Monday, December 4, 2000		Lens on IT

Indian singer Pankaj Udhas gestures as he talks about his Internet site in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta . Udhas, who had popularised classical music and traditional Urdu poetry, is in the city to launch a new album, "Lamha" as well as his own website.

Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian wears a 3-D screen while attending the opening ceremony of a technology exposition called Taipei Expo 2000. Chen is keen for a breakthrough in ties with China after he swept to power in presidential elections in March.

A Japanese woman is silhouetted as she uses a mobile phone in front of the NTT DoCoMo office in Tokyo. Japan's NTT DoComo Inc, the top telecoms firm in the world by market value, announed on Thursday plans to buy some 16 per cent of AT&T Wireless Group for $9.9 billion.