TopicHambantota Port

Topic: Hambantota Port

New York Times & Sri Lankan paper caught in row over ‘incorrect’ identification of source

Amrita Nayak Dutta - 15 January, 2020

Sri Lanka’s ‘Sunday Times’ identified a police officer as a source for NYT’s 2018 investigation into Hambantota port, but US paper said it was ‘incorrect’.

Proposed oil refinery can boost China’s port in Sri Lanka

Iain Marlow - 20 March, 2019

The $3.9 billion refinery project will be located near the southern Sri Lankan port of Hambantota.

China’s presence in Indian Ocean is challenge, says Navy chief Lanba

Aditi Khanna - 14 March, 2019

China's presence in Indian Ocean is challenge, says Navy chief Lanba

These images show how strongly China has Sri Lanka in its grip

Col. Vinayak Bhat (retd) - 1 October, 2018

ThePrint looks at Sri Lanka through the satellite cameras to understand how China is squeezing it through its tried-and-tested debt trap.

This is why China could collapse like the Soviet Union

David Fickling - 13 August, 2018

China's dying labour-force boom, like the Soviet Union's in the 1970s, may not revive even with Silk Road project’s heavy investments.

Vatican City gets its second Pakistani cardinal

ThePrint Team - 29 June, 2018

Imran Khan explains his controversial sufi shrine visit; Pakistani SC restrains school fee collection during summer vacations.

China is cutting down actors’ salaries, and Buzz Aldrin is suing his children

Vandana Menon - 29 June, 2018

The US has set a November deadline for sanctions against buyers of Iran oil, and North Korea has resumed nuclear activity. China is trying to prevent actors...