President John F. Kennedy meets with a group of newspaper executives from several Asian countries in the Conference Room (Fish Room), White House, Washington, D.C. The group includes: Sian Aw and Choi-Sang Shum (Hong Kong); Upendra Acharya, Bapalal K. Doshi, Vadekara M. Nair, G.N. Sahi, and Shantilal A. Shah (India); Yuichiro Isobe and Eiji Noguchi (Japan); Ten Soon Khoo (Malaya); M.G.A. Khatib, Habib Rahman, and Muhammad Safdar (Pakistan); and Osmundo Abad-Santos, Oscar Lopez, and Joaquin P. Roces (Philippines).