The US is making revisions to its reciprocal tariff regime, which was initially presented in early April this year, and ...

The government blamed the COVID-19 pandemic for sapping the country's tourism income, which is a main economic driver in Sri Lanka. But economists say there are other factors, including political ...

An AVAAZ petition addressed to Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake by Champa Fernando,  President of the Kandy ...

When the government of Sri Lanka published the  National Red List of threatened plants in 2020, my eyebrows shot up. We’ve ...

The crisis in Sri Lanka’s public health services has brought home the fact there is no solution, to even the most basic ...

Sri Lanka announced in April that it was suspending repayment of foreign loans due to a foreign currency shortage. Its total foreign debt amounts to $51 billion, of which it must repay $28 billion ...

Sri Lanka’s Bar Association has warned that the amendments allow the president to act with legal impunity and have removed much-needed checks and balances from the country’s system of government.

Rajapaksa’s brother, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, was Sri Lanka’s defense secretary at the time and in charge of government forces. The government described the report as “biased, baseless and ...

A Sri Lankan government supporter carries a national flag after attacking the anti-government demonstrators outside the president's office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Monday.

Economic Background. In the 1970s, Sri Lanka began to liberalize its economic policies, and the government pushed for an open economy, in which goods and services would trade freely, and barriers ...