To keep the Hambantota dream alive Sri Lanka needs help, and debt-for-equity swaps have been arranged that will see controlling interests in the country's only deep sea port and Mattala ...

Their fears grew this week, when a Chinese survey ship docked at Hambantota. Sri Lanka and China call it a scientific research vessel, which will stay through Aug. 22 to resupply.

Sri Lanka’s Hambantota district in the south of the island is one of the areas worst affected by the tsunami that hit on December 26. While the current official death toll claims 4,500 were ...