Coco Island Organization Receives a Nice Donation

The Coco Island’s fame and attention has increased over the last few months due to its participation within the New 7 Wonders of Nature contest which will conclude its first phase by December 31st, 2008.

Due to the island’s richness in regards to its marine biodiversity, the Coco Island is considered one of Costa Rica’s most valued treasures as far as natural resources is concerned.

The Wal-Mart of Central America division in Costa Rica started a campaign in which it sold stickers and sticker albums related to the Coco Island in order to raise funds to donate for the islands conservation and protection.

The campaign was called “Pégate a la Isla ” which has a play of words that can translate to “Stick to the Island ”.  The campaign started in April and has been active since then.  Customers were presented with 8 different types of stickers with a cost of approximately ¢25 and a collectors album with a cost of $1.

The stickers and album have beautiful images of the Coco Island’s marine life as well as bits of information from which customers can learn about the island.  The campaign collected an approximate $83,000 which Wal-Mart of Central America added another $14,000 for donation.

A total of $97,000 was donated by Wal-Mart of Central America to the Friends of the Coco Island Foundation (FAICO) to support several protection programs on the island which the organization has developed.

Oriens Applies to Pink Sheets to Publish Its Financials

Las Vegas, Nv. August 8, 2008 — Oriens Travel & Hotel Management Corp., an emerging Travel and Hotel Management Company operating online travel booking site 128 Trip and hotel management subsidiary Hotel PURE representing over 25 hotels in Costa Rica and Nicaragua to date, is pleased to report it has completed its application to Pink Sheets to publish its financial statements according to regulatory bodies’ requirements.

In order to provide more transparency of Oriens’ corporate progresses to its shareholders, the company has recently completed its application to Pink Sheets financial quotation service web site (http://www.Pinksheets.com) in order to adequately publish its financial statements and corporate progresses according to the regulatory bodies’ requirements. This is the first step of the process of becoming a fully reporting issuer so that shareholders can expect to be updated regularly on its financial statements and progresses. The unaudited financial statements will be published on the Pink Sheets financial quotation web site as soon as Oriens has received the authorization to do so, which is expected to be completed within the next two or three weeks