Operating income for the six months ended June 30, 2009, was $6,830,861, an increase of $1,600,960 or 30.61% from $5,229,901 for the comparable period in 2008. The increase was primarily attributable to increased sales and gross profit of our corrugated paper and high-grade offset paper products.
Total cost of sales for the six months ended June 30, 2009, was $32,932,440, an increase of $7,504,827 or 29.51% from $25,427,613 for the comparable period in 2008. The increase in cost of sales is largely in line with the increase proportionately, as our gross profit percentage for the first half of the year remains at roughly 18.2%, almost unchanged from a year ago.
General and administrative expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2009 were $474,561, an increase of $50,788 or 11.98% from $423,773 for the comparable period in 2008. The increase was primarily attributable to payments of various professional service fees related to our status as a public company.
Net income was $4,773,260 for the six months ended June 30, 2009, an increase of $1,023,435 or 27.29% from $3,749,825 for the comparable period in 2008. The increase was primarily attributable to increased sales revenue and gross profit during the six months ended June 30, 2009.
Accounts receivable increased 190.46% to $2,737,705 as of June 30, 2009, compared with $942,525 at June 30, 2008. The increase in accounts receivable was in relation to the increased sales volume in the year of 2009, particularly in the last month of the second quarter. We typically collect essentially all of the accounts receivable within 30 days of sales on account. Sales revenue for the month of June was $7,586,245 and $6,176,498 for the years of 2009 and 2008, respectively. The monthly increase of sales in the amount of $1,409,747 from the month of June 2008 to June 2009 provides a major source for the increased balance of $942,525 in accounts receivable as of June 30, 2009.
Inventory consists of raw materials and finished goods. As of the six months ended June 30, 2009, the recorded value of our inventory has increased 107.42% to $5,676,123 from $2,736,524 as of June 30, 2008. A summary of changes in major inventory items is as follows:
The increase is mainly due to an increase in raw material costs for recycled paper board and pulp. As explained above, the increase in raw materials was caused by a number of factors, including an increase in corrugated paper sales and orders for white card paper that use pulp as main raw materials.
Accounts Payable
Accounts payable (excluding non-inventory purchase payables and accrued expenses) was $2,779,164 for the six months ended June 30, 2009, a decrease of $4,325,802 or 60.88% from $7,104,966 from exactly a year ago. The decrease was primarily attributable to the surge in inventory stock as of June 30, 2009 as compared to the inventory stock a year ago.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Overview
We had net working capital of $5,387,582 at June 30, 2009, an increase of $6,553,377 over a net working capital deficit of ($1,165,795) at December 31, 2008.
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Our cash and cash equivalents as of the beginning of the six months ended June 30, 2009 was $3,234,418 and increased to $6,664,238 by the end of the period, an increase of $3,429,819 or 106.04% over the base amount at January 1, 2009. The net change in cash and cash equivalents represented an increase of $2,339,024 or 96.09% from $2,434,236 for the comparable period in 2008. The increase over the comparable 2008 balance was primarily attributable to the large cash outflow for the acquisitions of additional machinery and equipments in the second quarter of 2008. We have not had any additions to property, plant and equipment in the year 2009.
Net cash provided by operating activities
Net cash provided by operating activities was $5,075,708 for the six months ended June 30, 2009, a decrease of $6,315,624 or 55.40% from $11,391,332 for the comparable period in 2008. However, net income increased $1,023,435 or 27.29% from $3,749,825 for the comparable period in 2008. The decrease in cash and cash equivalents, compared to the same period in 2008, is mainly attributable to the increased balance of accounts receivable and inventory.
Net cash used in investing activities
The Company incurred $ 0 cash expenditure in investing activities during the six months ended June 30, 2009, a decrease of $12,401,234 or 100% from $12,401,234 for the comparable period in 2008. The decrease over the comparable 2008 period was primarily attributable to our acquisition of a new writing paper production line and new paper milling machine calendars. We have not made any major additions to property, plant and equipment in 2009.
Net cash used in financing activities
Net cash used by financing activities was $1,307,349 during the six months ended June 30, 2009, a decrease of $2,389,379 or (220.80%) from the $1,082,030 cash provided by financing activities, the net cash provided by financing activities for the comparable period in 2008. While we borrowed from our shareholders and obtained additional bank loans during the six months ended June 30, 2008, the only financing activity in 2009 was the pay-off of a short-term loan with Huaxia Bank.
