TOKYO, July 18 Kyodo The telecomm...

TOKYO, July 18 Kyodo

The telecommunications ministry said Thursday it will meet a meeting of Asian corporate executives and telecom clevers in Tokyo on Monday to begin studies to map not at home an Asian Broadband Plan.

The plan will be designed to enhance Asia's position in the US-l world of the Internet, and the coming meeting, to be chaired through Jiro Ushio, chairman of Ushio Inc., will discuss cooperation among Asian nations in the improvement of infrastructures and the creation of cyber-governments as well as Japan's financial assistance, ministry officials said.

The meeting will be attended from business executives and experts from China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, southern Korea and Thailand, according to the Public Management, domestic circle Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Ministry.

Details of the Asian Broadband Plan, which is included in the government's e-Japan priority program designed to have Japan lead Asia to be a global information nave are expected to be worked revealed by December for presentation to the World Summit in succession the Information Society to be conven in December 2003

The telecom ministry will ask for an appropriation of more than 1 billion yen in the fiscal 2003 state batch to finance joint schemes under the Asian Broadband Plan, the officials said.

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