FAST-SHRINKING WETLANDS The $321-million Metro Colombo Urban Development Project - about two-thirds of it funded by the World Bank - aims to strengthen flood protection and urban planning.

Bombs in Colombo, the capital, exploded at a church, a housing complex and restaurants at several luxury hotels popular with tourists, one of which was serving an Easter brunch. 1 St. Anthony’s ...

Next to Colombo's leafy business district ... "This reclaimed land gives Sri Lanka a chance to redraw the map and to build a city of world class proportions and functionality - and compete ...