Short term loans
On January 31, 2008, HBOP entered into a loan agreement with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Xushui Branch, for a loan in the amount of RMB 13,000,000 yuan ($1,899,252 at June 30, 2009). The loan is renewable at maturity and is subject to a 6.372% interest rate. The loan is secured by certain manufacturing equipments of the Company and payable on the maturity date of January 29, 2009. On January 21, 2009 the Company and the Bank renewed the loan agreement for another 12 months and extended the maturity date to January 20, 2010.
On March 10, 2008, HBOP entered into a loan agreement with Huaxia Bank, Shijiazhuang Branch, for a loan in the amount of RMB 8,500,000 yuan. The loan is renewable and subject to a 9.828% per annum interest rate. The loan is guaranteed by a third party guarantor, Hebei Small-Medium Enterprise Credit Guarantee Service Center, a quasi-governmental agency, and is due and payable on the maturity date of March 5, 2009. On and after March 5, 2009, the Bank granted a grace period to the HBOP for purpose of negotiating for loan renewal. The Company then arranged to receive a one-month bridge loan from Hebei Small-Medium Enterprise Credit Gurantee Service Center to pay off the Huaxia Bank loan. The bridge loan carried a monthly interest of 0.933%. We paid off the bridge loan and accrued interest in the amount of $1,266,557 on April 30, 2009.
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On September 5, 2008, HBOP entered into a loan agreement with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Xushui Branch, for a credit facility in the amount of RMB 6,000,000 yuan ($876,578 at June 30, 2009). The loan is renewable at maturity and subject to an 8.217% interest rate. The loan is due and payable on the maturity date of June 4, 2009. The Company renewed the loan with the bank for another 12-month period on July 1, 2009.
On January 23, 2009, HBOP entered into a short term credit facility extension agreement with United Commercial Bank (China) Limited, for the extension of a revolving credit facility in the amount of $2,000,000 and a non-revolving import loan of $816,977. The original credit facility agreement was entered into on April 14, 2006 and extended on May 8, 2007. Under the terms of the extension agreement, The loan is collateralized by the Company’s building and land use rights and personally guaranteed by Zhenyong Liu, our Chief Executive Officer. Interest payment is made quarterly and is indexed to a floating interest rate, based upon 5% plus the three-month LIBOR, adjustable every three months. The entire principal of $2,816,977 is due and payable on June 30, 2009. As of date of this From 10-Q, we are still negotiating with the United Commercial Bank (China) Limited to renew the credit facility. The credit facility agreement includes certain covenants that require the Company to maintain (1) the equity to debt (including contingent liabilities) ratio at no less than 50%, and (2) its current ratio at no less than 100%. The Company is in compliance with these covenants as of June 30, 2009.
Long term loan
On August 12, 2008, HBOP entered into a loan agreement with the Rural Credit Cooperative of Xushui, Dayin Branch, for a loan in the amount of RMB 13,280,000 yuan ($1,940,159 as of June 30, 2009). The loan is guaranteed by an unrelated third party, Hebei Chenyang Industry and Trade Group Co., Ltd., and carries a 0.774% interest rate per month. The loan runs for three years, starting September 16, 2008, and is payable on the maturity date of September 16, 2011.
Shareholder loans
On December 31, 2006, Zhenyong Liu, our Chief Executive Officer, loaned money to HBOP for working capital purposes, which amounted to RMB 41,970,716 yuan ($6,131,761 as of June 30, 2009). The loan is non-interest bearing and is to be paid in installments of RMB20,000,000 per year, or as otherwise to be negotiated, depending on the liquidity condition of HBOP. On July 24, 2008, Mr. Liu agreed to change the loan term to three years. As such, the loan, as amended, is non-interest bearing and is due on July 23, 2011.
On August 1, 2008, Shuangxi Zhao, a director of HBOP, loaned money to HBOP for working capital purposes, which amounted to $876,578 as of June 30, 2009. The amount owed bears interest at 7.56% per annum (equivalent to the interest rate determined by the People’s Bank of China), and is due on July 31, 2011.
