{"id":96072,"date":"2019-12-07T14:27:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T21:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=96072"},"modified":"2019-12-07T14:35:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T21:35:47","slug":"colombo-port-city-officially-declared-part-of-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/12\/07\/colombo-port-city-officially-declared-part-of-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombo Port City officially declared part of Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Ada&nbsp; Derana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The 269 hectare of land of the Colombo Port City officially \ndeclared a part of Sri Lanka at an event graced by Prime Minister \nMahinda Rajapaksa this evening (07).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the Colombo Port City is now officially open for investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0d85\u0daf \u0dc3\u0dd2\u0da7 \u0dc1\u0dca\u200d\u0dbb\u0dd3 \u0dbd\u0d82\u0d9a\u0dcf \u0db7\u0dd6\u0db8\u0dd2\u0dba\u0da7 \u0d85\u0dbd\u0dd4\u0dad\u0dd2\u0db1\u0dca \u0dc4\u0dd9\u0d9a\u0dca\u0da7\u0dba\u0dcf\u0dbb 269\u0d9a\u0dca\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cPNTT26SYIQ?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>The ceremony was followed by a massive fireworks display which lit-up the Colombo city skies, commemorating the landmark moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A commemorative stamp and first day cove was also issued in the \npresence of the Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Chinese \nAmbassador to Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project, funded by the Chinese government, was contracted to a \nChinese company while it adds 269 hectares to the land of Sri Lanka as a\n valuable extension to the Colombo Central Business District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Ada&nbsp; Derana The 269 hectare of land of the Colombo Port City officially declared a part of Sri Lanka at an event graced by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa this evening (07). Accordingly, the Colombo Port City is now officially open for investments. The ceremony was followed by a massive fireworks display which lit-up the [&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-96072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96072","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=96072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}