"This completes the first stage of Elan's recovery plan and allows us to concentrateon our core development pipeline which we expect to start launching in 2004, " said Elan Chairman Garo Armen in a statement.
Faced with critics who argued he should concentrateon the classic development issues that keep people poor and sick rather than doling out high-tech gear, Mr Negroponte would rightly reply that education through computers can help resolve all such problems.
Singapore in relation with the primary beneficiaries of 30 or 32 years of political stability and that will allow both these countries to concentrateon the economic development, not forgetting that Indonesia for its sheer size has been very benign in imposing its views on this part of the world.