya, Kandy and Galle Fort post offices to private developers, in order for ...
A Government Agent (GA) or a District Secretary is a Sri Lankan civil servant of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service appointed by the central government to govern a certain district of the country. [1] The GA is the administrative head of public services in the District. As Sri Lanka has 25 districts, [2] there are 25 governments agents at any ...
Sri Lanka Freedom Party [18] D. S. Goonesekera: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 28 May 1963: 25 March 1965: Minister of Labour and Social Services [18] M. H. Mohamed: United National Party: 25 March 1965: 29 May 1970: Dudley Senanayake: Minister of Labour, Employment and Housing [19] [20] M. P. de Zoysa: Sri Lanka Freedom Party: 29 May 1970: 23 July ...