On August 5, 2008, Xiaodong Liu, a member of our Board of Directors, loaned money to HBOP for working capital purposes, which amounted to $1,095,722 as of June 30, 2009. The amount owed bears interest at 7.56% per annum (equivalent to the interest rate determined by the People’s Bank of China), and is due on August 4, 2011.
Contractual Obligations
We have certain fixed contractual obligations and commitments that include future estimated payments. Changes in our business needs, cancellation provisions, changing interest rates, and other factors may result in actual payments differing from the estimates. We cannot provide certainty regarding the timing and amounts of payments. We have presented below a summary of the most significant assumptions used in our determination of amounts presented in the tables, in order to assist in the review of this information within the context of our financial position, results of operations, and cash flows.
Contractual Obligations and Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
Contractual Obligations
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Contractual Obligations | | Total | | Less than 1 year | | 1 – 3 years | | 3 – 5 years | | More than 5 years | |
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Long-Term Debt Obligations | | $ | 7,532,966 | | $ | 5,592,807 | | $ | — | | $ | 1,940,159 | | $ | — | |
R&D Project Obligation | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | |
Operating Lease Obligations | | | 394,553 | | | 17,536 | | | 35,072 | | | 35,072 | | | 306,873 | |
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Total | | $ | 7,927,519 | | $ | 5,610,343 | | $ | 35,072 | | $ | 1,975,231 | | $ | 306,873 | |
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Off Balance Sheet Arrangements
None.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
The Company’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, which require us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Management makes these estimates using the best information available at the time the estimates are made. However, actual results could differ materially from those estimates (See Note 2 in the Notes to Financial Statements).
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In December 2007, the FASB issued SFAS No. 141R, “Business Combinations – Revised 2007” (“SFAS No. 141R”), which replaces FASB Statement No. 141, “Business Combinations.” SFAS No. 141R establishes principles and requirements intending to improve the relevance, representational faithfulness, and comparability of information that a reporting entity provides in its financial reports about a business combination and its effects. This is accomplished through requiring the acquirer to recognize assets acquired and liabilities assumed arising from contractual contingencies as of the acquisition date, measured at their acquisition-date fair values. This includes contractual contingencies only if it is more likely than not that they meet the definition of an asset of a liability in FASB Concepts Statement No. 6, “Elements of Financial Statements –a replacement of FASB Concepts Statement No. 3.”This statement also requires the acquirer to recognize goodwill as of the acquisition date, measured as a residual. However, this statement improves the way in which an acquirer’s obligations to make payments conditioned on the outcome of future events are recognized and measured, which in turn improves the measure of goodwill. This statement also defines a bargain purchase as a business combination in which the total acquisition-date fair value of the consideration transferred plus any noncontrolling interest in the acquiree, and it requires the acquirer to recognize that excess in earnings as a gain attributable to the acquirer. This, therefore, improves the representational faithfulness and completeness of the information provided about both the acquirer’s earnings during the period in which it makes a bargain purchase and the measures of the assets acquired in the bargain purchase. The management of Orient Paper does not expect the adoption of this pronouncement to have a material impact on its financial statements.
In December 2007, the FASB issued SFAS No. 160, “Noncontrolling Interests in Consolidated Financial Statements – amendment of ARB No. 51” (“SFAS No. 160”). SFAS No. 160 establishes new accounting and reporting standards for the noncontrolling interest in a subsidiary and for the deconsolidation of a subsidiary. Specifically, this statement requires the recognition of a noncontrolling interest (minority interest) as equity in the consolidated financial statements and separate from the parent’s equity. The amount of net income attributable to the noncontrolling interest will be included in consolidated net income on the face of the income statement. SFAS No. 160 clarifies that changes in a parent’s ownership interest in a subsidiary that do not result in deconsolidation are equity transactions if the parent retains its controlling financial interest. In addition, this statement requires that a parent recognize a gain or loss in net income when a subsidiary is deconsolidated. Such gain or loss will be measured using the fair value of the noncontrolling equity investment on the deconsolidation date. SFAS No. 160 also includes expanded disclosure requirements regarding the interests of the parent and its noncontrolling interest.
SFAS No. 160 is effective for fiscal years and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning on or after December 15, 2008. Earlier adoption is prohibited. The management of Orient Paper does not expect the adoption of this pronouncement to have a material impact on its financial statements.
