Mittal already had a strong regional partner in Singapore Telecommunications, which has a 31% stake in Bharti.

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On April 22 and 23, some 300 Y2K experts and senior officials from member countries of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum met in Singapore to review the region's readiness in finance, telecommunications, transport, customs and energy.

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StarHub Internet is owned by the StarHub consortium, which will become Singapore s second basic telecommunications services provider in April next year.

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Chua Sock Koong (No. 71) is chief of Singapore Telecommunications, and Sun Yafang (No. 90) is chair of Huawei Technologies in China.

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Prosperity, wider education, the onslaught of international media, instant telecommunications, travel and more leisure time have opened up the eyes and minds of the discerning electorate not only in Singapore and Japan, but all over the world.

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