ChinaNet Online Holdings, Inc. to Present at the 2010 Rodman & Renshaw Annual China Investment Conference in Beijing

ChinaNet Online Holdings, Inc. to Present at the 2010 Rodman & Renshaw Annual China Investment Conference in Beijing

BEIJING, March 2 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- ChinaNet Online Holdings, Inc. ("ChinaNet", OTC Bulletin Board: CHNT), a leading full-service media development, advertising and communications company for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the People's Republic of China ("China"), today announced it will present at the Rodman & Renshaw Annual China Investment Conference being held March 7-9 in Beijing, China. Presentation details are noted below.

Date: March 9, 2010
Time: 4:05 pm Beijing Time
Location: Ballroom I, The Regent Hotel, Beijing China
Presenter: Lifeng Zhang, Investment Director

Conference participation is by invitation and registration is mandatory. For more information on the conference, contact your Rodman & Renshaw representative or visit http://www.rodm.com/ .

About Rodman & Renshaw (NasdaqGM: RODM)

Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group, Inc., (NasdaqGM: RODM) through its subsidiaries, engages in investment banking business. It offers corporate finance services focusing on various public and private equity products, which include private investment in public equity, registered direct offerings, private placements, and public offerings, as well as provides Collateralized Acquisition Pool, a product used to facilitate a targeted acquisition. The company also involves in strategic advisory services, which include identifying and/or evaluating acquisition targets or acquirers; providing valuation analyses; evaluating and proposing financial and strategic alternatives; rendering fairness opinions; advising on timing, structure, and pricing of transaction; assisting in negotiating and closing a transaction; advising on the sale process; and assisting in preparing a memorandum or other sales materials. In addition, it provides merchant banking and asset management services. Rodman & Renshaw Capital Group serves public and private biotechnology companies. The company is headquartered in New York, New York.

About ChinaNet Online Holdings, Inc.

The Company, a parent company of ChinaNet Online Media Group Ltd., incorporated in the BVI ("ChinaNet" or "Zhong Wang Zai Xian"), is a leading full-service media development, advertising and communications company for SMEs in the PRC. The Company, through certain contractual arrangements with operating companies in the PRC, provides internet advertising and other services for Chinese SMEs via its portal website http://www.28.com/ , TV commercials and program production via China-Net TV, and in-house LCD advertising on banking kiosks targeting Chinese banking patrons. Website: http://www.chinanet-online.com/

Safe Harbor Statement

This release contains certain "forward-looking statements" relating to the business of ChinaNet Online Holdings, Inc., which can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "believes," "expects," "anticipates," "estimates" or similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, including business uncertainties relating to government regulation of our industry, market demand, reliance on key personnel, future capital requirements, competition in general and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from those described herein as anticipated, believed, estimated or expected. Certain of these risks and uncertainties are or will be described in greater detail in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements are based on ChinaNet's current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects on the company. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting ChinaNet will be those anticipated by ChinaNet. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond the control of the Company) or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. ChinaNet undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.

For more information, please contact:

Mark Elenowitz
TriPoint Capital Advisors
Tel: +1-917-512-0822

HC International, Inc.
Ted Haberfield, Executive VP
Tel: +1-760-755-2716
Email: thaberfield@hcinternational.net
Web: http://www.hcinternational.net/

Source: ChinaNet Online Holdings, Inc.

CONTACT: Mark Elenowitz of TriPoint Capital Advisors, +1-917-512-0822; HC
International, Inc., Ted Haberfield, Executive VP, +1-760-755-2716, or
thaberfield@hcinternational.net

Web site: http://www.chinanet-online.com/
http://www.28.com/
http://www.rodm.com/

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