China emerges as Sri LankaÂ?s top lender in 2009
China has emerged as Sri LankaÂ?s biggest single lender in 2009, overtaking the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, the treasury said Wednesday. China lent 1.2 billion dollars to build roads, a coal power project and a port in the islandÂ?s south last year, more than half the total of 2.2 billion dollars in foreign aid in 2009. MORE...