Tuesday 25th May 2010

Dear Reader,

Three new inter-related articles.

NEW ARTICLES
Cosmetic appearances
When the ICAC charged a person with engineering fraudulent acquisitions by Uni-Bio Science (0690) last month, we suspect they only saw half the story. Webb-site looks at the overlaps between UBS and Global Green Tech (0274), and at a series of its acquisitions.

Global Green Tech goes mining
In part 2 of today's look at Global Green Tech (0274), we'll show you how it bought a gold mine for 5.83 times what an AIM-traded company sold it for 3 months earlier, and that one of the middlemen also controls miner Lumena Resources (0067), so we take a look at that too.

Code Agriculture and Nanjing Everyday
Take a RMB8m investment in a start-up TV channel, whip up some projections, sprinkle on a valuation from the ubiquitous BMI Appraisals, add a large pinch of salt according to taste, bake for 2 months and you have a RMB350m sale to Code Agriculture (8153). Too bad that the air then went out of this pudding.

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