Eden Villas continues to build on its reputation as the leading luxury villa expert in Sri Lanka by introducing two breathtaking properties to its portfolio. Monara and Nil Ralla, each distinctly ...

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‘Need answers’: Will Sri Lanka’s Tamils find war closure under Dissanayake? Tamils commemorating the loved ones they lost, or who were ‘disappeared’, during the civil war that ended 16 ...

Currently, Muong Lay has 1,192 households living in traditional stilt houses out of a total of 3,198 families, with a stilt house density of approximately 10.58 houses per square kilometre, ...

Yangon (AsiaNews) – At least 2,790 houses have collapsed in the 19 villages on Inle Lake, Shan State, with almost 100 deaths reported so far, from the 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck ...

Traditionally built to protect properties against the devastating effects of flooding and to stabilise houses on tricky sloping sites, stilt homes offer a wealth of unconventional design possibilities ...

In the summer of 2004, Peter Harris, president of Pedder Group – a division of Hong Kong’s Lane Crawford Joyce Group – visited Sri Lanka for the first time. He travelled for hours in ...

China and Sri Lanka agreed on more investment and economic cooperation on Wednesday as China's President Xi Jinping met recently-elected Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Beijing.

Discover the history and cultural significance of Sri Lanka’s unique stilt fishing tradition, dating back to WWII.

Sri Lanka’s stilt fishermen have become a tourist attraction in the seven decades since this unique form of fishing began, but the photos of them perched above the sea against blue skies or orange ...

ON a soft-dawn morning, I found myself ankle-deep in the briny embrace of the Indian Ocean, cameras in hand, along the defiantly picturesque Galle coastline in Sri Lanka. Here, the stilt fishermen ...