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We left the hotels behind and stayed with a local Sri Lankan family — and it changed the way we see the country. In this ...
In 2022, Melissa Petro's family skipped holiday stress for a meaningful trip to Sri Lanka instead. The trip was a celebration after she sold a book proposal and they met up with family members there.
Sri Lanka's President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was blocked from departing Sri Lanka on Monday after refusing to join a public queue at the Bandaranaike International Airport in order to have his ...
Political protests in Sri Lanka have intensified over recent months, with protesters’ attention focused on the ruling elite and especially former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. He and his family ...
Sri Lanka: why the Philippines offers a warning for what might come next Could the disgraced Rajapaksas return to power, like the Marcos family has in the Philippines? Rashmee Roshan Lall ...
Sri Lanka’s economic crisis has forced Rizwie, a taxi driver, to work longer hours to feed their family of six. It will be 1am when he finally returns home after nearly 13 hours of work.
Sri Lanka's former president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, fled the country in July after tens of thousands of protesters stormed his home and office in a display of anger over the country's economic crisis.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan acting president Ranil Wickremesinghe was selected Wednesday by Parliament to be the country’s new leader after widespread protests ousted the unpopular ...
6 people, including a mother and 4 children were killed, but the father survived and is in hospital; Febrio De-Zoysa, a 19-year-old male student from Sri Lanka who lived in their house, has been ...
(Courtesy of Penguin Random House ... Now's Deepa Fernandes speaks with V.V. Ganeshananthan about her novel "Brotherless Night," which centers around a Tamil family caught up in Sri Lanka's ...
A British woman left with "nothing" after allegedly being conned out of £100,000 by a Sri Lankan bigamist before he was shot dead, is calling on his family to pay her back. Diane Peebles, 65 ...
In 2022, Melissa Petro's family skipped holiday stress for a meaningful trip to Sri Lanka instead. The trip was a celebration after she sold a book proposal and they met up with family members there.