Sri Lankan police arrested two ruling party lawmakers for allegedly instigating mob violence that plunged the country into days of unrest and left nine people dead last week, officials said Wednesday
Sri Lanka is expected to be placed into default by rating agencies on Wednesday after the non-payment of coupons on two of its sovereign bonds, while the energy minister said the country had run out ...
Sri Lanka's new prime minister won crucial support from two main opposition parties on Monday, easing the pressure on the ruling Rajapaksa clan in the face of the island's worsening economic crisis
Sri Lanka on Saturday named the first ministers of a "unity" government tasked with rescuing the country from its crippling economic crisis, but which has failed to secure opposition support
Farmers were once big supporters of the Rajapaksas, but a bungled fertiliser ban withered their crops along with their backing for Sri Lanka’s previously powerful and popular political clan
Sri Lanka's fractious opposition showed rare unity Sunday, joining together to demand embattled president Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign over the country's worst-ever economic crisis
Cash-strapped Sri Lanka announced a 40 percent price hike for dozens of commonly used medicines on Saturday as the island nation labours through its worst economic crisis in decades
Myanmar junta court on Wednesday sentenced Aung San Suu Kyi to five years in jail for corruption, part of a barrage of criminal cases that could see the deposed civilian leader jailed for decades
In the face of widespread criticism, the authorities have apparently stepped back from the decision of erecting the permanent building of Kalabagan police station at the Tetultala playground and ...
Rights activists have criticised the arrest, and release only after 13 hours, of Syeda Ratna who registered a protest to protect Tetultala playground at Kalabagan in the capital
Workers of several RMG factories on Monday demonstrated at Mirpur and Uttara in the capital by blocking roads in a bid to press home their demand for due wages and festival bonus
Protest, the inviolable right of a citizen, is often despised by the evil elements of society or state. New laws are introduced, unlawful detention and raids are conducted, to silence the voices that ...
Myanmar anti-coup rebels on Saturday threatened to attack Chinese-backed mines in the country's northwest if the projects are not shut down, saying the profits were lining the pockets of the junta
Shops in New Market area are being reopened from around 10.00am Thursday
Rajapaksa acknowledged public anger over the ruling family’s mismanagement on Monday, after appointing a new cabinet to try to assuage fury over the crisis
