Sri Lanka’s poor has surged by 4 million to 7 million since 2019 accounting for 31% of the population in 2023, a survey has found
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When social media was inundated with rumours that Sri Lanka's holiest tree was being harmed by 5G mobile signals, Colombo's cash-strapped government pulled out all the stops
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Sri Lanka’s central bank named eight entities for conducting prohibited pyramid schemes in the country
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In three short years, Sri Lanka had gone from being one of the richest, most developed, upper middle-income countries in the region, to defaulting on its payments and tumbling into debt
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Sri Lanka’s economic meltdown has spiralled into a full-blown hunger crisis, with half of the families in the island nation forced to reduce the amount they feed their children, according to a child rights charity
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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
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While calm has largely returned to the island nation, the full impact of mass unemployment and dramatic price rises is now visible among many families
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Battered by the loss of tourism and remittance earnings because of the pandemic, alongside an ill-timed tax cut, Sri Lanka slid into crisis in early 2022 after its foreign exchange reserves dried up, leaving it short of dollars to pay for…
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Sri Lankans have been through tumultuous times this year. High inflation induced by a worsening economic crisis has caused the cost of living to rise rapidly. The rocketing price of goods stoked mass protests, which led to the ousting of…
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Mayooran Thangaratnam 1who was wrongly recorded as being a child murderer by the Home Office says delays in his case have led to him wasting almost two decades of his life
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