November to January are usually the busiest season for Herath Gedara Rohan Anil Kumara’s three-bedroom homestay in Sri ...

For my forth country of the year, I flew over to Sri Lanka, starting in the capital, Colombo. After a day on the road, I ...

A revival in tourism has helped Sri Lanka recover from its economic crisis, which peaked in 2022, but the damage caused by ...

Nuwara Eliya District, with a population of 724,957 and located in a hilly region, is among the worst hit by heavy rainfall, ...

In The Wall Street Journal, Robert Greifeld writes that in 2010 Sri Lanka emerged from decades of civil war in bad shape. Two years later, it posted 6.4% growth. As Sri Lanka faces ring-rusty Pakistan ...

Officials estimate the damage runs into billions of dollars, a headache for the island nation just recovering from an ...

Residents of Kithulbadde village in central Sri Lanka say they have been left in the lurch after last week's deadly cyclone ...

When Denuwarage Kusumalatha (54) saw flood water reach her doorstep in the wee hours of Nov. 29, it was already too late. A ...

Electrician V. K. Muthukrishnan ran to help when a lightning-fast mudslide flattened his neighbour's home in rural Sri Lanka ...

Southeast Asia has been hit by unusually severe floods this year, with late storms killing more than 1,400 people and leaving ...

Some of the worst-hit areas in Sri Lanka are the central tea-growing regions where landslides carried away hills ...

The total economic losses incurred are estimated to be around $6-$7 billion. This is more than the country’s foreign reserves ...