Asia Sri Lanka On 23 September, the Sri Lankan government will inform all its external creditors about the deal agreed with the International Monetary Fund for economic recovery and the next steps in the debt restructuring process
Asia Sri Lanka The Welfare Benefit Board will introduce a system to identify those who are actually in need of financial assistance due to the current economic crisis, among the recipients of Samurdhi, Elderly and Physically Disabled benefits
Asia Sri Lanka The Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment stated that the law will be strictly enforced against persons and organisations that traffic in migrant workers under the pretext of providing tourist visas
Asia Sri Lanka India is likely to deliver a Dornier 228 military aircraft to Sri Lanka in the coming days, as part of the line of credit extended to the country
Asia Sri Lanka The government is cracking down on the organisers and participants of the protest movement, arresting several leaders of the demonstration, imposing travel bans on others and ordering the eviction of the last remaining protest tents
Asia Sri Lanka The country's severe economic crisis is driving women into prostitution after they lost their jobs in the textile industry; 22 million Sri Lankans are facing enormous hardship and prospects of poverty
Asia Sri Lanka Sri Lankan lawmakers have gathered to begin choosing a new leader for the remainder of the term abandoned by the president, who fled abroad and resigned after mass protests over the country's economic collapse
Asia Sri Lanka A $55 million credit line was granted through Exim Bank of India for the purchase of approximately 65.000 tonnes of urea fertiliser under 'Neighbourhood First' programme and for financial support to the development of the Kankesanthurai port in Jaffna
Asia Sri Lanka Over 30 asset managers holding international Sri Lankan bonds have announced the formal launch of a creditor group to begin debt restructuring talks with the island nation
Asia Sri Lanka Considering the current fuel crisis the Council of Ministers approved the proposal to declare Friday a public holiday for public sector employees, with the exception of essential workers, for a period of three months
Asia Sri Lanka An appeal to farmers to grow more rice as the country faces its worst economic crisis in 70 years comes comes from the Minister of Agriculture who said 'food situation is worsening'
Asia Sri Lanka Sri Lanka's central bank has announced that the country has officially gone into default, for the first time in its history; inflation rates have reached 40%
Asia Sri Lanka As clashes spread late Monday evening, authorities imposed an indefinite curfew across the nation of 22 million and called in the army to help contain the violence