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Sri Lanka’s restructuring of $12.55 billion in international bond debt is set to lead to the launch of a series of new, as-yet-untested instruments linked to economic growth and governance. Observers say it is one of the most complex set…

National People’s Power (NPP) Member of Parliament Dr. Jagath Wickramaratne has been unanimously appointed as the new Speaker of Sri Lanka’s Parliament. The Polonnaruwa District MP was nominated by Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya…

Chinese naval hospital ship Peace Ark, which is on the Mission Harmony-2024, wrapped up its seven-day visit to Djibouti on Friday and departed from the Djibouti Port to Sri Lanka. As the Peace Ark departed from the port, the Djiboutian…

India’s External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar underscored Sri Lanka’s pivotal role in India’s Neighborhood First policy and SAGAR (Security and Growth for All in the Region) Outlook during his meeting with Sri Lankan President Anura…

Indian conglomerate Adani Group’s port project in Sri Lanka will go ahead despite US charges against its founder and sudden changes to its financing, the island nation said Friday. A bombshell indictment in New York last month accused…

“We will not allow the trust the people have placed in us to be undermined in any way,” stated President Anura Kumara Dissanayake during a meeting with the heads of state media today (13). He further emphasised, “Regardless of their…

U.S. Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs at the Department of State, Ambassador Donald Lu, along with Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia and the Pacific at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Robert Kaproth, and Deputy…

The enduring fisheries conflict in the Palk Bay - which impacts fisher folk of northern Sri Lanka and daily wage fishermen of Tamil Nadu - can be decisively resolved only if the Indian side stops using the destructive bottomtrawling method,…

The Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Modern Technologies (ACCIMT) says that the Geminids meteor shower, considered as one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year, will be visible tonight (13) and tomorrow (14). Accordingly, the…

 Nineteen U.S. Peace Corps Volunteers were sworn in today in Colombo, marking the second cohort of Volunteers to return to Sri Lanka since the program’s historic relaunch last year. This event underscores the deepening U.S.-Sri Lankan…