Sri Lanka’s strategic location in the Indian Ocean often pulls the country into the geopolitical rivalry between regional giants India and China. In 2023, for example, Sri Lanka’s granting of ...

Sri Lanka’s identity has always been inseparable from the ocean. Surrounded by the Indian Ocean and strategically positioned ...

Sri Lanka stands today at a defining strategic crossroads. An island nation in South Asia alongside the Maldives, it ...

While such declarations are framed as a defense of the rules-based international order, a closer examination of the 2016 ...

Banteay Samre is just one of more than a thousand shrines the Khmer erected in the city of Angkor during a building spree ...

To avoid higher US tariffs, Sri Lanka is having to act as if allegations of forced labor against China, a country with a high ...

Around 14% of Sri Lanka’s total land area is dedicated to wildlife protected areas, which includes more than 20 national ...

Consistently combining culture, character, colour and contrast across a country rich with attractions, aplenty as precious blue sapphires mined in abundance, "Teardrop of India" exudes only Sinhalese ...

In April 2025, Chinese coast guard personnel stepped onto Sandy Cay, an uninhabited sandbar in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, and unfurled the Chinese flag. In much of the world, this act ...

The city is reducing the speed limit to 15 mph at hundreds of school zones across the five boroughs next year, and hopes to expand that limit to every eligible city school over the next several years, ...

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea mining plumes can strip vital nutrition from the ocean’s twilight zone, replacing natural food with nutrient-poor sediment. The resulting “junk food” effect ...

With global warming and extreme weather intensifying, can animals raise their thermal tolerance to cope with a continuously ...