Monthly portfolio disclosure

Martin Currie High Income Trust plc
                   Stock Exchange Announcement - 4 April 2005


In  accordance  with  the Listing Rules, which require,  inter  alia,  UK-listed
investment  companies to notify to a Regulatory Information Service, within  two
business  days  of the end of each calendar month, a list of all investments  in
other investment companies that do not have a stated investment policy to invest
no  more  than 15% of their gross assets in other UK-listed investment companies
as  at the last business day of that month, Martin Currie High Income Trust  plc
announces  that,  as at 31 March 2005, its investments in such other  investment
companies were:

                                 % of gross
                                   assets
BFS Equity Inc & Bond Trust         0.12
Exeter Selective Assets             0.02



For further information, please contact:

Michael Woodward
Martin Currie Investment Management Ltd                0131 229 5252