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On January 1, more than 95 per cent of import tax rates will be reduced to 0-5 percent, under the Common Effective Preferential Tariffs (CEPT) framework of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA).

... Microsoft is muscling into the optical-disk fray by leveraging its operating-system clout to bundle HD-DVD within Vista, the company's next-generation OS...

Arrow completed its acquisition of DNSint.com AG ("DNS") for a purchase price of approximately EUR 130 million ($155 million), DNS is headquartered in Munich and s the largest supplier of Sun Microsystems products in this region.

Intel has been struggling to find a way out of PCs for the last six or seven years,'' said Eric Ross, an analyst at ThinkEquity Partners in New York, who rates the stock "buy'' and doesn't own it. "I never dreamed they'd drop 'Intel Inside.'

Chinese electronics giant Konka Group has started building a colossal light-emitting diode (LED) TV screen here, on which images can be seen clearly from eight km away.

Microsoft and Nissan North America have jointly developed a concept car that's equipped with an Xbox 360 videogame and entertainment system.

The television market, which has stepped forward in the conversion from SD to HD this year, is expected to face a development in technology competition to full HD.

Taiwan shares rose to a fresh 20-month high on Thursday, with liquid-crystal-display panel stocks popular with investors on expectations of strong demand for LCD television sets next year.