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Newport Digital Technologies to Deploy $30-Million WiMAX Network in Italy

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., July 10 PRNewswire-FirstCall — Newport Digital Technologies, a subsidiary of International Food Products Group (OTC Bulletin Board: IFDG), today announced an agreement with the Institute for Information Industry Taiwan (III) and Gil Technologies to deploy a WiMAX network for an Italian Telecom customer in Northern Italy. Under the terms of the agreement NDT and Gil will design, plan and deploy III's 802.16d and 16e WiMAX networks as well as deliver integration and support services for several regions in Italy.

"This is the first of many significant WiMAX projects we expect to announce this year with III," said Richard Damion, CEO of NDT. "We have already shipped 500 base stations this past quarter which has generated substantial sales for NDT in the close of our fiscal year June 30. We anticipate another record quarter as we expand our operations in Italy to $1-million US per month from August and start our shipments to Poland and Fiji in September. This is expected to add significantly to sales in second quarter 2008. We anticipate generating revenues in excess of $75-million US during the next fiscal year."

NDT has partnered with III on a number of ventures including international projects in Fiji and Tuvalu on WiMAX deployment which will serve as a backbone to offering eLearning and telemedicine services. "With this collaboration with NDT we are confident that we can quickly and effectively offer the local governments in the South Pacific next generation eLearning and eHealth services to rural areas in these countries where we currently provide significant aide," said Elsie Kao, Project Manager for III.

"The benefits for WiMAX technology are clear," said Robert Pimentel, WiMAX Program Director for III. "This technology is now able to bring broadband to remote regions of the world that we could not previously service and now serves as a foundation for our eLearning, eHealth and eGovernment platforms where we can deploy extensive applications for governments and business."

About Newport Digital Technologies Inc.: NDT is a wholly owned subsidiary of IFPG. NDT will focus on the distribution of III's low-cost notebook in the America's and South Pacific which is expected to generate up to US$75 Million in revenues in 2008/09, as well as III's WiMAX base stations in the South Pacific with over 200 deployments planned during the same period. III will continue to provide NDT with technical support, along with marketing and sales resources for this expansion.

About International Food Products Group, Inc.: IFPG is a public company trading on the OTCBB with the ticker symbol "IFDG". The Corporate Offices are at 620 Newport Center Drive, Newport Beach, CA, 92660. http://www.goldenchoice.com. The company is in the process of changing its corporate name. Its corporate identity, logos, and website will be updated shortly.

About the Institute for Information Industry:

III is one of the world's leading information technology institutes established in 1979, jointly sponsored by the Taiwan government and prominent private enterprises, for the purpose of strengthening the development of information industry in Taiwan.

Since its inception, III has been a source of vision, innovation, technological excellence and a major contributor to Taiwan's development into a significant player in the global ICT arena. III has helped promote full utilization of ICT technologies hence advancing the establishment of modern information society in Taiwan.

III is a Principal founding member of the WiMAX Forum and a significant contributor to standards established by the Forum. III's contribution in IEEE 802.16j III had submitted over 80 contributions which represented 16.88% of the total which ranked it number one worldwide (http://relay.wirelessman.org/) of which 32.50% have been approved as standard baselines.

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