COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The Pacific Asia Travel Association will be holding their Annual Summit in Negombo, Sri Lanka in 2017, in recognition of the importance of the country in Asian tourism.

A Negombo Lagoon boat ride will show you birds, mangroves, small fishing villages and outrigger fishing boats. iStock Deb Riedel came to Sri Lanka on a private guided tour in September 2019.

Negombo, Sri Lanka – Katuwapitiya, a grief-stricken Sri Lankan village of 600 families, is in the coastal city of Negombo, about 30 kilometres north of Colombo. On April 21, 149 Katuwapitiya ...

The skeletal remains of more than 140 people have been unearthed at the site of a mass grave in northern Sri Lanka. They are thought to belong to the island’s minority ethnic Tamil community killed ...

Scientists warn the damage to the environment after the 2021 X-Press Pearl disaster could be much more enduring.

Fishermen unload tunas from a fishing trawler in Negombo, Sri Lanka, March 26, 2025. Located more than 30 kilometers north of Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, Negombo is famous for its fish market.

A man attends the wake of a woman, her two daughters, and her son, in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on April 23, 2019. All died in the Easter bombing attacks in Sri Lanka.

Leaders of Sri Lanka’s Muslim minority, many of whom attempted to warn the authorities about some of the bombers ahead of the attacks, were bracing for a backlash following the bombings.

Negombo, Sri Lanka – Sitting in the tiled courtyard of a silver-domed mosque in the western Sri Lankan coastal town of Negombo, Aslam Ghafoor said he fears that his neighbours no longer trust him.