No fuel, no hope: Sri Lankans flee crisis in mass brain drain

COLOMBO: Shamla Yoosoof, an investment researcher from Colombo, left Sri Lanka with her 3-year-old son and a jam-packed suitcase, swapping economic chaos at home for…

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Sri Lanka: Devastating crisis for children, a ‘cautionary tale’ for South Asia

COLOMBO: Staple foods have become unaffordable, warned UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia, George Laryea-Adjei who pointed out that severe malnutrition in crisis-wracked Sri Lanka was…

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Sri Lanka targets organisers of protests that toppled president

COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan government is cracking down on the people who participated in a protest movement that toppled the island nation’s president last month,…

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Sri Lankan civic activists concerned over ‘witch-hunt’ by state

COLOMBO: Citizens’ groups and activists in Sri Lanka have expressed concern over a series of arrests last week, of prominent members of the recent anti-government…

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‘Supreme power of people’: Sri Lanka marks 100 days of protests

COLOMBO: A mainly youth-led mass protest movement over Sri Lanka’s worst-ever economic crisis has completed 100 days. During the period, the protesters forced a president…

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