In March 2008, the FASB issued FASB Statement No. 161,“Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities – an amendment of FASB Statement 133” (“SFAS No. 161”). SFAS No. 161 enhances required
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disclosures regarding derivatives and hedging activities, including enhanced disclosures regarding how: (a) an entity uses derivative instruments; (b) derivative instruments and related hedged items are accounted for under FASB No. 133,“Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities”; and (c) derivative instruments and related hedged items affect an entity’s financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. Specifically, FASB No. 161 requires:
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| • | Disclosure of the fair values of derivative instruments and their gains and losses in a tabular format; |
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| • | Cross-reference from the derivative footnote to other footnotes in which derivative-related information is disclosed. |
FASB No. 161 is effective for fiscal years and interim periods beginning after November 15, 2008. Earlier application is encouraged. The management of Orient Paper does not expect the adoption of this pronouncement to have a material impact on its financial statements.
In May 2008, the FASB issued FASB Statement No. 162, “The Hierarchy of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles” (“SFAS No. 162”). SFAS No. 162 identifies the sources of accounting principles and the framework for selecting the principles used in the preparation of financial statements of nongovernmental entities that are presented in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America. The sources of accounting principles that are generally accepted are categorized in descending order as follows:
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| a) | FASB Statements of Financial Accounting Standards and Interpretations, FASB Statement 133 Implementation Issues, FASB Staff Positions, and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Accounting Research Bulletins and Accounting Principles Board Opinions that are not superseded by actions of the FASB. |
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| b) | FASB Technical Bulletins and, if cleared by the FASB, AICPA Industry Audit and Accounting Guides and Statements of Position. |
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| c) | AICPA Accounting Standards Executive Committee Practice Bulletins that have been cleared by the FASB, consensus positions of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force (EITF), and the Topics discussed in Appendix D of EITF Abstracts (EITF D-Topics). |
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| d) | Implementation guides (Q&As) published by the FASB staff, AICPA Accounting Interpretations, AICPA Industry Audit and Accounting Guides and Statements of Position not cleared by the FASB, and practices that are widely recognized and prevalent either generally or in the industry. |
SFAS No. 162 is effective 60 days following the SEC’s approval of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board amendment to its authoritative literature. It is only effective for nongovernmental entities; therefore, the GAAP hierarchy will remain in SAS 69 for state and local governmental entities and federal governmental entities. The management of Orient Paper does not expect the adoption of this pronouncement to have a material impact on its financial statements.
On May 26, 2008, the FASB issued FASB Statement No. 163, “Accounting for Financial Guarantee Insurance Contracts” (“SFAS No. 163”). SFAS No. 163 clarifies how FASB Statement No. 60, “Accounting and Reporting by Insurance Enterprises” (“SFAS No. 60”), applies to financial guarantee insurance contracts issued by insurance enterprises, including the recognition and measurement of premium revenue and claim liabilities. It also requires expanded disclosures about financial guarantee insurance contracts.
The accounting and disclosure requirements of SFAS No. 163 are intended to improve the comparability and quality of information provided to users of financial statements by creating consistency. Diversity exists in practice in accounting for financial guarantee insurance contracts by insurance enterprises under SFAS No. 60, “Accounting and Reporting by Insurance Enterprises.” That diversity results in inconsistencies in the recognition and measurement of claim liabilities because of differing views about when a loss has been incurred under FASB Statement No. 5, “Accounting for Contingencies” (“SFAS No. 5”). SFAS No. 163 requires that an insurance enterprise recognize a claim liability prior to an event of default when there is evidence that credit deterioration has occurred in an insured financial obligation. It also requires disclosure about (a) the risk-management activities used by an insurance
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enterprise to evaluate credit deterioration in its insured financial obligations and (b) the insurance enterprise’s surveillance or watch list.
SFAS No. 163 is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2008, and all interim periods within those fiscal years, except for disclosures about the insurance enterprise’s risk-management activities. Disclosures about the insurance enterprise’s risk-management activities are effective the first period beginning after issuance of SFAS No. 163. Except for those disclosures, earlier application is not permitted.
