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10,300 is the number of new businesses established in Vietnam in the QI, up 6.7 % from 2006, with the total registered capital over US$ 6 billion (The Ministry of Planning and Investment has reported) | |
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A newly married man asked his wife, "Would you have married me if my father hadn't left me a fortune?"
"Honey," the woman replied sweetly, "I'd have married you NO MATTER WHO
LEFT YOU A FORTUNE!!!"
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FPT Software staff eagerly joined the cycle race named "Le Tour de Hanoi", organized by the company on 22 April, 2007 | |
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The Hung King's Temple Festival
“No matter where you go,
Remember that the anniversary of our ancestors is on March 10th”
(Vietnamese proverb)
The Hung King's Temple Festival is one of the most important and sacred festivals of the Vietnamese people, deeply imbedded in the minds of every Vietnamese citizen, regardless of where they originate from.
The Hung King's Temple is located in Phu Tho province, some 85 kilometers northwest of Hanoi. Every year, a national festival called the Hung King's Temple Festival is held to worship the Hung Kings, who were instrumental in the founding of the nation. The festival is on March 10th (of the Lunar Calendar) but it usually lasts for 3 days from the 9th to the 11th of the 3rd month of the Lunar year. This year, it falls on 26th April 2007 and from this year, for the first time, it becomes a national public holiday.
This festival is also considered a sacred pilgrimage back to the origins of Vietnamese culture. People usually demonstrate the love and pride of their homeland and ancestral land at this time.
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 THREE MORE COMPANIES ESTABLISHED IN EARLY 2007
FPT Corporation has announced the establishment of three more companies in 2007, namely FPT Retail, FPT Promo and FPT Property, increasing the total number of its subsidiaries to eight.
With registration capital of some VND 30 billion, FPT Property Co., Ltd. specializes in building, maintaining and managing high-tech zones, leisure centers, apartment and office building, hotels, restaurants and so on. Meanwhile, the newly established FPT Retail operates in retailing ICT products nationwide; whilst the FPT Promotion Joint Stock Company provides online commercial advertising and promotion services.
FPT Software has recently been successfully assessed at ISO 27001:2005, the most advanced version for Information Security Management System (ISMS). With ISO 27001:2005, and its previous certificate BS7799, FPT Software demonstrates its continued commitment to systematically guaranteeing the security of customers’ data and information, in accordance with international ISMS standards.
FPT SOFTWARE QUALITY MANAGEMENT REPORT IN MARCH
In March, FPT Software experienced some remarkable achievements in its project quality metrics, which were monitored and reported by the company’s Business Assurance Department (see below).
The quality metrics were generally good with an improvement in Timeliness; Correction Costs and Average Leakage. There was a significant increase in Timeliness metrics to 84.96%, compared with 83.59% last month, and exceeded the target (80%). In addition, Average Leakage, at 0.17WDef/UCP, decreased in comparison with the target (0.3) whilst Correction Costs were within the control limit. However, there was still a decrease in the metrics of acceptance rates (75%), lower than the FPT Software norms (95%) because some customers had not finished testing our projects or they had not supplied some dependencies for Source Code release.
FPT Information System (FIS) has become Vietnam’s first company to win Cisco Systems’ enterprise partner of year for Asia award, handed by Cisco in April, 2007. The local company has recorded strong growth, nearly 70% a year, and gained a high level of customer satisfaction.
The enterprise partner of year for Asia award is announced every year for outstanding partners of Cisco and decided by Cisco leaders. Customers satisfaction is the most important criterion for the award. | |
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 VIETNAM FEATURED MORE IN INTERNATIONAL MEDIA
Vietnam has featured heavily in international media recently.
For instance, Business Week quoted a speech by Hicham Abdessamad, Vice President for Global Solutions Services at Hitachi Data Systems, who proclaimed that: “Vietnam is sort of a hybrid between India and China. China is more of a manufacturing powerhouse, while India's strength lies in its large pool of IT talent. Vietnam has "a little of both".”
Read more at http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content
/apr2007/gb20070409_175032.htm?chan=search
Meanwhile, Mainichi Newspaper (Japan, 9 April) published a report stating that the North of Vietnam is receiving a 2nd wave of investment from Japan, following the 1st one to the South in 2003. In 2006, 70% of the total Japan’s investment to Vietnam pouring into the North, with a total of 240 Japanese companies operating in and around Hanoi.
Jean-Claude Pomonti of Le Monde (France), in his article entitled “Vietnam towards a bright future”, concluded that Vietnam was becoming one of the stars among the globe’s emerging economies. The country has attracted investment worth US$ 1 billion from Intel, welcomed Bill Gates in 2006 and attainted an ICT growth rate of 40%. The author remarked that “the achievements gained by Vietnam in the ICT sector have exceeded expectations and the country will soon surpass The Philippines, Thailand and Malaysia in this field”.
Foxconn, the world’s leading maker of electronic products has recently announced it will invest some US$5 billion by building two plants in Vietnam. The company will begin construction of its first plant in May, initially focusing on the production of digital cameras and related optical products.
Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (VAMA) has announced that the total sales of its 16 members reached 12,180 vehicles in the first quarter of 2007, double the figure for the same period in 2006. Among them, Toyota took the lead with sales of 3,500 vehicles, accounting for 20% of the total number.
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