Vietnamese diaspora hopes Sri Lanka crisis blows over soon

People walk along the Pettah Market in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 18, 2022. Photo by Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar

In mid-April, Sri Lanka defaulted on its $51 billion foreign debt as the island nation grappled with its worst economic crisis in memory and widespread protests broke out demanding the government's resignation. Acute food and fuel shortages, alongside long electricity blackouts every day have inflicted widespread suffering on the country's 22 million people in the most painful downturn since independence in 1948, the AFP has reported.

Tran Minh Hang (name changed), a Vietnamese living in Colombo, told VnExpress International that her family as well as others in the capital city were experiencing difficulties in buying several essential goods and dealing with sharp increases in commodity prices.

Hang said the scarcest items were milk powder, which people usually use to make tea, and cooking oil as they are imported goods.

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