Alpana won medals in both the Traditional Yoga and Artistic Yoga categories. She competed against 160 athletes from 16 countries, including China, Sri Lanka, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, and Iran.
Taking part in a deliberation on the matter of urgent public importance presented by Minister for Forest and Environment, Ram Hari Khatiwada from Nepali Congress suggested sale of monkeys to China as option.
Meanwhile, the Daily Mirror recently reported that a multifaceted interplay of economic troubles, strategic dynamics, and regional influence is currently unfolding in Sri Lanka. This island nation grapples with mounting debt and is navigating China's growing presence and influence in the reg
Asked about reports regarding a Chinese research vessel named Shi Yan 6 scheduled to be docked in Sri Lanka in October and India's concerns regarding it, he said that they have a standard operating procedure (SOP) and they have consulted many friends, including India.
Due to its location in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka has long been seen as a strategically significant nation by China. For this reason, Beijing has actively boosted its presence and influence in Sri Lanka over the years, especially in the energy industry, Daily Mirror Online reported.
China's Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Sun Weidong invited Sri Lankan President, Ranil Wickremesinghe, to China for a conference on China's Belt and Road initiative. Wickremesinghe might be trying to go to China to discuss debt restructuring.
Sri Lankan Ministry of Agriculture spokesperson Dharma Wanninayake said that legal cases were proving to be a hindrance to the government's venture to export monkeys to China and the government will take the next step after the case ends.
The Chinese man who was detained for entering Sri Lanka with a fraudulent passport acted aggressively and declared that he could not go back to China when he was taken to the airport to be deported, Sri Lanka Mirror reported citing the airport sources.
Sri Lanka's creditor nations held their first meeting and discussed restructuring the island country's debt but China, which is itself the largest creditor, raised doubts over the success of the process, Nikkei Asia reported.
The 5th round of China-Sri Lanka FTA negotiation was held in Colombo on Tuesday where the two sides exchanged views on issues concerning trade in goods, trade in service, investment, economic and technical cooperation, rule of origin, customs procedures and trade facilitation, technical barr
China's external lending and even private corporation's activities abroad are dictated by political considerations. Its foreign investment has become a tool for buying geopolitical influence with a detrimental impact on the targeted country's fragile democratic machinery as well as the local
EXIM Bank of China, as the official bilateral creditor, provided a financing support document to the Ministry of Finance, Economic Stabilisation and National Policies of Sri Lanka, saying it is going to provide an extension on the debt service due in 2022 and 2023.