The Far East Book Company received a special honor award for its "3000 Chinese Characters CD-Rom" in an international prize-giving event jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Education and the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission. In the Global Chinese Language Research Forum held in December 2001, Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission official Chang Fu-mei is shown presenting the award. (see photograph)

The Far East Book Company received a special honor award for its "3000 Chinese Characters CD-Rom" in an international prize-giving event jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Education and the Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission.         Professor Teh-ming Yeh, a master of Chinese language and teaching, introduces Far East Everyday Chinese, a Chinese-learning multimedia CD-ROM at a seminar.

        The Far East "3000 Chinese Characters CD-Rom" was produced under consultation with Professor Deng Sho-Hsin of National Taiwan Normal University's Mandarin Research Institute and based on the list of 3000 most commonly-used Chinese characters issued by the Ministry of Education. This product encompasses 99% of the characters regularly used by major media outlets and provides clear and precise English explanations for each. It includes both traditional and simplified forms, radicals, stroke order, and both Hanyu Pinyin and Mandarin Phonetic Symbols as pronunciation guides. Each character has also been carefully assigned a number that reflects its frequency of use, and learning the 500 most frequently-used characters is equivalent to attaining a reading comprehension level of 70%. This CD-Rom dictionary offers an extremely practical way of learning Chinese characters for both native and non-native speakers of the language.