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Serendipity reports that there are insufficient toilets planned at the annual Deyata Kirula (National Development Exhibition).
Sonya Rehman reports about the advent of Hosh Media, a new citizen journalism portal, which epitomizes the growing popularity of locally-based, online portals for citizen journalism in Pakistan.
Tshering Tobgay writes about the Dx-pedition of a ham radio operator from England to Bhutan and the challenges and potentials of the amateur radio and its enthusiasts in his country.
Teeth Maestro condemns the mob mentality of some of the people in Karachi on people doing petty crimes, which is actually a consequence of losing the trust on the state police.
Amitha Amarasinghe discusses the use of social media by the corporates in Sri Lanka and ponders whether there are any social media success stories in Sri Lanka.
Several Iranian activists and journalists have received an email threatening that they will be punished according to the “Islamic Punishme... More »
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Well guess we are not in Sri Lanka to understand the situation. They say its for security reasons.
Apparently the terrorists organisation called LTTE are using phones for covert operations that result in many innocent civilians being blown. Think government are trying to track down culprits.
I guess all mobile service providers are making it compulsory to have some form of ID there.