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Monday, November 18, 2002
IT Click

An employee of Japanese electronics manufacturer Sharp shows off its new SL-C700 Zaurus at an unveiling of the new personal digital assistant (PDA) in Tokyo. The SL-C700 Zaurus uses Linux and Java software and has a two-way system monitor for horizontal and vertical swivel-viewing and is priced around 60,000 yen ($503).

Amedia official works next to a computer displaying the Vietnam Communist Party’s Website in Hanoi. A Paris-based media rights group has condemned a four-year jail sentence imposed on a Vietnamese man who published criticisms of Vietnam’s border pact with China on the Internet.

China-based Taiwan actress Cheung Ting poses for photographers to promote a new online computer game in Taipei. The Taiwan company that designed the game offers a T$5 million ($1,44,000) top prize for the winner.

A visitor to the flower horn exhibition uses his mobile phone to photograph the fish in Kuala Lumpur. Multi Media Service (MMS) is getting popular among cellphone users. Flower horn fish is also popular in China. Their value depends on the roundness of the body, colour of the fins, pearl spots that represent auspicious Chinese characters and most importantly the bulging 'horn' on the forehead. 
— Reuters

— Reuters