ASEAN info infrastructure

Tue, 13 Aug 1996 | Source: AFP

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Malaysia called yesterday for its planned information-technology area to be linked to similar developments in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Energy, Telecommunications and Post Minister Leo Moggie said some ASEAN countries could also be developing similar areas similar to Malaysia's multimedia super corridor (MSC).

"Therefore, it would be good if all these could be linked together so that we can be interconnected with each other," Moggie told a news conference after opening a four-day meeting of telecommunications regulators of ASEAN.

Malaysia on August 1 launched plans for creation of the MSC which will be created at a cost of US$2 billion in an area of suburban Sepang, 64 kilometers (40 miles) south of central Kuala Lumpur.

The area is located between Malaysia's new administrative capital, Putrajaya, and a new international airport.

ASEAN groups Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam.

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