Road crash fatalities and injuries could cost countries like Sri Lanka between 3-5% of their GDP annually. The country needs $2 billion additional investment to combat road safety crisis. Data shows ...

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 ...

In Sri Lanka, a key highway linking the embattled north with the rest of the country has been reopened after 12 years. The road was opened as Sri Lankan authorities and Tamil guerrillas prepare ...

World News: COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's main highway linking the northern Jaffna peninsular to the rest of the country was officially opened on Monday for the first time ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka --The Sri Lankan military and Tamil Tiger rebels have reopened a strategic highway that links the northern Tamil heartland with the rest of the country. The A9 Highway was the ...

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 ...

Costing 291 million US dollars , the Colombo- Katunayake Expressway will improve traffic flow and will lead directly to the nation’s international airport. Since the end of the civil war (2009 ), Be ...

The new road will be inaugurated next Sunday. The 95-km motorway costs about US$ 600 million with funding provided by the Asian Development Bank and the Japan Bank of International Cooperation.