Papua New Guinea's foreign minister has quit after a controversy over spending on the country's official delegation at King Charles III's coronation.

Two years after the MV X-Press Pearl container ship caught fire in Sri Lankan waters, local authorities continue to take a snail-paced approach to file a compensation claim. The inferno is reported as the single worst incident of chemical and plastic pollution at sea.

Sri Lanka is to file a case in Singapore against the shipping company of MV X-Press Pearl over the disaster in Sri Lankan waters in May 2021.

Restructuring of Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) will be done by the institution that will be set up following the model of Singapore and Malaysia to run state institutions, State Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya told Parliament today.