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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union and its allies at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) negotiations over the creation of a global register for protected geographical indications in the wine and spirit trade have made a significant concession, which may be the basis for a future deal.…

BY SWNINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
SRI Lankan press reports have claimed that clay mining in the country’s Lower Ma Oya Valley has been carried out so recklessly that the local river has burst its banks and has invaded villages in the valley.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA and KEITH NUTHALL
THE GOVERNMENT of Sri Lanka is embarking on a comprehensive survey of the country’s clay resources as demand grows thanks to an official policy of promoting a home-grown ceramics industry, which is already the largest mineral-based sector in this south Asian country.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo
THE SRI Lankan government is preparing to impose a minimum price floor on shoe imports of US$5 per pair, say Columbo press reports. Officials are also discussing limits on the amount of shoes that can be imported into the country in personal baggage.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A SENIOR Sri Lankan government official has warned his country’s construction industry that it faces running out of sand unless it stops over-exploiting river deposits and fails to develop extraction from the seabed offshore.

Janapriya de Silva, Chairman of the island’s Geological Survey and Mines Bureau, has warned: “We could run short of sand in another two years’ time.”…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
A FRENCH company is launching its car repair warranty service in Sri Lanka, claiming that it is the first of its kind in south Asia. SAGE Guarantee Automobile said that it is investing Euro 1 million in the scheme, which it would use as a springboard to attack the Indian market.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
SRI LANKA’S Cargills has introduced five new flavours to its Magice ice cream range: fresh strawberry, fruit and nut, vanilla with jaggery, mint with chocolate chips and butterscotch with nougat. The company claims the flavours are new to Sri Lankan consumers.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo
PUBLIC protests have broken out in Sri Lanka against the Bandaranaike International Airport expansion project, which would evict more than 10,000 families living in and around the Kurana, Katunayake and Katana areas. Campaigners fighting the project were once supported by the ruling United National Party when it was in opposition, but it switched policies after winning last year’s election.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
CERAMIC manufacturers in Sri Lanka are seeking changes in national laws restricting the quarrying of paddy lands, because they contain premium deposits of kaolin. The Ceramics Industry Task Force has asked Columbo to certain provisions of the Agrarian Development Act, which ban the mining of paddy lands.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
SRI Lanka’s Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise holder Cargills Food Services (Pvt) Ltd. has invested SLRupees four million on converting an old Ceylon Transport Board bus to offer a mobile KFC service, which is being run as an experiment.…