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...Information on MarineTraffic, a vessel-tracking service, showed that Dali, a Singapore-flagged ship, had just left Baltimore for the Sri Lankan port of Colombo....
...China has financed nearly 300 projects on the island since 2000, according to the AidData lab at William & Mary college, providing aid and credit totalling more than $20bn....
...So evocative is the presence of these trees that William Wordsworth dedicated a mesmerising and enchanting poem to them (see below), and the Romantic painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema depicted them in “Pine...
...William Smalley was a guest of Lunuganga, rooms from $230. Number 11, double rooms from $300. Kandalama, room 507 from $200. The author’s book Quiet Spaces will be published by Thames & Hudson in 2023...
...Having acquired what was the Romney Bay House Hotel — built in 1929 as a private home by the architect behind Portmeirion, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis — they are turning it into a 13-bedroom hotel with interiors...
...Headline CPI inflation in Colombo reached 54.6 per cent in June compared with the same period a year earlier, up from 39.1 per cent in May....
...Ajith Nivard Cabraal announced his resignation on Twitter on Monday morning Colombo time, saying he had submitted the request to president Gotabaya Rajapaksa....
...Additional reporting by Sun Yu in Beijing and Mahendra Ratnaweera in Colombo...
...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...The Adani Group in November began work on a new $700mn terminal at Sri Lanka’s Colombo port, a deal agreed after Sri Lanka authorities last year cancelled a pre-existing Indian project....
...The announcement came after a weekend of protests by opponents of the government, angered by rising prices and shortages of essential goods, who converged on the capital Colombo. 4....
...William Jackson of Capital Economics points to Nigeria, where local refineries have shut down for lack of maintenance and the country is having to import expensive refined products....
...craftsmanship – opened his first retail outlet on Colombo’s Flower Road, it took months for locals to come in and buy....
...As in the case of some BRI projects — notably a Chinese-built port in Hambantota, Sri Lanka, that was leased to China after Colombo struggled to service its debt — analysts have questioned whether Laos will...
...As before, Oh William! offers exquisite characterisation within a rich, tapestry narrative....
...The Tigers had gained a brutal reputation for their suicide bombings in Colombo....
...Labour said Mr Cameron was “rewarding” the Colombo regime....
...William Hague, the foreign secretary, on Wednesday appealed to G.L. Peiris, the Sri Lankan foreign minister, to loosen controls on foreign journalists....
...It commends William Hague, the foreign secretary, for making the Commonwealth a “cornerstone of our foreign policy”....
...Unsurprisingly, governments from Bangkok, Beijing and Colombo to Kuala Lumpur and Manila have been quick to take advantage....
...Keith Williams, Chief executive of British Airways How are you spending the summer? I’ll be spending most of the summer in and around Heathrow because it’s the Olympics and we’re an airline....
...William Eccleshare takes up his appointment as European chairman/CEO of the BBDO advertising agency next month....
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