Sri Lankan anglers join fight against invasive giant snakehead fish

Nissanka Arachchige Vimukthi Sandaruwan beat more than 1,000 anglers to become champion of a unique competition to protect ...
Al JazeeraOpinion

Sri Lanka’s crisis shows how debt is devouring the Global South

Sri Lanka’s 2025 public health allocation accounts for just 1.5 percent of its gross domestic product – five times smaller ...
The Island

Water, war and renewal: The Iranamadu Reservoir’s new dawn with ADB

For generations, the water level of the Iranamadu Reservoir has been the true measure of northern Sri Lanka’s fortune. This ...
World Socialist Web Site

Pro-government thugs disrupt farmers’ conference in Sri Lanka: A warning to working people

The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) in Sri Lanka strongly condemns the forcible dispersal of a meeting of the National Farmers’ Conference (NFC) entitled “Blood suckers and buffaloes in farming” being ...
UCA News

Sri Lankan Catholic fisher folk keep up faith, traditions

The hymns played on a loudspeaker at a nearby church wake up Marian and Saman Liyanage around 5 a.m. in their coastal fishing village, nestled in the picturesque Negombo lagoon in Sri Lanka. After a ...
Human Rights Watch

Sri Lankan Laws Threaten Democracy, Warns UN Rights Chief

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has delivered a grim assessment of Sri Lanka’s multifaceted human rights crisis. On Friday, he reminded the UN Human Rights Council ...
Los Angeles Times

Where to find Sri Lankan food in L.A.? Inside the kitchen bringing string hoppers to East Hollywood

Shaheen Ghazaly opened Sri Lankan restaurant Kurrypinch in a former vegan pizzeria on Hollywood Boulevard this spring. On the menu are Sri Lankan signatures — like kottu roti and string hoppers — ...