Sri Lankans began voting on Thursday in a snap general election to decide if the Indian Ocean island nation will give its new leftist president greater legislative power to help the poor as it ...

Sri Lanka began voting in a snap election on Thursday which will determine if the island nation wants to empower its new, leftist President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to push his pro-poor policies as it ...

Malaysia will send a protest note to the Philippines over its new maritime laws due to their overlapping claims in the South China Sea, its deputy foreign minister said on Thursday.

Sri Lanka is voting in a second national election in as many months with a deeply divided opposition struggling to recover ...

Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Sunday (Nov 10) vowed to return land currently controlled by state agencies to Tamils in the country’s war-affected north and east.

Sri Lankans are voting in a parliamentary election that's key for their new, Marxist-leaning president to consolidate his ...

Sri Lanka votes today in a second national election in as many months with a deeply divided opposition struggling to recover ...

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

Details on the voter turnout were not immediately available. President Anura Kumara Dissanayake won the presidential election ...

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Anura Kumara Dissanayake called for early polls on the heels of his victory in the Sept. 21 presidential election, widely ...