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To OTC Journal Members:

Here are several news items to share with you today.

New China is the first in our IPO Alert category for 2000.  We spoke with Barron Chase, the brokerage firm that is underwriting the IPO today.  They confirmed that March 7th is the anticipated opening date for the stock.  Those of you who are intending to establish an account to participate in this IPO need to act quickly.

If you are not familiar with this IPO and want to learn more, click on the IPO Alert button on our home page at www.otcjournal.com.

Blue Zone continues to be featured in our lot of our newsletters these days because the company is getting a lot of media attention.

There were some very exciting events that relate directly to Blue Zone in the news this weekend.  BCE, the huge Canadian conglomerate that owns Bell Canada and a large percentage of Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT) tendered an offer to buy CTV, Canada's largest TV network.

BCE is by far the largest Internet Service Provider in Canada, and has a community not unlike a Canadian version of AOL.  CTV is the largest entertainment and content provider in Canada.

The marriage of the two is being looked at as similar to the recent announced merger of AOL and Time Warner.

This merger is very important to the future of Blue Zone because they are the exclusive provider of interactive multi media software solutions for CTV.  It was also brought out in the recent Bloomberg interview with Jamie Olivier, the president of Blue Zone, that Canada is far ahead of the US in terms of being pre-wired for broad band internet access.  We covered the Bloomberg video clip in our last edition.  We don't know how this merger might turn into additional revenues for Blue Zone at this time, but if we get some indication we will let you know.

In addition to the news of the BCE/CTV merger, there was another article published today in the Industry Standard, the bible for Internet Technology, which features Blue Zone.

The article is entitled "Just In: Streaming Video at 11:00".  The article is written by Lessley Anderson, and gives us a glimpse into the future of multi media news broadcasts.  Blue Zone is mentioned in the article and featured in a chart on the third page along with four other development companies.  Click Here to be taken directly to the article if you wish to read it.

This company is our most current profile, and there was news today which the market seemed to like because the stock traded up nicely.

This stock is now up 14% since we first introduced you to the company back on February 18th, and we are getting more comfortable with this management team as we learn about their plans for the future.

Today's press release covers a transaction involving Intellishop, Inc., their subsidiary which uses the proprietary Zorro technology to provide a shopping search engine on the Internet.  The beta testing of this technology has been concluded, and is nearly ready for commercial application.

Tropika signed a letter of intent to sell 100% of Intellishop to Virtual Reality, Inc, (OTC BB: VIRT).  After the transaction is concluded, Tropika, through its Zorro subsidiary, will own a substantial percentage of Virtual Reality, which closed today at $.75 on over 2 million shares.  This level is nearly twice the previous 52 week high of Virtual Reality.

Tropika traded 1.3 million shares, and closed at $.74 x $.78 on the news.  If you wish to read the full text of the press release, simply Click Here.

We would caution against investing in shares of Virtual Reality.  Very little is known about the details of the transaction at this time, and the stock could give back all of its gains rapidly.

For those of you with a renewed interest in Tropika, we have learned since publishing our original profile that there is a symbol under which you can purchase the stock through US brokerage accounts.  The symbol is "TPKIF".  Be aware that this symbol does not track up and down with the stock.  Also, you can read our profile in the archive section on our home page.

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