Those crops are still Sri Lanka's leading foreign exchange earners. For 200 years, the community has lived on the margins of Sri Lankan society.

The National People’s Power (NPP) alliance won a landslide victory in Sri Lanka’s general election on November 14, nearly two months after NPP candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake, known as AKD ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, Oct. 12 -- President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga's ruling party defeated the opposition in Tuesday's parliamentary elections but failed to win the big majority she ...

Under normal circumstances, the victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake in Sri Lanka's presidential election would have been called a political earthquake. But with many having labelled the left ...

Sri Lanka's plantation workers are a long-marginalized group who frequently live in dire poverty, but they can swing elections by voting as a bloc.

There are around 1.5 million descendants of plantation workers living in Sri Lanka today, including about 3.5% of the electorate, and some 470,000 people still live on plantations.

Both leading candidates in Sri Lanka's presidential election are promising to give land to the country’s hundreds of thousands of plantation workers, but the long-marginalized group has heard ...

Both leading candidates in Sri Lanka's presidential election are promising to give land to the country’s hundreds of thousands of plantation workers, but the long-marginalized group has heard ...