INTAC International Announces Full Range of Career Development and Affinity Services Provided By INTAC Purun In China HONG KONG, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- INTAC International, Inc. (Nasdaq: INTN; FSE: WKN 805768), an Internet service provider in China providing Chinese students exclusively with a full-range of career development services through its joint venture with China's Ministry of Education, Beijing Intac Purun Educational Development Ltd. ("Intac Purun"), and its Internet portal, Joyba.com (http://www.joyba.com/ ), today announced a full range of Career Development and Affinity services to be provided by Intac Purun. Intac Purun will offer a full range of services through its Internet Portal and Career Service Centers. These will include Campus Employment Services which will provide online information to university students who are looking for internships and jobs, and employers, who are looking for qualified trainees and employees. Social Employment Services will provide online information to young professionals who are looking for jobs, and employers who are looking for employees. Both Campus and Social Employment Services will be offered through online and offline services. Online services will include Outsourcing of HR-functions, Recruitment Services, Professional Management Career Training and Career Assessment whereas offline services will include Various Training Programs and Internships to National & Multinational Employers. Undergraduate Student Training is a service that will include basic and enhanced skills training. The basic skills training is tailored towards the demands of the job market and will enhance the student's individual skills. The advanced skills training will strengthen the student's individual skills that were developed after completion of the basic training. These training courses will be offered in cooperation with multinational companies such as SAP, Cisco and Microsoft. These courses will last at least one semester and be offered at over 1,000 universities. Professional Management Career Training will be offered and were created based upon the criteria established by national and multinational employers. Courses will be created in those areas that require "continuing education" after graduation. These courses will be set up as partnerships with private teaching companies. Intac Purun currently has built relationships with 500 national and multinational employers in China. The services will be supported on our http://www.phrbank.com/ web site. Upon successful completion of the specific training course, the participants will be certified for the professional qualification. Media Issuance and Management services began when Intac Purun signed an exclusive license agreement with 21st Century, the weekly newspaper organization sponsored by the Chongqing Science and Technology Association. Under the license agreement, Intac Purun is responsible for the issuance and management of their publications. Campus Weekly, 21st Century Talent Report and Team Magazine will be offered through Intac Purun's Media Issuance and Management services. Campus Weekly is a newspaper for Chinese students sold through our Career Service Centers. This weekly publication serves to promote Intac Purun's online activities and undergraduate training courses. 21st Century Talent Report is a recruitment publication for job seekers and hiring companies. This report is published weekly and is sold at kiosks in Beijing. This will support Intac Purun's online recruitment activities by offering space for job placement ads, along with commercial partners advertising for brand and/or product promotion. Team Magazine is a monthly publication for human resource managers of national and multinational companies. This magazine is sold at kiosks in Beijing and distributed by direct mail. This will support Intac Purun's online recruitment services, as well as our professional management career training courses. Intac Purun's goal is to be the #1 employment related weekly magazine for university students. Subscriptions for the end of 2003 were reported to be 50,000. With Intac Purun taking over the management of the weekly newspaper, the subscriptions are expected to rise to over 150,000 by the end of 2004. Apart from Educational and Career Services, Intac Purun believes it will derive substantial revenue from a variety of affinity services. These products will reach the same target groups and be offered through the same distribution channels as our Career Development Services. Intac Purun will position itself to be the one-stop Internet Information, Education and Entertainment Portal for Chinese Students. http://www.joyba.com/ was launched and will support university students in all areas of student life. The goal of http://www.joyba.com/ is to become the "#1 Meeting Place for Chinese Students". A variety of popular mobile services, like games, movies, television, music, jokes, star signs, ring tones, phone background pictures and dating services will be delivered through SMS, MMS, WAP and IVR services. These mobile services are the result of our partnering with China Unicom and China Mobile, and having obtained all the necessary Content Provider licenses. These life-style services, contents and applications are tailored towards our target groups. With its extensive content provider licenses, Intac Purun is able to work with the leading Chinese suppliers for state of the art product lines. Affinity services will include Consumer Cafe Cards which will be issued to university students. This card offers students discounted prices for services and products from cooperative companies. SIM-Cards through China Unicom will be offered to university students. This card will support Chinese students by reducing the cost of mobile services over China Unicom's network by approximately 50%. Recruiting Agents Services will be performed by Intac Purun for domestic training companies. The advantage of the University Cooperative Platform has been utilized by signing an agreement with an IT certification and professional English training school. Intac Purun will recruit students to sign up for these professional training courses. Campus Promotion and Marketing Services will be offered to our Commercial Business Partners. Intac Purun realizes the costs associated with marketing to the 1,000 universities throughout China are cost prohibitive for commercial businesses to pursue. Intac Purun will assist these commercial businesses and enhance their image to the students to increase the sale of their products. "This is indeed an exciting time for Intac Purun," said Wei Zhou, Chairman and CEO of INTAC. "There are a significant number of valued services we can provide as the exclusive provider of career development services through our joint venture with China's Ministry of Education. We are rapidly building and establishing what we fully anticipate being the premier career development service provider in China." The Company's annual report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2003 and quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2004 may be viewed at the SEC's website http://www.sec.gov/ . About INTAC International, Inc. INTAC International, Inc. is focused on the exploitation of strategic business opportunities available in China and the Asia-Pacific Rim. INTAC, an Internet service provider in China, provides Chinese students exclusively with a full-range of career development services through its joint venture with China's Ministry of Education, Beijing Intac Purun Educational Development Ltd., and its Internet portal, Joyba.com. Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains certain "forward-looking statements." Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements to differ materially from those projected or implied. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, among other things: changes in general business conditions; the impact of competition in our industry, especially in the Asia- Pacific Rim; the fact that we are an early stage company with an unproven business model; our need for additional working capital, particularly to the extent that we are able to locate a suitable business opportunity; the added expense structure assumed by us as a U.S. public company; political and economic events and conditions in jurisdictions in which we operate; PRC Internet laws and regulations that are unclear and will likely change in the near future; restrictions on foreign investment in the PRC Internet sector that are imposed by the PRC government; the PRC government that may prevent us from distributing; regulation and censorship of information distribution in China which may adversely affect our business; political and economic policies of the PRC government; the risk of the loss of the agreements, or the exclusivity terms, with the Education Management Information Center; the high cost of Internet access that may limit the growth of the Internet in China and impede our growth; advertising and e-commerce customers that have only limited experience using the Internet for advertising or commerce purposes; the acceptance of the Internet as a commerce platform in China which depends on the resolution of problems relating to fulfillment and electronic payment; concerns about security of e-commerce transactions and confidentiality of information on the Internet that may increase our costs, reduce the use of our Internet portal and impede our growth; our network operations that may be vulnerable to hacking, viruses and other disruptions, which may make our products and services less attractive and reliable; changes in interest rates, foreign currency fluctuations and capital market conditions; and other factors including those detailed under the heading "Business Risk Factors" and elsewhere in the Company's annual report on Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2003 and quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2004, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We disclaim any intention or obligation to revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. INTAC undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements made in this media release. Contact: J. David Darnell, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, 469-916-9891, for further information. DATASOURCE: INTAC International, Inc. CONTACT: J. David Darnell, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of INTAC International, Inc., +1-469-916-9891 Web site: http://www.sec.gov/ Web site: http://www.intac.cn/ http://www.joyba.com/ http://www.phrbank.com/

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