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  • [:en]Hello Pal Releases Moments Feature[:]

    [:en]Hello Pal Releases Moments Feature[:]

    [:en]CSE Symbol: HP
    Frankfurt Symbol: 27H
    OTC Markets Symbol: HLLPF

    Vancouver, British Columbia: Hello Pal International Inc. (“Hello Pal” or the “Company”) provider of rapidly growing international social messaging, travel and language learning mobile apps is pleased to announce that it has released its Moments feature on both Hello Pal and Travel Pal.

    The Moments feature allows users to share ‘moments’ of their lives, in the form of pictures, short videos, audio and text, with other users on the platform. Users are now able to express themselves more easily and to the world at large through just a single post, and have other users react and comment on it together.

    “In keeping with our mission of bringing the world closer together, our new Moments feature lets users gain a deeper insight into the lives of others all over the world without the need necessarily start a chat,” said K.L. Wong, Founder and CEO of the Company.  “Moments also give us a public forum that fosters a deeper sense of community.”

    Moments postings are categorized by location, language and category type, so a ‘foodie’ in Seattle, for example, can easily see what Korean food looks like, simply by filtering by location (“Korea”) and Category type (“Food and Drinks”).

    Moments is an important part of Hello Pal’s monetization strategy, allowing increased opportunities for targeted sponsored posts. “I’m happy to see the Company proceeding according to plan for monetization. Features similar to Hello Pal’s Moments are certainly part of the current trend with mobile apps, as shown in popular apps such as WeChat and Instagram, and will be vital for the Company’s future revenue prospects,” said Hans Xu, a key senior partner of the New Margin Fund based in Hangzhou, China, as well as one of Hello Pals largest shareholders.

    For information with respect to the Company or the contents of this news release, please contact Ryan Johnson, Corporate Development at (604) 683-0911 or visit the website at hellopal.com. Email inquiries can be directed to: [email protected].

    To view a demo of the Hello Pal app please follow this link: Hello Pal Demonstration

    To view a demo of the Travel Pal app please follow this link: Travel Pal Demonstration

    To view the Company’s investor presentation please follow this link: Investor Presentation

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    About the Hello Pal Platform

    The Hello Pal Platform is a proprietary suite of mobile applications built on a user-friendly messaging interface that focus on social interaction, travel and language learning. Hello Pal has been designed from the ground up to be easy to use and enables users’ the freedom to speak in their own language regardless of the other person’s language they are speaking to. Hello Pal’s overriding mission is to bring the world closer together through social interaction, language learning and travel. By creating a platform where it is easy to instantly interact with others around the world, and giving them the tools to communicate with each other in a joyful and fun way, we hope to do our part (however small) in fostering understanding and tolerance between all citizens of the world.

    Hello Pal was the first app released to the public and experienced rapid growth building a diverse and active global user base. Travel Pal is the first companion app to launch and benefits from this broad-based group of users. Each new app will launch with this established rapidly growing user base accelerating their adoption.

    Information set forth in this news release contains forward-looking statements. These statements reflect management’s current estimates, beliefs, intentions, and expectations; they are not guarantees of future performance. Hello Pal cautions that all forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain and that actual performance may be affected by a number of material factors, many of which are beyond Hello Pal’s control. Such factors include, among other things: Hello Pal’s limited operating history, obtaining regulatory approvals and those risks and uncertainties described in Hello Pal’s Listing Statement dated May 10, 2016 available on www.cnsx.ca. Accordingly, actual, and future events, conditions and results may differ materially from the estimates, beliefs, intentions, and expectations expressed or implied in the forward-looking information. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, Hello Pal undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking information.

    THE CSE HAS NEITHER APPROVED NOR DISAPPROVED THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN AND DOES NOT ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS RELEASE[:]

  • [:en]Hello Pal Announces Successful Launch of its First Companion App Travel Pal[:]

    [:en]Hello Pal Announces Successful Launch of its First Companion App Travel Pal[:]

    [:en]CSE Symbol: HP
    Frankfurt Symbol: 27H
    OTC Markets Symbol: HLLPF

    Vancouver, British Columbia: Hello Pal International Inc. (“Hello Pal” or the “Company”) provider of rapidly growing international social messaging, travel and language learning mobile apps is pleased to announce the successful launch of its first companion app “Travel Pal”.

