The Sri Lankan government has refused Akon’s request for a visa following violent protests — stones were thrown and cars smashed — over his appearance in a music video in which he frolics with ...

COLOMBO, Sri LankaCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — R&B star Akon has postponed a planned concert in Sri Lanka following angry protests over a music video he is in where scantily clad women dance in front of a ...

Events in the eastern port city of Trincomalee in Sri Lanka in recent weeks have heightened communal tensions throughout the country, as well as the danger of a return to civil war. The immediate ...

Debris of demolished statues of Buddha from Afghanistan is being transported to Pakistan, while groups in Sri Lanka say they will reconstruct two historic, giant statues from the rubble. According to ...

Sri Lankan Buddhist monks have cremated damaged and broken Buddhist statues that had been abandoned in temples. The sacred statues were cremated at Bodhiraja temple in Embilipitiya, 212 kilometers ...

NEW DELHI (RNS) India plans to lend rare fragments of the Buddha’s bones to Sri Lanka for the 2600th anniversary of Buddha’s Enlightenment in May, and some see it as part of India’s strategy to gain a ...