Opera
A boy actor of Beijing’s Chinese Opera School gets his make-up done before their performance at the railway station in Tokyo, Young Chinese actors and actresses are travelling four major Japanese cities as part of a commemoration marking the 30th anniversary of re-establishing China-Japan diplomatic relations.

Mayon Volcano
SMOKY SIGNALS: Smoke comes out from the crater of Mayon volcano in Legaspi city, south of Manila. The Mayon volcano shows continuous abnormal activity raising its alert status for people to move to safer ground.

Digital Lifestyle
An electric shop sales person explains the system of a satellite digital broadcasting set to potential customers as Japan starts high-definition interactive digital broadcasting. With the new broadcasting, viewers can use new services such as banking or online shopping.

Palm m100 Handheld
One-touch access to life's essentials, your diary, addresses, to-do list, email, jotted notes, games, even the Internet. Lightweight, long-lasting, desirable, easily fits in to your pocket or handbag. Take your life in hand!

Robot Doll
Japan’s leading robotics machinery manufacturer Kokoro’s Kayako Kido speaks to a tuxedo-clad humanoid robot named S DOLL that can respond to its opponent speakers with gestures almost like a normal conversation between two people. The S DOLL was jointly developed with Japanese software maker Consultant Association (CAI) that offered CAI’s most sophisticated software technology in robotic intelligence to enhance the robot’s ability to recognise fuzzy conversation done by ordinary people.

George-Osama
Undated picture of action man-style dolls of U.S President George Bush, and Osama Bin Laden. It was reported in British national newspapers that a Tony Blair doll was being dramatically outsold by the Osama Bin Laden doll. The plastic Prime Minister, complete with fixed grin, ruffled hair and dressed in an army uniform, has not sold a single model in its first six weeks on offer. By contrast, sales of the bin Laden doll on US-based Internet site herobuilders.com are already approaching 5,000.

Robin Wood
German border police remove environmental activists from the group ‘Robin Wood’ who chained themselves to railway tracks as a protest against nuclear waste transport near
the Hamburg-Bergedorf railway station in Germany. An atomic transport train was halted for three hours because of the protest action.

Lifestyle 12 series II Home Theater System
Includes music centre with single CD player, AM/FM tuner remote, five Direct/Reflecting cube speaker arrays that blend into your decor and Hideaway Acoustimass module that delivers bass without audible distortion. Digital 5.1 decoding plus videostage 5 decoding for 5-channel surround sound from almost any source.

Press Cam
3-in-1 digital camera/digital camcorder/PC camera. Keep a visual diary or make mini-movies. VGA, USB port. supports Win 98/ME/2000. Comes with relevant software.