Both leading candidates in Sri Lanka's presidential election are promising to give land to the country's hundreds of ...

Soon, Ceylon tea, which refers to tea produced in the highlands of Sri Lanka, gained an international reputation, and by 1962, the country had become the world's largest exporter of tea.

Sri Lanka's knife-edge election on Saturday has raised doubts over when its long-awaited debt deal with bondholders will be finalised, if it keeps up with its IMF programme targets and even whether it ...

tea unions say plantation workers are the worst-paid labourers in the country. In June, the Ceylon Workers Red Flag Union put plantation workers in front of a three-member panel of former judges from ...

Sri Lanka’s tea production is expected to fall to its ... decline to below 250 million kilograms in 2024. In 2022, the country recorded its lowest tea production in decades, at 251.5 million ...

Sri Lanka is a country full of contrasts, where each village tells a unique story, combining colonial heritage, Buddhist ...

Whoever Sri Lanka’s next president is, Muthuthevarkittan Manohari isn’t expecting much to change in her daily struggle to ...

The past few years have not been easy on Sri Lanka, but the Southeast Asian island — and its people — are on the upswing.

The majority of Sri Lankan tea workers are ethnically Indian Tamils, who were brought to the country by the British to work on plantations. (Reuters: Joseph Campbell ...

Soon, Ceylon tea, which refers to tea produced in the highlands of Sri Lanka, gained an international reputation, and by 1962, the country had become the world’s largest exporter of tea.

As Sri Lankans prepare to vote in an election, the plight of the nation's tea workers remains a poignant issue. Despite frequent political promises of economic recovery and wage increases, workers ...