China warns Sri Lanka: IMF conditions could affect bilater...
April 27 ,2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Chinese envoy Qi Zhenhong with Lankan PM Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Colombo: China has warned Sri Lanka about the consequences o...
Making Sri Lanka’s external debt sustainable
April 26 ,2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Sri Lankan Finance Minister Ali S ... MF chief Kristalina Georgieva.
Colombo: Sri Lanka is negotiating with the IMF for help t...
Caution, not alarm, is the point
April 26 ,2022
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By: Zahid Hussain
The sources of comfort
Indeed, there are solid reasons to believe Bangladesh is not exposed to the type of risks that have mater...
‘Failed state’: Sri Lanka’s Buddhist leaders want gov’t to...
April 26 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Buddhist monks take part in a protest against Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, near the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo...
World Bank readies Sri Lanka aid, IMF calls loan talks 'fr...
April 25 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Drivers push their three-wheelers while waiting in a line to buy gas in Colombo. © Reuters
WASHINGTON : The...
A fuel hunt that turned fatal in Sri Lanka
April 25 ,2022
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By: Meera Srinivasan
Protesters shout slogans against Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa near the Presidential Secretariat, amid the country’s e...
China makes signing FTA a condition for helping Sri Lanka
April 25 ,2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo: Clearly fed up with the lack of progress in talks with Sri Lanka on a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) since 2015, Chinese Premier L...
Sri Lanka mess a timely warning for Pakistan, Nepal
April 25 ,2022
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By: Sayantan Ghosal & Dannia Thomas
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Sri Lanka recorded the first casualties from its spiraling economic crisis several days ago, with one protester...
Chinese Ambassador pledges continued support to Sri Lanka
April 22 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Professor G.L. Peiris met with the Ambassador of China to Colombo, Qi Zhenhong, at the F...
Lessons from Lanka
April 22 ,2022
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By: Aqdas Afzal
Sri Lanka figures very largely in the imagination of the people of South Asia. Not only is ‘Ceylon tea’ considered the best...
Sri Lanka town under curfew, foreign concern over killing
April 21 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
A Police officer walks across a street in Rambukkana on 20 April 2022, a day after police killed an anti-government demonstrator whil...
Debrief: What happens when Sri Lanka defaults on its debt
April 21 ,2022
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By: Jeffrey Hutton
Lady Ridgeway Children's hospital healthcare workers silently protest against medicine shortage on April 19, 2022. PHOTO: AFP...
Sri Lankan lessons for India
April 20 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Protesters should slogans demanding President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s resignation over the country’s crippling economic cr...
Sri Lanka’s oppressive stability starts to crumble
April 20 ,2022
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By: Isha Gupta
Photo by Jewel SAMAD / AFP via Getty Images
On the evening of April 2nd, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa declared&nbs...
Lankan regime’s intention to bring about constitutional ch...
April 20 ,2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Colombo: With pressure mounting on President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to quit, both in parliament and on the streets of Sri Lanka, the Presid...
Sri Lankan protests open up old wounds
April 20 ,2022
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By: Rohini Mohan
People shout slogans during an ongoing anti-government demonstration in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 15, 2022. PHOTO: AFP...
Sri Lankan delegation heads to US to seek $4 bn bailout pa...
April 19 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Photo: Reuters
A Sri Lankan government delegation is headed to the US on Sunday to engage with the IMF to secure a USD 4...
Sri Lanka president expands cabinet amid economic crisis p...
April 19 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Demonstrators apply a sticker on a passing car during a protest against Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, near the Presidentia...
Sri Lanka's international bondholders brace for a haircut
April 19 ,2022
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By: Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK -- Debt-ridden Sri Lanka has stepped into uncharted waters. Negotiations begin this week in Washington between government offic...
Bankrupt Sri Lanka looks to expand airline fleet
April 18 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
[File] Sri Lankas state-owned Sri Lankan Airlines has unveiled plans to expand its fleet from 24 to 35 planes in the next three years...
Replication of Sri Lankan crisis worries other South Asian...
April 18 ,2022
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By: P.K. Balachandran
Nepal’s Central Bank
Colombo: Ever since Sri Lanka got into an unprecedented economic bind, and calls for the resignation of...
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