COLOMBO (AFP) - Sri Lanka named a veteran government lawyer as foreign minister on Tuesday (Aug 15) after the island's top diplomat stood down amid a corruption scandal. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Upul Jayasuriya, a well known lawyer and President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka, has been appointed as the new chairman of the country's premier state investment body, the Board of Investment ...

Sri Lanka is waiting for a $2.9 billion bailout programme from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to be finalised on March 20, and establishing a fully independent central bank is one of the ...

Sri Lanka court orders release of lawyer held for two years. Hizbullah was arrested in April 2020 and accused of being linked to the 2019 attacks on churches and hotels that left 279 people dead.