Citizen Participation In Development

Cities have been drivers of growth since ages be it the Indus Valley or the Greek Civilization. Today also cities continue to fuel growth but are our cities infrastructure-wise sound enough to withstand the pressure on them? Cities are the centers for secondary and tertiary...

Sri Lankan military maintains fishing restrictions in the north

The Colombo media reported that Sri Lankan government had removed the wartime fishing restrictions. This had come after a fishermen's meeting organized as part of the government's campaign to boost its image.  This meeting was attended by several government officials,...

China prepared to assist development in Sri Lanka – Yang Xiu...

" China is prepared to assist to develop any sector in Sri Lanka after it has been liberated from terrorism says new Chinese Ambassadress in Sri Lanka Ms.Yang Xiuping. She said time has come to strengthen the...

Chengdu quickens pace of post-quake housing reconstruction

Nearly 1 year after the deadly Sichuan Wenchuan earthquake, Chengdu, the provincial capital city that functions as the headquarters of the massive reconstruction operations, which was also affected by the...

Solar populism: a free solar home lighting scheme for people

As elections approach, political parties in India are promising the sky to woo voters. Populism is the flavour of the day. It is not even 'Buy 2 Get 1 free.' It is 'Buy Nothing, Spend Votes, Get Everything free', at least in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The Telugu Desam Party...

12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know

Blog& Bloggers: A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. Bloggers will share there views and knowledge with whole world. But now days US Government have make laws for blogger's also. This article will...

SFU Surrey, great school, good influence on area.

Simon Fraser University not too long ago opened its doors for the Surrey campus. It is a marvel of engineering and all together a beautiful school. It is conveniently located on top of Surrey Central mall and not 5...

Cable Bay side-stepping public wishes with development

The controversial Cable Bay Development is still a big issue for locals in the Nanaimo area.  City of Nanaimo Council seems bent on agreeing to the developers' requests.  The latest was to rezone heavy industrial land adjoining the proposed development to 'resort'...

[H]ow easy and quick it is to become poor.

peter.reardon: on poverty and the fallacy of corporate bailouts: - How useful to have this World Bank report available in support of  the poorest in society!The article, by Marina Litvinsky and published by IPS would at first glance seem to be essential reading for...

Surrey Mayor embraces 30 year old idea who's time has come

Tax free economic zones are neither new nor are radical.  They were proposed by the Fraser Institute 30 years ago by Dr. Herb Grubel Phd (The theory of free economic activity zones . Burnaby, B.C. : Dept. of Economics and Commerce, Simon Fraser University, c1979. 29...

The Swan Gala night

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The boom-bust cycles of energy-rich Western Colorado

Over the course of the past decade, thousands of natural gas drilling rigs have been erected throughout tthe Piceance Basin of western Colorado causing many small towns in the area to experience booming economic...

Britain's rarest spider saved from the brink of extinction

Britain's rarest spider - the Ladybird Spider - has been saved from being wiped out forever after a successful conservation program. They were almost wiped out in the early 90s due to loss of habitat and at one...

Report attacks Canada for failed green projects

A new report by Canada's Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development suggest that the Canadian federal government has not got a clue if the amount of money it is spending on green projects are...

Switzerland helps Cambodia repair Banteay Srey temple

Banteay Srey is a magnificent jewel of a temple.  Finely sculpted, with an incredible richness of details, the pink shades of the sandstone come alive in the early morning and at the end of the day. ...

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