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DIT Group Limited Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement 2007

Jul 30, 2007

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Proxy Solicitation & Information Statement

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THIS CIRCULAR IS IMPORTANT AND REQUIRES YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION

The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited takes no responsibility for the contents of this circular, makes no representation as to its accuracy or completeness and expressly disclaims any liability whatsoever for any loss howsoever arising from or in reliance upon the whole or any part of the contents of this circular.

If you are in any doubt as to any aspect of this circular, you should consult a stockbroker or other registered dealer in securities, bank manager, solicitor, professional accountant or other professional adviser.

If you have sold or transferred all your shares in South East Group Limited (the “Company”), you should at once hand this circular and the enclosed proxy form to the purchaser or to the bank, stockbroker or other agent through whom the sale was effected for transmission to the purchaser or the transferee.

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(Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability) (Stock Code: 726)

PROPOSALS INVOLVING GENERAL MANDATES TO ISSUE SHARES AND REPURCHASE SHARES AND RE-ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

A letter from the Board of South East Group Limited is set out on pages 1 to 7 of this circular. A notice convening the annual general meeting of South East Group Limited to be held at Plaza IV, Lower Lobby, Novotel Century Hong Kong, 238 Jaffe Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong on Monday, 24 September 2007 at 10:00 a.m. is set out on pages 8 to 10 of this circular.

A form of proxy is also enclosed. Whether or not you are able to attend and vote at the annual general meeting, you are requested to complete the enclosed proxy form and return it to the Company at its principal place of business at Rooms 02-03, 9th Floor, Wyndham Place, 44 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong as soon as possible and in any event not less than 48 hours before the time appointed for holding the annual general meeting or any adjournment thereof. Completion and return of the proxy form will not preclude you from subsequently attending and voting at the annual general meeting or any adjournment thereof should you so wish.

31 July 2007

* For identification purposes only

CONTENTS

Page
Letter from the Board
— Introduction .................................................................................................................... 1
— The Share Issue Mandate............................................................................................... 2
— The Share Repurchase Mandate .................................................................................... 2
— Re-election of Directors................................................................................................. 5
— Procedure to Demand a Poll .......................................................................................... 6
— Annual General Meeting................................................................................................ 7
— Recommendation............................................................................................................ 7
Notice of Annual General Meeting............................................................................................. 8

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LETTER FROM THE BOARD

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(Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability)

(Stock Code: 726)

Executive Director: Budiman RAHARDJA (Chairman)

Non-Executive Director: CHEN Zhi Yung

Registered Office: Canon’s Court 22 Victoria Street Hamilton HM12 Bermuda

Independent Non-Executive Directors: LO Yuk Lam WONG Kam Wah NG Chun Hung, Lawrence

Principal place of business in Hong Kong: Rooms 02-03, 9th Floor, Wyndham Place, 44 Wyndham Street Central, Hong Kong

31 July 2007

To the Shareholders

Dear Sir or Madam,

PROPOSALS INVOLVING GENERAL MANDATES TO ISSUE SHARES AND REPURCHASE SHARES AND

RE-ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

INTRODUCTION

This circular is to provide information to shareholders of South East Group Limited (“Company”) required by the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities (“Listing Rules”) on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (“Stock Exchange”) concerning the proposed general mandates for the issue of shares, repurchase of shares and an extension of the mandate for issuing shares (to include those shares repurchased) to be granted to the directors of the Company (“Directors”) since the general mandates granted on 22 September 2006 to the Directors will expire at the AGM (as defined below); and re-election of Directors, to be approved by shareholders at the annual general meeting of the Company to be held on Monday, 24 September 2007 (“AGM”).

* For identification purposes only

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LETTER FROM THE BOARD

THE SHARE ISSUE MANDATE

Resolution no. 5 referred to in the notice of AGM (“AGM Notice”) dated 31 July 2007 will, if passed, give a general unconditional mandate (“Share Issue Mandate”) to the Directors authorizing the exercise by the Directors of the powers of the Company to allot additional shares of HK$0.10 each in the capital of the Company (“Shares”). This authority would apply to up to 20% of the issued share capital of the Company at the date of the AGM.

THE SHARE REPURCHASE MANDATE

Resolution no. 6 (“Ordinary Resolution”) referred to in the AGM Notice will, if passed, give a general unconditional mandate (“Share Repurchase Mandate”) to the Directors to exercise the powers of the Company to repurchase Shares up to a maximum of 10% of the issued share capital of the Company at the date of the AGM (“Repurchase Proposal”).

