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Price hikes no bar to Vesak
decoration sales

Picture shows a street in Kirulapena where temporary stalls have been set up to sell various kinds of Vesak decorations, including Vesak lanterns, buckets and cards for the coming Vesak full moon poya day that falls on May 9. According to sellers, though they jacked up the prices of all the decorations due to the increase in taxes on all the imported paper by the last budget, the sales have been satisfactory

(Pic by Rukshan Abeywansha)