HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka — Every time Sri Lanka’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, turned to his Chinese allies for loans and assistance with an ambitious port project, the answer was yes. Yes, though ...

Amidst growing Indian and American investments in Sri Lanka’s infrastructure sector, China seems to be taking a distinct and cost-effective approach that resonates well with the Sri Lankan people.

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s visit to Beijing from January 14 to 17 is his second foreign trip following a mission to India last year. While his trip to India reflected its status ...

(Bloomberg) -- Sri Lankans go to the polls this weekend for the country’s first election since defaulting on piles of sovereign debt in 2022, when the nation plunged into its worst economic crisis ...

BEIJING (Reuters) -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 ...

Beijing's rising influence in Sri Lanka and the wider Indian Ocean region has been a major source of concern for New Delhi.Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Sri Lanka over the weekend where ...

Colombo, November 21 (Daily Mirror) - China is studying an aid project to provide Sri Lanka with a fleet of electric buses, the Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Qi Zhenhong, said yesterday. He noted ...

BEIJING — Sri Lanka and China signed a series of cooperation agreements on Wednesday following talks between their leaders, one month after Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake made India his ...

The Colombo Port City development is billed as the 'gateway to Asia' - Copyright AFP Ishara S. KODIKARA The Colombo Port City development is billed as the 'gateway to ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Thursday that Sri Lanka's visiting president had promised work would resume on a controversial Chinese-backed port development in Colombo that his administration had ...

In the first official engagement by a U.S. Secretary of State in more than forty years, John Kerry visited Sri Lanka on Saturday, seeking to revive U.S. ties with the tiny South A ...