The Directors also propose a separate ordinary resolution at the AGM to add to the Share Issue Mandate to issue those Shares purchased by the Company pursuant to the exercise of the Share Repurchase Mandate proposed to be granted to the Directors at the AGM (“Extension of Share Issue Mandate”).

The Directors propose to seek your approval of the Ordinary Resolution to be proposed at the AGM. The information set out below constitutes an Explanatory Statement in accordance with the relevant rules as set out in the Listing Rules to regulate the repurchase by companies with primary listing on the Stock Exchange of their own securities on the Stock Exchange (“Share Buy Back Rules”):

(1) Shareholders’ approval

The Share Buy Back Rules provide that all on-market share repurchase by company with its primary listing on the Stock Exchange must be of fully paid up shares and approved in advance by an ordinary resolution, either by way of a general mandate or by specific approval in relation to specific transactions.

(2) Share Capital

As at 27 July 2007 (the latest practicable date prior to the printing of this statement) (“Latest Practicable Date”) the issued share capital of the Company comprised 335,197,880 Shares. Subject to the passing of the Ordinary Resolution and on the basis that no further Shares are issued or repurchased prior to the AGM, the Company would be allowed, under the Share Repurchase Mandate to repurchase a maximum of 33,519,788 Shares.

(3) Reasons for repurchase proposal

The directors of the Company believe that the Repurchase Proposal is in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders. Such repurchases may, depending on market conditions and funding arrangements at the time, lead to an enhancement of the net assets and/or earnings per share and will only be made when the directors of the Company believe that such a repurchase will benefit the Company and its shareholders.

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LETTER FROM THE BOARD

(4) Funding of repurchases

In repurchasing Shares, the Company may only apply funds legally available for such purpose in accordance with its memorandum of association and bye-laws and the applicable laws of Bermuda. The laws of Bermuda provide that the amount of capital repaid in connection with a share repurchase may only be paid out of either the capital paid up on the relevant Shares, or out of funds of the Company otherwise available for dividend or distribution or the proceeds of a fresh issue of Shares made for the purpose of the repurchase to such extent allowable under the Companies Act 1981 of Bermuda (as amended). The amount of premium payable on repurchase may only be paid out of funds of the Company otherwise available for dividend or distribution or out of the share premium account of the Company.

There might be a material adverse impact on the working capital or gearing position of the Company (as compared with the position disclosed in the audited consolidated accounts contained in the annual report of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2007) in the event that the proposed share repurchases were to be carried out in full at any time during the proposed repurchase period. Such proposed repurchase period means the period from the passing of the Ordinary Resolution until whichever is the earliest of: (i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company; (ii) the date on which the authority sets out in the Ordinary Resolution is revoked or varied by an ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in a general meeting; and (iii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required to be held by Bermuda laws or the bye-laws of the Company. However, the directors of the Company do not propose to exercise the Share Repurchase Mandate to such extent as would, in the circumstances, have a material adverse effect on the working capital requirement of the Company or the gearing levels which, in the opinion of the directors of the Company, are from time to time appropriate for the Company.

(5) Share prices

The highest and lowest prices at which the Shares have traded on the Stock Exchange during each of the previous twelve months before the Latest Practicable Date were as follows:

Highest Lowest
HK$ HK$
July 2006 0.091 0.060
August 2006* 0.084 0.065
September 2006 0.086 0.065
October 2006 0.079 0.065
November 2006 0.114 0.065
December 2006 0.102 0.065
January 2007 0.090 0.068
February 2007 0.150 0.080
March 2007 0.165 0.092
April 2007 0.390 0.140
May 2007 0.350 0.200
June 2007 0.430 0.270
July 2007 (up to and including the Latest Practicable Date) 0.380 0.250

* Trading was suspended from 2 August 2006 up to 4 August 2006, and from 14 August 2006 up to 23 August 2006.

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LETTER FROM THE BOARD

(6) Undertaking of the Directors

The directors of the Company have undertaken to the Stock Exchange that, they will exercise the powers of the company to make repurchases pursuant to the Ordinary Resolution and in accordance with the Listing Rules and the applicable laws of Bermuda.

(7) Directors, associates and connected persons

None of the directors of the Company nor, to the best of their knowledge having made all reasonable enquiries, their associates have any present intention to sell any Shares to the Company under the Repurchase Proposal if such is approved by the shareholders.

No connected persons (as defined in the Listing Rules) have notified the Company that they have a present intention to sell Shares to the Company or its subsidiaries, or have undertaken not to do so, in the event that the Repurchase Proposal is approved by the shareholders.

