Outsourcing companies affected by earthquake and tsunami

BEIJING - Last weekend was a worrying time for Liu Jun, the president of a major software-outsourcing provider in China.

On Sunday, the company's staff were summoned to respond to Friday's massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

"We have been gearing up to contact our employees in Japan," said Liu Jun, who heads Dalian Hi-Think Computer Technology Corp, which was China's third-largest software-outsourcing company by transaction volume in 2009 according to the research company CCID Consulting.