{"id":111258,"date":"2021-02-02T15:15:36","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T22:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=111258"},"modified":"2021-02-02T15:15:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T22:15:36","slug":"eastern-terminal-is-strategically-important-west-can-be-developed-with-private-sector-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/02\/02\/eastern-terminal-is-strategically-important-west-can-be-developed-with-private-sector-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastern terminal is Strategically important &#8211; West can be developed with private sector (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Minister Wimal Weerawansa states that a Cabinet paper was presented yesterday stating that the operations of the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo Port should be carried out by the Ports Authority in accordance with the President&#8217;s vision for &#8216;Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour&#8217; as per the policy statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d8b\u0db4\u0dcf\u0dba\u0db8\u0dcf\u0dbb\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dd2\u0d9a\u0dc0 \u0dc0\u0dd0\u0daf\u0d9c\u0dad\u0dca \u0db1\u0dd0\u0d9c\u0dd9\u0db1\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0dbb\u0dba\u0dd2  - \u0db6\u0da7\u0dc4\u0dd2\u0dbb \u0dc3\u0d82\u0dc0\u0dbb\u0dca\u0db0\u0db1\u0dba \u0db4\u0dde\u0daf\u0dca\u0d9c\u0dbd\u0dd2\u0d9a \u0d85\u0d82\u0dc1 \u0dc3\u0db8\u0d9c\u0dba\u0dd2 - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sR205XONMl0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He told a news conference in Colombo today that the Western Terminal should be developed with foreign investment and that this was included in the policy statement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Minister Wimal Weerawansa states that a Cabinet paper was presented yesterday stating that the operations of the Eastern Terminal of the Colombo Port should be carried out by the Ports Authority in accordance with the President&#8217;s vision for &#8216;Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour&#8217; as per the policy statement. He told a news [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}