Director/PDMR Shareholding

RNS Number : 0628G

Aseana Properties Limited

16 October 2008

 



Date:                        16 October 2008

On behalf of:            Aseana Properties Limited ('Aseana' or 'the Company')

Immediate Release

Aseana Properties Limited

• Director Shareholding 

The Company has been notified that John Lynton Jones, Non-Executive Director of Aseana Properties Limited, has today acquired 20,000 ordinary shares of $US0.05 each in the Company ('Ordinary Shares') at a price of $0.2875 pence per share.

Following this acquisition, John Lynton Jones is interested in 20,000 Ordinary Shares, representing approximately 0.008% of the issued share capital of the Company being 250,000,000 Ordinary Shares.

Aseana is listed on the Main List of the London Stock Exchange.

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Further information, please contact:

Enquiries:

Redleaf Communications	Tel: [phone]
Samantha Robbins / Adam Leviton / Kathryn Hurford	Email: [e-mail]
Fairfax I.S. PLC	Tel: [phone]
James King

Notes to Editors

• Ireka Development Management, the Manager, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ireka Corporation Berhad, a company listed on the Bursa Malaysia since 1993, which has 40 years of experience in construction and property development.

• The Company typically invests in development projects at the pre-construction stage, with a primary focus on locations within the major cities of Malaysia and Vietnam.  

• Investment is made in projects where it is believed there will be a minimum 30% annualised return on equity ('ROE') on investments in Vietnam and a minimum 20% ROE on investments in Malaysia.

• No one underlying single asset will account for more than 30% of the gross assets of the Company at the time of investment.

• The Directors believe the following factors should provide sustainable growth in the real estate sectors of both Malaysia and Vietnam:

  • An increasing standard of living and urbanisation driven by a burgeoning young and middle class population

  • Clear Government role in encouraging participation of private sectors in real estate development, as well as encouraging and promoting land and property ownership

  • Improving availability of mortgages to encourage property ownership

  • Favoured Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) destinations driving demand for commercial and industrial properties

 

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