Archive for November, 2006

Dynasty Gaming makes C$ 5 Mn private placement to secure 87.5% of interests in China

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006

The Canadian company Dynasty Gaming, Inc. has informed on 7 November that it proposes to undertake a non-brokered private placement of up to 10 million units at a price of C$0.50 per unit, for gross proceeds of C$5 million. Each unit will consist of one common share and one common share purchase warrant which will enable the holder to acquire one additional common share at a price of C$0.75 per share, for a period of two years.

The net proceeds of this proposed private placement will be used to secure an 87.5% ownership stake for Dynasty Gaming in Dynasty Limited, a company newly incorporated in the British Virgin Islands to own and manage Dynasty’s Mahjong marketing, operations and prepaid card activities in China. The remaining 12.5% interest in DNY (BVI) Ltd. will be owned by a company controlled by Angela Ho and Peter Kjaer, who intend that the initial capitalization of the BVI company will be US$2,500,000.

China Unistone Announces Special Meeting Date and Proposals Including Company’s Merger with its BVI Subsidiary

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

China Unistone Acquisition Corp. on November 6 announced the date of its special meeting of stockholders to be November 24. The first date announced previously was November 21, 2006. During this special meeting the stockholders will be entitled to vote on three proposals. The first proposal is the approval the acquisition of two companies – Beijing e-Channels Century Technology Co., Ltd. and Beijing Sihitech Co., Ltd. with its subsidiaries. The second proposal is the approval of the China Unistone 2006 Performance Equity Plan. The third one is the merger of China Unistone into its wholly owned subsidiary registered in the British Virgin Islands, with the purpose of re-domestication of the corporation.

China Unistone Acquisition Corp. is a public company organized for the purpose of acquiring businesses in China. Pursuant to the company’s certificate of incorporation, each China Unistone stockholder who holds shares of common stock issued in China Unistone’s initial public offering has the right to vote against the acquisition proposal and demand that, if the acquisition is consummated, China Unistone convert such stockholder’s shares into cash.

If the holders of 20% common stock shares vote against the acquisition proposal and properly exercise their conversion rights, China Unistone will not finish the business combination.

Lonmin PLC to acquire AfriOre Ltd. for CAD 498.75-million cash

Monday, November 20th, 2006

A UK-based Lonmin PLC, which is the third largest producer of platinum group metals in the world, has announced on Tuesday that it has entered into a binding agreement with AfriOre Ltd, an exploration company domiciled in the British Virgin Islands and operating in Africa.

Lonmin PLC is offering C$498.75 million cash to buy AfriOre Ltd. That means cash offer to shareholders at C$8.75 (US$7.74) per share, for each of AfriOre’s 57 million shares, on a fully diluted basis. This price is 9.4% above AfriOre’s Tuesday closing price of $8 on the Toronto Stock Exchange and above the all-time high of $8.20 set on Oct. 30.

The deal is already supported by the board of directors and shareholders of AfriOre, representing 6.4% of AfriOre’s outstanding common shares, but will require the acceptance of shareholders owning at least 66.6% of the common stock. AfriOre has agreed to pay Lonmin a break fee of $15 million if the transaction does not proceed in certain circumstances.

Warren Newfield, the president and chief executive of AfriOre, has commented in his statement from Road Town, BVI:

“We are pleased to have received the offer from Lonmin, which the board of AfriOre will recommend to shareholders to accept… We believe that this represents the optimum route to maximize value for AfriOre shareholders and other stakeholders, and to ensure steady progress towards mine development at Akanani. Akanani is a large and attractive platinum project, which will benefit significantly from Lonmin’s extensive experience and skills base in the platinum industry.”

Lonmin produced 947,795 ounces of platinum and 1,807,044 ounces of total platinum group metals in South Africa in the 12 months ended Sept. 30. AfriOre’s main assets include the Akanani platinum exploration project in South Africa, where Lonmin also has operations.

CDoor Corp. Announces its intention to acquire Wanxin Bio-Technology Limited (BVI)

Sunday, November 19th, 2006

CDoor Corp. made an announcement that on November 2 it entered into a letter of intent to acquire 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of BVI-registered Wanxin Bio-Technology Limited (Wanxin), in exchange for 34,000,000 post forward stock-split shares of CDoor.

CDoor intends to forward split its issued and outstanding shares on a basis of 20 new shares for each one old share which would result in the current outstanding shares of 3,025,000 becoming 60,500,000 shares.

Wanxin is the sole shareholder or the owner of the right to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares in the capital of Hong Kong company Manhing Enterprises Limited; Manhing Enterprises, in its turn, is the registered owner of 82% of the capital of Shanghai Wanxing Bio-pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. (Shanghai Wanxing). This Chinese company based in Shanghai is a leading country’s developer of genetically engineered recombinant protein drugs and vaccines.

After the proposed acquisition of Wanxin there would be a total of 94,500,000 shares outstanding subject to the possible cancellation of some common shares held by the controlling shareholder, Mr. Ka Yu.

Another announcement made by CDoor Corp. concerned the fact of acquisition of 2,000,000 shares of the company held by Messrs. Lavi Krasney and Asher Zwebner and representing approximately 66% of the issued and outstanding shares of CDoor. The purchaser of the shares, Mr. Ka Yu, by this transaction has become the controlling shareholder of the company.