Port towns were often a unique site of cultural exchange that challenged boundaries. Put differently they formed a point of convergence of different types of people and thus were open to a rich array of exchanges both mercantile and cultural. This paper attempts to explore some of these ...
According to company staff, what attracts the Sri Lankan workers to CICT the most is the opportunity to visit China Merchants Group's home port in Shenzhen in southern China, getting first-hand experience of the vitality of the Chinese port and learning about state-of-the-art technologies in ...
The Portuguese were the first European nation to realize the dream of reaching India. They were helped in this undertaking by technology and geography.First, there were major technological advances. The winds around the coast of West Africa change direction from south to north around the Ca...
(Sri Lanka), Indonesia and Vietnam. The outbreak of the World War II and subsequent political upheavals in the region cut short the firm’s growth. While a good portion of its hard earned fortunes were lost, the family had the foresight to move significant assets to India; this financial...
seem to have been consigned to the realm of pipe-dreams. More immediately worrying for Sri Lanka is that it’s incapacity to repay the high-interest Chinese loans forced it into doing a “debt-for-equity swap” leaving the PRC in virtual control of the port [‘Why India is buying the ...
The island of Marie-Galante (French West-Indies), Cayenne (French Guiana), Djibouti (French coast of Somaliland), Darwin (Australia), Trincomale (Ceylon, now Sri Lanka), Fort Dauphin (Madagascar Republic), Mogadishu (Republic of Somalia), Port-Etienne (Islamic Republic of Mauritania...
In 1711, the city of Cap-Français was formally established by Louis XIV and took over as capital of the colony from Port-de-Paix. In 1726, the city of Les Cayes was founded on the Southern coast; it became the biggest settlement in the south. In 1749, the city of Port-au-Prince...
From their great port of Mahabalipuram, near the site of a former Roman trading station, the Pallavas sent naval expeditions to Sri Lanka, Thailand and to South East Asia, where the inscriptions they left still survive as witness to the scale of this first great Indian diaspo...
in Beijing. In 1953, two contracts were signed regarding rice exchange for rubber between the two countries. In the following 20 years, COFCO involved in the execution of “Rice Exchange for Rubber Agreement” between the Chinese and Sri Lanka governments, gaining crucial strategic supplies for Ch...
Alexandrian-Roman geographer and astronomer referred to the rich pearl-fishing grounds near the Island of Epidorus (Mannar) in Taprobane (Sri Lanka), a land also famous for its variety of gemstones, such as beryls, rubies and sapphires. The most detailed account of the pearl fishery ...