Japan Donates Seven Low-Floor Metro Buses to Sri Lanka
Translated from Sinhala and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.
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- Japan donated seven low-floor metro buses to Sri Lanka under the countries’ continuing development cooperation.
- Transport Minister Bimal Rathnayake said the buses would support improvements to Sri Lanka’s public transportation service.
- Japanese Ambassador Akio Isomata formally handed over the buses, donated jointly by Japan’s government and residents of Yokohama.
Japan has donated seven low-floor metro buses to Sri Lanka as part of continuing development cooperation between the two countries.
Transport and Highways Minister Bimal Rathnayake said the donation aims to advance public transportation services in Sri Lanka.
The buses were jointly donated by the Japanese government and residents of the Japanese city of Yokohama. Japanese Ambassador Akio Isomata formally handed them over to the Sri Lankan government.
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Originally published by Lankadeepa in Sinhala. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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