Business Summary & Achievements  Portal Access PChome Online is one of the two major portal access service providers in Taiwan. What the Portal access services provide to all PChome registered members and general public is online news, financial market information, free web-based email, e-paper, customised online photo album, web-based virtual community and blog, etc. All above services have created enormous registered memberships and countless visitations to PChome. According to the statistics, PChome now has approximately 10 million on-line registered users and issuing over 14 million e-papers everyday. The two main revenue streams for PChome Online are from web banner ads and offering paid online services. Despite the recent global economy downturn which has hit hard to most of the advertising businesses, our web banner ads service still shows steady positive growth every year. In year 2004, PChome Online partnered with “7-Eleven (President Convenient Store)” and “Fareastone” to come up with two creative sales promotions of “Maruko’s Carnival” and “SMS Lucky Draws” and had been chosen by the e-Techvantage magazine as Top Ten e-marketers of the year. The result shows that PChome Online’s portal access service and banner ads sales promotion have been widely recognised by the general public.