Thursday, January 31, 2008

Origin Agritech Limited

Industry: Agriculture

Main business locations: China

Registered address:
Kingston Chambers
P.O. Box 173
Road Town
Tortola
British Virgin Islands

Incorporation date: February 10, 2005

Listed on: NASDAQ
Ticker: SEED

Financial highlights (2006 9m):
Total assets: USD 124,508,000
Total shareholders’ equity: USD 58,018,000
Net revenues: USD 66,169,000
Gross profit: USD 20,774,000
Total operating expenses: USD 13,652,000
Income before income taxes: USD 9,589,000
Net income: USD 9,658,000
Net income per share: USD 0.41

Main shareholders:
  • Sinodream Limited (BVI registered personal holding company of CEO Gengchen Han) 14.2%
  • Bonasmart Limited (BVI registered personal holding company of Director Liang Yuan) 8.3%
  • Leekdon Limited (BVI registered personal holding company of President Yasheng Yang) 14.2%
BVI registered subsidiaries:
State Harvest Holdings Limited (Investment holding company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on October 6, 2004)

About the BVI company:
Origin Agritech Limited is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and headquartered in Beijing, China. It is an agricultural biotechnology company working in seed industry and specializing in research, development, production, sale and distribution of agricultural crop seeds, - hybrid corn, rice, cotton and canola. By 2006, the company introduced to the market sixteen new proprietary seeds, developed internally.

Origin Agritech conducts business operations mainly through its private companies Beijing Origin Seed Technology Inc., Changchun Origin Seed Technology Development Ltd., Henan Origin Cotton Technology development Ltd., Zhengcheng Rice Seed Ltd., Changrong seed Ltd., and Beijing Origin State harvest Biotechnology Ltd.

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Yucheng Technologies Limited

Industry: Information Technology

Main business locations: China

Registered address:
Offshore Incorporations Center,
P.O. Pox 957,
Road Town, Tortola,
British Virgin Islands

Incorporation date: November 24, 2006

Financial highlights:
Total Assets (2006): USD 49,834,239
Total Revenues(2006): USD 39,979,849
Total Operating Expenses(2006): USD 4,629,056
Net Income(2006): USD 6,110,108
Total Outstanding Shares: 16,394,806
Stockholder's Equity (2006): USD 31,071,683

BVI Subsidiaries (100% ownership):
Port Wing Development Co., Ltd. (incorporated in BVI, Nov 3,2005)
Ahead Billion Venture Ltd. (incorporated in BVI, Nov 3,2005)

About the BVI company:
The main business of Yucheng Technologies Limited (YTEC) is providing IT and outsourced services to the Chinese banking industry. The company is registered in the British Virgin Islands and headquartered in Beijing, China. It has nine subsidiaries and representative offices located in China, to serve its banking clients nationwide. Yucheng provides IT solutions and services to Chinese banks in the following fields: IT consulting, solutions and software platform, system integration, and outsourced operations. The company specializes in banking channel management IT solutions and services, such as web banking and call centers, business processing solutions, risk/performance management solution consulting and implementation service.

Yucheng becomes one of the leading third party providers of POS merchant acquiring services in partnership with banks. 13 of the 15 top banks in China are the customers of the BVI company. The BVI company is a combined entity of China Unistone Acquisition Corporation, Beijing Sihitech Co., Ltd., Beijing e-Channels Century Technology Co., Ltd.

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

LJ International Incorporated

Industry: Consumer Goods and Services

Main business locations: Hong Kong, China, USA

Registered address:
PO Box 957
Offshore Incorporation Centre
Road Town, Tortola
British Virgin Islands

Incorporation year: 1987

BVI registration number: 216796

Listed on: NASDAQ
Ticker: JADE

Financial highlights (2006 9 months):
Total assets: USD 129,548,000
Total stockholders’ equity: USD 57, 073,000
Gross profit: USD 22,358,000
Income before income taxes: USD 3,490,000
Net income: USD 3,081,000
Earnings per share: USD 0,15

British Virgin Islands counsel: Harney Westwood & Riegels

Auditors: Moores Rowland Mazars

About the BVI company:
LJ International Inc. together with its subsidiaries (the Group) is focused on designing, branding, marketing, retailing and distributing full range of jewelry to jewelers, national jewelry chains, department stores, electronic and specialty retailers. The company is based in Hong Kong, but makes its main manufacturing operations in the People's Republic of China. The largest amount of products is sold in the United States of America. The LJ Group also owns commercial and residential properties in Hong Kong, primarily for investment purposes.
The company launched its Initial Public Offering on the NASDAQ in April 1998.

Monday, January 14, 2008

China Natural Resources Inc.

Industry: Mining

Main business locations: China

Registered Office:
Sea Meadow House,
Blackburne Highway,
P.O. Box 116,
Tortola, British Virgin Islands

Date of Incorporation: December 14, 1993

Listed on: NASDAQ
Ticker: CHNR

Financial highlights (thousands Rmb):
Net sales (2006): 145,389
Net income (2006): 72,548
Total Assets (2006): 180,765
Current assets (2006): 143,330
Shareholder’s equity (2006): 130,531

Auditors: GHP Horwath P.C.

BVI subsidiaries:
Silver Moon Technologies Limited (incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on March 24, 2000)
Sunwide Capital Limited (incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on January 22, 2001)
Feishang Mining Holdings Limited (incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on September 2004)

About the BVI company:

BVI-registered and Hong Kong-based China Natural Resources Inc. (CNRI) is one of important natural resources development companies operating in China. The company receives most of its earnings from the sale of zinc and iron.

