Four years after Sri Lanka's failed organic push, rice farmers struggle to rebuild

Four years since Sri Lanka scrapped a rash fertiliser ban that triggered protests, decimated harvests and exacerbated its ...

Sri Lanka set to regain economic output lost to crisis, Dissanayake says

Sri Lanka has nearly completed its debt restructuring process and is set to regain the economic output it lost to the 2022 ...
U.S. News & World Report

Exclusive-Sri Lanka Eyes 6% Growth in 2026, but 2025 Outlook Dims Amid Spending Delays

COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka is aiming to boost its economic growth to up to 6% in 2026, partly through record government capital expenditure, though delays in passing the budget could drag on its ...
The Diplomat

Sri Lanka’s Budget Tightens Taxes, Trims Discretion, and Seeks Space for China-India-IMF Balancing

The next 12 to 18 months, when the political and social costs of broader taxation and administrative centralization will ...
Today

Passenger bus skids off a cliff in Sri Lanka, killing 21 people and injuring 35

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A passenger bus skidded off a cliff in Sri Lanka’s tea-growing hill country on Sunday, killing 21 people and injuring 35 others, a police spokesman said. The accident ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Sri Lanka Set to Secure Yuan Loan Equivalent to $500 Million

Sri Lanka is to take out a yuan-denominated loan equivalent to $500 million to resume a stalled highway project, according to the president’s senior economic adviser. The construction of Sri Lanka’s ...

Sri Lankan freshwater fishers keen to turn invasive species threat into an opportunity

DEDURU OYA, Sri Lanka -- An invasive fish is threatening the livelihood of people in this northwestern village by ...