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January 2005 Updates
Brunei
ICT development jump started
More than half
a dozen e-government projects in Brunei have been awarded to successful bidders
by January 2005... click here for more. Japan
IT industry revolutionalises the professional sports scene in Japan
The Japanese professional baseball teams will shortly start spring training for
the coming season in 2005. The training itself is more or less an annual event,
except for some sports journalists or devout lovers of baseball, but this year
it will be somewhat different because Japan's two top-ranking IT companies, Rakuten
and Softbank will be found on the field in the 2005 series... click here
for more. Maldives
Impact of the tsunami on the Maldives
The tsunami
of 26 December 2004 was the worst disaster ever to hit the Maldives, an archipelago
which is just about a metre above the sea-level. Waves of 1-3 metres were reported
all over the country. These waves devastated the infrastructure and livelihood
of the affected islands... click here for more.
Second mobile licence issued
The Telecommunications
Authority of Maldives (TAM) has awarded on 1 February 2005 a mobile telecommunications
licence to Wataniya Telecom Maldives Private Limited, the company established
in Maldives by Wataniya International... click here
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