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Excellent! Although I think we should develop the scientific capacity to test our water ourselves.

What? Hiroshima and Nagasaki grew due to planned industrialisation and good economic policy and governance.

I don't think the Indians will complain if he manages to make those cities like modern-day Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hiroshima Nagasaki I have visited both, beautiful places with amazing people and food. I stopped inside a shop in Hiroshima near the Atomic Peace Memorial to ask for...

Here are some of the stats: Check it out and post any interesting graphs you find here!

Beautiful infographics! Sri Lanka currently has 93% access to clean drinking water, but 7% of 20 million is still hundreds of thousands of people.

Sri Lanka : World Bank lending US$ 165 million to Sri Lanka to provide safe drinking water and improved sanitation Around 450,000 people are expected to benefit under the project from improved access to safe piped water, contributing to the Government's national target of increasing piped water...

It's true though, it's difficult to do anything when crowding and overpopulation ruins any beautification projects. This won't help Sri Lanka though, our birth rate has fallen to barely replacement level. What we need is education, nothing else will do anything permanent. We need strong...

People thinking like this is the problem. This has nothing to do with how anyone is dressed. A shirtless man walks down the street. Nobody will give a damn, nobody will rape him, nobody will say that he is provoking unwanted sexual attention, nobody will blame him for anything. These girls...

Thanks for the tag @Azizam. I have no strong feelings either way for the government, they are yet to show us how good/bad they are. All we can do at the moment is speculate. The biggest thing for me is infrastructure, including education and health. If the government can make strides similar...

Haha, my girlfriend is Jewish and I can tell you that they're definitely not cheap in the same way South Asians are!

There are many larger and smaller nations above and below on this list though. Population size might matter for administration/infrastructure/government issues, but this is a cultural thing I think. It's not constructive to point towards the size of a country for literally everything.

Sri Lanka : Sri Lanka ranks within Top 10 of the World Giving Index Sri Lanka is one of the ten most generous countries in the world, according to the recently released 2014 World Giving Index (WGI) report. According to the annual report released by the Charities Aid Foundation, Sri Lanka is...

Words can't even...I love this SO MUCH. I can't stop laughing, this is the greatest thing the internet has produced. We can just stop now, it's over.

I agree with you, this would be the best way. But unfortunately this is not an option we have at the moment. There's no movement like this, no one we can vote for who is completely like this. I just think MR is the best option we have. We won't get all the benefits from a citizens movement, but...

I agree with the article. South Korea and Singapore were built by a strong leader. Yes, the men may have been corrupt. Yes, they had limited freedom. But what they needed wasn't a weak benign democratic leader. There is time for that later when the hard work is done. The time for that is when...

Monorail systems have some problems though, such as complicated switches for changing direction. However any MRT system will be good for congestion on the planned throughfares. So it's likely to be a positive thing regardless.

Maybe like the "poor" developed countries, like Argentina, Hungary and Portugal.

The population isn't that small; Sri Lanka has around the same number of people as Australia. Maybe we'll be lucky though!

Maybe, but there is a lot of political issues to sort out first. Is 20 years enough for that?

Sri Lanka on track to achieve 7.8 pct growth in 2014: official - Xinhua | English.news.cn COLOMBO, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Sri Lanka is on track to achieve its growth target of 7.8 percent in 2014 and aims to hit 7,000 U.S. dollars of per capita income by 2020, said a top official on Tuesday...