Sri Lankan expats find new job opportunities in UAE, says ambassador
16 Aug 2020
"Of an estimated 300,000 Sri Lankans here, less than ten per cent of them — around 25,000 — had registered with the Sri Lankan diplomatic missions a few months ago for repatriation. Now, many of them do not want to go as they have started getting new jobs after the economy opened up here," Malraj De Silva, the Sri Lankan Ambassador to the UAE, said.