Asia Sri Lanka Thousands of people in Sri Lanka have benefited from a blindness prevention program launched by the Saudi aid agency KSrelief
Asia Sri Lanka Some 40 government hospitals across the country have been closed and other 100 hospitals are likely to close soon for various reasons, including the departure of doctors for foreign countries, retirements, transfers and resignations from their posts
Asia Sri Lanka The country has started planning to recruit graduate teachers and teaching assistants to fill vacancies in Tamil language schools
Asia Sri Lanka President Wickremesinghe issued an extraordinary gazette notification declaring the postal service an essential public service, as postal workers in the country went on strike against the decision to turn post offices in Nuwara Eliya and Kandy into hotels
Asia Sri Lanka Food parcels distributions has begun for 10.000 students in 139 schools in seven provinces in Sri Lanka by the Chinese Foundation for Rural Development