Monday, April 8, 2002		Lens on IT

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co employee Mieko Samejima displays a transparent panel speaker at Matsushita head office in Tokyo. Matsushita, also known as Panasonic, has developed the transparent and flexible panel speaker called "Sound Window," which allows the speakers to be used in various appliances or places easily, Matsushita said.

Former French stripper and presidential candidate Cindy Lee poses at her home in front of her Website " the party of pleasure". If elected as France's next president, Lee would seek to legalise houses of ill repute and declare a national "Love" Day. 

Hong Kong pop singer Andy Hui holds a pirated CD destroyed by a compactor to protest Taiwan's rampant piracy problem in Taipei. Hui is scheduled to hold an anti-piracy concert in Taipei this weekend. 
 

Tradition Orient FX's Sunao Rokutani demonstrates buying US dollars against the Japanese yen at a launch party of the new company specialising in online foreign currency trading, in Tokyo. The firm started business on Monday last and will deal in yen-dollar, yen-euro, and dollar-euro trading.

— Reuters photos