Choices: Toll or troll?
June 21, 2006 (LBO) – Recently there was a news report on innovative policing on the Colombo-Kandy road. On two days of the week, the traffic police …
Opinion
Lies or the bitter truth?
June 8, 2006 (LBO) – Some time ago I wrote a column http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/normal-or-peculiar-standard-time/ about changing the time standard: It …
Sri Lanka truce monitors seek more manpower, kit
May 25, 2006 (AFP) – The Scandinavian truce monitoring mission in Sri Lanka wants to boost its numbers by at least 25 percent and is outfitting observers …
Traffic congestion: On the road to Seoul or London?
May 22, 2006 (LBO) – Most people trying to move across the city of Colombo in recent days have experienced increased difficulties. A trip that used to …
The Sri Lankan state: Failed, failing or maligned?
May 12, 2006 (LBO) – The May/June 2006 issue of the international affairs monthly, Foreign Policy, carries an article entitled “The Failed States …
Choices: The money of politics or the politics of money?
May 01, 2006 (LBO) – It appears that lordships have been sold in the UK, again. Tony Blair, who criticized the Tories for selling honors, is on the back …
Sri Lanka refugees rise to 21,000: UN
Apr.30 (AFP) – Up to 21,000 people have fled their homes following the latest spike in violence in Sri Lanka’s northeastern district of …
Air raids leave thousands homeless in Sri Lanka
MUTTUR, Sri Lanka, April 27, 2006 (AFP) – Thousands of frightened people have been left homeless in Sri Lanka after air strikes on suspected Tamil Tiger …
Five headless bodies found in Sri Lanka
Apr. 27 (AFP) – Five headless corpses were found in central Sri Lanka but police said Thursday the incident was not linked to the island’s conflict …
Sri Lanka: Ethnic melting pot on the boil
Apr. 27 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s Tamil separatist conflict is rooted in the nation’s history, but the past three decades have been the bloodiest …
Infrastructure: Back to basics?
Apr.13 (LBO) – In the famous five classes that the JVP used for recruitment in the years before the first insurrection of 1971, a story was told about …
Choices: BPO or KPO?
Mar. 28 (LBO) – I was at a meeting in Delhi in early March when I first heard the acronym KPO, of course without being spelled out. From the context, I …
Normal or peculiar standard time?
Mar. 16 (LBO) — The President has announced that Sri Lanka’s clocks are to follow Indian Standard Time (IST) with effect from April 13th, 2006. This …
Vote: With the ballot or with your feet?
Feb 21, 2006 (LBO) — In some discussions in 2002-04 when the government was interested in a bridge cum utility conduit over the Palk Strait (the now …
Congestion becomes a hot topic as Sri Lanka’s telecom sector goes through another growth spurt.
Every time the telecom sector goes through a growth spurt in Sri Lanka, congestion becomes a topic of conversation. People begin to grouse that the companies …
Congestion becomes a hot topic as Sri Lanka’s telecom sector goes through another growth spurt.
Every time the telecom sector goes through a growth spurt in Sri Lanka, congestion becomes a topic of conversation. People begin to grouse that the companies …
Choices: Workaround or workthrough?
Beginning of December, I was invited to speak at Softexpo, a major software industry event in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The organizers transported me to the seminar …
Choices: An MOU to implement MOUs
R&D or housemaids? On December 8, Bill Gates announced that Microsoft will spend US$ 850 million on research and development in India over the next four …
CHOICES: An MOU to implement MOUs
R&D or housemaids? On December 8, Bill Gates announced that Microsoft will spend US$ 850 million on research and development in India over the next four …
Talk shows and googling monkeys: Effective political discourse in the Information Age
The Nobel Laureate economist Robert Solow famously proclaimed that “you can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” Along the …