Sri Lanka declined to allow the ship that caught fire off the coast of Kerala, India, to be towed to a Sri Lankan port, ...

Today, Hambantota Port is all but abandoned, with wildlife roaming free on its mainly deserted premises. Shipping activity is scarce: according to statistics from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka ...

The South Asian nation’s Hambantota port is the most likely spot for a base given the US$2.19 billion China has already invested there, according to an assessment by the AidData research project ...

New Zealand High Commissioner to Sri Lanka David Gregory Pine visited the Hambantota International Port (HIP) recently to ...

Will Asia Cup Super Four matches be shifted to Hambantota from Colombo? According to Rev Sportz, the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium in Hambantota was considered to Colombo as an alternative.

Recently, an adviser to Mahinda, who initiated the original collaboration with China on Hambantota back in 2007, said in no uncertain terms that Sri Lanka would like China to “give it back”.

The Hambantota Port was funded largely by Chinese interest loans. According to official data from the Sri Lankan government, China is Sri Lanka’s largest provider of foreign debt.

At least 10 companies, including a giant in the biscuit manufacturing sector, have requested the government to allocate them land in either Hambantota or Ingiriya to start pharmaceutical manufacturing ...

Hambantota is a district in the south of Sri Lanka that over the past five years has been the site of one of the most ambitious development plans in the world. Featuring a $1.4 billion deep sea ...

The Yuan Wang 5 is en route from the Chinese port of Jiangyin and due in the Chinese-run Sri Lankan port of Hambantota on Thursday. It is described as a research and survey vessel, but according ...

This expanse of land, if granted, will be in the Hambantota region, which has been a punchline of sorts over the past couple of years in Sri Lanka due to its massive and expensive infrastructure ...

Yuan Wang 5, a Chinese scientific research ship, arrives at the port in Hambantota, Sri Lanka, Tuesday on 16 August 2022 after an earlier port call was deferred due to apparent security concerns (AP) ...