Mahathir, Ramos surf the 'Internet'

Mahathir, Ramos surf the 'Internet'

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad
and Philippine President Fidel Ramos surfed the Internet together
yesterday, while Palestine leader Yasser Arafat was beached by a
technical fault.

The dialog, touted by its Malaysian organizers as the first
event of its kind, saw Mahathir and Ramos chatting on the
Internet for about 20 minutes, to mark the launch of the online
version of Malaysia's Malay daily, the Utusan Malaysia.

"You look very handsome on the computer," Ramos told a
grinning Mahathir, who promptly complained that his screen
picture of Ramos was jerky, "something like in the old movies."

When the Philippine president offered Mahathir his Internet
address, the Malaysian premier, a vocal backer of local
information technology ventures, admitted: "I am still a little
bit nervous about using the Internet."