SRI LANKA’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa has a fetish for fiasco.... The Indian Ocean island is a

( Reuters)-Sri Lanka has requested the International Monetary Fund( IMF) for rapid financial

SRI Lanka figures very largely in the imagination of the people of South Asia.... Due to weeks of

COLOMBO( Reuters)-Swathes of Sri Lanka were hit by electricity cuts on Thursday after a power

COLOMBO( Reuters)-Streets were calm on Tuesday in the Sri Lankan commercial capital of Colombo

being reported daily.... A McDonald's restaurant in the capital Colombo was gutted from fire caused

country, said police spokesman Nalin Thalduwa in commercial capital Colombo. For weeks people have

Sri Lankan police imposed a curfew on Monday after clashes between rival political camps, as anger builds over the island's worst economic crisis since independence. Months of blackouts and dire shortages of food, fuel and medicines have caused widespread suffering across the South Asian island and weeks of overwhelmingly peaceful anti-government protests.At least 20 people were injured in the violence in central Colombo, according to officials. Rajapaksa loyalists armed with sticks and clubs at

commercial flight in nearly six years took off from Yemen’s rebel-held capital on Monday, a major step

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka will need about US$ 3bil( RM12. 6bil) in external assistance within the next six