ADVISORY/Cut Cable May Hurt China's Online Businesses.

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ADVISORY...

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2000

TOPIC: Millions of people in China cannot access the Internet because of a
severed undersea cable, according to CNN. Officials do not know what cut the
cable, but they think it may take as long as a month to fix, the story said.
Download times for those users who can access the Internet have slowed
dramatically as telecom companies try to re-route some traffic through
satellites, the story said. Experts said that an extended outage could hurt
some companies. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified
experts to comment on this story:

Mr. King Lai is CEO of NetEase, Inc. in Beijing. He is an expert in China's internet sector. Ogilvy Worldwide / Alexander Ogilvy ([e-mail]; 415/923-9863).

Prof. Richard Suttmeier is a political scientist at the University of Oregon who specializes in the science and technology policy of China. 541/346-2856 ext. 1522; 541/346-3111 (University PR Phone).

Mr. Jonathan Schmidt has been the President and Publisher of eCountries since June 1999. Previously, Jonathan was Managing Director of Financial Times Electronic Publishing Asia Pacific, and Managing Director of the Financial Times Group China. He negotiated Pearson's first joint venture in China, creating a B2B Mandarin site. He has over 11 years' experience in business publishing and is former Editor of the China Post (circulation 400k) in Taipei, Taiwan. He is the author of several books and papers on Germany and Russia, and is fluent in Mandarin and Russian. Jonathan holds a BS in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an MA in East Asian Studies from The George Washington University. PR: Jonathan Tsucalas ([e-mail]; 212/884-4031).

Mr. Alex Pressman is an expert on globalization, the impact of the Internet and e-commerce on the global economy, XML, international trade and global branding strategy. Mr. Pressman can also discuss policies affecting Internet use in China, Russia and around the world. Mr. Pressman is president of Uniscape.com, the leading provider of globalization solutions for e-business. More than 100 global companies have relied on Uniscape.com's technologies to create, manage and deploy multilingual web sites, e-commerce solutions, and enterprise content. Customers have included Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Lucent Technologies, Lycos, Vignette and Commerce One. Prior to founding Uniscape, Mr. Pressman managed globalization projects for Oracle and Borland, and was responsible for producing more than 16 localized versions of global software products. Mr. Pressman also has extensive international trade experience in Asia, where he held a number of executive management positions with Mitsubishi International and Nissho Iwai Corporation. Fluent in Russian and English, Mr. Pressman was born in the former USSR and has also worked in Italy and Brazil. He earned an MBA from MIIS and BA from University of Minnesota. PR: Jim Owens ([e-mail]).

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