The US GSP in which Sri Lankan exports excluding garments are entitled to a set of concessions has been approved for another 12-month period from January 2010 amidst a labour rights row.
The Free Trade Zone and General Services Employees Union said representatives from the US State Department will be in Colombo next week for discussions on a labour violations complaint the union made against Sri Lanka in the context of the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) programme.
Sri Lankan mobile market leader Dialog Mobile on Thursday signalled that its mobile broadband products would be the company's key driver for the next few years, especially considering that revenues from its ‘voice’ category continued to dry up over the last two years.
