Stock Exchange Of Thailand Announces Temporary Trading System Error

The Automated System of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (ASSET System) has been unavailable since 16.18 hours of Thursday 31 October 2002, due to an error in the matching system, causing the trading system to be unable to match trading orders as usual. The SET has been trying to resolve this problem so as to be able to continue normal operations, and will shortly again open the call market operation for today.