Opening of FPT Software Europe branch

June 4th, 2008 – Hanoi, FPT Software Joint Stock Company officially announced the opening of FPT Software Europe Ltd. in Paris, France. This is the first European office of the FPT Corporation and will be officially opened on June 13th, 2008. 

With start-up capital of US$300,000, FPT Software Europe has been established to seize business opportunities brought about by the growing waves of software outsourcing coming from Europe, the largest IT market in the world, and also to provide better services to FPT Software�fs existing customers in the region.

Mr. Bui Quang Ngoc, Vice Chairman of the Board of Management & Vice President of FPT Corporation declared: �gFPT Software Europe is the third international branch of FPT Software after Japan and Singapore. The opening of FPT Software Europe will help our company diversify its markets and provide the impetus for growth in the coming years. Furthermore, this event affirms FPT Corporation�fs globalization policy.�h

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FPT Software Japan’s 2nd Anniversary

FPT Software Japan (FSJ) will celebrate its 2nd anniversary on November 27th, 2007. Established in November 2005, the Company has developed quickly, at a rate of 70% annually, and has made a huge contribution to the development of FPT Software’s international stature. FSJ aims to develop long-term partnerships with Japanese Customers, as well as ambitiously setting out to make Vietnam a major IT outsourcing destination.

FSJ has worked out a strategy to expand its business in Japan as well as to become a local company. The Strategy includes a training scheme which focuses on Japanese, embedded, cobol and other highly demanded skills; plan of building a capable BrSE team. FSJ will also recruit Japanese engineers, project managers and sale staff to promote business in this potential market.

Japan IT industry ranked 2^nd in the world behind the US, every year, Japan spends US$13 billion for IT services, of which outsourced services account for 46.3%. According to statistics in 2006, there were 537,000 people working in Japanese IT industry, there is a lack of 44,000 people.

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Fastest-growing company award

October 10th, 2007 -FPT Corporation was honored at the Texas Pacific Group (TPG) CEO Summit with the important award of TPG's fastest growing company on October 24th. Mr. Truong Gia Binh, FPT’s CEO, was the company's representative to receive the Award.

The Summit gathers 150 CEOs of big companies in the world such as Sun Microsystems, EDS, Avaya, Boeing, and Seagate. During the program in the USA, Mr. Truong Gia Binh will also be working with the CEO of Yahoo and visiting EA, the world leading Games Company.

TPG is a leading global private investment firm with over US$48 billion of capital under its management portfolio. TPG manages a family of funds including private equity, venture capital and public equity and debt investing.

FPT Corporation became a Portfolio Company of TPG In 2006.

No 1 EUROPEAN MAILING SOLUTIONS SUPPLIER NEOPOST PARTNERS WITH VIETNAMESE FPT SOFTWARE TO ESTABLISH OFFSHORE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT CENTER

The leading Vietnamese software company makes a bold move to develop embedded software for the EU market

Hanoi, 20 July 2007: – Hanoi-based FPT Software Joint Stock Company partnered with Europe’s No. 1, and the world’s No. 2, mail processing giant NEOPOST, to establish an Off-shore Development Center (OSDC) located at its headquarters in Hanoi, Vietnam. The 3-year-OSDC co-operation model, signed by the two companies’ CEOs, takes responsibility to develop Embedded Software, PC Applications and Server Development for NEOPOST, and is expected to require up to 150 staff in the forthcoming period.

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APTECH SIGNS MOU WITH FPT-VIETNAM

Mumbai July 5, 2007: - Indian global learning solutions giant, Aptech Ltd. (“Aptech”) signed an MOU with the leading IT Corporation - FPT of Vietnam to open 20 new IT & Multimedia training centres in Vietnam by 2008 and expect the total revenue of education business for 3 year 2007-2009 is over 30 million USD.

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FPT CORP. AND CMC CORP. CONFIRMED BY MICROSOFT AS LARGE ACCOUNT RESELLERS (LARs) FOR GOVERNMENT OF VIETNAM ENTERPRISE AGREEMENT

Status as LARs enables companies to offer the best possible value and supporting services as genuine software is rolled out across central and rural government desktops

Washington DC, USA, 21 June, 2007: – FPT Corp. (FPT) and CMC Corp. (CMC), two leading Vietnamese ICT companies, have been confirmed by Microsoft as Large Account Resellers (LARs) to support the Government of Vietnam as it deploys genuine copies of Microsoft Office System across rural and government desktops. The confirmation of CMC Corp and FPT Corp as LARs follows closely on from the Enterprise Agreement (EA) which was signed between Microsoft and the Government of Vietnam on May 21st and witnessed by the Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer - on the occasion of the latter’s first trip to Vietnam.

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SINGAPOREAN SOFTWARE AND SERVICES COMPANY LAUNCHED BY VIETNAMESE SOFTWARE LEADER – FPT SOFTWARE JOINT STOCK COMPANY

A nearly 2000 staff software vendor pledges to attach itself to Asia Pacific market in long term.

Singapore 13 March, 2007: Hanoi-based FPT Software Joint Stock Company today celebrated the formal launch of FPT Software Asia Pacific Pte.Ltd. in Singapore. The newly established company, owned 100% by FPT Software Company (a subsidiary of FPT Corporation), aims to meet the demand of IT vendors and end-user companies in all Asia Pacific countries for software development and consultancy services.

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HARVEY NASH - FPT SOFTWARE PARTNERSHIP AND MICROSOFT FORGE SOFTWARE ALLIANCE BETWEEN UK AND VIET NAM

Hanoi, Vietnam, May 22, 2007 – Harvey Nash and its strategic partner FPT Software have teamed up with Microsoft to lead an official visit to Vietnam today with representatives from the UK Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partner community. The delegation, which is supported by UK Trade and Investment (UKTI) and chaired by Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft Corporation, is the first of its kind to Vietnam and aims to highlight the region’s emerging status as a destination for offshore and outsourced services

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