Harin steps down as Minister and from UNP post

Sri Lanka to make comeback as popular destination for Indians

Sri Lanka, the ?pearl of Indian Ocean?, will soon make a comeback as a popular destination for Indians, the Indian media quoted travel companies in India as saying. Indians shelled out nearly $10 billion in overseas travel in the first nine months of the ongoing fiscal, more than any full financial year, the Times of India (TOI) reported. Data shows that the highest spend in this category in any fiscal year was in FY20 when $7 billion was spent on foreign tours by Indians. According to the la

20 Feb, 2023

Sri Lanka continues to experience high levels of food insecurity

Sri Lanka continues to experience significantly high levels of food insecurity, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said. WFP welcomed Stephanie Wilcock, Director for Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)?s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA) on a visit to Sri Lanka. During the visit, Wilcock met with poor rural communities to understand their food and nutrition needs, and how WFP?s US-funded programmes will help them overcome challen

20 Feb, 2023

China backflips on coal ban, starts contacting Australian producers

China has now officially come crawling back to Australian coal producers just two years after implementing a shadow ban designed to cause ?economic pain?. On Monday, ASX-listed mining company New Hope Corporation confirmed to news.com.au that several Chinese buyers had approached them in the past month looking to purchase their coal. It follows years of tension between the two nations as a trade war broke out during the?Covid-19 pandemic. At the beginning of 2020, China imposed a number of ba

20 Feb, 2023