Vietnam's second largest Internet provider is opening an office in the heart of the computing world, at Silicon Valley in the United States.

The state-run software firm, the Corporation of Financing and Promoting Technology, has embarked on a five-year-plan to open fourteen offices in the US, Japan and Europe.

Company officials say the office in California's Silicon Valley will provide services in banking technology, telecommunications, the Internet, e-commerce and business solutions. It'll be followed by another US office, and a third one in Canada employing a total of about one-hundred-and-sixty Vietnamese programmers.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service