Sri Lanka has launched an updated map of the island incorporating the development projects, including the USD 1.4 billion Colombo port city being developed with massive loans from China, the state ...

Sri Lanka's $1.4 billion Port City development has elicited parallels to numerous major urban centers. At 665 acres, the project is about the same size as central London, but its design resembles ...

Surveyor General PPM Udayakantha said that the new map produced by the 1:500 ratio also includes the Moragahakanda reservoir and the new highways in Sri Lanka. The port city, a new city under ...

Colombo Port City, the biggest and most controversial infrastructure project in Sri Lanka's history, is either the staging ground for China and India's geopolitical battle or the place where the ...

But some say Sri Lanka also has much to fear from Colombo Port City. In 2020, Laos avoided bankruptcy only by selling part of its energy grid to China to help fund a railway linking the two countries.

SOM has won a competition to design a new district for Sri Lankan city Colombo, with a design featuring numerous skyscrapers, a marina, canals and a park, influenced by the country's tropical climate.