We have a limited operating history upon which an evaluation of our current business and prospects can be based. Potential investors should consider any purchase of our common shares in light of the risks, expenses and problems frequently encountered by all companies in the early stages of development. We have received limited revenues from our operations and expect that most of our revenues in the foreseeable future will be dependant upon the implementation of our business plan.

In creating the suite of services that we propose to offer through our financial portals, we will need to rely upon partnerships or collaborations with other companies such as on-line trading facilities and there can be no guarantees that we will be able to enter into such collaborations or partnerships to provide these services. We may never achieve profitability.

We are pursuing a number of growth strategies, which will require us to expand our data and information content and service offerings through internal development efforts. We also seek partnerships, and potentially joint ventures and acquisitions with providers oof financial products and services to customers in North America and Asia to implement our growth strategies. Some of these strategies relate to new service offerings for which there are no established markets in North America or the PRC, or relate to service offerings in which we lack experience and expertise. We cannot assure you that we will be able to deliver new service offerings on a commercially viable basis or in a timely manner, or at all.

In addition to our premium subscription based service offerings, we also intend to increase our online banner advertising revenue from our website by increasing the number of sponsors for some of our website content. Our current online advertising business has been limited and, to date, we do not have significant experience with selling Internet-based banner advertising. In addition, we intend to increase revenue through NAI’s investment seminars and conferences. In order to successfully implement our growth strategies, we would need to hire additional employees and incur costs relating to any efforts to increase our advertising revenues and investment seminar and conference revenues, which could adversely affect our financial condition and operating results. We cannot assure you that we will be able to efficiently or effectively implement our growth strategies by offering premium subscription services, advertising, and seminars. If we are unable to successfully implement our growth strategies, our revenue and profitability will not grow as we expect, if at all, and our competitiveness may be materially and adversely affected.

We have enhanced our design and our technological infrastructure to further improve our websites and to accommodate increased traffic, and intend to continue such development activities. However, unforeseen development difficulties could prevent us from implementing such improvements or cause the costs to implement such improvements, including design, technology and related costs, to be higher than anticipated.

In the past, we have experienced spikes in traffic on our websites when there have been important financial news events. Accordingly, our websites must accommodate a high volume of traffic, often at unexpected times. Although we have upgraded and continue to improve our systems, our websites have in the past, and may in the future, experience publishing problems, slower response times than usual or other problems for a variety of reasons. These occurrences could cause our readers to perceive our websites as not functioning properly and, therefore, cause them to use other methods to obtain their financial news and information. In such a case, our business, results of operations and financial condition could be materially adversely affected.

We currently offer to our premium subscribers a small number of personalized service packages with different features and functionalities. If we introduce a new feature or a new research tool that is not favorably received, our current premium subscribers may not continue to use our service as frequently as before. New subscribers could also choose a competitive or different service offering over ours. We may also experience difficulties that could delay or prevent us from introducing new research tools or features. Furthermore, these research tools or features may contain errors that are discovered after the services are introduced. We may need to significantly modify the design of these research tools or features to correct these errors. Our business could be materially and adversely affected if we experience difficulties or delays in introducing new features and research tools or if these new features and research tools are not accepted by user.

We depend on the sale of our premium service packages such as MyCWN for a portion of our revenues. We charge premium subscribers a monthly subscription fee of $9.95 or an annual fee of $59.95. We also offer real-time streaming stock quotes at different levels ranging from $30 to $40 per month. As our premium service packages become more comprehensive and higher priced, we expect that our future revenues and revenue growth will increasingly depend on sales of our premium service packages to a much greater extent than other streams of revenue such as those from our banner advertising. If we fail to attract a sufficient number of subscribers to our premium service packages, our revenues could decline. Moreover, our financial success depends on our ability to retain our subscribers who pay no fee and migrate them to our premium service packages. We may not be able to continue to develop newer and more comprehensive service packages that our subscribers will be willing to purchase. If we are unsuccessful at developing new premium services packages that are attractive to our users, or if our users continue to use our free services rather than purchase premium services, our revenues could decline.

