The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx), announces that with effect from 20 August 2001, nine additional securities will be eligible for short selling and 11 existing Designated Securities will be removed from the list. The total number of Designated Securities for short selling will be 225. The Designated Securities to be added and removed are listed as follows. The revised list of all Designated Securities is also available on the Exchange's web site (http://www.hkex.com.hk).

For ease of reference, on the stock page of each Designated Security, a letter "H" will be displayed at the commencement of the freetext area to indicate that the security is eligible for short selling.

1.  9 Additional Designated Securities