Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka says former spy chief ‘directed’ Easter bombings

Sri Lanka’s worst single terror attack against civilians involved bombings against three upmarket hotels in the capital, two Roman Catholic churches and an evangelical Protestant church outside Colombo.

Former Sri Lankan minister gets 16 years’ jail in anti-graft crackdown

Sri Lanka emerging as a new base for Asia’s scam networks

Prison guards escorting a foreign national in Kaduwela, a suburb of Colombo, in Sri Lanka, on May 7.

Fire kills 12 people in Sri Lankan home for older people

Sri Lanka care home manager arrested after fire kills 12

A policeman inspects a burnt elder care home in Sri Lanka's Batagoda, a day after a fire broke outand killed 12 residents.

Sri Lanka slaps travel ban on ex-president over Easter bombings

Sri Lanka's former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa was forced to resign halfway into his presidency in July 2022 after months of street protests.

Sri Lanka’s top monk suspended over alleged child sex abuse

Pallegama Hemarathana was stripped of his responsibilities as the chief custodian of a highly venerated ficus grown from a sapling of a tree believed to have sheltered the Buddha.

Middle East conflict hits Sri Lanka’s tea industry, heightens economic strain

More than half of Sri Lanka's tea plantation workers live below the World Bank’s international lower-middle-income poverty line of US$3.65 a day.

Crackdown in South-east Asia pushes scam networks to Sri Lanka

Indonesian police escort a group of online scam suspects from China, Japan and Taiwan.

Sri Lanka raises tax on imported cars as Middle East crisis bites

Sri Lanka has slapped a 50 per cent surcharge on customs duties on vehicles in a bid to discourage imports and ease currency pressure.

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