We depend on establishing and maintaining content syndication and headline indexing relationships with high-traffic websites for a portion of our current subscriber and reader base. There is intense competition for relationships with these firms and placement on these sites, and we may have to pay significant fees to establish additional content syndication and headline indexing relationships or maintain existing relationships in the future. We may be unable to enter into or successfully renew relationships with these firms or sites on commercially reasonable terms. These relationships may not attract significant numbers of subscribers or readers.

Many companies that we may approach for a strategic relationship or who already have strategic relationships with us also provide financial news and information from other sources. As a result, these companies may be reluctant to enter into or maintain strategic relationships with us. Our business, results of operations and financial condition could be materially adversely affected if we do not establish additional, and maintain existing, strategic relationships on commercially reasonable terms or if any of our strategic relationships do not result in an increase in the number of subscribers or readers of our websites.

The web-based information market is new and rapidly evolving. Our business would be materially adversely affected if web usage does not continue to grow or grows slowly. Web usage may be inhibited for a number of reasons beyond our control, such as:

Our readers depend on Internet service providers, online service providers and other website operators for access to our websites. Many of these companies providing such services have filed for bankruptcy. Many have experienced significant service outages in the past and could experience service outages, delays and other difficulties due to system failures unrelated to our systems. These occurrences could cause our readers to perceive the web in general or our websites in particular as an unreliable medium and, therefore, cause them to use other media to obtain their financial news and information. We also depend on a number of information providers to deliver information and data feeds to it on a timely basis. Our websites could experience disruptions or interruptions in service due to the failure or delay in the transmission or receipt of this information, which could materially adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Because our services can be used to download and distribute information to others, there is a risk that claims may be made against us for defamation, negligence, copyright or trademark infringement or other claims based on the nature and content of that material, such as violation of censorship laws in the PRC. In addition, we do not carry any liability insurance to indemnify us for all liability that may be imposed. Any imposition of liability could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

We are paid by companies to produce company reviews, which are distributed to target investors by email and mail and published on our website. Our users may request and receive directly from us a hard copy of any such review. We make no recommendation for the purchase of securities in any of our public company clients’ securities and each report contains a disclaimer to that effect. We do not send out unsolicited copies of the reports on our client companies’ behalf. We receive a fee from the client company for preparing the report but receive no underlying interest in the client company’s securities nor do we take any position in those securities.

Although we have a disclaimer on each review, it may be perceived by users that we are endorsing our client companies as an investment. Potential liability issues may arise should our users invest in these companies and lose money based upon an inaccurate perception that we have endorsed such an investment. Liability issues include the defence of a law suit that could be brought by a user seeking compensation for the losses it has suffered which could involve us in costly and time-consuming litigation in defending such a suit. We have no liability insurance in place to protect us against such a potential suit.

 Users who subscribe to our premium subscription-based products are required to furnish certain personal information which we use to administer our services. We also require users of some of our free products and features to provide us with certain personal information. Additionally, we rely on security and authentication technology licensed from third parties to perform real-time credit card authorization and verification, and at times rely on third parties, including technology consulting firms, to help protect its infrastructure from security threats. In this regard, our users depend on us to keep their personal information safe and private and not to disclose it to third parties or permit its security to be breached. If our users perceive that we are not protecting their privacy, or if the technology developed by these third parties that we use does not function as anticipated and our information security measures are breached, our users could be discouraged from registering to use our free services or our premium services, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Our business is dependent on user demand for market intelligence on various securities markets, including PRC’s securities markets. The demand for investment in PRC’s securities markets has fluctuated with the level of trading activity there. During the past several years, PRC’s securities markets have experienced significant decline. On June 6, 2005, the Shanghai Stock Exchange Index reached its lowest level since March 1997, over the past five years both the Shanghai Stock Exchange A-Share Index and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange Index have experienced significant decline in index value. If the PRC’s securities markets continue to weaken, and if investors’ interest in PRC’s securities markets continues to decline, our business could be significantly and adversely affected.

