Computerised ambassador

The Foreign Ministry of Japan in Tokyo announced yesterday, a 21-year-old woman created by computer graphics, shown in this photo, has been appointed as a goodwill ambassador to promote exchanges between Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean). The ministry asks the public by June 9 to name this computerised imaginary woman who will serve as a symbol of the ''Asean-Japan Exchange Year 2003."

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin