COLOMBO (BLOOMBERG) – Each year roughly 60,000 ships vital to the global economy sail through the Indian Ocean past a Chinese-operated port on the southern tip of Sri Lanka. Almost none of them stop to unload cargo. The eight-year-old Hambantota port -…
Microsoft Founder Bill Gates hails Sri Lanka for its enhanced primary healthcare. Addressing the Commonwealth joint plenary session in London Yeasterday, he asked the Commonwealth to look to Sri Lanka to know what ‘high quality’ primary healthcare meant. Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have …
In order to help Small States get access to global markets, Sri Lanka pledged financial contribution to setup the Small States Trade Financial Facility yesterday, on the margins of the ongoing Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London. Ministe…
The 2018 South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Championship will be the 12th edition of the competition that takes place on a biennial basis. After being postponed from December 2017 to September 2018 (4th-15th), due to the Indian Super League (ISL) s…
Sri Lanka Junior, Cadet and Hopes teams will be leaving to the Maldives to take part in the South Asian Junior, Cadet and Hopes Table Tennis … Piyumila will be leading the Sri Lanka Junior table tennis teams while Hiruna Warusawithana of Dharmashoka …
TalkSPORT has beaten the BBC to free-to-air radio broadcasting rights for England’s upcoming tours to Sri Lanka and the West Indies. Their coverage will begin on October 10 for England’s day/night one-day match against Sri Lanka in Dambulla, and the station will have a dedicated team at each …
President Maithripala Sirisena addressing the Sri Lankan community living in London said that the attempts made by some to hide the truth and promote the falsehood are a hindrance to the forward march of the Motherland. Therefore, the President invited…
Sri Lanka: New tour app brings heritage in Colombo to life. Dutch heritage professionals work together with locals in Colombo for a new tour app that makes shared and Sri Lankan heritage accessible. The iDiscover Colombo team hitting the streets to find the city’s hidden gems.
Sri Lankan cricket is a mess because politicians have taken over, and with little or no knowledge of the game they are destroying the institution with every passing day, cricket legend Muttiah Muralitharan said. In an interview with Indian Economic Tim…