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To: StanX Long who wrote (58350)	1/2/2002 11:09:17 PM
From: StanX Long	Respond to of 70976

Good news for NEC, a good Semi customer. Stan Wednesday January 2, 8:12 PM NEC to power Hong Kong ID service sg.news.yahoo.com SINGAPORE--NEC Hong Kong Ltd has won an imaging outsourcing contract from Hong Kong's Immigration Department to digitize the records of 12 million people--including deceased and migrated individuals. "We will convert all data stored at the Immigration Department since its inception (in 1961)," an NEC spokesperson told CNETAsia. According to the Census and Statistic Department, Hong Kong has about 6.7 million people. The project, which is expected to take two-and-a-half years to complete, is said to be worth HK$97.1 million (US$12.45 million) and will involve the transfer of records from microfilm and paper to CD-ROMs, the Singapore-based spokesperson said. Hong Kong's new identification cards are expected to be issued in 2003. Additionally, NEC said that it will build a local area network (LAN) for the department which includes the integration of over 100 servers and workstations; software for electronic data conversion; scanners for microfilm and paper, as well as security systems and technical support.