THE STOCK EXCHANGE OF HONG KONG LIMITED
(A wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited)

Listing Rule Amendments - Fees and Charges

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the Exchange), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEx) has amended the Main Board Listing Rules and the Growth Enterprise Market Listing Rules (the Listing Rules) to abolish the fee for additional security enquiry pages, or stock pages, in HKEx’s securities trading system, AMS/3 (Third Generation Automatic Order Matching and Execution System), levied on an issuer with more than one class of equity securities listed on the Exchange.  The Exchange has also amended the Listing Rules to clarify that all fees or charges payable to the Exchange, including the initial listing fee and annual listing fee, are to be net of all taxes, levies and duties.

The amendments are posted on the HKEx website under the Regulatory Framework and Rules section and will become effective on 1 October 2009.