ASEAN info infrastructure

ASEAN info infrastructure

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.