Sri Lanka, like many other developing countries, has seen the rise of corruption in politics over the years. Corruption is ...

Sri Lanka's new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake was confident of a victory as polls closed in Thursday's snap legislative ...

COLOMBO — Sri Lankans voted in snap parliamentary elections ... The outgoing parliament was dominated by the party of former ...

COLOMBO: Sri Lankans were voting in snap parliamentary elections Thursday, with new leftist President Anura Kumara ...

Sri Lanka began counting votes in a parliamentary election that will decide whether the nation’s outsider leftist president ...

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka’s new president Anura Kumara Dissanayake was confident ... but Mr Dissanayake was sworn in after an ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

Having failed to secure 50 per cent of the vote at the September 21 presidential election, Mr. Dissanayake is pleading for a stronger parliament with well over a simple majority of 113 seats to ...

Dancers welcome guests attending the award ceremony of the "Chinese Culture Meets Students in Sri Lanka" event in Colombo, ...

Voting begins in Sri Lanka's parliamentary election that is key for its new, Marxist-leaning president.

Sri Lanka holds a snap election on Thursday which will determine if the South Asian island nation wants to empower its new, ...

Here is why the upcoming parliamentary election is so significant for newly-elected President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.