(8) Effects of the Takeovers Code

If on the exercise of the power to repurchase Shares pursuant to the Repurchase Proposal a shareholder’s proportionate interest in the voting rights of the Company increases, such increase will be treated as an acquisition for the purposes of Rule 32 of the Hong Kong Code on Takeovers and Mergers (the “Takeovers Code”). Accordingly, a shareholder or group of shareholders acting in concert could obtain or consolidate control of the Company and become obligated to make a mandatory offer in accordance with Rule 26 of the Takeovers Code.

As at the Latest Practicable Date, Mr. Budiman Rahardja was taken to have an interest under the Securities and Futures Ordinance (“SFO”) in 139,603,131 Shares, representing approximately 41.65% of the entire issued share capital of the Company. Mr. Budiman Rahardja personally held 23,621,001 Shares, and was deemed to be interested in 115,982,130 Shares through his beneficial shareholding interests in Easy Lead Corporation Limited (“Easy Lead”). Easy Lead held 115,982,130 Shares, representing approximately 34.60% of the entire issued share capital of the Company. Easy Lead was owned as to 50% by Mr. Budiman Rahardja and 50% by his mother, Madam Huang Feng Mei (formerly know as Madam Sri Wasi Hastuti). Hence, Madam Huang Feng Mei was taken to have an interest under the SFO in the same parcel of 115,982,130 Shares held by Easy Lead. In the event that the directors of the Company exercise in full the power to repurchase Shares in the Company in accordance with the terms of the Ordinary Resolution, then (if the present shareholdings otherwise remained the same) the shareholding of Mr. Budiman Rahardja would be increased to approximately 46.28%, and the shareholdings of each of Easy Lead and Madam Huang Feng Mei would be increased to approximately 38.45%. The directors of the Company are aware that such increase may give rise to an obligation of the parties stated above together with any other parties acting in concert with them to make a mandatory offer under Rule 26 of the Takeovers Code. If any exercise of the powers of the Company to make repurchases pursuant to the Ordinary Resolution would, to the knowledge of the directors, result in takeovers obligations, the directors would not purchase Shares to such an extent.

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LETTER FROM THE BOARD

(9) Share repurchase made by the Company

The Company has not repurchased any of its Shares (whether on the Stock Exchange or otherwise) in the six months preceding the Latest Practicable Date.

RE-ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

In accordance with Bye-law 182(vi) of the Company’s Bye-laws, Mr. Wong Kam Wah and Mr. Ng Chun Hung, Lawrence shall retire by rotation at the AGM and, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election.

Information on the retiring directors proposed for re-election at the AGM is set out below:

Mr. Wong Kam Wah , aged 49, was appointed an independent non-executive director of the Company in December 2002. He is also a member of each of the Audit Committee and the Remuneration Committee of the Company. Mr. Wong is a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and an associate member of each of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Hong Kong Institute of Company Secretaries and the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. Mr. Wong served in senior positions in a multinational corporation and an audit firm. He is currently the principal of a certified public accountants firm. He has extensive experience in accounting and auditing work.

There is no service contract entered into by Mr. Wong with the Company and no fixed or proposed length of service with the Company, but he is subject to retirement by rotation and re-election at the annual general meeting of the Company in accordance with its bye-laws. As an independent nonexecutive director, Mr. Wong will be entitled to receive emoluments as determined by the Board from time to time with reference to his services and contribution to the Company. The current director’s fee payable to Mr. Wong is HK$60,000 per annum. Except for his director’s fee, Mr. Wong has not received any other director’s emoluments for the year ended 31 March 2007.

Mr. Wong does not have any relationship with any directors, senior management or substantial or controlling shareholders of the Company. As at the Latest Practicable Date, Mr. Wong held outstanding options entitling him to subscribe for 660,000 shares within the meaning of Part XV of the Securities and Futures Ordinance.

Save as disclosed above, Mr. Wong has not held any directorships in listed public companies or other major appointments and qualifications in the last three years prior to the Latest Practicable Date.

Save as disclosed above, there is no information relating to Mr. Wong that is required to be disclosed pursuant to Rules 13.51(2)(h) to (v) of the Listing Rules, and there are no other matters which need to be brought to the attention of the shareholders of the Company.

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LETTER FROM THE BOARD

Mr. Ng Chun Hung , Lawrence, aged 28, was appointed an independent non-executive director of the Company in December 2004. He received his tertiary education at the Pace University in New York and the University of Southern California in Los Angeles respectively. Mr. Ng is a co-founder, chief executive officer and chief strategist of a U.S. company which provides services relating to online advertising, internet traffic patterns and search engine optimization. His expertise is on the U.S. high-tech sector.

