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May 17, 2013 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's post-war economic revival and tightening labour markets are throwing up opportunities for workers from abroad, including those who had left the island, business and state officials said.

Colombo: The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) has raised the minimum age of female domestic workers leaving to West Asia for employment.

The minimum age of female domestic workers for the Gulf region for employment has been raised by the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) to 23, ‘Divaina’ newspaper reported.

 The previous decision to raise the minimum age limit of female migrant domestic workers to Middle East countries is to be implemented with immediate effect, government media reported.

The previous decision to raise the minimum age limit of female migrant domestic workers to Middle East countries is to be implemented with immediate effect, government media reported.

With Sri Lanka focusing on sending more skilled labour who would fetch enhanced salaries abroad, Minister for Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare Dilan Perera expects Sri Lankan migrant worker remittances to pass seven billion US dollars in 2013.

Sri Lanka has sent over two and half lakhs of persons for foreign employment during the last year and they have substantially contributed to the country’s economic well-being. It is the government’s intention to send well-trained persons for employment to any part of the world without limiting them to the Middle East and it is with this intention that

Apr 16, Tangalle: Si Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today opened the first Vocational Training Center for Migrant Workers set up by the Bureau of Foreign Employment at Godigamuwa in Tangalle.