On May 28, 2009, the FASB issued FASB Statement No. 165, “Subsequent Events” (“SFAS No. 165”). Statement 165 establishes general standards of accounting for and disclosure of events that occur after the balance sheet date but before financial statements are issued or are available to be issued. This SFAS requires, among other things, the disclosure of the date through which an entity has evaluated subsequent events and the basis for that date. An entity should apply the requirements under SFAS No. 165 to interim or annual financial periods ending after June 15, 2009. The Company does not expect the adoption of this pronouncement to have material impact on its financial statements.
On June 9, 2009, the FASB issued FASB Statement No. 166, “Accounting for Transfers of Financial Assets- an amendment of FASB Statement No, 140” (“SFAS No.166”). SFAS No.166 revises the derecognization provision of SFAS No. 140 “Accounting for Transfers and Servicing of Financial Assets and Extinguishment of Liabilities” and will require entities to provide more information about sales of securitized financial assets and similar transactions, particularly if the seller retains some risk with respect to the assets. It also eliminates the concept of a "qualifying special-purpose entity." This statement is effective for financial asset transfers occurring after the beginning of an entity's first fiscal year that begins after November 15, 2009. The Company does not expect the adoption of this pronouncement to have material impact on its financial statements.
In June 2009, the FASB issued SFAS 167 "Amendments to FASB Interpretation No. 46(R)." SFAS No.167 amends certain requirements of FASB Interpretation No. 46(R), “Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities” to improve financial reporting by companies involved with variable interest entities and to provide additional disclosures about the involvement with variable interest entities and any significant changes in risk exposure due to that involvement. A reporting entity will be required to disclose how its involvement with a variable interest entity affects the reporting entity's financial statements. This Statement shall be effective as of the beginning of each reporting entity’s first annual reporting period that begins after November 15, 2009. The Company does not expect the adoption of this pronouncement to have material impact on its financial statements.
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk.
N/A.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures.
Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining a system of disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e)) under the Exchange Act) that is designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time specified in the Commission’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by an issuer in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the issuer’s management, including its principal executive officer or officers and principal financial officer or officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Pursuant to Rule 13a-15(b) under the Exchange Act, the Company carried out an evaluation with the participation of the Company’s management, including Zhenyong Liu, the Company’s Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), and Winston C. Yen, the Company’s Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”), of the effectiveness of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined under Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of the six months ended June 30, 2009. Based upon that evaluation, the Company’s CEO and CFO concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures are effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that the Company files or submits under the Exchange Act, is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including the Company’s CEO and CFO, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Changes in internal controls
Our management, with the participation of our CEO and CFO, performed an evaluation as to whether any change in our internal controls over financial reporting occurred during the quarter ended June 30, 2009. Based on that evaluation, our CEO and CFO concluded that no change occurred in the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting during the quarter ended June 30, 2009 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company’s internal controls over financial reporting.
PART II – OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings.
To our knowledge, there is no material litigation pending or threatened against us.
Item 1A. Risk Factors.
N/A.
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Item 2. Unregistered Sale of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds.
As reported on our Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on May 5, 2009, we issued to Winston C. Yen, our Chief Financial Officer, 5,000 shares of the Company’s common stock as consideration for services rendered.
As reported on our Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on June 30, 2009, we issued to Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP 60,000 shares of the Company’s common stock in part payment of present and past-due legal fees.
In connection with the foregoing, we relied upon the exemption from securities registration afforded by Rule 506 of Regulation D and/or Section 4(2) of the Securities Act, and transfers of such shares were restricted by Orient Paper in accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act. All of the above-referenced persons were provided with access to our Securities and Exchange Commission filings.
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities.
To our knowledge, there are no material defaults upon senior securities.
Item 4. Submission of Matters to a Vote of Securities Holders.
None.
Item 5. Other Information.
None.
Item 6. Exhibits.
(a) Exhibits
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31.1 | Certification Required Under Section 302 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
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31.2 | Certification Required Under Section 302 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
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32.1 | Certification Required Under Section 906 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
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32.2 | Certification Required Under Section 302 of Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
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| ORIENT PAPER, INC. |
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Dated: August 14, 2009 | By: | /s/ Zhenyong Liu |
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| | Name: Zhenyong Liu |
| | Title: Chief Executive Officer |
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Dated: August 14, 2009 | By: | /s/ Winston C. Yen |
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| | Name: Winston C. Yen |
| | Title: Chief Financial Officer |
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