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GoFintech Quantum Innovation Limited — AGM Information 2009
Apr 29, 2009
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AGM Information
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NEW TIMES GROUP HOLDINGS LIMITED 新時代集團控股有限公司[*]
(incorporated in Bermuda with limited liability)
(Stock Code: 166)
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the annual general meeting of New Times Group Holdings Limited (the “Company”) will be held at Unit 103, 1/F, Shiu On Centre, 6–8 Harbour Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, 27 May, 2009 at 3:00 p.m., for the following purposes:
ORDINARY BUSINESS
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to receive and consider the audited financial statements of the Company for the year ended 31st December 2008 together with the reports of the directors of the Company and auditors thereon;
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to re-elect directors and to authorize the board of directors to fix all their remuneration;
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to re-appoint CCIF CPA Limited as Auditors and to authorize the board of directors to fix their remuneration;
SPECIAL BUSINESS
To consider and, if thought fit, pass, with or without modification, the following resolution:
As Ordinary Resolution of the Company:-
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“ THAT :
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(a) subject to paragraph (c) below, pursuant to the Listing Rules, the exercise by the directors of the Company (“Directors”) during the Relevant Period (as hereinafter defined) of all the powers of the Company to allot, issue and otherwise deal with additional shares of the Company (the “Shares”) or securities convertible into Shares, and to make or grant, offers, agreements and options which might require the exercise of such power be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;
* for identification purpose only
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(b) the approval in paragraph (a) above shall authorize the Directors during the Relevant Period to make or grant offers, agreements and options which might require the exercise of such power after the end of the Relevant Period;
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(c) the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted (whether pursuant to an option or otherwise) and issued by the Directors pursuant to the approval in paragraph (a) above, otherwise than pursuant to:
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(i) a Rights Issue (as hereinafter defined);
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(ii) the exercise of rights of subscription or conversion under the terms of any warrant issued by the Company or any securities which are convertible into Shares;
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(iii) the exercise of any option scheme or similar arrangement for the time being adopted for the grant or issue to officers and/or employees of the Company and/or any of its subsidiaries of Shares or rights to acquire Shares;
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(iv) any scrip dividend or similar arrangements providing for the allotment of shares in lieu of the whole or part of a dividend on Shares in accordance with the Bye-laws of the Company;
shall not exceed 20 per cent. of the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue at the date of passing of this resolution and the said approval shall be limited accordingly;
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(d) subject to the passing of each of the paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this resolution, any prior approvals of the kind referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this resolution which had been granted to the Directors and which are still in effect be and are hereby revoked; and
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(e) for the purpose of this resolution:
“Relevant Period” means the period from the passing of this resolution until whichever is the earliest of:
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(i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;
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(ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by law or the Bye-laws of the Company to be held; or
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(iii) the revocation or variation of the authority given under this resolution by ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in general meeting;
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“Rights Issue” means the allotment, issue or grant of Shares pursuant to an offer of Shares open for a period fixed by the Directors to holders of Shares or any class thereof on the register on a fixed record date in proportion to their then holdings of such Shares or class thereof (subject to such exclusion or other arrangements as the Directors 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 recognized regulatory body or any stock exchange in any territory outside Hong Kong).”
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“ THAT :
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(a) subject to paragraph (b) below, the exercise by the Directors during the Relevant Period (as hereinafter defined) of all the powers of the Company to repurchase issued shares in the capital of the Company on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited or on any other stock exchanges on which the Shares may be listed and recognized for this purpose by the Securities and Futures Commission and The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited under the Code on Share Repurchases, and subject to and in accordance with all applicable laws and the requirements of the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited or of any other stock exchanges (as amended from time to time), be and is hereby generally and unconditionally approved;
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(b) the aggregate nominal amount of shares of the Company which may be repurchased pursuant to the approval in paragraph (a) above during the Relevant Period of this resolution shall not exceed 10 per cent. of the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue as at the date of passing of this resolution and the approval in paragraph (a) above shall be limited accordingly;
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(c) subject to the passing of each of the paragraphs (a) and (b) above, any prior approvals of the kind referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) above of this resolution which had been granted to the Directors and which are still in effect be and are hereby revoked; and
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(d) for the purpose of this resolution, “Relevant Period” means the period from the passing of this resolution until whichever is the earliest of:
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(i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;
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(ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by law or the Bye-laws of the Company to be held; or
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(iii) the revocation or variation of the authority given under this resolution by ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in general meeting.”
