Crisis-hit Sri Lanka offers fuel quotas to firms which can...
July 5 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Sri Lanka currently owes about $800 million to seven fuel suppliers (Photo: Reuters).
Bankrupt Sri Lanka is offering...
IMF sees 'progress' in Sri Lanka as visit ends, fuel crisi...
July 2 ,2022
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By: Munza Mushtaq
A man pushes a three-wheeled scooter in Colombo on June 27 as Sri Lanka staggers under fuel shortages and and an eco...
Sri Lankans endure days-long waits for fuel, shuttered sch...
June 30 ,2022
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By: Dimuthu Attanayake
Sri Lankans are experiencing the longest fuel queues in their history due to a fuel shortage. Photo: EPA-EFE
For almost forty...
Sri Lanka president’s brother, Basil Rajapaksa, resigns fr...
June 10 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Basil Rajapaksa, brother of Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has resigned.Photo: Reuters
The brother of Sri Lanka&r...
Sri Lanka’s ham-handedness has dismayed traditional friend...
June 7 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Aeroflot flight preparing to leave after a four day detention.
Colombo: With the Colombo Commercial High Court issuing an orde...
Beyond Sri Lanka, economic cyclone bears down on South Asi...
June 7 ,2022
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By: Karan Mehrishi
MUMBAI -- For over a decade, Mattias Martinsson has been investing in frontier economies, including Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka....
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka looks to Russia to quench thirst f...
June 5 ,2022
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By: Munza Mushtaq
Sri Lanka's Sapugaskanda oil refinery near Colombo: A shipment of Russian crude has given the facility a new lease on life. &c...
Sri Lanka wasn’t India’s backwater. Just look at its viole...
June 5 ,2022
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By: Anirudh Kanisetti
The Quadrangle Vatadage, Ancient City of Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka | Nahud Sultan/Flickr
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Lankan President announces crash plan to meet food crisis
May 31 ,2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
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Sri Lanka PM proposes more cabinet accountability amid eco...
May 30 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Police use tear gas to disperse Medical University students during a protest demanding President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to step down, nea...
Lankan PM proposes sweeping changes in Lanka’s governance...
May 30 ,2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
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Sri Lanka’s economic crisis: Foreign policy amidst domesti...
May 30 ,2022
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By: Bhagya Senaratne
Since the start of the new year, Sri Lanka has fallen deeper into an economic crisis. The crisis has led to protests across the country...
Lankan party leaders agree to replace 20th. Amendment by t...
May 28 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Ranil Wickremesighe addressing leaders of all parties
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Sri Lanka president calls for international help as crisis...
May 27 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa calls for international help in a prerecorded speech during Nikkei's Future of Asia...
Sri Lanka is a small preview of a global default crisis
May 27 ,2022
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By: Ruth Pollard
High school teacher S. Jeeva has spent two days in the baking sun lining up for cooking gas in the north of Sri Lanka's capital. He's b...
‘May 9’ violence in Sri Lanka | Former Prime Minister Mahi...
May 27 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Mahinda Rajapaksa. File | Photo
“Police said the CID recorded a nearly three-hour-long statement from the former Prime Minis...
Sri Lanka needs to print one trillion rupees to keep econo...
May 26 ,2022
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By: SAM Report
Ranil Wickremesinghe, newly appointed prime minister, of Sri Lanka says he will slash expenditures in his new budget. Photo: Reuters...
Flight of the Rajapaksas: Sri Lankan dynasty faces reckoni...
May 25 ,2022
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By: Marwaan Macan-Markar
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Rajapaksa not only needs to go, he needs to face accountab...
May 23 ,2022
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By: Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu
Anti-government demonstrators scuffle with police during a protest, outside the police headquarters, amid Sri Lanka's economic crisis...
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May 23 ,2022
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By: Adnan Abbasi, Tejashree Murugan & Vaishnavi Chandr
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May 23 ,2022
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By: Dimuthu Attanayake
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