Da Nang (VNA)- The Financing and Promoting Technology Group (FPT) will build a technology town in the central coastal city of Da Nang under an agreement signed on January 12.
The 952 million USD project will cover 181 ha of land, including an international-standard FPT university to meet demand on IT studies for some 10,000 students.
A 33-ha software promotion centre will provide jobs for 3,000 programmers. Another centre will be a workplace for 1,000 experts to collect and analyse information and supply telecom and Internet services as well as information technology and telecommunications products.
In addition, there will be a botanical garden, a staff dormitory and a villa area.
The construction is scheduled to start within this year and complete by mid-2012.
At the signing ceremony, an FPT representative handed over a cheque worth 10 million USD to Da Nang city for the construction of a cancer and tumours hospital for the entire central region.--Enditem
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