"Twenty months after the tsunami in December 2004 brought Sri Lanka a rush of charity from abroad, international aid agencies are hemmed in by surging violence in the country’s long-running civil war. They are also encountering suspicion, hostility and deadly attacks."
"It was the eve of independence and all through the house, not a creature was moving, not even a mouse…because all the creatures in the house, man and mouse, had stepped out in the streets, some shouting loud, some others enjoying the beat. Come 15th August any year, and a...
"All week the BBC has been looking at the impact of the baby boomer generation in the run-up to the 60th birthday spectacular of the archetypal boomer Bill Clinton on Saturday.
The political, cultural, industrial and academic worlds on both sides of the Atlantic are currently...
"Blogs can remind us about the plight of others. Since many Bolivian bloggers write from various locations around the world, they can also capture the experience of other Bolivians, who are trying to make it in a land far from home. Isabella Fuente recently returned from a...
"British Airways passengers endured more flight cancellations on Wednesday as the airline struggled to reunite missing bags with their owners.
BA said it would not be until Friday that its full service could be resumed.
BA cancelled 46 flights on Wednesday - 35 at Heathrow...
"Trend watchers are phasing out the word YUPPIE and have come up with the term GOSSIPS to replace that.
An iPod and two mobile phones are the latest must-have accessories along with sushi for the status-conscious British office worker, according to a survey released on...
"Almost anytime we write anything about eBay, we get comments from frustrated users of the site complaining about some aspect of the company's practices. But so strong is the company's monopoly that no competitor has been able to make a dent in its business. Even the regular...
"In Europe, the main threat of job loss comes not from China or India, but Central and Eastern Europe, which has skilled but cheap labour - and most of it now within the European single market. in the past the main impact has been on manufacturing. But what about services? A...
"China has a long history of being a bureaucratic society -- and it seems they're really learned how to apply that bureaucracy to the internet. They have tens of thousands of people monitoring the internet, for example. However, they're really going to ridiculous extremes in...
"Judging by stories in the media, you might think that India dominates the market for call centers, and we're probably a little guilty of feeding this perception as well. But the actual numbers paint a different picture; the US still dominates this space, as 62% of all global...
"Yes, we all realize that the internet and all that "long tail" stuff means that perhaps there really is a space for narrowly focused niche sites... but did anyone really expect an online dating site for orangutans? Turns out some zookeepers are setting up such a site with...
"For past few weeks, we have devoted a lot of coverage to Mountain View-based GoogleFi, but now it is time to move on, and turn our attention to other Silicon Valley cities. Like san Jose.
This morning, I went down to San Jose to conduct a panel on Broadband Video at the...
"Google Talk is offering an update today, according to reports, that will enable users to easily transfer files, set presence with music, and send and receive voice mails. According to the article its also Google Talk’s first birthday. We haven’t checked out the upgrade...
"Yahoo Photos is now out of beta–so it seems that web 2.0 is really and truly coming to the masses. Yahoo is the biggest photo-sharing service out there, with 30 million unique monthly visitors worldwide, according to comScore*, and more than 2 billion hosted images,...
"There is a website—one that is so stupid I feel embarrassed to even give it free publicity—called www.whotohate.com. The idea behind the site is you pay them five bucks, write in the name of someone you hate, and the website writes to the person telling them that there...
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