Sri Lankan police use water canons to disperse demonstrators during a protest against the proposed sale of a stake in a loss-making port to a Chinese company in Colombo on February 1, 2017. Protesters led by the leftist People’s Liberation Front, are opposing plans to sell an 80 per cent stake in the US$1.4 billion deep sea port of Hambantota to China Merchants Port Holdings Company. Photo: AFP
Sri Lankan police use water canons to disperse demonstrators during a protest against the proposed sale of a stake in a loss-making port to a Chinese company in Colombo on February 1, 2017. Protesters led by the leftist People’s Liberation Front, are opposing plans to sell an 80 per cent stake in the US$1.4 billion deep sea port of Hambantota to China Merchants Port Holdings Company. Photo: AFP