Bangkok: Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said on March 3 he had appointed Narayana Murthy, chairman of India's software giant Infosys Technologies Ltd., to join his advisers' team on information technology issues.

Thaksin, a telecommunications tycoon before he entered politics, said he was impressed by Murthy's ability to put his company among the world's leading software developers in just a few years and to help make Bangalore "the Silicon Valley of Asia".

He said he wanted to tap that ability to help develop Thailand and South East Asia's information technology capacity.

Agencies