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Hang Lung Group Limited AGM Information 2007

Apr 17, 2007

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PCCW Limited

(Incorporated in Hong Kong with limited liability)

(Stock Code: 0008)

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of PCCW Limited (the “Company”) will be held on Thursday, May 31, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. in the Conference Room, 14th Floor, PCCW Tower, TaiKoo Place, 979 King’s Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong, for the following purposes:

Ordinary Business

  1. To receive and adopt the Audited Financial Statements of the Company and the Reports of the Directors and the Auditors for the year ended December 31, 2006.

  2. To declare a final dividend of 12 HK cents in respect of the year ended December 31, 2006.

  3. To re-elect Directors and authorize the Directors to fix the remuneration of Directors.

  4. To re-appoint Messrs PricewaterhouseCoopers as Auditors and authorize the Directors to fix their remuneration.

Special Business

To consider and, if thought fit, pass the following as Ordinary Resolutions:

  1. THAT:

    • (a) subject to paragraphs (b) and (c) of this Resolution, the Directors be and are hereby granted an unconditional general mandate to allot, issue and deal with additional shares in the capital of the Company and to allot, issue or grant securities convertible into such shares, options, warrants or similar rights to subscribe for any shares in the Company or such convertible securities and to make or grant offers, agreements and options in respect thereof;

    • (b) such mandate shall not extend beyond the Relevant Period save that the Directors may during the Relevant Period 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 share capital allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted (whether pursuant to an option or otherwise) by the Directors pursuant to paragraph (a) above, otherwise than pursuant to:

    • (i) a Rights Issue;

    • (ii) the exercise of rights of subscription or conversion under the terms of any warrants issued by the Company or any securities which are convertible into shares of the Company;

    • (iii) the exercise of the subscription rights under 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 of the Company; or

    • (iv) any scrip dividend or similar arrangement providing for the allotment of shares in lieu of the whole or part of a dividend on shares of the Company in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Company;

shall not exceed 20% of the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue as at the date of the passing of this Resolution;

  • (d) for the purpose of this Resolution:

    • Relevant Period ” means the period from the passing of this Resolution up to:

    • (i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;

    • (ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by any applicable law or the Articles of Association of the Company to be held; or

    • (iii) the revocation or variation of the authority given under this Resolution by an ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in general meeting,

whichever is the earliest; and

Rights Issue ” means an offer of shares open for a period fixed by the Directors to holders of shares on the register of members on a fixed record date in proportion to their then holdings of such shares (subject to such exclusions 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).”

6. “ THAT:

  • (a) subject to paragraph (b) of this Resolution, the Directors be and are hereby granted an unconditional general mandate to repurchase on The Stock Exchange of Hong

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Kong Limited (the “Stock Exchange”), or any other stock exchange on which the securities of the Company are or may be listed and recognized by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong and the Stock Exchange for this purpose, shares in the Company including any form of depositary receipt representing the right to receive such shares issued by the Company and that the exercise by the Directors of all powers of the Company to repurchase such securities, 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 aggregate nominal amount of shares of the Company which may be repurchased by the Company pursuant to the approval in paragraph (a) above during the Relevant Period shall not exceed 10% of the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue as at the date of the passing of this Resolution;

  • (c) for the purpose of this Resolution:

    • Relevant Period ” means the period from the passing of this Resolution up to:

    • (i) the conclusion of the next annual general meeting of the Company;

    • (ii) the expiration of the period within which the next annual general meeting of the Company is required by any applicable law or the Articles of Association of the Company to be held; or

    • (iii) the revocation or variation of the authority given under this Resolution by an ordinary resolution of the shareholders of the Company in general meeting,

whichever is the earliest.”

  1. THAT subject to the passing of Ordinary Resolution No.6 set out in the notice of this Meeting, the aggregate nominal amount of share capital of the Company that may be allotted or agreed conditionally or unconditionally to be allotted by the Directors pursuant to and in accordance with the mandate granted under Ordinary Resolution No.5 set out in the notice of this Meeting be and is hereby increased and extended by the addition of the aggregate nominal amount of the shares in the capital of the Company which may be repurchased by the Company pursuant to and in accordance with the mandate granted under Ordinary Resolution No.6 set out in the notice of this Meeting, provided that such amount shall not exceed 10% of the aggregate nominal amount of the share capital of the Company in issue at the date of the passing of this Resolution.”

By Order of the Board

PCCW Limited Philana WY Poon

Group General Counsel and Company Secretary

Hong Kong, April 18, 2007

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Notes:

  1. Any member of the Company entitled to attend and vote at the Annual General Meeting (or any adjournment thereof) (the “Meeting”) is entitled to appoint one or more proxies to attend and, on a poll, vote in his stead in accordance with the Articles of Association of the Company. A proxy need not be a member of the Company.

  2. Where there are joint registered holders of any share, any one of such persons may vote at the Meeting, either personally or by proxy, in respect of such share as if he were solely entitled thereto; but if more than one of such joint holders is present at the Meeting personally or by proxy, that one of the holders so present whose name stands first on the register of members of the Company in respect of such share shall alone be entitled to vote in respect thereof.

  3. The form of proxy and the power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is signed (or a notarially certified copy of such power of attorney or authority) must be deposited with the Company’s Share Registrars, Computershare Hong Kong Investor Services Limited, Investor Communications Centre, Rooms 1806-1807, 18th Floor, Hopewell Centre, 183 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong no later than 48 hours before the time appointed for holding the Meeting, otherwise the form of proxy shall not be treated as valid. Completion and return of the form of proxy shall not preclude members of the Company from attending and voting in person at the Meeting should they so wish.

The directors of the Company as at the date of this announcement are as follows:

Executive Directors:

Li Tzar Kai, Richard (Chairman); So Chak Kwong, Jack (Deputy Chairman and Group Managing Director); Peter Anthony Allen; Alexander Anthony Arena; Chung Cho Yee, Mico; Lee Chi Hong, Robert; Dr Fan Xingcha

Non-Executive Directors:

Sir David Ford, KBE, LVO; Zhang Chunjiang; Dr Tian Suning (Deputy Chairman)

Independent Non-Executive Directors:

Prof Chang Hsin-kang; Dr Fung Kwok King, Victor; Dr The Hon Sir Li Kwok Po, David, GBS, OBE, JP; Sir Roger Lobo, CBE, LLD, JP; Aman Mehta; The Hon Raymond George Hardenbergh Seitz

Please also refer to the published version of this announcement in The Standard.

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