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View from Colombo: Business community has fingers crossed over annual budget

View from Colombo: It's business as usual for many sectors despite media hysteria, panic and gloomy predictions

View from Colombo: Businessmen divided in response to budget

Local consultants and contractors badly affected by the ethnic war which ravaged Sri Lanka for about two decades anxiously awaited a boom time to compensate for all their sufferings and losses.

The Maldivian archipelago in the southern strip of Indian Ocean, with more than 1200 islands and a population of 380,000, has no party system although there is no official ban on political activities.

View from Colombo: Pramuka depositors continue to suffer

View from Colombo: Sri Lanka-India ties get shot in the arm

View from Colombo: Nation likely to be turned into a duty-free country

View from Colombo: Uncertain climate affecting stock market

The ever increasing government debt continues to remain a heavy burden though the business friendly United Front Government has been taking numerous measures to uplift the island's economy.

View from Colombo: Private sector urged to create more jobs

View from Colombo: Board of Investment in upbeat mood