NEWS RELEASE

June 6, 2000

INTERNET-CHINESE SOCIETY ORGANIZED

Singapore - At the pivotal 4th Global Chinese Conference on Computers in Education, entitled "GCCCE 2000: Teaching and Learning in the New Millennium", a group of key participants of Internet-Chinese Workshop was inspired at the end of workshop to meet from May 28 to June 3, to organize a society to promote the use of Internet-Chinese script for email, Web, and other Internet applications to facilitate East-West communication and world trade in the Chinese language. In anticipation of new, emerging and fast-moving technologies for wide-range applications, Internet-Chinese language technology was designed and developed to provide the same usability and functionality as the English language by Chinese Computer Communications, Inc.(CCC), Lansing, Michigan, USA.

This new language technology was introduced to a receptive audience in a workshop led by Prof. Lin Jianxiang of Peking University. As part of the workshop, Prof. Yong Zhao of Michigan State University discussed the potential of using Internet-Chinese to support content development and delivery by on-line virtual universities in the U.S. to Chinese-speaking people. In practice, Zhao Huixi, manager of Beijing Pinxxiee Company showed the easy-to-learn and easy-to-use features of Internet-Chinese script. For those Chinese users who do not know English well, it is a boon to use Internet-Chinese script directly to email and transact business on the Web.

Internet-Chinese has proved itself in 6 Beijing schools as a superior script in efficiency and accuracy as a medium for digital content in a number of ways:

1. Internet-Chinese, for example, like English, is "a readable linearized script" = "yigee kkeeddude xiaanxiing ziittii". This script simply uses the one-byte ASCII code of Roman letters (a,b,c ... x,y,z), thus enabling alphabetic indexing and searching without requiring database engines that are specially developed to handle two-byte codes.

2. Internet-Chinese insures easy and reliable transmission of Chinese content without the risk of corrupted unreadable codes, which occur much too often with current methods on the Internet.

3. Internet-Chinese empowers readers to access Chinese content without using specialized language platforms or software.

4. Internet-Chinese can serve easily as the Transcode between the many different Chinese language systems on the computer, e.g., GB, Big5, and GBK...

After more than 25 years of R&D, Internet-Chinese Language Technology received Certificate of Standardization in Beijing on November 5, 1999, and was approved for immediate educational applications, such as computer-aided instruction in national Four-Unification programs, designed for 100,000,000 school children ages 5 to 10 in China; and for the expanding number of Chinese-speaking Internet users on the World Wide Web.

In focus, Internet-Chinese serves as a natural language script for information transfer between English-speaking and Chinese-speaking users. And users can also revert the readable the linear Internet script back to square Chinese characters, as needed, with an Internet-Chinese Converter.

The Internet-Chinese Society [ICS] is therefore being formally established on June 6, 2000, to make information, software and technology available to all potential users on the Web.

Contact: Dr. H. C. Tien, M.D., ICS Organizing Committee; Chairman, PINXXIEE Corporation, USA

Email:

PHONE: (517) 336-9500 FAX: (517) 336-1212

Website: www.tienstrokes.com

Internet-Chinese is a trademark of PINXXIEE Corporation.

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