Sri Lanka's E01, the first expressway in the country opened to traffic in November 2011. Two years later MIT's CoLab Radio is looking into the effects that building the highway has had on the ...

Sri Lanka, which last year handed over a strategic port to a Chinese firm for a 99-year lease as a debt swap, will soon sign a USD 1 billion concessional loan agreement with Beijing to fund a ...

Reporting from ALONG THE A9 HIGHWAY, Sri Lanka — The road from Colombo, Sri Lanka’s graceful seaside capital in the south, to the northern town of Jaffna has rarely been a straight shot. Most ...

Engineer advocates for increased funding to meet safety goals. By Rathindra Kuruwita. The number of deaths in road accidents in Sri Lanka has been decreasing since 2020, Kamala Gunawardena, a highway ...

A deadlock over re-opening of the strategic A9 highway has deepened fears of another war in the island, writes PK Balachandran. Explore. Search Monday, Mar 31, 2025. New Delhi o C. Subscribe.

COLOMBO - The Chinese government has approved a $1 billion loan to Sri Lanka to build a highway and its export-import bank has been instructed to process the borrowing, SriLankan Prime Minister Ranil ...

The World Bank’s Road Sector Assistance Project, which ran from 2005 to 2015, helped to mitigate some of this degradation, though, with a major overhaul of both national and rural roads. Now, Sri ...

BEIJING: Sri Lanka, which last year handed over a strategic port to a Chinese firm for a 99-year lease as a debt swap, will soon sign a USD 1 billion concessional loan agreement with Beijing to ...

Nowhere are the dramatic changes to Sri Lanka since the war’s end clearer than on the 100 km stretch of the A9 that runs through the Vanni in the northern Sri Lanka. Once dubbed the highway of ...

The Chinese government has approved a $1 billion loan to Sri Lanka to build a highway and its export-import bank has been instructed to process the borrowing, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil ...

Sri Lanka is not out of the woods yet - but the economy is stabilizing with an agreement with the IMF expected early in 2023. Click to read more here.