    Travel Pal is the Company’s second major app release and targets the travel sector by encouraging ‘social traveling’ among its users, where traveling can become much more social through the interaction with locals as well as with other travelers going to the same destination.  Hello Pal considers itself a pioneer in the travel app space following successful travel disruption startups such as Airbnb.

    Travel Pal enables this by making it easy for travelers to find locals who are open to helping fellow travelers by being a guide, meeting up, offering a place to stay, or simply giving advice.  It also allows people who are unable to travel to easily meet foreign people by simply acting as hosts to welcome travelers to their hometown.

    A natural extension of Hello Pal, Travel Pal includes all the chat functions from Hello Pal and helps to further the Company’s mission of bringing the world closer together.  While Hello Pal breaks the ice by helping people from different cultures and countries converse online, Travel Pal aims to reduce the barriers to travel so that people can also meet face-to-face.

    “Our hope is that traveling becomes not just about sightseeing, but also about getting to know people from other countries better,” said KL Wong, Founder of Hello Pal. “If that becomes the trend, then what we should see is more cultural exchange between people, and an increased mutual understanding between them.” 

    The company is also continuing to develop a multi-faceted monetization strategy. Hello Pal offers many forms of potential monetization such as VIP membership and advertising.    With the successful launch of Travel Pal the Company sees increased opportunities for monetization such as travel-industry related sponsorships and revenue sharing.

    For information with respect to the Company or the contents of this news release, please contact Ryan Johnson, Corporate Development at (604) 683-0911 or visit the website at hellopal.com. Email inquiries can be directed to: [email protected].

    To view a demo of the Hello Pal app please follow this link: Hello Pal Demonstration

    To view a demo of the Travel Pal app please follow this link: Travel Pal Demonstration

    To view the Company’s video investor presentation please follow this link: Investor Presentation

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    About the Hello Pal Platform

    The Hello Pal Platform is a proprietary suite of mobile applications built on a user-friendly messaging interface that focus on social interaction, travel and language learning. Hello Pal has been designed from the ground up to be easy to use and enables users’ the freedom to speak in their own language regardless of the other person’s language they are speaking to. Hello Pal’s overriding mission is to bring the world closer together through social interaction, language learning and travel. By creating a platform where it is easy to instantly interact with others around the world, and giving them the tools to communicate with each other in a joyful and fun way, we hope to do our part (however small) in fostering understanding and tolerance between all citizens of the world.

    Hello Pal was the first app released to the public and experienced rapid growth building a diverse and active global user base. Travel Pal is the first companion app to launch and benefits from this broad-based group of users. Each new app will launch with this established rapidly growing user base accelerating their adoption.

    Information set forth in this news release contains forward-looking statements. These statements reflect management’s current estimates, beliefs, intentions, and expectations; they are not guarantees of future performance. Hello Pal cautions that all forward-looking statements are inherently uncertain and that actual performance may be affected by a number of material factors, many of which are beyond Hello Pal’s control. Such factors include, among other things: Hello Pal’s limited operating history, obtaining regulatory approvals and those risks and uncertainties described in Hello Pal’s Listing Statement dated May 10, 2016 available on www.cnsx.ca. Accordingly, actual, and future events, conditions and results may differ materially from the estimates, beliefs, intentions, and expectations expressed or implied in the forward-looking information. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, Hello Pal undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking information.

