Trương Gia Bình is a Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

ese businessman. His father was an electrical engineer

Electrical engineering

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 in Hanoi

Hanoi

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. He studied mathematics

Mathematics

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 and physics

Physics

Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

 in the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

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, and later returned to Vietnam, where he married the daughter of Vo Nguyen Giap

Vo Nguyen Giap

Võ Nguyên Giáp is a retired Vietnamese officer in the Vietnam People’s Army and a politician. He was a principal commander in two wars: the First Indochina War and the Vietnam War...

, a Vietnam People's Army

Vietnam People's Army

The Vietnam People's Army is the armed forces of Vietnam. The VPA includes: the Vietnamese People's Ground Forces , the Vietnam People's Navy , the Vietnam People's Air Force, and the Vietnam Marine Police.During the French Indochina War , the VPA was often referred to as the Việt...

 general who rose to fame during the Vietnam War

Vietnam War

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. He became the head of the Corporation for Financing and Promoting Technology, Vietnam's earliest information technology

Information technology

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 firm, in 1990; he purchased 10% of the shares when it was privatised

Privatization

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. Afterwards, he led the firm in its expansion from its origins as an internet service provider

Internet service provider

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 to other areas such as software outsourcing

Outsourcing

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 for Japanese companies. In 2006, his company opened FPT University

FPT University

FPT University is a private information technology university in Hà Nội, Vietnam, established in 2006. The name comes from that of the managing organisation, the Corporation for Financing and Promoting Technology, or FPT for short. It is the first private university to be opened in Vietnam. They...

, Vietnam's first private university; he also took up a position as the chairman of its managing board. He is speculated to be the richest person in Vietnam; as of January 2007, the value of his stake in FPT alone is VND2.6 trillion ($

United States dollar

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164 million; 5,117,280 shares at VND525,000), according to the company's own prospectus. Bình himself is reportedly "tired" of the rumours.