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SL Parliament to elect new president next week: Speaker
The decision was taken during a crucial all-party leaders meeting held earlier in the day.
What’s next for Lanka’s battered economy?
Citizens in our neighbouring nation Sri Lanka are skipping meals, enduring shortages, lining up for hours to try to buy scarce fuel. It’s a harsh...
Sri Lanka PM wants China to restructure debts
Wickremesinghe said this after a discussion with China's Deputy Ambassador Hu Wei in Colombo.
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka permits 21-yr-olds to work abroad
The country’s foreign currency reserves are so low that the government has restricted imports even of essentials, including food, fuel and medicine.
'IMF planning to send in-person mission to crisis-hit Sri Lanka'
Clearly Sri Lanka is facing a very difficult economic condition and severe balance of payments problems. We are deeply concerned about the impact of...
Sri Lanka appeals farmers to plant more rice as food shortage looms
Sri Lanka Economic Crisis: Sri Lanka is amid its worst such crisis in more than seven decades. The island of 22 million people has run out of foreign...
Crisis-hit Sri Lanka lifts curfew as new PM seeks to form cabinet
Sri Lanka crisis: Ranil Wickremesinghe, a five-time prime minister, was appointed to another term late on Thursday.
Cooking gas shortage deepens in Lanka, army called to control angry...
Notably, Ranil Wickremesinghe told the media after assuming the post of Prime Minister that his first challenge is to uplift the country's economy.