Sri Lanka Businesses Hit as Economic Crisis Spirals

As Sri Lanka is enveloped by its worst economic crisis in living memory, restaurants and other businesses across the island nation are being pushed to the brink by acute shortages of fuel and other essentials, the South China Morning Post reported.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ditched his brother as finance minister and called for a unity government as protests against the economic crisis continued and cracks emerged in the ruling coalition.

Read the full report: South China Morning Post

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Sean O'Meara

Sean O'Meara is an Editor at Asia Financial. He has been a newspaper man for more than 30 years, working at local, regional and national titles in the UK as a writer, sub-editor, page designer and print editor. A football, cricket and rugby fan, he has a particular interest in sports finance.