Debt-stricken Sri Lanka has signed a trade pact with Thailand in a bid to boost trade and investment as the Indian Ocean island nation struggles to recover from its worst …
That influence will be in focus this month along the Art Trail, which is being hosted alongside the Galle Literary Festival (January 25 to 28) and turns Galle Fort into …
Isuru Alagiyawanna, 32, arrived in Yemen just six months ago in search of a better life away from the debilitating economic crisis of his native Sri Lanka. But as Colombo …
This meant that Chinese scientific research vessel Xiang Yang Hong 3, which was scheduled to conduct deepwater exploration in the south Indian Ocean beginning this week, would not be given …
Despite increased budgetary allocation (in naira terms) for Nigeria’s foreign missions, the depreciation of the naira means that Nigerian missions will receive less funding this year than they did in …
Sri Lankans Siyam Mohamed and MJ Nimshan Dananjaya hadn’t realised how close South Korea’s Yeonpyeong island is to North Korea when they arrived in November to work catching crabs. They …
The Indian Ocean has been receiving considerable attention recently, with a conclave of naval chiefs of littoral nations meeting in Bangkok under the Indian Ocean Naval Symposium banner. The symposium …
Curtis S. Chin, a former U.S. ambassador to the Asian Development Bank, is managing director of advisory firm RiverPeak Group. Jose B. Collazo is an analyst focusing on the Indo-Pacific …
India’s ban on the export of onions has driven up prices of the vegetable for Asian buyers, who are scrambling for cheaper alternatives, particularly as New Delhi is unlikely to …
Cedomir Nestrovic, a professor of geopolitics at the ESSEC Business School Asia-Pacific in Singapore, said it would be too simplistic to characterise the US-funded project as just another business deal. …