There is no service contract entered into by Mr. Ng with the Company and no fixed or proposed length of service with the Company, but he is subject to retirement by rotation and re-election at the annual general meeting of the Company in accordance with its bye-laws. Mr. Ng has not received any director’s emoluments from the Company for his directorship, although as an independent nonexecutive director, he will be entitled to receive emoluments as determined by the Board from time to time with reference to his services and contribution to the Company.

Mr. Ng does not have any relationship with any directors, senior management or substantial or controlling shareholders of the Company, nor does he have any interest in shares of the Company within the meaning of Part XV of the Securities and Futures Ordinance.

Save as disclosed above, Mr. Ng has not held any directorships in listed public companies or other major appointments and qualifications in the last three years prior to the Latest Practicable Date.

Save as disclosed above, there is no information relating to Mr. Ng that is required to be disclosed pursuant to Rules 13.51(2)(h) to (v) of the Listing Rules, and there are no other matters which need to be brought to the attention of the shareholders of the Company.

PROCEDURE TO DEMAND A POLL

Pursuant to Bye-law 70 of the Company’s Bye-laws, at any general meeting, a resolution put to the vote of a meeting shall be decided on a show of hands unless voting by way of a poll is required by the Listing Rules or (before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands or on the withdrawal of any other demand for a poll) a poll is demanded:

  • (a) by the chairman of such meeting; or

  • (b) by at least three members present in person or in the case of a member being a corporation by its duly authorised representative or by proxy for the time being entitled to vote at the meeting; or

  • (c) by a member or members present in person or in the case of a member being a corporation by its duly authorised representative or by proxy and representing in aggregate not less than onetenth of the total voting rights of all members having the right to vote at the meeting; or

  • (d) by a member or members present in person or in the case of a member being a corporation by its duly authorised representative or by proxy and holding Shares in the Company conferring a right to vote at the meeting being Shares on which an aggregate sum has been paid up equal to not less than one-tenth of the total sum paid up on all Shares conferring that right; or

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LETTER FROM THE BOARD

  • (e) if required by the Listing Rules, by any Director or Directors who, individually or collectively, hold proxies in respect of Shares representing 5% or more of the total voting rights at such meeting.

A demand by a person as a proxy for a member or in the case of a member being a corporation by its duly authorised representative shall be deemed to be the same as a demand by a member.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

A notice convening the AGM is set out on pages 8 to 10 of this circular for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, passing the resolutions set out therein. A form of proxy is enclosed for use at the AGM. You are requested to complete and return the form of proxy to the Company at its principal place of business at Rooms 02-03, 9th Floor, Wyndham Place, 44 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong as soon as possible, and in any event not later than 48 hours before the time appointed for the holding of the AGM or any adjournment thereof. The lodging of a form of proxy will not preclude you from subsequently attending the AGM or any adjournment thereof and voting in person should you so wish.

RECOMMENDATION

The Directors consider that the Share Issue Mandate and the Share Repurchase Mandate and the Extension of Share Issue Mandate, as well as the proposed re-election of the retiring Directors are in the interests of the Company and its shareholders as a whole. Accordingly, the Directors recommend that shareholders of the Company vote in favour of the resolutions to be proposed at the AGM.

Yours faithfully, For and on behalf of the Board Budiman Rahardja Chairman

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

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(Incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability)

(Stock Code: 726)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual General Meeting of South East Group Limited (the “Company”) will be held at Plaza IV, Lower Lobby, Novotel Century Hong Kong, 238 Jaffe Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong on Monday, 24 September 2007 at 10:00 a.m. for the following purposes:

  1. To receive and consider the audited financial statements and the reports of the directors and the auditors of the Company for the year ended 31 March 2007;

  2. To re-elect retiring directors and to authorise the board of directors to fix the remuneration of directors;

  3. To determine the maximum number of directors for the financial year 2007/2008;

  4. To re-appoint auditors and to authorise the board of directors to fix their remuneration;

  5. As special business, to consider and, if thought fit, pass, with or without amendments, the following resolution as an Ordinary Resolution:

THAT :

