In 1890, Sir Thomas Lipton arrived on the island of Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, to purchase a plot of land that would become the first tea estate in his global tea empire.These days, in the ...

The civil war in Sri Lanka may be over, but you can buy a land mine on the side of the road in Jaffna — though they’re more likely to explode in your mouth than anywhere else.

MANKULAM, Sri Lanka (AP) ... Vidya Abhayagunawardena, coordinator of the Sri Lanka Campaign to Ban Land Mines, ... Photos You Should See - Feb. 2025. View All 35 Images ...

A US$1.4 billion land reclamation project next to Colombo port – the biggest foreign investment in Sri Lanka – has raised Indian fears that Beijing could use it as a listening post.