Sri Lanka
26 Dec
Just inland from the crashing waves on Sri Lanka's palm-fringed shores, the train slowly came to a stop on Thursday -- marking the moment a deadly tsunami hit 20 years ago.
17 Dec
Sri Lanka on Tuesday completed its long-delayed foreign debt restructure after the island nation defaulted on its $46 billion external debt in a dramatic 2022 economic crash, a minister told parliament. Its economy has recovered after getting an International Monetary Fund rescue package and imposing austerity reforms aimed at repairing the government's ruined finances. "The…
27 Nov
Heavy rains lashed southern India on Wednesday with coastal regions bracing for a likely cyclonic storm, as rescue teams in neighbouring Sri Lanka searched for eight people missing in floods. Cyclones -- the equivalent of hurricanes in the North Atlantic or typhoons in the northwestern Pacific -- are a regular and deadly menace in the…
18 Nov
Sri Lanka President Anura Kumara Dissanayake retained the key defence and finance portfolios in a new cabinet he announced Monday after sweeping snap parliamentary elections last week. The leftist leader, who won the September presidential election, confirmed his interim cabinet colleagues -- Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya and Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath -- would keep their…
15 Nov
Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake thanked voters Friday for delivering his leftist coalition a landslide victory in snap
21 Sep
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka was voting for its next president Saturday in an effective referendum on an unpopular International Monetary Fund austerity plan enacted after the island nation's unprecedented financial crisis. President Ranil Wickremesinghe is fighting an uphill battle for a fresh mandate to continue belt-tightening measures that stabilised the economy and ended months of food,…
28 May 2024
A 41-year-old immigrant British resident, Sudharsan Ithayachandran, has died after being wrongly deported by the UK Home Office back to his native country, Sri Lanka. Ithayachandran was deported back to Sri Lanka on December 24, 2019, after admitting to working illegally at Tesco and using false documents, is married to Subatra Sudharsan, 41, who is…
13 Apr 2024
Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe granted amnesty to nearly 800 convicts to mark the traditional Sinhala and Tamil New Year on Saturday, his office said.
22 Mar 2024
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena will visit China, his country's biggest bilateral lender, next week, Beijing's foreign ministry said Friday.
6 Mar 2024
Sri Lanka's president said Wednesday he was seeking a moratorium on foreign debt repayments until 2028, following a government default during the island nation's unprecedented economic crisis two years ago.
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