    THE CSE HAS NEITHER APPROVED NOR DISAPPROVED THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN AND DOES NOT ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS RELEASE[:]

  • [:en]Hello Pal Breaks Through One Million Registered Users[:]

    [:en]Hello Pal Breaks Through One Million Registered Users[:]

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    Achieving Thousands of New Registered Users Daily

    CSE Symbol: HP
    Frankfurt Symbol: 27H
    OTC Markets Symbol: HLLPF

    Vancouver, British Columbia: Hello Pal International Inc. (“Hello Pal” or the “Company”) provider of a rapidly growing international social messaging application is pleased to announce it has now surpassed 1,200,000 registered users. The Company is continuing to experience rapid user growth by building a highly diversified global user base

    “The Hello Pal team is ecstatic about reaching this milestone in just over a year from launch. We are seeing a broad range of new users from countries around the world and are confident our platform has a solid foundation and offering for continued success.” commented KL Wong, the founder and CEO of Hello Pal. “Many similar applications spend substantially more money on user acquisition and fail to achieve the results we are seeing at this early stage. We feel this is validation of our strategy — providing a solid messaging platform that helps users meet people globally, learn new languages and travel the world.”

    Hans Xu, senior partner of the New Margin Group of funds and special advisor to Hello Pal stated, “As an investor I see substantial growth prospects in mobile messaging platforms, and due to the increasing globalization of the world, services and platforms that are international in nature are also in a long term upward trend. By making its offering catered to an international audience, adding a social aspect, and going beyond traditional language learning, Hello Pal is well-positioned to capitalize on this trend. I constantly travel globally in order to review potential investments in many countries. I feel a messaging platform that helps bring people together globally and solves the problem of communicating in multiple languages will become more and more in demand.”

    Hello Pal is also in the final stages of preparing to launch its first companion app “Travel Pal”, a social app targeting worldwide travelers. Travel Pal will be followed by further companion apps in other sectors which are similarly international in nature, all of which will play a key role in the Company’s mission of bringing the world closer together. These apps will all be run on the same platform and users will be part of a common Hello Pal user base. The Hello Pal brand will benefit from increased exposure having the companion apps in multiple sections of the Android and IOS stores.

    On top of this, Hello Pal is continuing to ramp up its user acquisition activities to accelerate this early stage growth. Through these activities Hello Pal feels it’s current rate of 3500 to 6000 registered new users daily will increase markedly. As well Hello Pal will continue to leverage the deep network of its management and advisors in pursuit of strategic partnerships and collaborations.

    For information with respect to the Company or the contents of this news release, please contact Ryan Johnson, Corporate Development at (604) 683-0911 or visit the website at www.hellopal.com. Email inquiries can be directed to: [email protected]

    To view the Company’s investor presentation please follow this link: Investor Presentation

    To view a demonstration of the Hello Pal app please follow this link: Hello Pal Demonstration

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    About Hello Pal International

    The Hello Pal Platform is a proprietary and open social exchange, language and learning mobile application and network for use in a number of applications including language learning and socialization.  Hello Pal has been designed from the ground up to be easy to use and enables users’ the freedom to speak in their own language regardless of the other person’s language they are speaking to. Hello Pal’s overriding mission is to bring the world closer together through social interaction, language learning and travel.

    Information set forth in this news release contains forward-looking statements. These statements reflect management’s current estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations; they are not guarantees of future performance. Hello Pal cautions that all forward looking statements are inherently uncertain and that actual performance may be affected by a number of material factors, many of which are beyond Hello Pal’s control. Such factors include, among other things: Hello Pal’s limited operating history, obtaining regulatory approvals and those risks and uncertainties described in Hello Pal’s Listing Statement dated May 10, 2016 available on www.cnsx.ca. Accordingly, actual and future events, conditions and results may differ materially from the estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations expressed or implied in the forward looking information. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, Hello Pal undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking information.

    THE CSE HAS NEITHER APPROVED NOR DISAPPROVED THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN AND DOES NOT ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS RELEASE[:]

  • [:en]Dr. Sin Just Wong Elected as Director of Hello Pal [:]

    [:en]Dr. Sin Just Wong Elected as Director of Hello Pal [:]

    [:en]CSE Symbol: HP
    Frankfurt Symbol: 27H
    OTC Markets Symbol: HLLPF

    Vancouver, British Columbia: Hello Pal International Inc. (“Hello Pal” or the “Company”) provider of a rapidly growing international social messaging application is pleased to announce that Dr. Sin Just (“SJ”) Wong was elected along with incumbent directors KL Wong, Michael Koh, Gunther Roehlig and Robert McMorran to the Company’s Board of Directors at the Company’s recent AGM.

