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Thanks Dcdan. So with any luck the results will be accompanied by a more optimistic statement about the future given the upturn in economies during the first Q of this FY.

Where is the optimism coming from? If results are good then it'll come as a massive surprise given the tone of updates so far this year warning of difficult trading conditions. Is there a silver lining I'm missing? Has this simply gone as low as it can possibly go?

08-1p is that based on a chartist view? Must admit I'm not great with charts.

Haven't looked at this for a long while - it's tanked big time. You'd think with everyone having tablets and smart phones nowadays that this would be doing OK. What's a fair SP do you reckon with good results?

www.investegate.co.uk/article.aspx?id=201201091115462139V&fe=1

Nice buying and movement in the SP. News coming from Forsythia perhaps?

Further to the announcement dated 30 August 2011, Taihua confirms that it has received a formal update from the European Directorate of Quality Medicine ("EDQM") concerning its Certificate of Suitability for Paclitaxel ("COS"). The EDQM have withdrawn Taihua's Certificate of Suitability following non-compliance with a number of critical standard operating procedures. The Company intends to reapply for the Certificate of Suitability but there can be no guarantee in terms of the timing of this process. As Taihua is not currently supplying Paclitaxel into Europe this has no immediate impact on the Company. However Taihua has suspended conversations with potential distributors of Paclitaxel into Europe pending clarification of the position. The Company anticipates releasing its interim results for the period ended 30 June 2011 on 19 September 2011. Nick Lyth, Chairman of Taihua plc, said: "Having been verbally notified of a suspension of our Certificate of Suitability immediately following the audit, the Board were very surprised to receive notification of the withdrawal today. The management of the Company will meet with their application agent, Beijing Canny, early next week to discuss whether to appeal this decision. In the event that an appeal is not appropriate, the Company will reapply for the Certificate of Suitability as it continues to seek long term opportunities in supplying Paclitaxel API and injectables into the regulated market. A detailed plan will be formulated following meeting with Beijing Canny.

That's it then for our chances of getting into the European Paclitaxel market anytime soon. Back to the drawing board....<sigh>

No bl00dy news for months and then they get their hard earned cert of suitability from the euro-drug folks pulled after an audit of their paclitaxel manufacturing process - great, just what I need after all the market uncertainty. Let's hope they've been selling loadsa trad medicines. Have to wait another 6-months then.

Maddog - If I'm reading it right, and given CHW's recent gains (1.8), we've gained a bit more than 0.0808 on the share offer but it's a long way short of what these floated at and surprised me a bit. Was hoping for more. Still, awfully decent of them to honour the interim div. CHW looks promising towards 2012 with the olympics but I'm not sure I can wait that long. In the back of my mind I'm thinking that the share offer must have been quite appealing to the Board for some reason - perhaps CHW is the way forward? They had a 5:1 share consolidation last year (I think) so represent pretty good value now. We'll see - GLA

Welcome! It's been a bit lonely on here. I gues this is under most peoples radar. ESN are pretty good at posting news on their website and it's all good as far as I can make out. Be interesting to see what money they're (we're) being offered for the group. ATB

http://www.investegate.co.uk/Article.aspx?id=20090629070300H5537

These have taken a bashing recently; hope you're OK feckit, but as you say "feckitsonlymoney". 'You seen they've secured M&S and BA as sponsors for the Lions tour this year. Also interesting to note the Dubai office they've set up for the 7s. It'd be nice if some Arab hobbyist with a bit of spare cash fancied a sports marketing company! I can't see any fundamental problems with ESN unless the drop in share price is an indication that they're about to come to the market for some working capital. Time will tell I suppose.

That's great gen. One for the medium term then. Good luck.

Used to hold these a while back but got out on the fall. Could be an interesting time if the rugby world cup in 2009 turns out well and I wonder about long term prospects with the Olympics in 2012. I may get back in yet. You heard any interesting news apart from the usual on their website?

Apparently, James Passin of Firebird also sits on the boards of several private venture stage resource companies (see their website).

My understanding is that the City Code rules that a shareholder with a 30% holding must make their intentions regarding takeover known to the company (Firebird has just over 24%). With RAB dropping their entire holding the pessimist in me can see Firebird taking up a larger share and perhaps forcing a takeover. If that happens then I fear that we will never see a share of the $900 million worth of (in-ground) resources. But, that's life..

GedW, fourteenhundred - some strategic manouvering going on out there with RAB selling out. MMS' hand may well be forced, although I hope not.