Did you know, China now offshores manufacturing to Vietnam? If Pakistan behaved itself, may be India would start offshoring some call-centers over! In 2008, outsourcing, offshoring and globalization are likely to continue as major trends. Rising wages in the most popular offshore centers (especially Bangalore), are eroding the cost advantage that drove this business to
Here is a beautiful picture of Benazir Bhutto, the former Pakistani Prime Minister who was assassinated yesterday. There is not much to say, except this, that the world still has work to do. (I could not find the credits for who took this photograph … if you know, please email me, so that I can
Our neighbor, Carl Jacobson, came back from Australia the other day, and talked about a conference he was attending where many big world issues were discussed. In particular, he was talking about Indonesia, and how its moderate Muslim population / leadership is important for the future peace of the world, and needs to be an