The winner of Sri Lanka’s upcoming presidential elections could change the nature of India’s relationship with its neighbour.
India’s Buddhist neighbours, Sri Lanka and Myanmar,...
FP Staff
Former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday opposed a Chinese-funded industrial park in the port city of Hambantota, threatening to scrap the...
Gauri Bhatia | Special to CNBC.
Situated almost in the middle of the Indian Ocean, there is no escaping Sri Lanka's centrality.
The country lies just...
(The US$1.4 billion Colombo Port City project was shelved after Mahinda Rajapaksa lost power. Original photo: Reuters)
In a significant move, China has dispatched a...
By PTI
Chinese official media asserted that "China cannot be avoided" because its ties with Colombo transcended "partisan politics". | P.K.Balachandran
BEIJING: As a sense of...
Sri Lanka is investigating a Chinese firm on suspicion of offering a bribe to Mahinda Rajapaksa's failed presidential re-election campaign, a source close to...
By Kadira Pethiyagoda.
The changing fortunes for the two emerging global powers in Sri Lanka offer some interesting lessons.
John Kerry’s visit to Sri Lanka, the...
By Bhaskar Roy.
When Sri Lanka’s new President Maithripala Sirisena recently visited China he was literally squeezed by the Chinese leaders not to review the...
A public tribunal hosted by anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International Sri Lanka yesterday decided that the Port City project should be cancelled, as all benefits...
The media raised many questions about the future of the China funded Colombo Port City Project when Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe met them last...
By Col. R. Hariharan.
Question: President Maithripala Sirisena’s Chinese visit is starting later today (March 25, 2015). This visit comes after his government’s willingness to...
by Upul Joseph Fernando -
The first official statement issued by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, after his defeat, appeared in the print media last week....
Kevin Sullivan -
For Mahinda Rajapaksa, the now former president of Sri Lanka, last week's stunning election defeat must be a bit of a head-scratcher....
Sri Lanka's newly elected president Maithripala Sirisena arrives at the Election Commission office in Colombo on January 9, 2015 (Agence France-Presse photo)
Ellen Barry, The...
Sri Lanka’s Colombo South Container Terminal (CSCT) has been completed by a Chinese contractor without following the quality standards of construction stipulated in the...
Speaking to ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Sri Lanka, United National Party (UNP) parliamentarian and leading economist Harsha de Silva...
By Col. R. Hariharan--
China’s President Xi Jinping has accepted a long-standing invitation from President Mahinda Rajapaksa to visit Sri Lanka sometime this year. The...
Fishermen’s organisations and boat owners in Kerala are wringing their hands over Sri Lankan government’s recent decision to let more than a dozen Chinese...
A ‘slip of the tongue’ and a celluloid crusader’s unfortunate downfall
Confusion has been worse confounded in the public mind following the conviction this week...
The Prisons Department has called for applications to recruit 200 male Prison Guards from those who have retired from the defence services after completing...
GENEVA, (15 January 2021) - The Human Rights Council today elected Ambassador Nazhat Shameem Khan, Permanent Representative of Fiji to the United Nations Office...