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No re-negotiation with China on Hambantota port lease, says Sri Lankan env
Updated : 1 year, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], March 22 (ANI): Sri Lanka's ambassador to China Palitha Kohona on Monday dismissed suggestions that the country is planning to extend a 99-year lease granted to Beijing to run the Hambantota port.
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Sri Lanka raises concerns with China over doormat using national flag prin
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], March 13 (ANI): After reports of Chinese-made doormats featuring Sri Lanka's national flag being sold online surfaced on social media, the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry has raised its concerns with China and had called for a full-scale inquiry into the sale of such doormat
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Hambantota port's security not in foreign hands: Sri Lankan PM
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], Apr 7 (ANI): Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Saturday that the security and operations of the strategic Hambantota port are managed by his country and not by other nations.
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Chinese cement firm to set up plant in Sri Lanka's Hambantota
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Colombo (Sri Lanka), Jan 23 (ANI): A Chinese firm is to set up a cement plant in Hambantota where Beijing already controls the strategic port, in an indication of China's increasing footprint in Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka gets $39 million military funding from US
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C (United States of America), Aug 14 (ANI): In a move to counter China's increasing influence on Sri Lanka, the United States has announced that it would grant the Indian ocean island a $39 million to boost its maritime security.
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Pak going Sri Lankan way: Will it become a victim to Chinese debt trap?
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 28 (ANI): People these days wonder if Pakistan has started going the way of Sri Lanka with its growing engagement with China and in regard to taking loans and working in close cooperation with the latter.
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Ships don't want to stop at Chinese run Hambantota
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], April 20 (ANI): The Hambantota Port in Sri Lanka in which China has a 70 percent stake, is being seen by shipping analysts and other experts as a virtual white elephant because most ships passing through the Indian Ocean don't stop to unload their cargo.
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China's BRI initiative hits roadblock in 7 countries: Report
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Gwadar [Pakistan], Apr 15 (ANI): China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which aims to build a trade and infrastructure network connecting Asia with Europe and Africa along the ancient trade routes of Silk Road, has hit a roadblock in seven countries, according to a recent report.
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Hambantota port not being used as military base: Sri Lankan army chief
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 27 (ANI): Sri Lankan army chief Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne on Tuesday clarified that the claims about the Hambantota port in southern Sri Lanka being utilised as a foreign military base was false.
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China's dominance at Hambantota Port worry many
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Hambantota [Sri Lanka], Feb 7 (ANI): As Sri Lanka celebrated 70 years of independence on February 4 from the UK, its people fear that the country faces a new form of colonialism, which is China.
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Hambantota port lease: India closely watching developments, says Sitharama
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 14 (ANI): In the wake of China taking operational control of Sri Lanka's strategically located Hambantota Port, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday said that India is keeping a close watch on the developments taking place in the connection.
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Ties with China mainly economic, says ex-Sri Lankan navy chief
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Port Blair (Andaman & Nicobar) [India], Oct. 7 (ANI): Former Sri Lankan navy chief Vice Admiral (Retd.) Jayantha Perera on Saturday said relation between Sri Lanka and China are mainly economic, and added that Colombo would never compromise the national security of any other country.
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