COLOMBO (Reuters) - Nearly 1,000 bakeries have closed in Sri Lanka due to a severe shortage of cooking gas, an industry association said on Monday, as the impact of dwindling foreign exchange reserves ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka ordered a countrywide recall of cooking gas cylinders on Wednesday after hundreds of unexplained ...

Sri Lanka on Monday raised prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by nearly a quarter, blaming higher global prices triggered by the Iran war. As well as gas, Sri Lanka also imports all of its oil ...

Colombo, Apr 14 (EFE).Colombo, Apr 14 (EFE). — Sri Lankan scientists have discovered an innovative method of cooking rice, reducing the amount of calories absorbed in the body by 50 percent, in ...

[Editor's Note: Follow Khaleej Times live blog amid US-Israel-Iran war for the latest regional developments.] Sri Lanka on Monday raised prices of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by nearly a quarter, ...

With gas prices soaring in the struggling nation, many Sri Lankans have been forced to revert to cooking with firewood – Copyright AFP Ishara S. KODIKARA As once ...

I recently visited my sister and her family in Embilipitiya, situated 190 kilometres from Colombo, during a holiday in Sri Lanka. The rural town is totally different to what I witnessed three years ...

NEHINNA (Sri Lanka) • As once relatively wealthy Sri Lanka suffers a dire economic crisis with shortages of everything from medicines to gas, people are returning to cooking with firewood. The switch ...