Kandy, the cultural capital of Sri Lanka, is encircled by numerous tea estates that trace back to the British era. Exploring ...

Both leading candidates in Sri Lanka's presidential election are promising to give land to the country’s hundreds of ...

Muthuthewarkittan Manohari, a tea plantation worker, gets ready to go to work in a tea factory in Spring Valley Estate in Badulla, Sri Lanka, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. Credit: AP/Eranga Jayawardena ...

SPRING VALLEY, Sri Lanka (AP) — Whoever Sri Lanka's next ... elderly mother with whom she lives in a dilapidated room in a tea plantation. Both leading candidates in Saturday's presidential ...

SPRING VALLEY, Sri Lanka — Whoever ... colonial rule to work on plantations that grew first coffee, and later tea and rubber. Those crops are still Sri Lanka’s leading foreign exchange earners.