COLOMBO: The snaking queues for food and fuel that crisscrossed Sri Lanka last year have given way to a different kind of line — people scrambling for travel documents to flee their bankrupt island.

“We only buy essentials now,” Janalaxan said. “For the next five years, Sri Lanka will be going down.” At a time of rising global debt distress, Sri Lanka has become an extreme example of ...

The double whammy of government and economic instability is further complicating recovery Sri Lanka's prime minister ... medicine and even toilet paper. Economists say the crisis stems from ...

His observations echo decades later in Sri Lanka where print publishers are reliving a paper crisis, aggravated by the national economic bankruptcy. Once again, in paper producing and consuming ...

The state runs two TV stations, radio networks and newspapers in Sinhala, Tamil and English. At the height of the civil war Sri Lanka was one of the world's most dangerous places for journalists.