To keep the Hambantota dream alive Sri Lanka needs help, and debt-for-equity swaps have been arranged that will see controlling interests in the country's only deep sea port and Mattala ...

Sri Lanka’s Hambantota district in the south of the island is one of the areas worst affected by the tsunami that hit on December 26. While the current official death toll claims 4,500 were ...

Their fears grew this week, when a Chinese survey ship docked at Hambantota. Sri Lanka and China call it a scientific research vessel, which will stay through Aug. 22 to resupply.

Some 70 years after plans were first muted for a second international airport to boost support air services on the island state of Sri Lanka, the new Hambantota Airport is set to become a reality ...