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Spinner
16 Jun 2005, 8:11pm
BusinessWeek (http://www.businessweek.com) is reporting that Microsoft will provide computer training to more than 2,000 disadvantaged youths in rural Bangladesh over the next year.

The U.S.-based software giant will give a grant of $90,000 (74,820 euros) for software and training curriculum to the Bangladesh-based Learn Foundation to implement the program in northeastern Bangladesh, Saw Ken Wye, Microsoft's president in Southeast Asia, was quoted as saying by the Ittefaq newspaper.
Source: BusinessWeek (http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8AO38UO0.htm?campaign_id=apn_tech_down)

Gargoyle
17 Jun 2005, 3:32pm
Cool stuff. Those Bangladeshis better watch out, though. Soon enough, their jobs will be outsourced to Somalia :D