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There is bound to be speculation about why Qin Gang was ousted just seven months into the job but his replacement, who held the post for nearly 10 years, is well respected around the world and brings stability during uncertain times.
- China has pledged to develop the Colombo International Airport and Hambantota port, and play a ‘positive role’ in Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring
- Experts say it is unclear if the move is a ‘win-win investment’ or whether it will be ‘aligned with Chinese strategic interests at the expense of Sri Lanka’
Modi has denounced the opposition Congress Party for “callously giving away” the island of Katchatheevu to Sri Lanka in a 1974 agreement.
Pledge comes in joint statement issued as Lankan Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena wraps up five-day visit to China, where debt restructuring was top of the agenda.
Formal details of funding is expected on Thursday evening. The ‘quick release’ federal award comes after Maryland governor sought the funding, saying it would lay foundation for a rapid recovery.
Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said Premier Li Qiang had promised Beijing would also help the South Asian nation’s debt restructuring process continuously.
Many Sri Lankans have yet to benefit from a new social welfare programme and are still struggling with the IMF’s harsh austerity measures.
Once a sleepy fishing community, Mawella in southern Sri Lanka is becoming a tourist hotspot. Native villagers and newer residents have teamed up to protect their ‘virgin beach’.
Sri Lanka’s 2020 decision to drop a light rail project financed by Japanese companies led to friction between the countries, amid Colombo’s pivot to China.
Six people, including a mother and four children were killed, but the father survived and is in hospital.
In a self-published account of his downfall, former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa said “Chinese funded infrastructure projects brought in an element of geopolitical rivalry” that precipitated his overthrow.
The free trade pact offers tariff concessions over a 15-year period, and could be a catalyst for Sri Lanka’s objective of joining the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership.
The Sri Lankan Tourism Development Authority also scrapped free long-term visa extensions for Ukrainians.
The latest job cuts at Daraz come amid ‘unprecedented challenges in the market’, according to acting chief executive James Dong.
The stowaway rodent was spotted aboard a SriLankan Airlines flight from the Pakistani city of Lahore, triggering an aircraft-wide search to ensure it had not chewed through critical components.
The barter deal allows sanctions-hit Iran to avoid having to use up scarce hard currency to pay for imports of popular tea. It also allowed Sri Lanka to pay with tea, as the country was short of foreign currency.
Women in Sri Lanka can suffer physical, verbal and psychological abuse when basic needs are not being met, according to a gender and climate change researcher.
Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s JVP has long been anti-India. But New Delhi looks ready to set that aside as the political coalition he leads hones in on crisis-hit Sri Lanka’s presidency.
Unpredictable weather patterns have left women farmers trapped in debt as floods, droughts batter their farms, straining their ability to repay loans.
The island nation has been struggling with an economic crisis since declaring bankruptcy in April 2022 with more than US$83 billion in debt.
From Europe’s highest football pitch to a Unesco heritage site in Italy and the world’s longest golf course, in China, these sporting venues boast scenery that matches the action they host.
Sri Lankan women make up less than 1 per cent of foreign domestic workers and don’t have strong networks, in contrast with some other groups of helpers.
The Sri Lankan government could potentially abuse the law and its ‘ultimate aim is self-censorship’, human rights groups say.
Male’s foreign ministry said Xiang Yang Hong 3 will not conduct any ‘research’ and would stop only for a resupply call.
Staged as part of Sri Lanka’s Galle Literary Festival, the historic town’s Art Trail offers exhibitions, open houses and artists’ tours to provide an ‘alternative experience’ for visitors.
Sri Lankans are concerned their lives ‘may be threatened’ and help will not be readily available in an emergency as the country does not have a mission in Yemen.
The one-year ban on Chinese research ships shows Colombo ‘did not wish to trigger any tensions’ with its neighbour, given India’s economic and military capabilities in the region.
Sri Lankan migrant workers on South Korea’s Yeonpyeong island worry about getting caught in the inter-Korean crossfire: ‘Is there going to be a war?’
Despite living thousands of miles away from countries like India and Nepal where the system of hereditary social hierarchy is deeply ingrained, many ‘lower caste’ South Asians say they still can’t escape it.
The story of diplomat Sir Wilfred Thomas Southorn and his wife Bella Woolf goes back to Sri Lanka in the early 1900s. We retrace Woolf’s journey around the ‘Pearl of the Indian Ocean’.
