PRESS RELEASE TURKU, FINLAND FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 28, 2008 EDITORIAL CONTACTS: SANAKO Corporation: Ville Lintervo, Vice President, Greater China, East Asia, South Asia and Oceania email: [log in to unmask] SANAKO establishes Beijing Office in China SANAKO has established a Beijing office to strengthen the company's presence in the populous Chinese capital. The tactical location of the Beijing branch will allow SANAKO's China Representative Office to focus on forging and strengthening relations with key strategic partners. "It's worth noting that several government ministries and key policy making departments are located in this area. Many of China's prestigious universities are also situated here. This location will ensure that we have a central contact point for our key connections in the Beijing area," said Ville Lintervo, SANAKO Vice President for Greater China, East Asia, South Asia and Oceania. The Beijing office will be headed by Xu Zheng, recently appointed Technical Sales Manager, with responsibility for Partnerships and Key Accounts in Beijing. Under Xu's stewardship, staff at the new office will develop project opportunities in the educational sector and harvest partnership prospects in new segments and business areas. SANAKO's Beijing office opened its doors in early October 2008. SANAKO Corporation SANAKO, formerly Tandberg Educational, is a learning technology company developing language teaching solutions, teaching and classroom management software, virtual collaboration solutions as well as supplying customer services. We are the world leader in live language learning technology. Today's solutions include modern software, and wireless and mobile systems that act as a catalyst for improving teaching outcomes by motivating learning. Our sales network reaches customers all over the world and we've provided Tandberg Educational Quality to satisfied users in over 100 countries. We serve our customers through a network of resellers in 70 countries. Based in Finland, the company has sales offices in China, Indonesia, France, Russia, UAE, UK and US. SANAKO is a Microsoft(R) Gold Certified Partner, a Blackboard Building BlocksTM community member, a WorldDidac Quality Charter Member and a corporate member of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE(R)). Blackboard, the Bb logo, Building Blocks, the Building Blocks logo, Blackboard Developers Network, and the Blackboard Learning System are trademarks/registered trademarks of Blackboard Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Usage by permission. ------------------------------------------------------------ *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************