Monday, December 3, 2001		Lens on IT

Bollywood's actress Tabu (L) plays the lover in "Bhagmati Queen of Fortunes", India's first live-cum-animation feature film on this handout picture. Though India's movie industry is the most prolific in the world with Mumbai's Bollywood churning out a film once in two days yet animation features have not been popular.

Nokia's new imaging phone on display at the company's annual global analyst meeting in New York. During November, Nokia launched a total of nine new products.

A Vietnamese woman sells bananas outside a shop selling mobile telephones made by US firm Motorola in Hanoi the day on which Vietnam's National Assembly was expected to approve a historic trade agreement with the USA. The market-opening pact will slash tariffs on Vietnam's exports to the USA, including agricultural products, and gradually open the Vietnamese market to US service providers, including telecom firms. 

Pacific Century CyberWorks chairman Richard Li (L) and Hong Kong Financial Secretary Antony Leung participate in a "topping-out" ceremony at the controversial Cyberport project in Hong Kong. Located on the southern side of Hong Kong island, Cyberport, conceived during Hong Kong's brief Internet boom as the territory's answer to Silicon Valley, is both a commercial development and residential project scheduled to be completed by 2003 and 2007, respectively. 

— Reuters photos