Beckham to tour Asia

JAKARTA: England-based lubricant producer, Castrol, plans to take Manchester United's star David Beckham on a Southeast Asian tour in June, but the selected country has yet to be confirmed.

"He will visit Japan as well as a country in Southeast Asia. We have yet to pick the country," Roy Philips, the marketing manager of PT Castrol Indonesia, said after the launching of a new Castrol product, here on Thursday.

Asked if Indonesia could be the probable choice, he said: "we are looking at the options."

He said Beckham would stop over for one or two days in each of the two countries to meet consumers, soccer fans and the media. --JP