  • (a) the exercise by the directors of the Company during the Relevant Period (as hereinafter defined) of all the powers of the Company to allot, issue and deal with additional shares of the Company, be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved, provided that, otherwise than (i) pursuant to a rights issue where shares are offered to shareholders on a fixed record date in proportion to their then holdings of shares of the Company as at that date (subject to such exclusions or other arrangements as the directors of the Company may deem necessary or expedient in relation to fractional entitlements or having regard to any restrictions or obligations under the laws of, or the requirements of any recognised regulatory body of any stock exchange, in any territory outside Hong Kong applicable to the Company); (ii) an issue of shares upon the exercise of rights of subscription or conversion under the terms of any securities which are convertible into shares of the Company; (iii) an issue of shares as scrip dividends pursuant to the bye-laws of the Company from time to time; or (iv) an issue of shares under any option scheme or similar arrangement for the grant or issue to employees of the Company and/or any of its subsidiaries of shares or rights to acquire shares of the Company, the aggregate nominal amount of share capital issued, allotted or disposed of or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be issued, allotted or dealt with whether pursuant to an option or otherwise, shall not in total exceed 20 per cent of the nominal amount of share capital of the Company in issue on the date of passing this Resolution and the said approval shall be limited accordingly; and

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

  • (b) for the purpose of this Resolution, “Relevant Period” means the period from the passing of this Resolution until whichever is the earlier of:

  • (i) the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company;

  • (ii) the revocation or variation of the authority given under this Resolution by ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in general meeting; and

  • (iii) the expiration of the period within which the next Annual General Meeting of the Company is required by the byelaws of the Company or any applicable law to be held.”

  • As special business, to consider and, if thought fit, pass with or without amendments, the following resolution as an Ordinary Resolution:

THAT :

  • (a) subject to paragraph (b) below, the exercise by the directors of the Company during the Relevant Period (as hereinafter defined) of all the powers of the Company to repurchase its shares on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (“Stock Exchange”) or on any other stock exchange on which the shares of the Company may be listed and recognised by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong and the Stock Exchange for this purpose, subject to and in accordance with all applicable laws and the requirements of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on the Stock Exchange or of any other stock exchange as amended from time to time, be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;

  • (b) the total nominal amount of shares of the Company to be repurchased by the Company pursuant to the approval in paragraph (a) above shall not exceed 10 per cent of the total nominal amount of the shares of the Company in issue on the date of passing this Resolution and the said approval shall be limited accordingly; and

  • (c) for the purpose of this Resolution, “Relevant Period” means the period from the passing of this Resolution until whichever is the earlier of:

  • (i) the conclusion of the next Annual General Meeting of the Company;

  • (ii) the revocation or variation of the authority given under this Resolution by ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in general meeting; and

  • (iii) the expiration of the period within which the next Annual General Meeting of the Company is required by the byelaws of the Company or any applicable law to be held.”

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NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

  1. As special business, to consider and, if thought fit, pass, with or without amendments, the following resolution as an Ordinary Resolution:

THAT , subject to the passing of Resolutions Nos. 5 and 6 set out in the notice convening this meeting, the general mandate granted to the directors of the Company to exercise the powers of the Company to allot and deal with additional shares and to make or grant offers, agreements and options which might or would require the exercise of such power pursuant to Resolution No. 5 set out in the notice convening this meeting, be and is hereby extended by the addition to the total nominal amount of the share capital of the Company which may be allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted by the directors of the Company pursuant to such general mandate of an amount representing the total nominal amount of shares in the capital of the Company which has been repurchased by the Company under the authority granted pursuant to Resolution No. 6 set out in the notice convening this meeting provided that such amount of shares shall not exceed 10 per cent of the total nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue on the date of passing this Resolution.”

By Order of the Board Chan Sau Chee Company Secretary

Hong Kong, 31 July 2007

Notes:

  • (i) A member entitled to attend and vote at the meeting convened by the above notice is entitled to appoint a proxy to attend and, in the event of a poll, vote in his stead. A proxy need not be a member of the Company.

  • (ii) In order to be valid, the form of proxy together with a power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is signed or a notarially certified copy of the power of attorney or authority must be deposited with the Company at its principal place of business at Rooms 02-03, 9th Floor, Wyndham Place, 44 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong not less than 48 hours before the time for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting.

  • (iii) Completion and return of the form of proxy will not preclude a member of the Company from attending and voting in person at the meeting convened or any adjournment thereof and in such event, the authority of the proxy shall be deemed to be revoked.

The directors of the Company as at the date of this notice are Mr. Budiman Rahardja (Chairman) as executive director, Mr. Chen Zhi Yung as non-executive director and Mr. Lo Yuk Lam, Mr. Wong Kam Wah and Mr. Ng Chun Hung, Lawrence as independent non-executive directors.

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