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Bangladesh has slipped into a debt trap. The confirmation has come from none other than Chairman of the National Board of Revenue of Bangladesh M. Abdur Raman Khan. In a way, this is not a surprising development. Bangladesh has gone the…

The Trump administration announced on Wednesday $11.1 billion in arms sales to Taiwan, the largest ever U.S. weapons package for the island which is under increasing military pressure from China. The Taiwan arms sale announcement is the…

Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya has expressed her appreciation for the timely assistance extended by the Government of China during Sri Lanka’s recent disaster response efforts. This was conveyed during an official meeting held…

Sri Lanka’s renewed engagement with China on a proposed fleet of electric buses arrives at a moment of both promise and peril. Beijing, eager to expand its development footprint on the island, has pitched the initiative as a natural…

The Global Peace Prayer festival held in Thimphu in Bhutan this November has exposed the limitations of the ambition of China to emerge as the leader of the Buddhist world. The main attraction of the festival was the exposition of the…

A delegation led by Yan Jizhun, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial People's Congress in China, met with the Minister of Fisheries, Aquatic Resources, and Marine Resources, Ramalingam Chandrasekara, yesterday.…

China informed Japan on Wednesday that it will ban all imports of Japanese seafood, media outlets reported - a decision which comes amid an escalating diplomatic dispute between Asia’s top two economies. Tensions between the two…

On the morning of October 14, 2025, President Xi Jinping met at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing with Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya of Sri Lanka, who is in China attending the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women. President Xi…

China said on Tuesday (Oct 14) it was ready to “fight to the end” in a trade war with the United States after President Donald Trump said he would impose an additional 100 per cent tariff on the world’s second-largest economy. “On the…

China has demonstrated strong commitment and global leadership in advancing women’s rights and gender equality through concrete actions such as hosting the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women, said Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya.…