A substantial percentage of our IR/PR business and the planned Portal business, which are explained in more detail under Item 4 - “Information on the Company,” are individual and short-term projects billed on a fixed-price basis as distinguished from a method of billing on a time and materials basis. Our failure to obtain new business in any given quarter or estimate accurately the resources and time required for an engagement, to manage client expectations effectively regarding the scope of services to be delivered for the estimated fees or to complete fixed-price engagements within budget, on time and to clients’ satisfaction could expose us to risks associated with cost overruns, which could have a material adverse effect on our business.

As a part of the investor relations and public relations services that NAI offers, the organization of Chinese investment seminars provides for a significant portion of our total revenues. NAI charges a fee of $4,000 per presenting company and $2,000 for basic exhibition booths at these seminars. Individual investors however, are permitted to attend free of charge. Presenting companies and companies with exhibition booths typically attend for the purpose of meeting individual investors. If we fail to attract a sufficient number of individual investors to our seminars, we may experience a decline in our attendees who pay a fee to attend the seminars which would adversely affect our revenues.

The online financial data and information services market is characterized by rapid advancements in technology, evolving industry standards and changes in customer needs. New services or technologies may render our existing services or technologies less competitive or obsolete. Responding and adapting to technological developments and standard changes in our industry, the integration of new technologies or industry standards or the upgrading of our networks may require substantial time, effort and capital investment. In the event that we are unable to respond successfully to technological industry developments, this may materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations and competitiveness.

We offer our subscribers trained customer support through a toll free telephone number to call when they are in North America. Our trained customer support personnel are available to our subscribers to assist in English, Cantonese or Mandarin with their technical problems as well as personalized account problems and content search needs. We depend on our customer support force to explain our service offerings to our existing and potential subscribers and resolve our subscribers’ problems. Many of our customer support personnel have only worked for us for a short period of time, and some of them may not have received sufficient training or gained sufficient experience to effectively serve our customers. In addition, we will need to further increase the size of our customer support force as our business continues to grow. We may not be able to hire, retain, integrate or motivate additional customer support personnel without any short-term disruptions of our operations. Also, hiring multilingual staff can be difficult. As a result, our business could be adversely affected if we do not continue to expand and maintain an effective customer support force.

Our performance is substantially dependent on the performance of our senior management and key technical personnel. In particular, our success depends on the continued effort of our senior management team. In addition, we intend to grant stock options to many of our employees in lieu of additional salary. Due to potential fluctuation of our future share price, our employees may have options at strike prices far above the then current share price. As a result, many of our employees may not consider their options to be valuable compensation, and we may need to provide additional compensation, in the form of additional salary, bonuses or equity, in an effort to retain our existing employees. Our inability to retain our employees, particularly our senior officers, and key sales, technical, marketing and other service personnel in our key revenue producing businesses could have a material adverse effect on our prospects, business, operations, financial conditions and share price.

We believe revenues from current operations combined with our cash resources are adequate to fund our current marketing program in North America. However, we expect to need to secure additional financing to implement our planned expansion into Asia. We have not entered into any agreements with respect to this additional financing but expect to raise such funds through debt or the offering of stock to accredited investors. In the event that there is an opportunity for an acquisition and additional funds are needed, we may not be successful in raising a sufficient amount of additional capital or in internally generating a sufficient amount of capital to fund this purpose. See Item 4 “Information on the Company”

The online financial data and information services market for the Chinese community in North America is relatively new, has few substantial barriers to entry and is competitive and rapidly changing. More broadly, the number of financial news and information sources competing for consumers’ attention and spending has increased since we commenced operations and we expect that competition will continue to intensify. We currently compete, directly and indirectly, for paying subscribers and viewers with companies in the business of providing financial data and information services, including publishers and distributors of traditional media, Internet portals providing information on business, finance and investing, dedicated financial information websites, personal stock research software vendors and stock brokerage companies, especially stock brokerage companies with online trading capabilities.

Many of our existing competitors, as well as a number of potential new competitors, have longer operating histories, greater name recognition, larger customer bases and significantly greater financial, technical and marketing resources than we do. This may allow them to adopt our business model and devote greater resources than we can to the development and promotion of service offerings similar to or more advanced than our own. These competitors may also engage in more extensive research and development, undertake more far-reaching marketing campaigns, adopt more aggressive pricing policies and offer products and services that achieve greater market acceptance than ours. They may also undercut us by making more attractive offers to our existing and potential employees, content providers and sponsors. New and increased competition could result in price reductions for our research tools, reduced margin or loss of market share, any of which could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.

