COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's six-time prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in Thursday as president of the crisis-hit South Asian nation, as officials said he was looking to form a unity government to manage the turmoil. A vendor holds a newspaper with front page news of Sri Lanka's...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- A sullen crowd reacted to the election of Sri Lanka's new president with disappointment Wednesday, near the protest camp where they last week celebrated chasing his predecessor into exile. Demonstrators carrying an effigy of interim Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe,...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Six-time prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected as crisis-wracked Sri Lanka's new president in a parliamentary vote Wednesday, with the backing of the disgraced former leader's party. Official results gave the veteran politician 134 votes, an absolute majority in the...
Globe is providing free calls, texts, and data to at least half a thousand Filipinos in Sri Lanka amidst escalating tensions and economic crisis in the South Asian country. Earlier, the telco provided prepaid load and postpaid bill adjustments to its customers in Myanmar and Afghanistan after...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's protest movement reached its 100th day Sunday having forced one president from office and now turning its sights on his successor as the country's economic crisis continues. People celebrate the resignation of Sri Lanka's President, outside presidential office in...
PEACE-MAKER Jose de Venecia Jr. Former Speaker of the House Our wife Gina and we are in south of France, on invitation from the celebrated couple, Christian Baverey, scion of an industrialist French family from Lyon, and his Filipino wife, Tetta Agustin, who is highly-regarded in Europe’s...
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has raised an Alert Level 2 status in Sri Lanka, which means no new deployment of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) will be allowed, amid protests brought by economic crisis in the South Asian country. Under Alert Level 2, also called a Restriction Phase, only...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- The resignation of Sri Lanka's president has been accepted, the crisis-hit country's parliamentary speaker announced Friday, after he fled the country earlier this week and notified him from Singapore that he was stepping down. Sri Lanka's resigned president Gotabaya Rajapaksa...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's president submitted his resignation shortly after reaching Singapore on Thursday, the parliamentary speaker's office said, days after the head of state fled protests triggered by his country's worst-ever economic crisis. (FILES) In this file photo taken on January...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's anti-government demonstrators said Thursday they were ending their occupation of official buildings, as they vowed to press on with their bid to bring down the president and prime minister in the face of a dire economic crisis. People visit Sri Lankan President...
OF SUBSTANCE AND SPIRIT Diwa C. Guinigundo Two weeks ago, we wrote a cautionary tale about Sri Lanka. It was showing an economic meltdown, with grassroots reality of struggling in endless queues for food, fuel and medicine, with rolling blackouts. Power is also in short supply. It was the...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka is mired in a deep political and economic crisis, and on Wednesday, the country's president flew out of the country days after a huge crowd of protesters stormed his residence. People line up to visit presidential secretariat in Colombo on July 12, 2022, after it was...
