COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has agreed to restart Chinese-funded projects worth billions of dollars which were suspended following allegations of corruption, the government’s main spokesman said on Thursday.

President Maithripala Sirisena’s government had ordered a review of all big-ticket construction projects signed by his predecessor Mahinda Rajapakse who is under investigation for corruption during his decade in power.

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