At the invitation of the World Meteorology Organisation, Assistant Director of the Hong Kong Observatory Mr K.H. Yeung visited the Department of Meteorology of Sri Lanka on 8-12 May 2006 to draw up a strategy and action plan for the development of the department in 2006-2010.

This visit followed the one made by the Director of the Hong Kong Observatory Mr C.Y. Lam in January this year to help draw up a master plan for development to enhance the capability of the Sri Lankan Department of Meteorology to cope with disasters in the future.

The plan drafted by Mr Yeung describes the technical strategies and the series of actions required to establish the meteorological facilities and human resource stipulated in the master plan.