The convoluted story behind the failing Port of Hambantota, erected with much ado on Sri Lanka’s southern shore, has become to many a clear example of the dangers posed by China’s forceful use of ...

The deal by the previous government to hand over control to a Chinese firm was seen as a cautionary tale on the dangers of ‘debt trap’ diplomacy. Elections in Sri Lanka last month have put the small ...

In early 2011, I was in Hambantota, southern Sri Lanka, looking for the new port. After hours of driving, from the southern beaches through kilometres of wetlands featuring water buffalo, ibises, and ...

If there is a bright spot in Sri Lanka and China's multi-billion dollar Hambantota debacle it's that nobody has given up on it yet. "Too big to fail" is a term that's often been applied to China's ...

When the Hambantota Elephant Management Reserve was officially declared in 2021, about 1,000 acres of forest land—from Andara Wewa to Walsapugala, which was removed from the original plan —have since ...

On July 25, China Merchants Port Holdings Co., a state-owned Chinese port operator, issued a press release that should make Indian security analysts sit up and take notice. According to the release, ...

Ubesinghe Jayawardenage Nonis, later Neville Ubesinghe (NU) Jayawardena (1908-2002), was born on 25 February 1908 in Hambantota. His father, Ubesinghe Jayawardenage Diyonis was born in Tangalle, in ...

Sri Lanka’s Hambantota port is officially China’s own port, for 99 years. That’s according to a landmark agreement signed early last week, which gives China Merchants Ports Holdings—an arm of the ...

A Chinese military survey ship that docked at Sri Lanka's Chinese-built port of Hambantota despite opposition from neighboring India left on Monday after a week-long stay, the port company told ...

As soon as the magnitude of the tsunami disaster became apparent, hundreds of Sri Lankan health workers, including doctors and nurses from Colombo’s National Hospital of Sri Lanka (NHSL) immediately ...

The National People’s Power Government is moving away from science and repeatedly launching elephant-removal projects designed mainly to please investors. In the “A Thriving Nation, A Beautiful Life” ...