 |
|
Chinese women chat on a mobile phone in Beijing. China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) aims to add 52 million mobile users and 33 million fixed-line users in 2003. The telecom sector has become a pillar of China's hard-charging economy, with an average annual growth of 25.2 per cent over the past five years.
Laid-off
workers are shown how to use the computer at a retraining centre in Xian,
the capital of China's Shaanxi province. China aims to keep its urban jobless rate to around 4.5 per cent this year, compared with an estimated four per cent jobless rate at the end of last year, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Seamen surf the Web in an Internet cafe aboard the USS Milius in the North Arabian Gulf off the coast of Iraq. The Milius is involved in Military Interdiction Operations (MIO) with the intent of impeding embargoed items from entering or leaving Iraq by boat.
Asimo (Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility), the world's first robot that walks like a human, dances with Malaysians in Kuala Lumpur. The 52-kilogram, 1.2 metre-tall robot demanded applause from the crowd during a show in the Malaysian capital. — Reuters
|
||||||
 |
||||||
