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 ...

If there is a bright spot in Sri Lanka and China's multi-billion dollar Hambantota debacle it's that nobody has given up on it yet. "Too big to fail" is a term that's often been applied to China's ...

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka — Every time Sri Lanka’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, ... while two checks totaling $1.7 million were delivered by volunteers to Temple Trees, ...

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 ...

Hambantota port may have been of "questionable commercial value" when it belonged to Sri Lanka. But its Chinese operators say that business is picking up.And they're set to control it for 97 more ...

10 years after a coastal Sri Lankan town was wiped away by one of the most devastating tsunamis on record, CNN’s Paula Hancocks remembers what it was like.

The 300-room beachfront Shangri-La's Hambantota Resort & Spa opened yesterday on a 145-acre former coconut plantation on the southern coastline of Sri Lanka.

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.

The wounds are still fresh, as The New York Times found out after listing Sri Lanka as its top travel destination for 2010 (as the author of the entry, my e-mail in-box was bombarded with angry ...

A team from Disneyland will be visiting Hambantota to discuss setting up South Asia’s first Disneyland. Also, Diana Gamage, State Tourism Minister, Sri Lanka, is gearing up to discuss the USD 18 ...

Reporting from HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka — A highway built by China threads almost all the way from Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, to this scruffy fishing town on the country’s southern tip ...