The Chinese Embassy in Colombo today announced that 1,000 metric tons (100,000 packs) of rice donated by the Chinese to Sri Lankan students arrived at the Colombo International Container Terminals (CICT) last night (27).

They said unloading the stock would be completed by today.

Since June, a total of 8,000 metric tons of rice from China have been handed over to Sri Lanka, the Embassy said.

Source – Daily Mirror