HAMBANTOTA, (AP) - This battered harbour town on Sri Lanka's southern tip, with its scrawny men selling even scrawnier fish, seems an unlikely focus for an emerging international competition over ...

An impoverished place still recovering from the devastation of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Hambantota has a desolate air, a sense of nowhereness, punctuated by the realization that looking ...

Associated PressFishermen sort their nets at the Hambantota harbor, close to the new Hambantota harbor, which is under construction, with the help of the Chinese government in Hambantota, about ...

President Maithripala Sirisena said yesterday that the government had not reached an agreement over the Hambantota Harbour and the Industrial Zone. ..

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake emphasised that, while steering the country forward economically and improving the ...

Officials agreed to lease 80% of Hambantota harbor to state-controlled China Merchants Port Holdings for 99 years. Officials also plan to set up a 15,000-acre zone for factories.

The Hambantota International Port (HIP) began maintenance dredging this month in order to restore the harbour’s original depth. The operation, undertaken by HIP to ensure the continued safe navigation ...

Hambantota Port promotes coral incubation within the harbour View (s): The Hambantota International Port Group (HIPG) recently launched its inaugural Coral Reef Protection Project, the first of its ...

Sri Lanka says it’s a way for it to help claw its way out of debt. China says it’s a strictly commercial deal for one of its state firms. But analysts say the Hambantota port on the southern ...

Wickremesinghe said, "Sri Lanka is willing to make joint efforts with China to push forward smooth development of the Hambantota harbor project and the Colombo Port City project." ...

The Sri Lankan government said it signed an agreement with two Chinese companies on Monday for the construction of Hambantota Harbor in its deep south.