Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China Named Overseer of Animation and Online Games Industry in China

September 28th, 2009 HONG KONG - - Irish Investment Bank and CITIC GROUP Begin Joint Venture Carbon Bank Ireland, Ltd., an Irish investment bank, today announced the execution of a joint-venture agreement with the Chinese financial conglomerate, CITIC GROUP, to implement a trading platform for Voluntary Emission Credits (VERs). These will be generated by companies which wish to reduce their carbon emissions in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC).

September 10th, 2009 GENEVA and DALIAN, People's Republic of China - In a bid to bring leading digital identity solutions to China's large and quickly developing economy, WISeKey and WI Harper, one of China's most successful venture capital firms, today signed a letter of intent to collaborate on developing business opportunities in China. The agreement between Geneva-based WISeKey with WI Harper, a leading venture capital firm with offices in Beijing, Taipei, and San Francisco, is designed to open the Chinese telecom, mobile, and digital media industry to WISeKey eSecurity technologies.

August 10th, 2009 NICOSIA, Cyprus - In the news release, "International Trade Exhibitions Now Come Right to Your Doorstep" issued on 10 Aug 2009 11:29 GMT, by IMC Business Global Ltd over PR Newswire, we are advised by a representative of the company that in the sixth paragraph the information relating to the Deputy Director General, Asia Department, Ministry of Commerce of China, Mr. Liang Wentao, contained some inaccuracies.

August 10th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO and OXFORD, England - - CTO Simon Mack to Present Sessions on Animating with morpheme NaturalMotion, the animation technology and game development studio behind the euphoria engine, will be attending both GDC Europe and gamescom in Cologne, Germany from Tuesday 18th - Friday 21st August 2009. (Photo: www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090811/NY59196 ) NaturalMotion's CTO Simon Mack will be presenting two 50 minute sessions in GDC Europe's programming track.

July 21st, 2009 HONG KONG - Electronic Arts Inc. (Nasdaq: ERTS) and NetDragon Websoft Inc., a leading game developer and operator in China ("NetDragon", with its subsidiaries collectively know as the "Group"; Hong Kong Stock Code: 777), today announced a licensing agreement for the development of a new massively multi-player online role playing game (MMORPG) based on "Ultima Online"(TM) from Electronic Arts.

July 8th, 2009 LONDON - In an online video available now on www.cantos.com, Mike Gush from Baillie Gifford outlines the scale of the investment opportunity in China and argues that in the future the region could be viewed as an asset class in its own right. He also explains the possible threats that investors face and why his Greater China Fund is uniquely placed to take advantage of the situation.

May 5th, 2009 BEIJING - Following the launch of the online check-in service on its Chinese website for flights departing from London and Stockholm international airports, Air China today launched the same service on the Company's U.K. and Sweden-based websites.

May 4th, 2009 BEIJING - The prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts is now accepting enrollment for its first-ever International Foundation Course, a highly anticipated pre-bachelor's degree program developed in conjunction with China's Ministry of Education. CAFA is the leading institution for modern art education in China and is the only art academy of higher learning directly under the Ministry of Education.

April 19th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Second Gathering of Top Chinese and International Developers Will Return to Shanghai in October with Strong Government Endorsement The call for submissions to present lectures, tutorials, and panels at the 2009 Game Developers Conference(R) China (GDC China) is open now through May 22, 2009. The 2nd conference dedicated to the art, science and business of games - presented by Think Services, a Division of United Business Media - returns to the Shanghai Convention Center October 11-13.

April 8th, 2009 SHANGHAI - Asian Game Industry Professionals Look to the Game Developers Conference for Incomparable Learning, Networking, and Inspiration Think Services' 2009 Game Developers Conference(R) (GDC) recently hosted more than 17,000 game industry professionals of which 1,000 delegates traveled from Asia to San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center for a week of learning, networking and inspiration. These Asian delegates represented several key game markets including China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and India.

July 28th, 2009 BEIJING - China's culture ministry has issued an order to all websites prohibiting them to run, publish or offer links to online games featuring mafia-like gangs, and threatened "severe punishment" for those who violate the ban. Such games violated regulations on Internet administration, because they "advocate obscenity, gambling, or violence", and "undermine morality and Chinese traditional culture", said a circular posted on the ministry's website.

July 28th, 2009 China to ban violent online gamesBEIJING — China has banned Web sites from advertising or linking to games that glamorize violence, another step in China's censorship campaign aimed at ensuring social stability ahead of the 60th anniversary of communist rule on Oct. 1. A notice posted on the Culture Ministry Web site on Monday said games that promote drug use, obscenities, gambling, or crimes such as rape, vandalism and theft are "against public morality and the nation's fine cultural traditions." "Such online games promote the glorification of mafia life ...

August 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Farmers, religious workers, sex workers, soldiers, and students are the five most trustworthy groups, according to a survey conducted in China. Carried out by the Research Center of the Xiaokang Magazine, the survey was based on an online poll of more than 3,000 people.

August 16th, 2009 BEIJING - Online gamers in China will be able to play the new 'World of Warcraft' for free until it gets an official approval for commercial operation, the game's developer has said. Shanghai Netease, the game's operator in China, has released an announcement on its website, saying it has finished all facility tests as required by the authorities.

January 3rd, 2009 BEIJING - About 73,500 people lost their lives in road accidents in China last year, a drop by 10 percent from a year ago, the ministry of public security said Sunday. China, which has one of the world's worst safety records, saw 265,204 accidents in 2008, killing 73,484 people and injuring 304,919 others.

April 21st, 2009 China: success in Olympic anti-piracy campaignBEIJING — China, the world's biggest source of illegally copied goods, claimed success Tuesday in fighting the piracy of Olympic products, restricting illegal broadcasts and cracking more than 2,000 cases of illegal use of the Olympics trademark. Big cities in China are awash in fake goods, but officials said they made special effort to prevent unlicensed use of Olympics-related logos and other property ahead of the Beijing Summer Games last August.

July 9th, 2009 THIRUVANANTHAPURAM - Toonz Academy, a leading animation training institute, has tied up with the Anna University Coimbatore, it was announced Thursday. Toonz Academy is the training division of the Toonz Animation Studios operating from the Technopark campus here.

September 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - NIIT, a leading IT training company in India, has bagged five Chinese awards including the one for the Most Influential IT Training Brand in China for its efforts to create well-trained world-class professionals in that country. According to the IT training major, the awards were conferred by the Chinese Society of Educational Development Strategy (CSEDS), which is under China's ministry of education.

March 31st, 2009 BEIJING - China declared Tuesday that it desired mutually beneficial cooperation with India and it posed no threat to New Delhi. 'The leaders of China and India have already reached consensus that the two countries will not pose a threat to each other,' Xinhua quoted foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang as telling reporters here.

September 18th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Chinese Defense Ministry has criticized US Defense Secretary Robert Gates for his "extremely irresponsible" words regarding China being one of America's main challengers. Gates had said that China's investments in cyber and anti-satellite warfare, anti-air and anti-ship weaponry, and ballistic missiles could threaten America's move to project power and help its allies in the Pacific.