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KLSE Resumes Full Operations

Date 26/06/2000

The Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE) has restored its systems to enable the stockmarket to resume trading for the afternoon session commencing at 2:30 p.m., Monday, 26 June 2000.

The keying in of orders will begin at 2:00 p.m. Earlier, a systems failure detected by KLSE caused the Exchange to suspend trading temporarily for its morning session. All buying-in trades executed prior to the temporary suspension have been effected. All clearing and settlement operations have proceeded as usual.

Apex Healthcare Berhad was admitted to the official list of the KLSE today, Monday, 26 June 2000. The trading of its shares will begin upon the commencement of the afternoon session today. KLSE will continue to closely monitor all further developments to ensure that its systems will continue to operate at optimum performance.