{"id":320225,"date":"2025-12-19T15:09:39","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=320225"},"modified":"2025-12-19T15:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:14:55","slug":"sri-lanka-expects-foreign-investment-to-top-1-5-billion-usd-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=320225","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Expects Foreign Investment To Top 1.5 Billion USD Next Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>COLOMBO, Dec 19 (NNN-LNW) &#8211; Sri Lanka expects foreign direct investment (FDI), to be between 1.5 billion and two billion U.S. dollars next year, a senior official said, today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chairman of the Board of Investment, Arjuna Herath said, FDI has exceeded one billion dollars, this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Herath said, the government sees manufacturing investments critical to strengthening Sri Lanka&#8217;s industrial base, generating employment, and rebuilding investor confidence, after a period marked by economic and policy uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Herath cited the recent recovery of Sri Lanka&#8217;s business sector from cyclone Ditwah, as a reason for the country&#8217;s positive outlook on attracting foreign investment, saying that, more than 90 percent of companies that experienced operational disruptions in recent adverse weather, have now resumed normal business operations.&#8211; NNN-LNW  &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLOMBO, Dec 19 (NNN-LNW) &#8211; Sri Lanka expects foreign direct investment (FDI), to be between 1.5 billion and two billion U.S. dollars next year, a senior official said, today. Chairman of the Board of Investment, Arjuna Herath said, FDI has exceeded one billion dollars, this year. Herath said, the government sees manufacturing investments critical to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":320229,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,300],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320225"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320230,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320225\/revisions\/320230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/320229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}