Sri Lankan Accountants Lure Global Outsourcers
The New York Times - Southern China has its assembly plants. India has customer support centers, research laboratories and low-cost lawyers. And Sri Lanka’s contribution to global outsourcing? Accountants — thousands of them, standing ready to crunch the world’s numbers.
Global fixed broadband connections to hit 720 mln by 2015
The total number of fixed broadband connections worldwide will pass 500 million by the end of this year and will continue to grow to 720 million by the end of 2015, according to a study by Analysys Mason. Fixed broadband will account for 62 percent of the 1.16 billion broadband connections available worldwide by the end of 2015.
Outotec to build EUR70m water treatment plant in Sri Lanka
Finnish construction and engineering company Outotec Oyj said today the government of Sri Lanka has awarded it a contract of more than EUR70m to build a water treatment plant that will supply drinking water. The company will build the facility in Ampara district on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka under a project for the provision of treated pipe-borne water to more than 75% of the district. Outotec completed the first and second phase of the project in 1999 and 2002, respectively. The completion of the current phase three is expected in November 2013.
Highlights of proposals in the Budget 2011
40 People Who Changed the Internet
The world has become tightly connected since the internet. The web itself has replaced the practice of reading newspaper. Most of us now communicate through e-mails instead of paper and pen. We now watch networks or movies online, it has even become a wide business venture, so much so we can now make purchase and pay our bills through the internet. The web has also transformed friendships through various social media. It also provides us the possibility to reconnect with people from our childhood and it can be a life changing event.
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