In addition, a number of companies in PRC offer stock quotes, economic and company-specific news, historical stock performance statistics, online chatting regarding individual securities and other features for free over the Internet. If users determine that the information available for free over the Internet is sufficient for their investing needs, they would be unlikely to pay for subscription to our services, thus reducing our revenues and net income and forcing us to develop a new business model. Furthermore, the amount and quality of information available for free over the Internet may expand in the future, reducing the attractiveness of our services and forcing us to spend additional money to develop more sophisticated services in order to compete. There can be no assurance that we would be successful in developing a new business model or more advanced services in response to either of the above challenges. Failure to do so would lead to significant declines in our number of subscribers, revenues and net income.

We currently own and license technology from third parties. As we continue to introduce new services that require new technology, we anticipate that we may need to license additional third-party technology. These existing and additional technology licenses may not be available to us on commercially reasonable terms, if at all. In addition, it is possible that in the course of using new technology, we may inadvertently breach the technology rights of third parties and face liability for our breach. Our inability to obtain these technology licenses or avoid breaching third party technology rights could delay or compromise our introduction of new services and could materially and adversely affect our business and financial condition.

We cannot be certain that our website content and online services and tools do not or will not infringe upon patents, valid copyrights or other intellectual property rights held by third parties. We may become subject to legal proceedings and claims from time to time relating to the intellectual property of others in the ordinary course of our business. If we are found to have violated the intellectual property rights of others, we may be enjoined from using such intellectual property, and we may incur licensing fees or be forced to develop alternatives. In addition, we may incur substantial expenses in defending against these third party infringement claims, regardless of their merit. Successful infringement or licensing claims against us may result in substantial monetary liabilities, which may materially and adversely affect our business.

We enter into confidentiality agreements with our employees and consultants, and control access to and distribution of our documentation and other licensed information. In spite of these precautions, it may be possible for such persons to breach such precautions or controls or a third-party to copy or otherwise obtain and use our licensed services or technology without authorization, or to develop and apply similar technology independently. In addition, effective copyright, trademark and trade secret protection may be unavailable or limited, and the global nature of the Internet and the media makes it practically impossible to control the ultimate destination of our products. Policing the unauthorized use of our licensed technology is difficult as are the steps necessary to prevent the misappropriation or infringement of our licensed technology. In addition, further litigation may be necessary to enforce our intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets or to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others, which could result in substantial cost to us, divert our resources and have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

We have acquired, and intend to continue to acquire, companies and assets that we believe will enhance our revenue growth, operations and profitability. Our acquisitions may result in the use of significant amounts of cash, dilutive issuances of our common shares and amortization expenses related to goodwill and other intangible assets, each of which could materially and adversely affect our business. These acquisitions involve significant risks, including:

If economic and other conditions further deteriorate, or if market or other values continue to fluctuate, we may need to provide for further decreases in value or increased unrealized losses. Our results of operations, financial condition, prospects and share price could be adversely and materially affected, particularly if we are unable to hedge or adequately hedge our exposure to reduced valuations.

Our future acquisitions may result in the use of significant amounts of cash, dilutive issuances of our common shares and amortization expenses related to goodwill and other intangible assets, each of which could materially and adversely affect our financial condition. In addition, there is no guarantee that those acquisitions will actually enhance our revenue, operations and profitability. If those benefits do not materialize as expected, our financial conditions may worsen to include lower cash balance, lower profitability, higher debt level and lower credit rating. These will likely affect our ability to receive favourable debt or equity financing. As a result, we may need to accept a less than favourable financing such as issuing debt at a higher interest rate or issuing common shares at below book value or market value, should we require additional capital for our operations.

A number of financial news and information sources compete for consumers’ and advertisers’ attention and spending. We compete for advertisers, readers, staff and outside contributors with many types of companies, including:

Our ability to compete depends on many factors, including the originality, timeliness, insightfulness and trustworthiness of our content and that of our competitors, the ease of use of services developed either by us or our competitors and the effectiveness of our sales and marketing efforts.

