{"id":62060,"date":"2017-01-06T00:52:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T06:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=62060"},"modified":"2017-01-05T17:04:33","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T00:04:33","slug":"volkswagen-has-not-invested-in-kuliyapitiya-plant-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/01\/06\/volkswagen-has-not-invested-in-kuliyapitiya-plant-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Volkswagen has not invested in Kuliyapitiya plant: PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"well well-lg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row inner-text\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday that the Volkswagen Company had not invested in the Kuliyapitiya vehicle assembly plant.<\/p>\n<p>He was referring to a news item carried by a TV channel quoting the investor in Kuliyapitiya that Volkswagen had no stake in the assembly plant.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this channel inquired from me I would have revealed the truth. One must not contaminate his or her mind just because he or she has a grudge against me,&#8221; he said, speaking at the opening of Kalu Ganga Water Project in Horana last evening.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.dailymirror.lk\/media\/images\/image_1483640343-507e5c212f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He said the government had decided not to allow Volkswagen to invest in Sri Lanka as the company had an issue.<\/p>\n<p>However, he said Volkswagen would be one of the brands of vehicles which would be assembled at the Kuliyapitiya plant.<strong> (Yohan Perera)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: http:\/\/www.dailymirror.lk\/article\/Volkswagen-has-not-invested-in-Kuliyapitiya-plant-PM-121758.html#sthash.1ITigTVO.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday that the Volkswagen Company had not invested in the Kuliyapitiya vehicle assembly plant. He was referring to a news item carried by a TV channel quoting the investor in Kuliyapitiya that Volkswagen had no stake in the assembly plant. &#8220;If this channel inquired from me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,108,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-ranil","category-106"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62060","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=62060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}