By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO, July 3 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka needs stronger public finances, more private investment and a ...

Sri Lanka serves as a strategic maritime link in the Indian Ocean, positioned along global shipping routes that connect the ...

The government says sensitive public and financial data should remain within national borders as it develops digital ID and payments infrastructure.

In a candid conversation with Newsweek in the stately bilateral meeting room at the President’s Secretariat in Colombo, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake laid out the realities his nation faces in ...

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO, May 26 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's central bank stunned markets by raising its policy rate by an outsized 100 basis points on Tuesday, the biggest hike in three years, and ...

We, the undersigned civil society organizations, respectfully urge States Parties to the Convention against Torture and Other ...

The U.S. announced a $553 million project Wednesday to build a deep-water shipping container terminal in Sri Lanka’s Port of Colombo as it competes with China in international development financing.

Supporters of Sri Lanka's newly elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, celebrate near the Presidential Secretariat after Dissanayake's swearing-in ceremony in Colombo on September 23, 2024. On ...

Sri Lanka’s attempt to stay neutral in the U.S-Israel war on Iran has become an important foreign policy test for the National People’s Power government. Addressing parliament last week, President ...