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Audited financial Statements For The Financial Year Ended 31 December 2007

Further to the submission of the Company's audited financial statements for the financial year ended 31 December 2007 ("Audited Financial Statements") today, the Company wishes to inform that the external auditors of the Company had noted the following in their report:-

"As disclosed in Note 49 to the financial statements, the financial statements of the Group and of the Company for the year ended 31 December 2006 were audited by another firm of auditors who have rendered an unmodified opinion on those financial statements in their report dated 28 April 2007. We did not observe the counting of the physical inventories as of 31 December 2006 so as to satisfy ourselves as to the quantities, ownerships and conditions of those inventories, since that date was prior to our initial engagement as auditors for the Company and certain of its subsidiaries. The records of the Company and its subsidiaries do not permit adequate retroactive audit procedures on the inventory quantities, ownerships and conditions as at 1 January 2007.

As disclosed in Note 48 to the financial statements, the unidentified differences between the Company's and a subsidiary's carrying value based on physical inventory count and that as recorded in their respective books as at 31 December 2007 of approximately RM6.0 million and RM2.7 million respectively, were adjusted to the income statement of the Group and the Company for the year ended 31 December 2007, thereby reducing the inventories balances of the Group and of the Company by RM8.7 million and RM6.0 million respectively as at 31 December 2007 and increasing the losses for the year of the Group and the Company for the year ended 31 December 2007 by approximately RM8.7 million and RM6.0 million respectively. The records of the Company and the said subsidiary do not permit us to carry out adequate appropriate audit procedures so as to satisfy ourselves as to the appropriateness of the adjustments described above."