{"id":122318,"date":"2022-01-22T16:08:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T23:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=122318"},"modified":"2022-01-22T16:08:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-22T23:08:53","slug":"colombo-port-city-now-says-no-fee-for-personal-selfies-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/01\/22\/colombo-port-city-now-says-no-fee-for-personal-selfies-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombo Port City now says no fee for personal selfies, videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ceylon Today<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uploads.ceylontoday.lk\/images\/2022\/01\/R7x54mcf0MNIfAAKymyKD8hWRUvBWu8s.jpg\" alt=\"Colombo Port City now says no fee for personal selfies, videos\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Colombo Port City now says no fee is charged for taking personal selfies of videos within the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It says in a statement that a payment structure was introduced for personal events, professional and\/or commercial filming and photography due to the unprecedented number of such requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement goes onto say the income received from these will be used for the maintenance of public spaces, lavatories and garbage clearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to its website, rates for taking pictures or videos for personal purposes will be Rs. 30,000 upwards, while it is Rs. 100,000 upwards for commercial purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The payments have to be made to the Colombo branch of the Bank of China Ltd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ceylon Today The Colombo Port City now says no fee is charged for taking personal selfies of videos within the city. It says in a statement that a payment structure was introduced for personal events, professional and\/or commercial filming and photography due to the unprecedented number of such requests. The statement goes onto say [&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-122318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122318","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=122318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}