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FRIDAE.COM TO LAUNCH FIRST CHINESE LANGUAGE GAY
PERSONALS
Feb. 25, 2003 (Hong Kong) - Fridae.com, Asia's
largest (non-pornographic) gay and lesbian portal, will
launch a Chinese language Personals site based on an
updated version of its current popular personals engine
in May 2003.
The Fridae website provides over 65,000 registered
users and several hundred thousand more who choose not
to register, with up-to-date news and entertainment
features as well as the most popular and largest Asian
online community meeting space - Fridae personals, which
has over 30,000 profiles.
While some of china's largest web portals offer gay
sections for posting messages and chatting, as well
as the availability of many amateur gay-themed websites,
Fridae is confident that the native speaking Chinese
gay and lesbian communities, particularly in china,
Hong Kong, Taiwan will take to its new Chinese language
personals, which will be Asia's first personals online
service, customised for and dedicated to the needs of
this community in Asia.
By the third quarter in 2003, Fridae will also launch
its Chinese site with original Chinese content with
contributions from writers in North Asia.
The Chinese-language market represents the largest
growth potential as surveys consistently report that
the number of Internet users in china will continue
to skyrocket. According to data published by the government
of china in august 2002, at least 45 million Chinese
have access to the internet currently.
"The Chinese market will continue to grow exponentially
in the years ahead. I believe we'll continue to see
younger, better educated and more cosmopolitan gay and
lesbian individuals who will be progressively more open
about their sexuality. They will want to come out, network
locally and internationally - and Fridae and the Internet
would be their main gateway to the world." Says Dr Stuart
Koe, Chief Operating Officer, Fridae.com.
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