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Last handful of fish: Crisis pushes more Sri Lankans into poverty

In her outstretched palms, 49-year-old Nilanthi Gunasekera holds her family’s last remaining handful of dried fish – a reminder of Sri Lanka’s worst economic crisis in decades.

Reuters

Envoy says India-Sri Lanka should build framework to discuss maritime concerns like the Chinese ship

Amidst signs of strain with New Delhi, Sri Lanka High Commissioner says trust deficit should be avoided

The Hindu

Exclusive-Japan seeks to organise Sri Lanka creditors' meeting on debt crisis-sources

Japan is seeking to organise a Sri Lanka creditors' conference, hoping it could help solve the South Asia nation's debt crisis, but uncertainties cloud the outlook for any talks, three people with knowledge of the planning said.

Reuters

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Chinese satellite tracking ship leaves Sri Lanka after controversial visit

COLOMBO: A high-tech Chinese research ship docked at the strategically important Hambantota port departed from Sri Lankan waters on Monday after a controversial six-day visit.

The Times of India

Why a Chinese ship's arrival in Sri Lanka has caused alarm in India and the West

A Chinese survey ship docked this week at the Hambantota port, built with Chinese loans. Some worry the ship's arrival may signal the start of militarization of Chinese infrastructure in Sri Lanka.

WEKU

Rajapaksa seeks safety guarantee from Colombo

Deposed former Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is seeking to return home from his exile in Thailand and has asked his successor to guarantee his safety, his party said on Friday.

Bangkok Post

Exclusive-Crisis-hit Sri Lanka to ask Japan to open talks with main creditors, says Wickremesinghe

Sri Lanka will ask Japan to invite the Indian Ocean island's main creditor nations, including China and India, to talks on bilateral debt restructuring as it seeks a way out of its worst economic crisis in decades, its president said on Thursday.

Reuters

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Sri Lanka port welcomes China survey ship, rankling India, U.S.

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka/BEIJING -- As China's all-white Yuan Wang 5 research vessel slowly pulled into a dock at the southern Sri Lankan port of Hambantota on Tuesday morning, it was greeted by a group of Chinese residents holding a large banner that hailed the friendship between Beijing and Colombo. Sri…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Sri Lanka: China cannot use port for military purposes

COLOMBO -- China will not be allowed to use the southern Sri Lankan port of Hambantota for military purposes, Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe said in his first interview with the Japanese media since taking office.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Chinese 'spy ship' docks in Sri Lanka despite India, US concerns

HAMBANTOTA, Sri Lanka: A Chinese research vessel docked at Sri Lanka's Chinese-run southern port of Hambantota on Tuesday despite concerns from India and the United States about its alleged spying activities.

Bangkok Post

China silent on details of talks with Sri Lanka as its high-tech vessel set to dock at Hambantota port

The ship with facilities to track satellites and intercontinental missiles will dock at the Hambantota Port which China has taken for a 99-year lease as a debt swap

The Hindu

Counting and Cracking review – an absorbing Sri Lankan family odyssey

This epic drama charts characters from Colombo in the 50s, through the civil war, before settling in Sydney

The Guardian - UK

End protest crackdown: UN, rights groups tell Sri Lanka president

Human rights experts urge the newly appointed leader Ranil Wickremesinghe to end the crackdown against the protesters.

Al Jazeera

OLD Sri Lanka travel advice: How has guidance changed and is it safe for holidaymakers amid protests?

Foreign Office changed guidance once again in late July

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The Hindu

China seeks urgent meeting as Sri Lanka defers docking of high-tech vessel: Report

As per some Sri Lankan media reports, President Ranil Wickremesinghe held a closed-door meeting with China’s Ambassador Qi Zhenhong after Colombo sought a deferment of the planned docking

Daily Mirror

Ex-mafia boss hopes to sell his new wine in UK as he says 'there's nothing bootleg'

Michael Franzese was known as the 'Yuppie Don' during his time in New York's Colombo crime family, but has since found God and turned away from his old life. He is now releasing his own range of wine

Reuters

Sri Lanka considering restructure of local and sovereign debt - president

Sri Lanka is considering a restructure of local and sovereign debt, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Friday, as the island nation battles its worst financial crisis in its independent history.

The Guardian - UK

Sri Lankan government accused of draconian treatment of protesters

New president Ranil Wickremesinghe is attempting to crush mass protests that forced out predecessor

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WEKU

In Sri Lanka, inflation means food shortages, blackouts — and days-long lines for gas

Sri Lanka offers a cautionary tale for countries struggling with inflation. Anger over fuel lines spilled into the streets and toppled a government. Will nationalism surge, or unity prevail?

The Hindu

India raises Chinese vessel’s visit with President Wickremesinghe

Yuan Wang 5, a Chinese vessel involved in space and satellite tracking, will dock at Sri Lanka’s southern Hambantota Port from August 11 to 17

Al Jazeera

Sri Lanka protesters divided on leaving main camp amid crackdown

Debate within protest movement on wrapping up seafront camp was triggered by a violent crackdown by security forces.

The Hindu

Colombo denies reports on Chinese ship

Reports say it will enter Hambantota in August; India says it is monitoring the ship’s progress ‘carefully’

Al Jazeera

Cost of living: ‘How to manage?’ laments Sri Lankan market vendor

As the economic crisis worsens, a trader in Colombo must eat less, ration medicine and buy black-market fuel to get by.

Al Jazeera

‘How can we cope?’ ask Sri Lankans as gov’t limits fuel imports

People in crisis-hit nation raise serious concerns over the government’s move to restrict imports for another 12 months.

Reuters

Soup kitchens feed Sri Lanka's poor amid bleak economic crisis

With no fuel and no money for food, H. G. Indrani and her family of nine trudged for an hour to a community kitchen in Colombo, in hopes of finding a simple vegetarian meal.

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