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    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      US lends $553mn to majority Adani-owned port in Sri Lanka

      Washington and New Delhi compete with Beijing for influence in region

      A picture of Sri Lanka’s West Container Terminal
    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Sovereign debt
      Sri Lanka has its stay — and it comes with a twist

      Well dang

    • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
      Sri Lanka reaches preliminary debt deal with China’s Exim Bank

      Agreement on $4.2bn from largest bilateral creditor could pave way for release of IMF funds

      A vendor arranges vegetables as he waits for customers at a market in Colombo
    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      World
      Sri Lanka’s US cavalry is here

      Too bad they didn’t bring any big guns

    • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
      Asia-Pacific economy
      India and south Asia forecast to grow more quickly than other regions

      World Bank praises countries for strong fundamentals but says hitting development targets still ‘a long way to go’

      Gantries at an Indian port
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      Sri Lanka fails to reach agreement to unlock next IMF bailout tranche

      Delay threatens to slow country’s recovery from the worst economic crisis in its history

      University lecturers hold up signs saying Stop the Unfair Taxation
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Sovereign debt
      How Sri Lanka can uncover its mysterious legal adversary

      Bond doc adventures

    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      Another friendly Sri Lankan intervention

      Friends of the court assemble!

    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Sovereign debt
      The mysterious ‘global financier’ suing Sri Lanka

      Cunning new vulture investor or Poundland Elliott?

    • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
      Sovereign bonds
      Is the IMF setting Sri Lanka up for a second car crash?

      Dangerous DSAs

    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Sovereign bonds
      A Sri Lankan debt twist

      The US government Has Some Thoughts

    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Sri Lanka commits to $42bn domestic debt restructuring

      Government declares holidays until Tuesday to try to head off any run on banks

      Sri Lanka’s president, Ranil Wickremesinghe
    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Special ReportSustainable Food and Agriculture
      Sri Lanka’s farmers learn lessons from organic debacle

      The country’s ban on chemical fertilisers backfired, but still sharpened interest in greener alternatives

      A woman puts her hands in freshly picked leaves in a Sri Lankan tea factory
    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      Sovereign debt
      Raise a glass to freedom . . . from debt restructurings

      What a CACastrophe

    • Tuesday, 25 April, 2023
      HTSI
      The spice is right at Rambutan, London’s newest Sri Lankan restaurant

      Cynthia Shanmugalingam’s dazzling Tamil flavours are worth the wait

      Dingley Dell pork dry curry at Rambutan
    • Friday, 24 March, 2023
      News in-depth
      Sri Lanka reels from aftershocks of debt crisis

      Colombo seals IMF deal but many remain sceptical about the country’s path to recovery

      A vendor selling ice cream on Galle Face beach in Colombo
    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      Sri Lanka’s president calls on China and other creditors to compromise

      Ranil Wickremesinghe urges lenders to set aside differences in crisis closely watched by emerging-market borrowers

      Sri Lanka’s president Ranil Wickremesinghe
    • Tuesday, 21 March, 2023
      IMF approves $3bn bailout for Sri Lanka

      Fund’s board backs package weeks after Beijing drops resistance

      A labourer unloads a sack of rice from a truck at a market in Colombo
    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      Sri Lanka’s IMF deal edges closer as China backs debt restructure

      Fund says agreement paves way towards $2.9bn rescue package

      A man walks past the IMF logo at its headquarters in Washington
    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      News in-depthAdani Group
      Gautam Adani’s ties with Modi spur scrutiny of overseas deals

      Opposition attacks foreign investment they say was enabled by Indian prime minister

      An effigy of Gautam Adani and PM Narendra Modi is burned during a protest
    • Wednesday, 1 February, 2023
      Zeinab Badawi
      On Sri Lanka’s 75th birthday, the future looks bleak

      A country that once had one of the highest living standards in south Asia is mired in economic crisis

      Police use a water cannon to disperse anti-government protesters in Colombo. Many Sri Lankans blame their plight on corruption, nepotism and mismanagement
    • Friday, 13 January, 2023
      Sri Lanka to slash size of its military by a third by 2024

      Government seeks to cut cost of bloated armed services in wake of country’s financial crisis

      Three Sri Lankan soldiers stand guard outside a cricket ground in Colombo
    • Saturday, 31 December, 2022
      Travel
      The big hotel openings of 2023

      From Rome’s ‘most luxurious hotel ever’, to tented suites in Bhutan and Christian Louboutin’s Portuguese retreat

    • Wednesday, 28 December, 2022
      News in-depth
      Sri Lanka farmers count the cost of government fertiliser ban

      South Asian island nation relies on international aid to stave off starvation

      A man picks tea in a tea garden in Sri Lanka
    • Monday, 17 October, 2022
      Books
      Shehan Karunatilaka scoops Booker Prize for genre-busting second novel

      Judges praise ‘hilarious audacity’ of Sri Lankan’s ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’

      Shehan Karunatilaka
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