Thailand and Sri Lanka on Friday agreed to push talks towards a Free Trade Agreement which, if successful, can increase bilateral trade value to US$1.5 billion (Bt 4.99 billion) by 2020.

When Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena was that country's health minister, he was offered a certain amount of money - "enough to buy properties for 15 generations of my family" - by a major tobacco company if he aborted his policy on strict tobacc