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Sri Lanka

July 2023

  • George Alagiah on the set of World News<br>Presenter and newsreader George Alagiah in the BBC World News studio, 01/07/2008 (Photo by Jeff Overs/BBC News &amp; Current Affairs via Getty Images)

    George Alagiah obituary

  • Items from the Lombok treasure, looted by Dutch troops from a Balinese royal palace.

    Netherlands to return treasures looted from Indonesia and Sri Lanka in colonial era

June 2023

  • Ecuador says its $1.6bn deal will help pay for Galápagos Islands conservation.

    The age of extinction
    Are debt-for-nature swaps the way forward for conservation?

  • Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka

    Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka to stand trial accused of raping woman in Sydney

May 2023

  • A female worker picking tea on a plantation in Sri Lanka

    ‘We give our blood so they live comfortably’: Sri Lanka’s tea pickers say they go hungry and live in squalor

  • A bloated looking ray lying in the street in Negombo Fish Market.

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘It’s not like chicken farming’: why manta rays are being chopped up in Sri Lanka

April 2023

  • Kopalapillai Mahadeva in 2015.

    Other lives
    Kopalapillai Mahadeva obituary

  • Rickshaw drivers in Colombo, Sri Lanka

    World’s poorest nations spend 16% of revenue on debt, the highest in 25 years

March 2023

  • Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands

    Britain grants Tamil asylum seekers rescued at sea ‘safe-country’ move

  • A labourer carries a sack of onions at a market in Colombo. The IMF has approved a $2.9bn bailout for the island nation.

    IMF approves Sri Lanka's $2.9bn bailout

February 2023

  • A ‘Walk For Gold’ in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo raises  awareness of childhood cancer.

    A common condition
    ‘A place of healing’: comfort for young cancer patients amid Sri Lanka’s economic crisis

    The families of sick children have been pushed into poverty to access the country’s severely limited care services. Now a refuge is about to open its doors

January 2023

  • Maithripala Sirisena

    Sri Lanka ex-president Sirisena ordered to compensate 2019 Easter bombing victims

  • Sri Lanka defaulted on its $51bn debt last year.

    Hedge funds holding up vital debt relief for crisis-hit Sri Lanka, warn economists

December 2022

  • Sri Lankan Christmas Cake on silver serving dish with pastry fork<br>Sri Lankan Christmas Cake on silver serving dish with pastry fork - stock photo

    Christmas cake: the traditional Sri Lankan treat uniting an island and its diaspora

  • Six varieties of raw brown rice

    A common condition
    Back to brown: how a shift away from refined white rice could cut diabetes

  • Colombo is shrouded in a thick layer of haze.

    Weather tracker
    Weather tracker: cyclone drags pollution towards Sri Lanka

  • Prizeworthy … Shehan Karunatilaka wins the 2022 Booker prize for The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.

    What does this year’s double Booker win mean for south Asian literature?

November 2022

  • Construction workers at Qatar's Lusail stadium

    Qatar facing renewed calls to compensate migrant workers over uninvestigated deaths

    Bereaved families of workers and rights groups want World Cup organisers to make £372m payout
  • Danushka Gunathilaka playing a shot while batting for Sri Lanka

    Sri Lankan cricketer accused of rape, Danushka Gunathilaka, banned from Tinder while on bail

    Gunathilaka is facing four counts of sexual intercourse without consent after allegedly assaulting a woman he met on a dating app
  • Danushka Gunathilaka

    Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka denied bail in Sydney court on rape charges

    NSW police want details of case suppressed while Gunathilaka’s lawyer has suggested T20 World Cup player could appeal bail decision
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