Sri Lanka crisis

A Sri Lanka Air Force member checks the tokens of people queueing for fuel due to fuel shortage, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 27, 2022. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte
Global Economy

Cash-starved Sri Lanka to end fuel duopoly to ease fuel shortages

How Sri Lanka’s financial crisis could become the world’s
Bloomberg Special

How Sri Lanka’s financial crisis could become the world’s

People are given packets of biscuits from a free distributor, while waiting in line to buy kerosene near a Ceylon Petroleum Corporation fuel station, amid the country's economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 7, 2022. Reuters.
World+Biz

Bankrupt Sri Lanka allows younger women to work abroad

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South Asia

Sri Lanka troops open fire to contain fuel riots

Diesel vehicles queue up in a long line to buy diesel due to a fuel shortage countrywide, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 8, 2022. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte
Sri Lanka Crisis

Sri Lanka left with fuel stocks for around five days, minister says

Officials prepare the passports of the applicants at the Sri Lanka's Immigration and Emigration Department, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 8, 2022. Picture taken June 8,2022. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte
South Asia

Battered by economic crisis, Sri Lankans seek passport to a better life

Diesel vehicles queue up in a long line to buy diesel due to a fuel shortage countrywide, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, June 8, 2022. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte
Sri Lanka Crisis

Power restored in crisis-hit Sri Lanka, UN unveils $47m aid plan

Pay debt or feed people is hungry nations’ impossible choice
Analysis

Pay debt or feed people is hungry nations’ impossible choice

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Sri Lanka Crisis

World Bank to disburse $700 mln to Sri Lanka: Lankan minister

We are not Sri Lanka, but it does not take much to be so 
Analysis

We are not Sri Lanka, but it does not take much to be so 

Ceylon Petroleum Corp.’s oil refinery in Sapugaskanda, Sri Lanka.Photographer: Ishara S.. Kodikara/AFP/Getty Images
Global Economy

Bankrupt Sri Lanka takes Russia oil as fuel crisis persists

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe gestures as he speaks during an interview with Reuters at his office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 24, 2022. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
South Asia

Sri Lanka's prime minister takes on crucial finance ministry portfolio

Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe gestures as he speaks during an interview with Reuters at his office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 24, 2022. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi
Global Economy

Sri Lanka's prime minister says he will slash expenditure in new budget