US EditionSri Lanka Just Launched a Four-Day Work Week and Declared Wednesdays a Holiday—and the Iran War Is Why
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Sri Lanka banks to operate shorter hours on Wednesdays
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s banks have said they will operate shorter hours on Wednesdays following the government’s decision to declare the midweek a public holiday to conserve fuel. State-owned Bank of Ceylon said branches would operate from 9 am to 1 pm. “To support the ongoing national energy conservation initiative, please be informed that all Bank of Ceylon branches island-wide will operate under restricted banking hours. All Wednesdays unti…
In Asia, one country decreed Wednesdays to be holidays, but not for reasons of vacation or rest, but to avoid deepening into a fuel shortage crisis. It is Sri Lanka, a nation that has not been able to receive two oil tankers with fuel in the last days, so they have had delays in filling gasoline throughout the nation. This, due to faults in the supply of hydrocarbons due to the war in Iran. Sri Lanka decrees Wednesdays as holidays due to the lac…
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