Many of our existing competitors, as well as a number of potential new competitors, have longer operating histories, greater name recognition, larger customer bases and significantly greater financial, technical and marketing resources than we do. This may allow them to devote greater resources than we can to the development and promotion of their services. These competitors may also engage in more extensive research and development, undertake more far-reaching marketing campaigns, adopt more aggressive pricing policies (including offering more of their financial news and commentary for free) and make more attractive offers to existing and potential employees, outside contributors, strategic partners and advertisers. Our competitors may develop content that is equal or superior to our content or that achieves greater market acceptance than our content. It is also possible that new competitors may emerge and rapidly acquire significant market share. We may not be able to compete successfully for advertisers, readers, staff or outside contributors, which could materially adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. Increased competition could result in price reductions, reduced margins or loss of market share, any of which could materially adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Problems or failures in our Internet-related equipment, including our file servers, computers and software could result in interruptions or slower response times on our websites, which could reduce the attractiveness of our websites to advertisers and users. Equipment problems and failures could result from a number of causes, including an increase in the number of users of our websites, computer viruses, outside programmers penetrating and disrupting our software systems, human error, fires, floods, power and telecommunications failures, and internal breakdowns. In addition, any disruption in Internet access provided by third parties could have an adverse effect on our ability to provide the services that it proposes to offer to our members which in turn may have an adverse effect on the number of members we are able to attract to our websites.

Inappropriate use of our Internet services or errors or omissions in processing instructions or data available in our computer system or databases could jeopardize the security of confidential information stored in our computer system, which may cause us to lose key clients, expose us to liability for our clients’ losses and prevent us from securing future business, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our prospects, business, financial condition, results of operations and share price.

Inappropriate use of the Internet includes attempting to gain unauthorized access to information or systems—commonly known as cracking or hacking. Our current policies, procedures and configurations for managing our systems, including our computer servers, may not be adequate to protect our facilities and the integrity of our user and customer information. Although we intend to implement security measures to protect our facilities and the integrity of our user and customer information, such measures could be ineffective or circumvented. Alleviating problems caused by computer viruses or other inappropriate uses or security breaches may require interruptions, delays or cessation in our services, in addition to the outages that occur in our systems from time to time for various reasons, including power interruptions, errors in instructions, equipment inadequacy, capacity and other technical problems. We do not carry errors and omissions or other insurance covering losses or liabilities caused by computer viruses or security breaches. Compromises or breaches in the security or integrity of our facilities or customer or user information, or inappropriate use of our Internet services, could subject us to litigation and could adversely affect our customer base, business, prospects, share price, results of operation and financial condition.

Existing domestic and international laws or regulations and private industry guidelines specifically regulate communications or commerce on the web. Further, laws and regulations that address issues such as user privacy, pricing, online content regulation, taxation of electronic commerce transactions and the characteristics and quality of online products and services are under consideration by federal, state, local and foreign governments and agencies and by private industry groups. Several telecommunications companies have petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to regulate Internet service providers and online services providers in a manner similar to the regulation of long distance telephone carriers and to impose access fees on such companies. The governments of other states or foreign countries might attempt to regulate our transmissions or levy sales or other taxes relating to our activities. These regulations, if imposed, could increase the cost of transmitting data over the web.

The interpretation and application of existing securities laws to web-based financial news providers, including laws governing investment advisors, investment companies and broker/dealers, by the Securities and Exchange Commission and state securities regulators, is a developing area. If, as this area matures, our activity is interpreted as subjecting it to regulation, we could be subject to liability, and our business, results of operations and financial condition could be materially and adversely affected.