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- “ THAT conditional upon the passing of resolutions 4 and 5 as set out in the notice of this meeting, the general mandate granted to the Directors to exercise the powers of the Company to allot, issue and otherwise deal with shares of the Company pursuant to resolution 4 above be and is hereby extended by the addition to the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company which may be allotted by the Directors pursuant to such general mandate an amount representing the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company repurchased by the Company under the authority granted pursuant to resolution 5 above, provided that such amount shall not exceed 10 per cent. of the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue at the date of passing of this resolution.”
As Special Resolution of the Company:–
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“ THAT subject to and conditional upon approval of the Registrar of Companies in Bermuda, the name of the Company be changed from “New Times Group Holdings Limited to “New Times Energy Corporation Limited” and the Chinese name of the Company, for the purpose of identification only, be adopted as “新時代能源有限公 司” to replace “新時代集團控股有限公司” and that the Directors be and are hereby authorized to do all such acts and things and execute all documents that they consider necessary or expedient to effect the change of name and the adoption of the new Chinese name for the purpose of registration in Hong Kong for and on behalf of the Company”
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“ THAT the Bye-laws of the Company be and are hereby amended in the following manner:
Bye-law 1
By inserting the words “and including where the representation takes the form of electronic display, provided that both the mode of service of the relevant document or notice and the Member’s election comply with applicable Statues, rules and regulations” immediate after the words “written notice” in the meaning of the word “Notice” of existing Bye-law 1.
Bye-law 153
By deleting the existing Bye-Law 153 in its entirety and replacing therewith the following as new Bye-Law 153:
- “153. Subject to Section 88 of the Statutes and Bye-law 153A, a printed copy of the Directors’ report, accompanied by the balance sheet and profit and loss account, including every document required by law to be annexed thereto, made up to the end of the applicable financial year and containing a summary of the assets and liabilities of the Company under convenient heads and a statement of income and expenditure, together with a copy of the Auditors’ report, shall be sent to each person entitled thereto at least twenty-one (21) days before the date of the general meeting and at the same time as the notice of annual general meeting and laid before the Company at the annual general meeting in accordance with the requirements of the Statutes provided that this Bye-law shall not require a copy of those documents to be sent to any person whose address the Company is not aware of or to more than one of the joint holders of any shares or debentures.”
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Bye-law 153A and 153B
By inserting the following as new Bye-Laws 153A and 153B immediately following Bye-Law 153:
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“153A. To the extent permitted by and subject to due compliance with all applicable Statutes, rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, and to obtaining all necessary consents, if any, required thereunder, the requirements of Bye-law 153 shall be deemed satisfied in relation to any person by sending to the person in any manner not prohibited by the Statutes, summarised financial statements derived from the Company’s annual accounts and the directors’ report which shall be in the form and containing the information required by applicable laws and regulations, provided that any person who is otherwise entitled to the annual financial statements of the Company and the directors’ report thereon may, if he so requires by notice in writing served on the Company, demand that the Company sends to him, in addition to summarised financial statements, a complete printed copy of the Company’s annual financial statement and the directors’ report thereon.
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153B. The requirement to send to a person referred to in Bye-law 153 the documents referred to in that provision or a summary financial report in accordance with Bye-law 153A shall be deemed satisfied where, in accordance with all applicable Statutes, rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange, the Company publishes copies of the documents referred to in Bye-law 153 and, if applicable, a summary financial report complying with Bye-law 153A, on the Company’s computer network or in any other permitted manner (including by sending any form of electronic communication), and that person has agreed or is deemed to have agreed to treat the publication or receipt of such documents in such manner as discharging the Company’s obligation to send to him a copy of such documents.”
