General Announcement
Reference No
AD-040420-E63BE
Company Name : ASIATIC DEVELOPMENT BERHAD
Stock Name : ASIATIC
Date Announced : 20/04/2004
Type : Announcement
Subject : ASIATIC DEVELOPMENT BERHAD ("ASIATIC" OR THE "COMPANY")

PROPOSED RENEWAL OF THE AUTHORITY FOR THE PURCHASE OF UP TO TEN PERCENT (10%) OF THE ISSUED AND PAID-UP ORDINARY SHARE CAPITAL OF THE COMPANY PURSUANT TO SECTION 67A OF THE COMPANIES ACT, 1965 ("PROPOSED RENEWAL")


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On 25 June 2003, the shareholders of Asiatic approved a proposal by the Company for the purchase of Asiatic shares.

The Board of Directors of Asiatic wishes to announce that the present mandate granted by the shareholders of Asiatic for the Company to buy back its own shares will expire at the conclusion of the forthcoming Twenty-Sixth Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of Asiatic. In this regard, the Company proposes to seek from its shareholders at the aforesaid AGM to be convened, a renewal of the authority to purchase up to ten percent (10%) of the issued and paid-up share capital of the Company comprising 742,390,000 ordinary shares of RM0.50 each as at 15 April 2004.


Yours faithfully
ASIATIC DEVELOPMENT BERHAD


TAN SRI MOHD AMIN BIN OSMAN
Chairman