Sources: Reuters
Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa returns to Colombo, Sri Lanka, after seven weeks of exile. 2022-09-2
Sri Lanka begins administering the COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 12 and 19 years old with special health needs and disabilities using the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. 2021-09-24
Sri Lanka ends the state of emergency declared on March 6, 2018. 2018-03-18
Myanmar tops the 2015 Charities Aid Foundation's World Giving Index which measures each country's charitable behavior. Individuals indicate whether they have donated money, volunteered, or helped a stranger in the past month. The United States, which tied with Myanmar last year, is second, followed by New Zealand, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Sri Lanka, Ireland, and Malaysia. 2015-11-10
Indonesian police shoot dead seven terror suspects in raids on the island of Java including some allegedly planning to bomb the Sri Lankan embassy. 2013-05-9
Demonstrations against sexual violence after Delhi gang rape spread across Asia and are now happening in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh. 2013-01-4
Voters in Sri Lanka go to the polls for local elections, with one person dying in clashes between supporters of rival parties in the Anuradhapura district. 2011-07-23
Sri Lanka unveils a new seaport in southern Hambantota which received a large amount of financial assistance from China. 2010-08-15
The European Union withdraws a trade concessions deal with Sri Lanka after the former accused the latter of not improving its human rights record. 2010-07-5
Sri Lankan opposition candidate General Sarath Fonseka receives the support of former President Chandrika Kumaratunga in the 2010 presidential election. 2010-01-24