Sri Lanka inks US$290 mln in railway, airport loans from China
Fri, March 12 2010 11:01 | 550 Views
The Exim Bank of China is giving US$190 million for an airport in Mattala, in the southern Hambantota district. China is also extending a US$100 million loan to Sri Lanka Railways. Both China and India is financing the re-building of railways in former war zones in Sri Lanka's north.
Sri Lankan officials also met Exim Bank vice president Zhu Hong Jie and had discussions about the " speeding up the evaluation process for the construction of the A9 highway," the foreign ministry said.
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