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Sri Lankan legislators have overwhelmingly voted to scrap their pensions, as the Marxist-leaning government fulfills a key campaign promise. The vote Tuesday was 154-2.

That is the plight of Sri Lanka, which since November has been recovering from Cyclone Ditwah. An inexperienced government—led by a former Marxist revolutionary committed to stamping out graft—has ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake will outline the government's revenue and policy goals in his first full-year budget on Monday, seeking to extend the country's ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday said sustaining reform momentum is critical for Sri Lanka to move from crisis ...

The acclaimed Pulitzer Center-supported documentary ‘Democracy in Debt: Sri Lanka Beyond the Headlines’ will receive two awards at the Second Jalgaon International Film Festival in India this year, ...

COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka's first leftist president has surprised investors by embracing pro-market reforms in his first year, and plans fresh steps to boost investment and energy supplies after ...

Sri Lanka’s aviation sector delivered its strongest performance in years in 2025, signalling a broad-based recovery in ...

Developing natural gas resources will help the country overcome its economic crisis, provide energy security, and lower carbon dioxide emissions. In this March 25, 2022, Sri Lankans wait in a queue to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s new ...

Vidattaltivu Nature Reserve in northern Sri Lanka is an important coastal ecosystem that contains all the main blue carbon habitats, from mangroves to seagrass meadows to salt marshes and tidal flats.

According to a report in the leading international news magazine ‘The Diplomat’, the United Kingdom ranked as Sri Lanka’s second-largest source market at 9.5 per cent in 2025, with 224,643 arrivals, ...