Of the nearly 50,000 fishers in Sri Lanka, Sandaruwan estimates that around 5,000 work on offshore multi-day boat trips.They have been forced to scrimp on expenses, working longer hours over ...

Sri Lanka’s northern waters remain far richer in marine resources than those off the southern coast of India, largely because ...

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump wrote to his Sri Lankan counterpart, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, informing him that the ...

RAMANATHAPURAM: A Sri Lankan court sentenced a country boat fisherman to 18 months imprisonment for violating IMBL for a second time, and released 17 country boat fishers, on Tuesday. The court ...

Sri Lanka's economic outlook remains positive, but global trade policy uncertainties pose significant risks to macroeconomic ...

Trichy: Two groups consisting of nine fishermen from Nagapattinam district were robbed separately by unidentified people, allegedly from Sri Lanka, in.

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 ...

This March marks the mid-point of Sri Lanka’s four-year economic reform program supported by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In the two years since its inception difficult but much needed ...

Sri Lanka's foreign minister said on Wednesday that the South Asian island nation had signed an agreement with Chinese state energy giant Sinopec to fast-track a proposed $3.7 billion oil refinery ...