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‘First in four decades’: Why Sri Lanka general strike matters

Analysts say Thursday’s nationwide strike was the first since a similar call given by the island’s trade unions in 1980.

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Australia names full-strength squads for Sri Lanka tour

Melbourne

The Hindu

Sri Lanka teachers, bank workers join mass walkout over economic crisis

Many schools in Colombo were shut and several train stations deserted on Thursday as teachers and train drivers joined mass walkouts demanding President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's government quit over Sri Lanka's worst financial crisis in decades.

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Analysis-Complex web of creditors, politics threatens Sri Lanka restructuring

Social unrest, political uncertainty and a complex web of creditors could scupper Sri Lanka's push for a swift overhaul of its $12 billion overseas debt, analysts warn, saying the South Asian nation is fast running out of road.

Reuters

Sri Lankan veterans protest against president who led them during war

Missing both legs and an arm, former special forces soldier Thushara Kumara is an unlikely critic of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, a wartime defence chief who became Sri Lanka's president in 2019.

Reuters

Sri Lanka begins talks with China on refinancing debt

Sri Lanka has begun discussions with China about refinancing its debt, a cabinet spokesman said on Tuesday, as Colombo struggles with its worst financial crisis in decades.

Reuters

Colombo’s pain could be south Indian ports’ gain

Shipping firms should be enticed quickly, tapping into the concerns of exporters and importers, say experts

The Hindu

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‘A curse’: Three years since Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka

Protesters in Colombo demand justice on the third anniversary of devastating attacks in several churches and hotels.

Al Jazeera

Sri Lanka promises impartial probe after first death in weeks of protests

Sri Lankan police will launch an "impartial and transparent" investigation into clashes with protesters after the first death in weeks of unrest over the government's handling of the economy, the president said on Wednesday.

Reuters

One dead after police fire on protesters in Sri Lanka amid bailout talks with IMF

Sri Lankan police fired live ammunition to scatter protesters on Tuesday, killing one person and injuring a dozen more, as the country sought rapid financial assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to ease a worsening economic crisis.

Reuters

Sri Lankan stock market closing for a week

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will suspend share trading for all of next week to avoid a possible stock market collapse, as its economic crisis deepens and protests against the government spread.

Bangkok Post

Thousands of Sri Lankans celebrate New Year at anti-government protest site

At an auspicious time early on Thursday, Dilani Jayaratne lit a small wood fire to boil a small pot of milk to mark the start of Sri Lanka's New Year.

Reuters

‘Gota go home’: desperate Sri Lankans call for President Rajapaksa to quit

Strongman Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s position looks weak amid an economic crisis that threatens to turn into starvation

The Guardian - UK

Sri Lanka on the Brink

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Sri Lankans set up protest camp, vow to stay till Rajapaksa quits

As protesters dig in for a long haul, tents come up outside President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s office in Colombo.

Reuters

Sri Lanka PM offers protesters talks as opposition eyes no-confidence vote

Sri Lanka's prime minister offered talks on Wednesday with protesters calling for the government to step down over its handling of an economic crisis as the opposition threatened to bring a no-confidence motion against it in parliament.

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A small tent camp in Sri Lankan city becomes focus of national protests

On a patch of grass near Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's office in the commercial capital Colombo, around two dozen tents have been erected in a small but growing camp that is becoming the focal point of national protests.

Reuters

Drugs running out, surgeries cancelled as Sri Lanka's health system buckles

Rosanne White was first diagnosed with cancer eight years ago and lost a kidney. After the cancer returned five years ago, an oncologist in Sri Lanka's commercial capital Colombo started her on Bevacizumab last May, a treatment she was responding to.

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Cochin port benefits as shipping lines skip Colombo

Huge increase in transshipment volume at ICTT

ABC News

Inside Sri Lanka's worst economic crisis, people are dying in line for fuel

Sri Lanka is facing a worsening economic crisis that has left its citizens struggling to get through everyday tasks such as driving to work or cooking their family meals. With the parliament in disarray, people are taking to the streets.

Al Jazeera

Sri Lanka doctors warn of ‘catastrophe’ as medicines run low

Drugs to treat heart attacks and tubes to help babies breathe in short supply as doctors forced to treat in the dark.

Al Jazeera

Thousands in Sri Lanka insist Rajapaksa family quit politics

Protesters angry over a worsening economic crisis take aim at Sri Lanka’s all-powerful Rajapaksa family.

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re finished’: Sri Lankans pushed to the brink by financial crisis

Thousands take to the streets to call for the resignation of president Gotabaya Rajapaksa

Al Jazeera

No Sri Lankan, rich or poor, spared as economic crisis worsens

Savings evaporate, businesses face closure and the Sri Lankan poor struggle to eat as value of the rupee plummets.

Reuters

Sri Lanka's president will not resign, despite protests - minister

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will not resign, a minister said on Wednesday, despite demonstrations against his handling of the country's worst economic crisis in decades and as doctors held street protests over a shortage of medicine.

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