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Sri Lanka announces a week-long holiday amid fuel and food shortages caused by a worsening economic crisis.
2022-07-4

Fifty-one people are arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy while trying to emigrate to Australia by sea. Police said that undocumented immigration has increased because of Sri Lanka's economic crisis.
2022-07-3

Sri Lanka's inflation rate reaches a record 54.6% amid a steep economic crisis and a default of the country's debt.
2022-07-1

Sri Lanka's power and energy minister Kanchana Wijesekera announces that the government will lift restrictions on fuel imports in response to the country's energy crisis, ending a fuel duopoly between the state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation and the Indian government-owned Lanka IOC.
2022-06-28

Four civilians and three soldiers were wounded in protest over gasoline shortage when the army opened fire for the first time to quell unrest, as Sri Lanka is suffering its worst economic crisis since independence.
2022-06-19

Sri Lanka increases fuel prices in order to help public finances and combat a debilitating economic crisis. Acting Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe warns that "there is a possibility that inflation will increase further".
2022-05-24

Sri Lanka defaults on its debt for the first time in the country's history as it struggles with its worst financial crisis in more than 70 years.
2022-05-19

Sri Lanka's GDP contracts 3.6% in 2020, its worst economic performance since gaining independence in 1948.
2021-04-30

In order to make sea room for expanding berthing facilities in Trincomalee Harbour, the Sri Lankan navy raises the SS "Sagaing", a British passenger ship sunk when it was bombed in an April 1942 Japanese air strike during World War II.
2018-03-31