Although Dissanayake's Janatha Vimukthi Peremuna (JVP) party has just three seats in parliament, the 55-year-old candidate ...

After a day in which almost everything went right for the Black Caps, the opposite threatened to sink their prospects in the ...

Two years ago, tens of thousands of Sri Lankans rose up against their president and forced him to flee the country.

It's because of the presidential elections, which means a travel day for Sri Lanka players and officials to go and vote ...

Economic issues top the agenda as the island country of 22 million goes to the polls to elect its 10th president.

Sri Lanka's President Ranil Wickremesinghe did not scrap his re-election campaign days before the bankrupt nation voted in ...

Sajith Premadasa, the leader of Sri Lanka's main opposition party, is a frontrunner in Saturday's presidential election and a ...

Scarred by a decades-long civil war and struggling to survive in Sri Lanka's crippled economy, ethnic minority Tamils in the ...

Over the past two years, Daham Piyasena has lived through momentous times: the worst economic crisis in Sri Lanka’s history, ...

Whoever wins this week’s election must maintain a degree of policy stability if growth and prosperity are to return.

Sri Lankan presidential candidate Sajith Premadasa waves to his supporters during an election campaign rally in Negombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Nov. 11, 2019. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File) Girls ...

FORMER Attorney General Allyson Maynard Gibson will observe Sri Lanka’s presidential election, which will be held on September 21, as a member of the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG).