OPINIONImpossible is nothing
Following is the speech delivered by Deputy Minister of Technology and Research Faizer Mustapha at the SLIM Brand Excellence awards held early this week
What better time than this to discuss your theme, ‘Impossible is Nothing’? We’ve done it! You may ask what I mean by this statement. We fought the ruthless LTTE and defeated them when the world said we can’t.
Joint action needed to build force against cybercrime
Only a concerted effort can build an appropriate safeguard against cyber crime, says ICT Agency of Sri Lanka (ICTA) CEO Reshan Dewapura.
Dewapura said so during his keynote address on 19 October at the fourth annual national conference on cyber security held in Colombo.
The grim realities of existence in India
From adverse poverty to booming economies
Text and pix by Harsha Udayakantha
Peiris in India
Whilst striving to secure its position in the region as a powerful and booming economy, India apparently struggles to maintain a harmonious balance between the developmental strategies and all walks of life in the subcontinent.
To a great extent, people’s lifestyles in India still remain very much authentic, but there is absolute poverty even in some major parts of the country where infrastructure development is rapidly taking place.
Revised ICC rules boost G20 efforts to curtail corruption
Paris: Responding to the G20’s call on business to stamp out corruption, the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has launched the ICC Rules on Combating Corruption. The new ICC rules delineate measures companies should take to prevent corruption, including strong measures to end bribery and extortion.
Creating value through sustainability
A global best practice adopted in local context
By Mayuri Wijayasundara, Sajith Edirisooriya, Tharinda Jayawardena and Sudarshan Senaratne
Holcim (Lanka) Ltd. was placed first runners-up at the CIMA Case Study Awards 2011 for their case study pertaining to the theme ‘creating value through sustainability’.
Sports for recreation may be the need of the hour!
Take any sports pages in the newspapers these days and what you get to see is a ripe cocktail of competitive battles about who beat whom, who takes drugs and sports has been who now wants to be the next Shahrukh Khan.
Objectives of monetary policy
By R.M.B. Senanayake
The ultimate objective of economic policy is, generally speaking, to improve public welfare. This could involve, for example, efficient resource utilisation, full and stable employment, high and sustainable economic growth, price stability or a fair distribution of income. The original Monetary Law Act which set up our Central Bank did in fact specify such objectives. Subsequently in 1998 or so the objectives were modified as
The ‘Western’ Spring: Has it arrived?
The year 2011 marked the ‘Arab Spring,’ triggered by underlying socio, political and economic reasons.
Judging by the ongoing protests on Wall Street and in Athens, could this be the start of the ‘spring’ in the USA and Europe?
Interestingly, the protests in the USA are over Wall Street and could this signal an uprising against what is perceived as the unfair/discriminatory
HR groups in indecent hurry to vilify Sri Lanka: Ambassador Aryasinha
Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU Ravinatha Aryasinha has said the timing of the screening of the film ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ at the European Parliament this week was particularly sinister, coming on the eve of the presentation of the LLRC Report due next month.
Seven billionth child
By Dr. Noeleen Heyzer
At some point this month, October 2011, a child will be born and the world’s population will have reached seven billion. There is a good chance that this childbirth will take place in the Asia-Pacific region; home to 61% of the world’s population.
If the child is born in the Asia-Pacific region, it will most likely be a boy: In 2010, among children below the age of five, there were 110 boys for every 100 girls. This is much higher than the natural sex ratio, and higher than any other region of the world.
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