Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Wednesday met with his Sri Lankan counterpart Ranil Wickremesinghe to celebrate 70 years of diplomatic relations between the two nations.
Sri Lanka on Thursday arrested 10 Indian fishermen for poaching in Sri Lankan waters.
The Sri Lanka Navy assisted the Coast Guard to arrest 12 Indian fishermen for poaching in Sri Lankan waters on Wednesday.
Sri Lanka's in-house expertise on defeating terrorists can be of immense benefit for the rest of the world especially in the face of terrorist threats, Sri Lanka's Defence Secretary Karunasena Hettiarachchi said here on Thursday.
The Sri Lankan cabinet on Wednesday agreed to ratify the Paris agreement in order to minimize the impact and risk of climate change.
China announced on Tuesday it would fund the construction of a Sri Lanka-China friendship village to house families affected by the recent natural disaster.
China will provide 15 million yuan (2.28 million U.S. dollars) worth of emergency supplies, including tents and folding beds, to help with flood relief in Sri Lanka, the Ministry of Commerce said on Monday.
Floods subsided across Sri Lanka on Tuesday revealing the full extent of damage from last week’s deluge that also triggered landslides, officials said, as the death toll crossed 100.
Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland on Friday called on the Commonwealth family to provide support to Sri Lanka through coordinated assistance in the aftermath of devastating landslides which struck in Sri Lanka's Kegalle District.
Two Sri Lankan nationals, Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala and Johann Peries will begin their final ascend to summit Mount Everest this week, becoming the country's first to reach the highest peak in the world, a statement said here on Monday.
Two Japanese warships arrived in Sri Lanka's port of Colombo on Wednesday on a goodwill and replenishment visit, the navy said.
Sri Lanka will lead a high level delegation to China on May 17 to attend the four day World Tourism Conference which is to be held in Beijing.
Sri Lanka and China will hold high level discussions in June on the possibility of signing a bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA), Sri Lanka's Ministry of Industry and Commerce said in a statement here on Monday.
Sri Lanka aims to strengthen its economy and move the country forward by entering into bilateral agreements with several countries including China and India, Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said here on Saturday.
Three Indian naval ships are currently on a three-day visit to Sri Lanka as part of their spring overseas deployment, imparting sea training to Lankan naval and coast guard trainees.
Sri Lanka looks forward to further strengthening its ties with China this year and the government aims to attract more Chinese investments, Deputy Minister of State Enterprise Development, Eran Wickremeratne said here on Thursday.
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's visit to China will inject new impetus into the development of China- Sri Lanka ties, Chinese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Yi Xianliang has said.
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