Asian Information Technology Ministers Summit

Officials were gathering Monday in India's technology hub to discuss ways to persuade more Western companies to relocate jobs to Asia, and how to tackle growing anger over resulting job losses in America and other developed countries.

"Asia is going to be driving force of technology and development in this century,'' Lakshmi Narayanan, an Indian technology official, said ahead of the second Asian Information Technology Ministers Summit that begins Monday in Hyderabad, capital of southern Andhra Pradesh state. - The Star Online