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Photo Courtesy: thejournal For more than four decades, the women in Sri Lanka have been banned from buying alcohol and working in bars and liquor stores. For much to the delight of the travel community, the government has recently lifted the ban only to re-impose it in a couple of days’ time. The government lifted the ban, only to reverse its decision less than a week later. Just days after the finance minister Mangala Samaraweera revoked the 1979 ban, Sri Lanka’s president Maithripala Sirisena, re-imposed the ban. The ban was lifted after repeated requests from the tourism industry to extend ... Read more