Supporters of Sri Lanka’s main opposition shout slogans during a protest rally against high taxes and increases in electricity and fuel charges, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Jan. 30, 2024. Like a number of ...

The next 12 to 18 months, when the political and social costs of broader taxation and administrative centralization will ...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A political vacuum continues in Sri Lanka, with opposition leaders yet to agree on who should replace its roundly rejected leaders, whose residences are occupied by ...

Anura Kumara Dissanayake's victory in Sri Lanka's 2024 presidential election represents a decisive break from the country's post-independence political establishment. His National People's Power party ...

Sri Lanka elected Anura Kumara Dissanayake as its new president on September 21, marking the first time in the country’s history that a candidate outside the two major political parties has won the ...

National People’s Power leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, in the red shirt, attends a protest rally in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Feb. 26, 2023 (AP photo by Eranga Jayawardena). The JVP is notorious for its ...

The Socialist Equality Party (SEP), the Sri Lankan section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), has decided to launch a 3.5 million ...

A selloff in Sri Lanka dollar bonds intensified on Monday as investors reduced their country exposure over rising political uncertainties before elections later this month. The country’s dollar bonds ...

The election of new Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna-led National People’s Power alliance's parliamentary supermajority signal a significant political ...