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Stock Exchange Of Thailand Trading System Temporarily Down

Date 31/08/2001

Mr.Surat Palalikit, Executive Vice President, the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) disclosed that at 10.59 a.m. (31 August 2001), there was a slight problem due to SET Broadcast System which caused a temporarily disruption in the trading system for 18 minutes. However, the problem was solved, all trading activities are all in place since 11.17 a.m. and there is no effect to SET trading system. According to Mr.Surat, SET will take a closely look to avoid such problem again in the future.