{"id":76767,"date":"2018-04-24T15:05:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T22:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=76767"},"modified":"2018-04-24T15:05:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T22:05:07","slug":"pakistan-expresses-interest-in-building-hi-tech-heart-hospital-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/04\/24\/pakistan-expresses-interest-in-building-hi-tech-heart-hospital-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan expresses interest in building hi-tech heart hospital in Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>By\u00a0<span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"fn\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/newsin.asia\/author\/editor\/\" rel=\"author\">Editor<\/a><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0Courtesy NewsIn.Asia<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Colombo, April 24 (newsin.asia) \u2013 A group of investors from Pakistan, who arrived in Sri Lanka on Monday have expressed interest to\u00a0construct a state of the art hospital in the island country to perform heart surgeries and to build two tourism zones as well as to construct a low-cost new housing scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The delegation met President Maithripala Sirisena in Colombo and also held discussions in investing\u00a0in the fields of health, housing, tourism and science and technology.<\/p>\n<p>The President\u2019s Office in a statement said during talks, special emphasis was also given to building highways and oil exploration.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka and Pakistan, recently agreed to redouble trade promotion efforts to reach the target of 1 billion US dollars in trade by the end of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan is the second largest trading partner of Sri Lanka in the SAARC region.<\/p>\n<div>The value of total trade between the two countries has increased from US 158 million dollars in 2005 to US 423.06 million dollars in 2017.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Editor\u00a0\u00a0Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 24 (newsin.asia) \u2013 A group of investors from Pakistan, who arrived in Sri Lanka on Monday have expressed interest to\u00a0construct a state of the art hospital in the island country to perform heart surgeries and to build two tourism zones as well as to construct a low-cost new housing scheme. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76767","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=76767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}