The Latest Breaking News from Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s Parliament has approved a budget that includes reforms aimed at improving the country’s finances as it attempts to recover from its worst economic crisis

Sri Lanka won this year's Asian Netball Championships, but COVID-19 and economic hardship made the journey far from ideal.

Recently released details of Kenya's 2014 loan agreement with China to finance a controversial railway project have once again highlighted the predatory nature of Chinese lending in developing countries. The contract not only imposed virtually all risk on the borrower (including requiring binding arbitration in China to settle any dispute),…

For years, Anandavalli stayed silent about her country's civil war but then her playwright son, S. Shakthidharan, started writing about it anyway. Now, she stars in his latest play.

Play by the creators of the Helpmann-winning Counting and Cracking shows people living and loving despite danger, but sometimes minimises the horrors

Rights group also renews call for Sri Lanka to repeal Prevention of Terrorism Act under which the two are being held.

The Sri Lankan government is being urged to drop charges against two protest leaders detained for more than three months following the anti-government demonstrations that engulfed the island nation earlier this year

He is charged with four counts of sexual intercourse without consent after being arrested in early November

He is charged with four counts of sexual intercourse without consent.