Culture: Cyber-contest nears end

The Hinet 2002 Cyber-games contest entered the finals yesterday. The competition, which cost NT$40 million, is the largest scale of its kind ever held in Taiwan. In line with the finals, set to last three days until tomorrow, an exhibition of the latest versions of cyber-games is being held on the sixth floor of the Shin-Kong Mitsukoshi Department Store located in the Hsinyi district. The games have attracted 80,000 contestants since they opened to the public on June 7. Over 6,000 people took part in the preliminary for the Web section, 30,000 people for the family section, 6,000 for the ADSL section and 2,000 for the international section. More than 6 million people have visited the official Web site of the cyber-games.