2021-05-21 01:05:19 GMT2021-05-21 09:05:19(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
COLOMBO, May 21 (Xinhua) The Parliament of Sri Lanka has on Thursday passed the Port City Economic Commission Bill with 149 votes in favour and 58 against, local media reported.
The Port City bill officially declares 269 hectares of land reclaimed from the ocean and annexed to the city of Colombo as Sri Lanka s first special economic zone (SEZ) for services-oriented industries.
Under the bill, a President-appointed commission will be established to govern the SEZ. The new law will enable the businesses to operate in any recognized foreign currency within Port City.
After the Port City bill was tabled in parliament on April 8, 19 petitions were filed with the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka. The Supreme Court s ruling was delivered to the parliament on Tuesday, saying that the bill could be passed with a simple majority provided key clauses be amended to confirm with the country s constitution.
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Please allow me some space to make a brief response to S A R’s comments, published in The Island on the 5th May 2021. There was a time when initials were so well known, that it was possible to identify the person from his/her initials. JR and DS come to mind.
1″ From the content and tone of the article I can easily guess on whose behalf he wrote it”
Remarkable intuition!!
Let me assure S A R that I am not a foreign agent or spy or whatever. I am proudly Sri Lankan. I was born here. My parents were born here. My children were born here.