One would think that Germany would be the first to support tough tariffs/duty on Chinese solar panels being imported into the Eurozone. Specially given that Bosch Solar Energy AG and the Siemens Solar unit are dire trouble being unable to compete with cheap Chinese solar panels.So here is another example of no friends only interestsCompanies in the US and Europe ...
Hugo Barra VP, Product Manager On Google I/O lots of Magical things happens one of them you can see it in the screen. Yes That’s Samsung Galaxy s4 coming with Original Android Like Nexus. Running Android 4.2 Jellybean. We can experiences the features same as Google Nexus. This Device Will Receive update promptly when ever Google Android Give updates. You can get this device June 26 onward ...
The 2,800 km Sino-Myanmar pipeline is about to be operational. The gas lines are scheduled to be opened in July 2013. The parallel oil line is scheduled to open at the end of the year (2013).The gas is to be pumped from offshore wells near Kyauk Phyu. The oil arriving from the Mid-East will be pumped into the pipeline from ...
Invitation to a military parade taking place in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 18th May 2013 marking the fourth anniversary since the defeat of the LTTE by the country’s security forces “This development is not ours, they just come in and do as they please, and we stand by and watch”. “What are they complaining about so much? We won the ...
Eile Powers Product Manager, Google Play, Explained about New Google Play Developer Console. Check the New Featuers Optimization Tips – Uploading the app screen shots (like using in the tab or phone) App translation service – some time we can have more Russian or French App Down loader so now Google Helping us to Translate the App in very easy way. We can get transferred the language in ...
"“His activities in the union were a stigma, in the eyes of the new authorities. First they watched..."
Stories Of The Wind““His activities in the union were a stigma, in the eyes of the new authorities. First they watched him, then they hounded him; finally, they fired him. Without a job and without hope of finding another, he began to decline. Pale and wan, he shambled through nights of insomnia and days of humiliation. He had pounded at many doors, suffered ...
I’m happy to be featured in Echelon magazine’s 40 Under 40 feature, profiling young people who contribute to the economy in some way, mainly in business but also in terms of innovation and thought leadership. It’s an interesting article not just in that I’m in it (mainly for work on indi.ca and Kottu but also YAMU) but also in ...
Image courtesy ICRW ‘Are we not raped every day when we walk down the street and are leered at ? Are we not raped when we are treated as sex objects, denied our rights, oppressed in so many ways ?’ Archives of Manushi, written by Sohaila (1983) Sri Lanka reminds one of one’s gender. To be female in a public bus is to ...
Service at KFC Sunil G. Wijesinha has an interesting article in the Mirror about Sri Lankan service culture, or the lack thereof. He’s got some interesting stories from his times at the ETF and Dankotuwa Porcelain. Sri Lanka is strange because you can get excellent service at streetside kades or dodgy bars and then awful service at much more ...
Don’t we bank our money so that we can have the peace of mind knowing that it is safe, while having the assurance that our money is growing through the interest earned? On the flip side are there not occasions when you need to withdraw a greater part of the money to spend it on some necessity? I one day awoke to the rude shock to discover that my money at Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) had
"Today’s words like ‘Progress’ and ‘Development’ have become interchangeable with economic ‘Reforms’,..."
Stories Of The Wind“Today’s words like ‘Progress’ and ‘Development’ have become interchangeable with economic ‘Reforms’, Deregulation and Privatization. ‘Freedom’ has come to mean ‘choice’. It has less to do with the human spirit than with different brands of deodorant. ‘Market’ no longer means a place where you go to buy provisions. The ‘Market’ is a de-territorialized space where faceless corporations do business, including ...
In our recent intervention on Sri Lanka’s electricity tariffs, we offered to help the regulatory agency and the service suppliers apply the learnings of behavioral economics to the task of reducing the five percent of peak-load demand that was responsible for 17 percent of the total cost. In this oped, an author we quoted in the submission, supports pilot project ...
I have found many a thing frustrating with regard to banks. Standing in queues while the bank employee hangs on the phone for hours, eternal waits to collect money from checks. But topped all of it is getting a loan, or rather getting information on the possibility of getting a loan. I have been having my bank account in this ...
Dharmapriya Dias and Gihan De Chickera in a scene from Machang Sri Lankans have a fascination with everything foreign. Going ‘to the foreign’ or ‘ab-road’ is considered to be the epitome of success. For after you are ‘in the foreign’ life there is going to be all feather beds and high disposable income. I’ve run into many people like that ...
Dharmapriya Dias and Gihan De Chickera in a scene from Machang Sri Lankans have a fascination with everything foreign. Going ‘to the foreign’ or ‘ab-road’ is considered to be the epitome of success. For after you are ‘in the foreign’ life there is going to be all feather beds and high disposable income. I’ve run into many people like that ...
Anushka Wijesinha is a Research Economist at the Institute of Policy Studies of Sri Lanka and is one of the most prominent voices in Sri Lanka today championing innovation. We begin by Anushka explaining what innovation means to him in a Sri Lankan context, and why it is so important to support it in post-war Sri Lanka. In talking ...
One day, I was driving in a remote town in Sri Lanka, when I saw this encouraging scene. Few school kids were playing Cricket on a rainy day, and they had made a wicket out of three umbrellas. It might look simple, but a very powerful message about innovation is hidden right there. An innovator in my view is somebody ...
A very easy to Understand Infographic on Cyprus. For the complete poster go to Saxomarkets or click on poster snippet below. via ZeroHedge
So there seem to be some rumours circulating about HSBC leaving Sri Lanka? Actually some have been flying around since last year. The topic actually came up when I mentioned to a friend the number of offers I was getting from HSBC every single day via SMS about discounts. I actually get one every working day. They also called me ...