The Middle Way the Buddha expounded and its great value for conflict resolution was presented, making mention of today’s background of disruptive governance, foreign policies and debilitating tariffs.

The SEP stresses the urgency for workers to build action committees, independent of the trade unions, to fight to defend ...

The meagre wage rises announced in the budget, which do not compensate for soaring inflation, are in line with the IMF’s ...

COLOMBO: IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva pledged to support Sri Lanka's economic recovery, praising the cash-strapped nation's "remarkable turnaround" during online talks with its president.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Cook Malithi Prabhani, second left, and her colleagues prepare lunch for guests at the Amba Yaalu resort in ...

Colombo, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka signed a deal with Japan Friday to restructure $2.5 billion in loans, marking the first agreement with official creditors who had pledged debt relief to the cash ...

Sri Lanka is attempting to sustain economic growth while maintaining macroeconomic stability under the IMF program it began in 2016. The government's high debt payments and bloated civil service ...

A pricing dispute between Sri Lanka's state-run petroleum company and fuel distributors spurred long queues at gas stations in February according to local media, but rumours of a military takeover ...

They handed over to the officials of the Consulate General a copy of the petition addressed to Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Traditionally, particularly when the civil war was ...

Even the terrors and travails of the recent pandemic are being forgotten. When it comes to Sri Lanka’s civil war, which lasted three decades and ended only in 2009, so much is now forgotten.

Sri Lanka suffered a series of currency collapses since the end of a civil war due to monetary stimulus to close an output gap, generally known as macroeconomic policy, critics have pointed out. Each ...