CRAIGHEAD ESTATE, Sri Lanka(AP) — Arumugam Manikavalli, awakened by ferocious rain and rumbling earth, fled her home for the safety of a nearby temple on the tea estate where she works. That same ...

I’m in a souped-up safari SUV in a Sri Lankan national park, and a couple of car lengths away, a female elephant and her baby are pulling plants from the ground and eating them. I’m close enough to ...

SPRING VALLEY, Sri Lanka — Whoever Sri Lanka's next president is, Muthuthevarkittan Manohari isn't expecting much to change in her daily struggle to feed the four children and elderly mother with whom ...

Behind every cup of world-famous Ceylon tea, there is a story of exploitation and bonded labor, said Apostolic Carmel Sister Maria Amali, whose congregation has worked among Sri Lanka's tea plantation ...