Being incorporated on December 1993, in 2004 China Natural Resources merged with Nevada-based China Resources, which was founded in 1986 (the "Re-domicile Merger"). CNRI has succeeded all the rights and obligations of China Resources under the existing agreements and relationships.

Prior to the Re-domicile Merger, the Company's common shares were traded on the NASDAQ under the symbol “CHRB”. Following the Re-domicile Merger, the trading symbol was changed to “CHNR”.

Also, in 2006 CHNR acquired all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of Feishang Mining Holdings Limited (FMH) from its former owner, - the British Virgin Islands company Feishang Group Limited.

FMH was incorporated in the British Virgin Islands in September 2004. FMH is the beneficial owner of 100% of the capital stock of Chinese company Wuhu Feishang Mining Development Co. Limited. All the operations of FMH are conducted through Wuhu.

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Eurotech Holdings Company Limited

Industry: Energy and Environment

Main business locations: Hong Kong and China

Registered Office:
TrustNet Chambers,
P.O. Box 3444,
Road Town, Tortola,
British Virgin Islands

Incorporation date: September 30, 1996

Listed on: NASDAQ
Ticker: CLWT

Financial highlights (2006):
Total assets: USD 19,975,000
Issued and outstanding shares: USD 94,000
Total equity: USD 12,990,000

Auditors:
PriceWater House Coopers
BDO International

BVI Subsidiaries: Pact Asia Pacific Limited (51% ownership)
Registered office:
Offshore Incorporations Limited,
P.O. Box 957,
Offshore Incorporations Centre, Road Town, Tortola, BVI

About the BVI company:

EuroTech Holdings Company Limited is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands and headquartered in Hong Kong. Together with its Hong Kong- and BVI-based subsidiaries, the company is engaged in manufacturing and distribution of automated process control, analytical instruments and testing equipment in the area of water and waste water treatment, wastewater plants and environmental protection monitoring stations.

The main operating subsidiary of EuroTech Holdings is Hong Kong-registered Euro Tech (Far East) Limited, engaged in the marketing and trading of water and waste water related process control, analytical and testing instruments, and other products in Hong Kong and PRC.

One of company's majority owned subsidiaries, Pact Asia Pacific Limited, is also registered in the British Virgin Islands. Principal activities of this BVI company are selling of environmental protection equipment, undertaking environment protection projects and providing relevant technology advice, training and services.

Beside Hong Kong office, Euro Tech has twelve other offices located in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Xian, Shenyang, Wuhan, Dalian, FuZhou, Suzhou, Dongguan, Cheng Du, Qing Dao, Urumqi and one assembly plant located in Pudong, Shanghai.

Saturday, January 5, 2008

China Technology Development Group Corporation

Industry: Energy and Environment

Main business locations: China

Registered Office:
Craigmuir Chambers,
P.O.Box 71,
Road Town,
Tortola,
British Virgin Islands

Registered agent: Harneys Corporate Services Limited

Date of Incorporation: 1995

Listed on: NASDAQ
Ticker: CTDC

Financial highlights:
Total Assets (2006): USD 8,297,000
Shareholder’s equity (2006): USD 6,489,000
Net loss (2006): USD 14,371,000
Loss per share (2006): USD 1.27

Legal Adviser: Baker & McKenzie

Auditors: Friedman LLP

Bankers: China Merchants Bank Hong Kong branch

Subsidiaries:
- Jing Tai Industrial Investment Co. Ltd. (Hong Kong registered company)
- BHL Networks Technology Co Ltd (Hong Kong registered company)
- Jingle Technology Co Ltd (BVI registered company)
- BHL Networks Technology Co Ltd (Cayman Islands registered company)
- Beijing BHL Networks Technology Co Ltd (China registered company)
- Zhejiang University (Hangzhou) Innoessen Bio-technology Inc. (China registered company)
- China Green Industry Group Limited (BVI registered company)
- Green Energy Industry Limited (BVI registered company)
- Fullwing Limited (BVI registered company)
- Margot Limited (BVI registered company)
- China Green Holdings Limited (BVI registered company)
- Sinofield Group Limited (BVI registered company)
- Southwick International Limited (BVI registered company)
- Trenda International Limited (BVI registered company)
- Shenzhen Innoessen Bio-Tech Inc. (China registered company)
- China Merchants Zhangzhou Development Zone Innoessen Biotech Co., Ltd (China registered company)
- China Green Investment Group Limited (China registered company)
- China Green Food Investment Limited (BVI registered company)
- Wellknown Limited (BVI registered company)
- Green China Club Limited (BVI registered company)
- China Natures Technology Inc. (BVI registered company)
Registered Office: Trident Chambers, P.O.Box 146, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands
Date of incorporation : 28 January 2003
Registration number: 531367

About the BVI company:

China Technology Development Group Corporation is focused on providing renewable energy solutions, working in the solar energy business in China.

The BVI company was one of the first groups of Chinese companies to list on the NASDAQ. Currently, it is the only NASDAQ listed subsidiary of China Merchants Group, - a diversified conglomerate with over HK$60 billion (US$7.7 billion) in total assets.

CTDC has entered the solar energy sector in 2007, and now it is the pioneer producer of cutting-edge thin-film technology in the Photovoltaic industry in China. Additionally, the company manufactures and distributes PV application and other energy-saving products.