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A confident smile lights up the face of 63-year-old Ma Yuet-ho as she moves the cursor across the computer screen.

The retired factory worker says proudly that she has mastered not only the simple skills of sending e-mails and browsing websites, but also more advanced computer functions including making homepages, editing digital photos and using Chinese characters.

About a year ago, the grandmother-of-two also started teaching other elderly people, on a voluntary basis, in a computer learning centre for senior citizens founded by the Cyber Senior Network Development Association.

Ms Ma says she saw computer technology as something 'completely unapproachable' before she started to study it six years ago.

'My daughter had a computer at home, but I didn't dare to even dust it because I was afraid I would damage the machine or lose the data,' she says.

'However, I always wished that I would be able to use the machine one day because computers have become so popular. I would appear to be out of fashion if I didn't learn the technology.'

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