IT, telecommunications and media
in Asia as a whole

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Fast transmission the key to success
By Lara Parpan, Singapore AFP, Bangkok Post, 24 April 2000. Mobile phone Internet access is slowly gaining ground through trials across the Asia-Pacific region, but the success of the medium will depend on faster transmission, improved content and wider acceptance of electronic commerce.
Focus on proposal to create Asian IT hub
By Yeoh En-lai, The Straits Times, 10 January 2001. Singapore and Japan will study the Asian IT hub plan with the Republic of Singapore proposing a direct line. At the moment, there is no physical infrastructure to support direct connectivity between two countries.
Asia, the Emerging Net Giant
By Julia Scheeres, Wired, 9 February 2001. Asian Web surfers will constitute 27 percent of the online world by 2004, but poor infrastructure and expensive access rates still hamper connectivity in many countries.
Dark days for Asian journalism
By Alan Boyd, Asia Times Online, 30 January 2003. Globalization pressures and the war against terrorism have brought an abrupt end to the new information age that accompanied the democratic revival of 1997-98 in much of Asia.