    Dr. Wong possesses over 20 years of fund management and investment banking experience. He has held senior positions with a number of premier international investment banks including as Managing Director, Capital Markets of BNP Paribas Peregrine. Dr. Wong founded E2-Capital Group and served as its Chairman and CEO from 2000 to 2008. E2-Capital Group is a financial services group specializing in investing, researching and providing fund raising services for small to middle market capitalized companies listed on Hong Kong and Singapore Stock Exchanges. In April 2008, E2-Capital Group was sold to Citic International Asset Management, the asset management arm of CITIC Group of Beijing.

    Between May 2001 and May 2007 Dr. Wong was President and Chief Investment Officer of Softbank China Venture Investments Limited (“SCVI”). During that time, SCVI was managing a closed end fund focusing on private equity and listed investments in Greater China Region. Between May 2001 and Nov 2003, while SCVI was part of Softbank Corp in Japan, he also assisted Softbank Corp and Softbank Investments in managing approximately
    US$500m worth of investments in Greater China Region as the President of Softbank Investment.

    Dr. Wong also served as Non-Executive Chairman of Westminster Travel Limited and SBI E2-Capital Holdings Limited, both of which were listed on Singapore Exchange Limited, Non-Executive Director of CSI Properties Limited, China.com Inc. and China Zenith Chemical Limited, all three being companies listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange, as well as Non-Executive Director of CDC Software Corporation Inc., a company listed on NASDAQ
    market in the USA and Non-Executive Director of Intelligent Edge Berhad, a company listed on BURSA Malaysia Stock Exchange.

    “The Board of Directors and I are delighted to welcome Dr. Wong to the Hello Pal executive leadership team,” said KL Wong, Chief Executive Officer. “His enthusiasm, entrepreneurial spirit and substantial business experience are expected to accelerate the execution of our business plan. He brings critical global operations expertise and we look forward to benefitting from his leadership perspective.”

    Dr. Wong holds a Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honors) degree from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London and was qualified with the Institute of Chartered Accountants, England and Wales in 1992 as a Chartered Accountant. He has received many honorary awards for his achievements. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in Business Management by York University in June 2008 for his lifetime
    achievements. He was awarded a Datukship (DIMP) by Sultan of Pahang, Malaysia in 2004 for his various charitable and social causes.

    For information with respect to the Company or the contents of this news release, please contact Ryan Johnson, Corporate Development at (604) 683-0911 or visit the website at www.hellopal.com. Email inquiries can be directed to: [email protected]

    To view the Company’s investor presentation please follow this link: Investor Presentation

    To view a demonstration of the Hello Pal app please follow this link: Hello Pal Demonstration

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    About Hello Pal International

    The Hello Pal Platform is a proprietary and open social exchange, language and learning mobile application and network for use in a number of applications including language learning and socialization.  Hello Pal has been designed from the ground up to be easy to use and enables users’ the freedom to speak in their own language regardless of the other person’s language they are speaking to. Hello Pal’s overriding mission is to bring the world closer together through social interaction, language learning and travel.

    Information set forth in this news release contains forward-looking statements. These statements reflect management’s current estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations; they are not guarantees of future performance. Hello Pal cautions that all forward looking statements are inherently uncertain and that actual performance may be affected by a number of material factors, many of which are beyond Hello Pal’s control. Such factors include, among other things: Hello Pal’s limited operating history, obtaining regulatory approvals and those risks and uncertainties described in Hello Pal’s Listing Statement dated May 10, 2016 available on www.cnsx.ca. Accordingly, actual and future events, conditions and results may differ materially from the estimates, beliefs, intentions and expectations expressed or implied in the forward looking information. Except as required under applicable securities legislation, Hello Pal undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise forward-looking information.

    THE CSE HAS NEITHER APPROVED NOR DISAPPROVED THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN AND DOES NOT ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS RELEASE[:]