Tag: Government of Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka on Saturday sealed a billion-dollar deal to let a Chinese state firm take over a loss-making port in ...

Sri Lanka has signed a $1.1bn (£837m) deal with China for the control and development of the southern deep-sea port ...

Sri Lanka will proceed with the billion-dollar sale of a deep sea port to China despite protests in an effort ...

Sri Lanka's government Tuesday approved the sale to China of a majority stake in a loss-making but strategically-sited deep sea ...

Sri Lanka announced Thursday a long-awaited investigation into the massacre of 27 prisoners that became a symbol of the rights ...

Sri Lanka vowed Wednesday to grant greater autonomy to its Tamil minority in a new constitution after an influential Buddhist ...

Sri Lanka's military said Tuesday it has ended its occupation of a major fishing harbour after 27 years and allowed ...

Sri Lanka is to deploy game wardens to stop wild elephants straying onto the pitch when the country hosts Zimbabwe ...

Sri Lanka has suffered a record 200 deaths from dengue fever this year, the health minister said Monday, blaming a ...

Sri Lanka's prime minister Wednesday promised tougher legislation to deal with hate crimes after an upsurge in attacks on the ...

Sri Lanka's prime minister Wednesday promised tougher legislation to deal with hate crimes after an upsurge in attacks on the ...

Police in Sri Lanka have arrested a key figure from an extremist Buddhist organisation blamed for a series of hate ...

Sri Lanka-based Western diplomats Thursday urged Colombo to investigate a wave of anti-Muslim violence in the Buddhist-majority island following repeated ...

International aid arrived into Sri Lanka on Wednesday as the death toll from the island's worst floods and landslides in ...

Emergency teams rushed food and water Sunday to half a million Sri Lankans displaced by the island's worst flooding for ...

A controversial Sri Lankan Buddhist monk linked to a wave of hate attacks targeting the country's Muslim minority has gone ...

Rights groups accused Sri Lankan police Wednesday of failing to stop a wave of hate crimes against Muslim businesses and ...

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena announced his first cabinet reshuffle Monday, switching his finance and foreign ministers as he resists ...

Sri Lanka's President announced Saturday new investigations into alleged secret detention centres as part of a drive to find tens ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared Friday his desire for a "quantum jump" in relations with Sri Lanka, as New ...