by Our Correspondent in Colombo Serious allegations have emerged in Sri Lanka against Hatton National Bank (HNB), a prominent private sector bank, with multiple customers claiming that the institution has been quietly
Sri Lanka’s long-term coal supply agreement with Trident Chemphar Ltd. will remain in force after the third shipment of coal reportedly cleared required quality standards, easing immediate concerns over supply disruptions, according
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The chairman and chief executive of Dubai-based logistics giant DP World maintained a close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and exchanged emails containing explicit references to sexual encounters, according to documents released by
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A romance fraudster who deceived multiple men into funding her luxury lifestyle by claiming she was about to inherit a vast fortune has pleaded guilty to a series of theft and fraud
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Spain is reeling after revelations that Francisco de Borbón, a distant cousin of former King Juan Carlos, has been arrested for allegedly laundering millions in drug money through cryptocurrency, alongside Óscar Sánchez
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When Stanislaw Sokolowski turned up at his modest home in Brentford, west London, on a cold January day in 2023, he expected nothing more than to collect post. Instead, he found six
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The Gangodawila Magistrate has ordered the remand of the owner of the Maharagama Rainbow Manpower Foreign Employment Agency until February 13, following allegations of a large-scale foreign employment scam involving promised jobs
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A fresh political controversy has erupted over the operation of the Norochchola Coal Power Plant after Member of Parliament Ajith P. Perera disclosed alarming findings following an inspection tour of the facility.
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A university degree is supposed to prove that someone has studied, researched and earned a place in the professional world. In Sri Lanka, that meaning is collapsing. The same culture that sees
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Spanish judicial authorities have secured the arrest in Qatar of Said Aurelio Cabrera Abraham, a former Venezuelan military counterintelligence officer accused of orchestrating complex money-laundering schemes linked to Venezuela’s state oil company
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HSBC has launched bankruptcy petitions against Aidan and Howard Barclay, senior members of the Barclay family, as the bank seeks repayment for debts linked to the family’s collapsed logistics business, Times UK
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