Retired military officials are backing the Great Nicobar Project. They counter allegations of land grabbing and corruption, highlighting it...

Sri Lanka is seeking investors for Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport. The airport has been a financial drain since opening in 2013. A...

India and China appear to be locked in an escalating energy rivalry in Sri Lanka. India plans a new energy hub at Trincomalee with the UAE,...

Three commercial vessels were fired upon by Iranian forces in the Strait of Hormuz, with two subsequently seized. Initial shipping data ind...

On Monday, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe met a delegation from Chinese state-owned oil company Sinopec to discuss the construct...

Chinese ballistic missile and satellite tracking ship 'Yuan Wang 5' is berthed at Sri Lanka's strategic southern port of Hambantota. The sh...

China not allowed to use Hambantota Port for military purposes: Sri Lankan President Wickremesinghe. China will not be allowed to use the s...

Last week, the Sri Lankan foreign ministry had asked Beijing to defer the arrival of 'Yuan Wang 5', which was scheduled to dock at the Hamb...

In a letter to the Chinese Embassy in Colombo, the Foreign Ministry of Sri Lanka stated, "The Ministry wishes to request that the arrival d...

Sri Lanka has allowed a Chinese research vessel to dock at the Hambantota port next month, the island nation's Army spokesman said on Sunda...

Anil Ranjith, the top official of the Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Authority (SLAEA), said that the ship was on its way to China from the port o...

Gunawardena has revealed that the previous Maithripala Sirisena government had awarded the Hambantota port to China not only for a 99-year ...

The money was reportedly withheld due to a dispute over the use of the port's facilities. China wants to use it for entertainment purposes.

Sri Lanka owed China US 8 billion then finance minister Ravi Karunanayake had said last year.

Sri Lanka's Cabinet on July 25 approved the sale to a Chinese firm of a 70 per cent stake in the Hambantota port, tweaking the deal after t...

Ironically Rajapaksa who procured about $7 billion for Hambantota and other projects opposed the handing over of the port and land to Chine...

The Hambantota port has in the past caused unease in India over concerns that the project is part Beijing's 'string of pearls' strategy to ...