Sri Lanka
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Tamil refugees on Diego Garcia win fight against forcible return to Sri Lanka
British territory’s commissioner withdraws decision after supreme court challengeA group of Tamil asylum seeke…
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‘Everything is destroyed’: dynamite use sends shockwaves through fishing industries
Using explosives is illegal, wasteful and devastating to marine life and people’s livelihoods. Yet in Sri Lank…
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Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings review – startling and deeply disturbing viewing
This chilling Dispatches documentary reports on the aftermath of 2019’s apparently random terrorist attack, an…
- Children, Food security, Global development, Malnutrition, Poverty, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka
No milk, no eggs, small hope: fears rise for Sri Lanka’s malnourished children
Close to half the crisis-hit country’s under-fives go hungry and one in five suffer from wasting. Mothers tell…
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Netherlands to return treasures looted from Indonesia and Sri Lanka in colonial era
Artefacts taken from Balinese royal palace among items being returned – but do not include prehistoric ‘Java m…
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Are debt-for-nature swaps the way forward for conservation?
Agreements to reduce developing countries’ debt burden in exchange for spending on nature will be on the agend…
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‘We give our blood so they live comfortably’: Sri Lanka’s tea pickers say they go hungry and live in squalor
Top tea firms investigate as plantation workers say they have to pick 18kg a day but still skip meals and make…
- Animals, Asia Pacific, China, Conservation, Endangered species, Environment, Fish, Fishing industry, Global development, Marine life, South and Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Wildlife, World news
‘It’s not like chicken farming’: why manta rays are chopped up in Sri Lanka
The gill plates of the extremely intelligent fish – many species of which are already categorised as endangere…
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Kopalapillai Mahadeva obituary
My father, Kopalapillai Mahadeva, who has died aged 89, was a scholar of production engineering and management…
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Britain grants Tamil asylum seekers rescued at sea ‘safe-country’ move
Two people, from group rescued by Royal Navy and held on Diego Garcia, made offer while receiving medical atte…
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IMF approves Sri Lanka’s $2.9bn bailout
President vows to get economy back on track through ‘prudent fiscal management and ambitious reform agenda’The…
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‘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 serv…
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Sri Lanka ex-president Sirisena ordered to compensate 2019 Easter bombing victims
Supreme court finds top government, police and intelligence officials were responsible for ‘failing to prevent…
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Hedge funds holding up vital debt relief for crisis-hit Sri Lanka, warn economists
Exclusive: 182 experts say only debt cancellation offers chance of recovery but private investors are playing …
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Christmas cake: the traditional Sri Lankan treat uniting an island and its diaspora
The nation has been rattled by economic crisis, political upheaval and corruption, but many believe the desser…