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PCE.V Getting taken out.

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KELOWNA, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(MARKET WIRE)--Mar 27, 2008 -- PACIFIC ASIA CHINA ENERGY INC. ("PACE" or the "Company") (CDNX:PCE.V - News) today announced that it has entered into an Arrangement Agreement with a Green Dragon Gas wholly owned subsidiary, Greka China Ltd. ("Greka") under which Greka, through a wholly-owned British Columbia subsidiary, will acquire all of the Company's outstanding shares at a price of $0.38 per share in cash (the "Transaction"). The total value of the Transaction is approximately CDN$35.18 million.
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This all-cash Transaction for 100 percent of the Company's shares represents an approximate 60% premium to the Company's last traded date on the TSX Venture Exchange, Thursday, March 20, 2008.

The Transaction has been unanimously approved by the Company's Board of Directors. The Company's Board of Directors has also resolved to recommend to shareholders that they vote in favour of the Transaction. In determining to recommend the Transaction to the Company's shareholders, the Board of Directors considered a number of factors and engaged Haywood Securities Inc. ("Haywood") to prepare a fairness opinion in relation to the Transaction. Haywood has provided a fairness opinion to the Board of Directors of PACE indicating that, subject to its review of all formal documentation and subject to the assumptions and conditions set forth in such opinion, the consideration to be received by PACE shareholders is fair from a financial point of view.

About the Transaction

The Transaction will be carried out by way of a statutory plan of arrangement under Section 288 of the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia), and must be approved by the applicable court and by 66 2/3 percent of the votes cast by holders of the Company's shares. All warrants and options of the Company are to be cancelled under the plan of arrangement and the arrangement is also subject to 66 2/3 of votes cast by all holders of warrants, options and shares voting as a single class. The completion of the Transaction is also subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals and completion of satisfactory due diligence. The Transaction is expected to close on May 23, 2008, shortly after receipt of shareholder and court approvals.

Details regarding these and other terms of the Transaction are set out in the Arrangement Agreement, which will be filed by the Company on SEDAR and will be available on the SEDAR website at www.sedar.com. Further information regarding the Transaction will be contained in a proxy circular that the Company will mail to holders of its common shares in connection with the special meeting of shareholders to be held to approve the Transaction. It is expected that these materials will be mailed in late April 2008 for a meeting to be held in late May 2008. Once mailed, the proxy circular will be available at www.sedar.com. All shareholders are urged to read the proxy circular once it is available.

Shareholder Support Agreements

The Company's directors and officers, who collectively hold approximately 25 percent of the outstanding common shares of the Company, have entered into lock up agreements with Greka to vote their shares in favour of the Transaction, subject to their ability to withdraw such support in the event that the Arrangement Agreement is terminated.

Financial and Legal Advisors

Haywood Securities Inc. is acting as financial advisor to the Company with respect to the Transaction. The Company's legal advisor is Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP.

Green Dragon Gas

Green Dragon Gas (GDG.L) is a vertically integrated gas supplier committed to providing optimum shareholder returns through the execution of an environmentally progressive niche business plan. Green Dragon's wholly owned subsidiary, Greka China Ltd. (Greka), is a gas supplier based in China with a focus on the exploration, development, production, distribution and sales of natural gas from coal seams, commonly known as coal bed methane or CBM. It expects to generate its own CBM supply from three projects in Shanxi province, one project in Jiangxi province and one project in Anhui province covering acreage holdings with an aggregate area of 6620km3 and an estimated 18.1 Tcf of GIP in aggregate. Greka expects to distribute the CBM production in these projects to its customers mainly in the form of CNG by trucks and to a lesser extent, via pipelines in the form of PNG.

About the Company

PACIFIC ASIA CHINA ENERGY INC. is a Canadian based resource company specializing in the strategic development of Coal Bed Methane projects in China, CBM drilling and coal degasification through its 50% owned subsidiary, PACE MITCHELL DRILLING CORP. Common Shares of PACIFIC ASIA CHINA ENERGY INC. are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol "PCE".