Walk through any Sri Lankan town and you’ll hear it before you see it—the familiar hum of the three-wheeler, or “tuk-tuk,” ...
In Sri Lankan waters, there’s a growing problem of ghost nets that are entangling sea turtles, fish, dolphins and seabirds, ...
A year after Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) won the presidential election and his party, the National People’s Power (NPP), won a super-majority in the parliamentary elections, the country has made ...
Despite Sri Lanka’s recent strong economic performance, the country’s poverty levels remain significantly high, according to the World Bank’s latest development update, Better Spending for All. The ...
The United Nations declared 2025 to be the International Year of Cooperatives with the theme “Cooperatives Build a Better World.” ...
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Sri Lanka’s economic escape

By bno - Mark Buckton - Taipei Sri Lanka’s recovery over the past year reads like a narrow escape rendered into a cautious, ...
Tamil-speaking plantation workers can only win decent wages, livable housing and access to proper education and health, along ...
The United Nations chief has condemned the military takeover in Madagascar as an army colonel who led the coup is set to be ...
Susikala was working as a daily wage earner at a flower garden in Hatton, a hilly area in central Sri Lanka, when in April 2022 the government defaulted on its debt. The default sent the economy into ...
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (Bimstec) has stressed the importance of strengthening global and regional partnerships to safeguard the fragile ...
Madagascan President Andry Rajoelina dissolved the lower house of parliament on Tuesday, deepening the political crisis in ...