Play LA Inc., internet advertising and publishing company working in the online and mobile gaming industry and having its registered address in the British Virgin Islands, made an announcement about the acquisition of UK football fan website www.arsenal-mania.com. Arsenal-Mania is one of the most popular websites for fans of Arsenal FC of the English Premier League, and it attracts over a quarter of a million visitors each month.

Play LA Inc.’s CEO David Hallonquist stated that the acquisition of this website expanded company’s reach to UK and European sports audiences, complementing the existing sports content and increasing advertising inventory to sell to advertisers. In his turn, the owner of Arsenal-Mania Jonathan Chong added that, by joining Play LA, they “get the development, marketing and financial support necessary to take the website to the next phase of growth.”

BVI corporation Origin Agritech Limited made an announcement that it has developed a strategic pesticide business unit for premium branded chemical products. The company expects the product to be marketed into the domestic agricultural market immediately, already for the 2010 selling season. This branded product is to be sold at a premium to other non-branded products in the current Chinese marketplace and will work in conjunction with Origin’s pesticide portfolio, which is currently in regulatory approval phases.

Liang Yuan, BVI corporation’s President and CEO, said in his comments that this strategic business unit development continues their goal to become the dominant agricultural solutions provider.

Currently pesticide market in China is an industry worth about 90 billion RMB. Origin’s pesticide products are contract produced by one of the highest quality producers in China.

Tongxin International Ltd., a China-based manufacturer of engineered vehicle body structures, having registered address in the British Virgin islands, issued press release where announced that it is going to present at the 2010 Rodman & Renshaw Annual China Investment Conference, which will be held in Beijing on March 7-9. Chairman and CEO of the company Mr. Rudy Wilson is declared as the main presenter.

New-York-based Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc. through its subsidiaries is engaged in investment banking business, offering corporate finance services focusing on various public and private equity products. The company also involves in strategic advisory services.

Tranen Capital Ltd., an investment fund incorporated under the law of the British Virgin Islands, announced the establishment of the new offices for servicing European-based clients. One of the offices is located in Zurich, Switzerland and the other one is located in Dublin, Ireland.

Also, Tranen Capital Ltd. was the sponsor and speaker at the Institutional Investors Congress in Vienna, Austria, which was held on February 21-22, and will be present in this quality also in Monte Carlo, Monaco on June 14-17.

Tranen Capital is an alternative investment Fund focused on the Life Settlements market in the United States. Life Settlements is a growing industry with an expected growth rate of over $160 billion in the next several years.

StarBurn Software Ltd., a British Virgin Islands-registered provider of CD, DVD and Blu-Ray optical media solutions and technology, announced its spin-off from Rocket Division Inc., after securing the first round of investor funding.

StarBurn Software Ltd. will develop and distribute optical media storage technology and products line including StarBurn SDK and StarBurn Burning Software by accelerating sales through channel and aggressive marketing. New management and development team will undertake current products and advance them.

The customers of Rocket Division,  which is the major provider of high-performance technologies for the data storage, optical media and networking industry, are not required to make any payment to get the updates of StarBurn Software’s products.

StarBurn is a free tool for grabbing, burning and mastering CD, DVD, Blu-Ray and HD-DVD media. It is completely based on StarBurn SDK, supporting all types of optical storage media and a wide variety of burning hardware.

The BVI-incorporated mineral exploration company Talon Metals Corp. made an announcement thath it has concluded an agreement with Gungnir Resources Inc. According to the agreement, Gungnir has been granted an option to earn up to 75% interest in Talon’s Juruena Gold Project, located in North Brazil.

By terms of the agreement between the BVI company and Gungnir, the purchasing company is required to make an initial payment in the amount of US$150,000. To exercise the option, Gungnir is required to make additional payments of US$300,000 on or before February 11, 2011, US$350,000 on or before February 11, 2012, US$450,000 on or before February 11, 2013 and US$500,000 on or before February 11, 2014. Total option payment of the company to Talon Metals is to make US$1.75 million. Additionally, Gungnir is required to complete the exploration program and a feasibility study on or before December 31, 2014 (the deadline may be extended to December 31, 2016).

When the company fulfils all the terms of the agreement, Talon will retain a 25% interest in Juruena. Prior to completing the feasibility study, Gungnir may acquire a 51% interest in Juruena.

In the past month, Talon Metals has sold its 2,450,000 common shares of Beadell Resources Limited for gross proceeds of approximately CDN$711,000. The funds will be used for funding exploration programs of the BVI company.

Euro Tech Holdings Company Limited, the BVI-registered company engaged along with its BVI- and HK-based subsidiaries in the manufacturing and distribution of products in the area of water and waste water treatment and environmental protection, announced that it subsidiary, Yixing PACT Environmental Technology Company Ltd., has been granted a contract by a Korean stainless steel company. The contract is worth about US$3.8 mln, covering design, supply, installation and commissioning of several water cooling and treatment systems in Jiangsu.

Also, an associated company of the BVI-incorporated Euro Tech, Zhejiang Tianlan Environmental Technology Co. Ltd., has been awarded three contracts totally worth US$5.6 mln by the three companies in China. The contracts with Chinese companies cover design, supply, installation and commissioning of desulphurization equipment for various applications in cement, paper and petrochemical plants in the three provinces of Sichuan, Shandong and Zhejiang.

A-Power Energy, which is now one of the major companies working in the global clean power sector, making equipment for power systems, said it delivered five turbines to a 49.5 MW wind farm in Inner Mongolia, and five turbines to a 19.5 MW project in the province of Shandong. The first turbines deliveries are estimated as “a key milestone in the wind segments commercialization.”

Also, the BVI company received a $40 mln worth  contract with China Machine-Building International Corp,  for building a power plant for a cement.

Under the terms of this agreement, Junfu Sheng will market and sell Gengsheng’s fine-precision abrasives products US$0.44mln worth in the eastern part of Guangdong Province within 12 months of the agreement.

By words of Gengsheng Chairman and CEO Mr. Shunqing Zhang, the agreement “represents the first sales contract of our channel strategy, which is to find more abrasives dealers in different areas in China and to focus our marketing onto large-scale customers in the solar industry.”

Products to be marketed and sold by Junfu Cheng include fine precision abrasives used for polishing solar panels and precision equipments and for wire-slicing silicon wafers in the solar industry.

China Gengsheng negotiates with other distributors in different regions of China, in order to expand its abrasives business. China Gengsheng started the commercial production of abrasives during the fourth quarter of 2009. The abrasives market in mainland China and Taiwan makes approximately US$2billion, and the market for the solar-related abrasive products in China is US$750mln.

Scientific Games Corp., manufacturer of video lottery terminals and other gaming systems, announced that it will form a joint venture with Playtech Limited, a gaming software developer registered in the British Virgin Islands. The entity called Sciplay and formed with the purpose to develop new products will focus on the online market for government-regulated lottery and gaming.

Scientific Games and Playtech will also work together on developing gaming terminals using Playtech’s Videobet software and technology expertise. Both companies said their partnerships will not make significant impact on the earnings of Scientific Games in 2010, but will add some earnings to Playtech. In the next year, the joint venture is expected to boost earnings at both companies.