Bye-law 160
By deleting the existing Bye-Law 160 in its entirety and replacing therewith the following as new Bye-Law 160:
- “160. Any notice or document (including any “corporate communication” within the meaning ascribed thereto under the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange), whether or not, to be given or issued under these Bye-laws from the Company to a Member shall be in writing or by cable, telex or facsimile transmission message or other form of electronic transmission or communication and any such notice and document may be served or delivered by the Company on or to any Member either personally or by sending it through the post in a prepaid envelope addressed to such Member at his registered address as appearing in the Register or at any other address supplied by him to the Company for the purpose
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or, as the case may be, by transmitting it to any such address or transmitting it to any telex or facsimile transmission number or electronic number or address or website supplied by him to the Company for the giving of notice to him or which the person transmitting the notice reasonably and bona fide believes at the relevant time will result in the notice being duly received by the member or may also be served by advertisement in appointed newspapers (as defined in the Statute) or in newspapers published daily and circulating generally in the territory of and in accordance with the requirements of the Designated Stock Exchange or, to the extent permitted by the applicable laws, by placing it on the Company’s website or the website of the Designated Stock Exchange, and giving to the Member a notice stating that the notice or other document is available there (a “notice of availability”). The notice of availability may be given to the Member by any of the means set out above for so long it is permitted by the rules of the Designated Stock Exchange.”
Bye-law 161
By deleting the existing Bye-Law 161 in its entirety and replacing therewith the following as new Bye-Law 161:
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“161. Any notice or other document:
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(a) if served or delivered by post, shall where appropriate be sent by airmail and shall be deemed to have been served or delivered on the day following that on which the envelope containing the same, properly prepaid and addressed, is put into the post; in proving such service or delivery it shall be sufficient to prove that the envelope or wrapper containing the notice or document was properly addressed and put into the post and a certificate in writing signed by the Secretary or other officer of the Company or other person appointed by the Board that the envelope or wrapper containing the notice or other document was so addressed and put into the post shall be conclusive evidence thereof;
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(b) if sent by electronic communication, shall be deemed to be given on the day on which it is transmitted from the server of the Company or its agent. A notice placed on the Company’s website or the website of the Designated Stock Exchange, is deemed given by the Company to a Member on the day following that on which a notice of availability is deemed served on the Member;
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(c) if served or delivered in any other manner contemplated by these Byelaws, shall be deemed to have been served or delivered at the time of personal service or delivery or, as the case may be, at the time of the relevant despatch, transmission or publication; and in proving such service or delivery a certificate in writing signed by the Secretary or other officer of the Company or other person appointed by the Board as to the fact and time of such service, delivery, despatch, transmission or publication shall be conclusive evidence thereof; and
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- (d) may be given to a Member either in the English language or the Chinese language, subject to due compliance with all applicable Statutes, rules and regulation.””
By order of the Board of New Times Group Holdings Limited Cheng Kam Chiu, Stewart Executive director
Hong Kong 30 April, 2009
Head office and Principal place of business in Hong Kong: Unit 2003-06 Shiu On Centre 6-8 Harbour Road Wanchai Hong Kong
Registered office: Clarendon House 2 Church Street Hamilton HM 11 Bermuda
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A shareholder entitled to attend and vote at the above meeting may appoint one or more than one proxy to attend and to vote in his stead. A proxy need not be a shareholder of the Company.
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Where there are joint registered holders of any Share, any one such person may vote at the meeting, either personally or by proxy, in respect of such Shares as if he was solely entitled thereto; but if more than one of such joint holders be present at the meeting personally or by proxy, that one of the said persons so present whose name stands first on the register of members of the Company in respect of such Shares shall alone be entitled to vote in respect thereof.
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In order to be valid, the form of proxy duly completed and signed in accordance with the instructions printed thereon together with the power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is signed or a certified copy thereof must be delivered to the office of the Company’s branch share registrars, Tricor Tengis Limited, at 26/F., Tesbury Centre, 28 Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong not less than forty eight (48) hours before the time appointed for holding the meeting or any adjournment thereof.
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A form of proxy for use at the meeting is being despatched to the shareholders of the Company together with a copy of this notice.
As at the date of this notice, the Board comprises nine Directors, of which three are executive Directors, namely Mr. Tse On Kin, Mr. Cheng Kam Chiu, Stewart, and Mr. Cheng Chi Him; three non-executive Directors, namely Mr. Pei Cheng Ming, Michael, Mr. Wong Man Kong, Peter, and Mr. Chan Chi Yuen; and three independent non-executive Directors, namely Mr. Fung Chi Kin, Mr. Fung Siu To, Clement and Mr. Chiu Wai On.
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