When customers come into her family’s restaurant in Anaheim looking for naan or chicken tikka masala, Dewmini Gamalath can’t help but chuckle. “A lot of people don’t know what Sri Lankan food is,” ...

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KILINOCHCHI/COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (Reuters) - Nallathambi Mahendran walked through his four acres of emerald green paddy fields in northern Sri Lanka's Kilinochchi district, indicating the height the ...

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Villages in Beragama fear these lush rice paddies would be soon part of a Chinese backed investment zone. Sanjana Hattotuwa/Internews One Sri Lanka Journalists’ Network/Handout BERAGAMA, Sri Lanka, ...

MUMBAI/COLOMBO, April 2 (Reuters) - Indian traders have started loading 40,000 tonnes of rice for prompt shipment to Sri Lanka in the first major food aid since Colombo secured a credit line from New ...

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N allathambi Mahendran walked through his four acres of emerald green paddy fields in northern Sri Lanka's Kilinochchi district, indicating the height the plants should have reached by now. They were ...