We are also subject to various federal and state regulations concerning the collection and use of information regarding individuals. These laws include the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, and state laws which limit or preclude the use of voter registration and drivers’ license information, as well as other laws that govern the collection and use of consumer credit and financial information, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Although our compliance with applicable federal and state laws, regulations and industry guidelines has not had a material adverse effect on our business, governments, trade associations and industry self-regulatory groups may enact more burdensome laws, regulations and guidelines, including antitrust and consumer privacy laws, for us and our customers. The U.S. federal and various state governments have been investigating certain Internet companies regarding their use of personal information and have recently proposed limitations on the collection and use of information regarding Internet users. The European Union has enacted its own privacy regulations that may result in limits on the collection and use of certain information from users in Europe. We could incur additional expenses if any new regulations regarding the use of personal information are introduced or if these agencies chose to investigate our privacy practices. Also, as a consequence of governmental legislation or regulation or enforcement efforts or evolving standards of fair information collection practices, we may be required to make changes to our products or services in ways that could diminish the effectiveness of the product or service or our attractiveness to potential customers, which could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations. Any new laws or regulations relating to the web, or certain application or interpretation of existing laws, could decrease the growth in the use of the web, decrease the demand for our websites or otherwise materially adversely affect our business.

Laws and regulations directly applicable to Internet communications, commerce and advertising are becoming more prevalent, and new laws and regulations are under consideration by the U.S. Congress and state legislatures. Any legislation enacted or restrictions arising from current or future government investigations or policy could dampen the growth in use of the Internet generally and decrease the acceptance of the Internet as a communications, commercial and advertising medium. The laws governing the Internet remain largely unsettled, even in areas where there has been some legislative action. Moreover, it may take years to determine the extent to which existing laws relating to issues such as intellectual property ownership and infringement, libel, obscenity and personal privacy apply to the Internet and Internet advertising.

A significant barrier to electronic commerce and communications over the Internet in general has been a public concern over security and privacy, especially the transmission of confidential information. If these concerns are not adequately addressed, they may inhibit the growth of the Internet and other online services generally, especially as a means of conducting commercial transactions. If a well-publicized Internet breach of security were to occur, general Internet usage could decline, which could reduce traffic to our destination sites and impede our growth.

A substantial portion of our business is conducted outside of the United States and as a result our operations could be subject to various risks such as the possibility of the loss of revenue, property or equipment due to expropriation, nationalization, war, insurrection, terrorism or civil disturbance, the instability of foreign economies, currency fluctuations and devaluations, adverse tax policies and governmental activities that may limit or disrupt markets, restrict payments or the movement of funds or result in the deprivation of contract rights. Additionally, our ability to compete could be adversely affected by foreign governmental regulations that encourage or mandate the hiring of local contractors, or by regulations that require foreign contractors to employ citizens of, or purchase supplies from vendors in a particular jurisdiction. We could also be subject to taxation in a number of jurisdictions, and the final determination of our tax liabilities might involve the interpretation of the statutes and requirements of various domestic and foreign taxing authorities.

Our revenue growth also depends on the increasing acceptance and use of electronic commerce in the region comprised of the PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan (referred in this Report as “Greater China”). The Internet may not become a viable commercial marketplace in Asia for various reasons, many of which are beyond our control, including: inexperience with the Internet as a sales and distribution channel; inadequate development of the necessary infrastructure to facilitate electronic commerce; concerns about security, reliability, cost, ease of deployment, administration and quality of service associated with conducting business over the Internet; and inexperience with credit card usage or with other means of electronic payment in the PRC.

If the Internet does not become more widely accepted as a medium for electronic commerce, our ability to generate increased revenue will be negatively affected.

The development of Web software that blocks Internet advertisements before they appear on a user’s screen may hinder the growth of online advertising. The expansion of ad blocking on the Internet may decrease our revenues because when an ad is blocked, it will not be downloaded from our ad server, which means these advertisements will not be tracked as a delivered advertisement. In addition, advertisers may choose not to advertise on the Internet or on our advertising network because of the use of Internet advertisement blocking software. The use of software that blocks Internet advertisements may materially and adversely affect our business.

The market for Internet services in Greater China and Asia has only recently begun to develop. Since the Internet is an unproven medium for advertising and other commercial services, our future operating results from online advertising and electronic business solutions services will depend substantially upon the increased use of the Internet for information, publication, distribution and commerce and the emergence of the Internet as an effective advertising medium in Greater China and Asia. Many of our customers will have limited experience with the Internet as an advertising medium or sales and distribution channel, will not have devoted a significant portion of their advertising expenditures or other available funds to Web-based advertising or website development and may not find the Internet to be effective for promoting their products and services relative to traditional print and broadcast media.

