Archive for November, 2010

By Joseph Thavaraja Sri Lanka is now more efficiently managing the immediate post war refugees in comparison to, say, mid 1999. In this case, the helpless refugees from Vanni and other close-by areas. The government is making significant progress in this regard since the staggering 300000 (plus) refugee head count in 2009 May in the [...]

Experiments with coal power

Posted: November 4, 2010 in Uncategorized

By Joseph Thavaraja As last Sunday’s (24) fire at the construction site of Norochcholai Coal Power Plant (NCPP) began to flash on the news headlines and later when the Police and Government Analysts began to probe the cause of the fire, there was near panic -especially within the power supply sector in the country. The [...]

Are you getting this signal?

Posted: November 4, 2010 in Uncategorized

By Joseph Thavaraja 90% of world population now has mobile network access. And close to a quarter (23%) of the 8.3 billion world population has access to Internet, according to International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Released on the eve of the first ever World Statistics Day (Wednesday October 20), “The World in 2010: ICT Facts and [...]