Sri Lanka has agreed in principle to sell an 80% stake in a deep-water port on the nation’s southern coast, close to one of the world’s busiest sea lanes, to a Chinese state-owned company.

Update: Sri Lanka's Coast, After the Tsunami Steve Inskeep talks to Steve Matthews of the relief organization World Vision.Morning Edition talked with him last year, just after the deadly tsunami ...

The Tamil insurgency, which blighted Sri Lanka for nearly 30 years, made travel hazardous. A few months later, the east was devastated along with much of the south coast by the Boxing Day tsunami.

Item 1 of 4 Sand is dredged from the sea at Colombo Port City construction site during the Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's (not pictured) visit in Colombo, Sri Lanka January 2, 2018.

Sri Lanka, an island nation graced by over 1,600 kilometres of coastline, is home to thousands of families whose lives are deeply intertwined with the sea. ..

But in truth, they only began showing up in any real numbers on the south coast about a decade ago. Between December and April, when the first of Sri Lanka's two monsoon seasons has spent itself ...

As a result, some areas on Sri Lanka’s coast have recorded annual erosion of more than five metres (16 feet) of land, Permarathne said. Only around one-fifth of Sri Lanka’s 1,500 km (940 mile ...

Sri Lanka’s heavily indebted government signed an agreement in principle on Thursday to sell an 80% stake in a deep-water port on the nation’s southern coast, close to one of the world’s ...