Unlike Taiwan and Hong Kong, where the telecommunications infrastructure is comparable to U.S. standards and where private companies compete as ISPs, the telecommunications infrastructure in PRC is not as well developed. In addition, access to the Internet in PRC is accomplished primarily by means of the government’s backbone of separate national interconnecting networks that connect with the international gateway to the Internet. This gateway is owned and operated by the Chinese government and is the only means for the domestic Chinese Internet network to connect to the international Internet network. Although private sector ISPs exist in PRC, almost all access to the Internet is accomplished through ChinaNet, PRC’s primary commercial network, which is owned and operated by the Chinese government. We will rely on this backbone and telecom companies to provide data communications capacity primarily through local telecommunications lines. As a result, we will continue to depend on the Chinese government to establish and maintain a reliable Internet infrastructure to reach a broader base of Internet users in PRC. We will have no means of accessing alternative networks and services in PRC, on a timely basis or at all, in the event of any disruption or failure. The Internet infrastructure in PRC may not support the demands associated with continued growth. If the necessary infrastructure standards or protocols or complementary products, services or facilities are not developed by the Chinese government, our business could be materially and adversely affected.

We expect to derive a substantial percentage of our revenues from the Greater China market. Changes in political or economic conditions in the region are difficult to predict and could adversely affect our operations or cause the Greater China market to become less attractive to advertisers, which could reduce our revenues. We intend to maintain a strong local identity and presence in each of the regions in the Greater China market, although we may not be able to maintain effectively this local identity if political conditions were to change.

In addition, economic reforms in the region could affect our business in ways that are difficult to predict. For example, since the late 1970s, the Chinese government has been reforming the Chinese economic system to emphasize enterprise autonomy and the utilization of market mechanisms. Although we believe that these reform measures have had a positive effect on the economic development in PRC, they may not be effective or benefit our business.

PRC has enacted regulations governing Internet access and the distribution of news and other information. The Ministry of Information Industry (the “MII”) has published implementing regulations that subject online information providers to potential liability for content included on their portals and the actions of subscribers and others using their systems, including liability for violation of Chinese laws prohibiting the distribution of content deemed to be socially destabilizing. Because many Chinese laws, regulations and legal requirements with regard to the Internet are relatively new and untested, their interpretation and enforcement of what is deemed to be socially destabilizing by Chinese authorities may involve significant uncertainty. Under the PRC’s regulations on telecommunications and Internet information services, Internet information service providers are prohibited from producing, duplicating, releasing or distributing any information which falls within one or more of nine stipulated categories of “undesirable content”. These categories cover any information which:

We intend to generate revenues and incur expenses and liabilities in Chinese renminbi, Taiwan dollars, Hong Kong dollars, Canadian dollars and U.S. dollars. As a result, we are subject to the effects of exchange rate fluctuations with respect to any of these currencies. For example, the value of the renminbi depends to a large extent on PRC’s domestic and international economic and political developments, as well as supply and demand in the local market. Since July of 1995, the official exchange rate for the conversion of renminbi to U.S. dollars has been free floating and the renminbi has appreciated slightly against the U.S. dollar. So the renminbi may not continue to remain stable against the U.S. dollar or any other foreign currency. Our results of operations and financial condition may be affected by changes in the value of renminbi and other currencies in which our earnings and obligations are denominated. We have not entered into agreements or purchased instruments to hedge our exchange rate risks, although we may do so in the future.

Although Chinese governmental policies were introduced in 1996 to allow the convertibility of renminbi into foreign currency for current account items, conversion of renminbi into foreign exchange for capital items, such as foreign direct investment, loans or security, requires the approval of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, or SAFE, which is under the authority of the People’s Bank of China. These approvals, however, do not guarantee the availability of foreign currency. We may not be able to obtain all required conversion approvals for our operations, and Chinese regulatory authorities may impose greater restrictions on the convertibility of the renminbi in the future. Because a significant amount of our future revenues may be in the form of renminbi, our inability to obtain the requisite approvals or any future restrictions on currency exchanges will limit our ability to utilize revenue generated in renminbi to fund our business activities outside the PRC.