Net Asset Value(s)

Scottish Oriental Smlr Co Tst PLC
16 August 2005


THE SCOTTISH ORIENTAL SMALLER COMPANIES TRUST PLC
First State Investment Management (UK) Limited, managers of The Scottish
Oriental Smaller Companies Trust PLC (Scottish Oriental) announce that the
unaudited Net Asset Value of Scottish Oriental Ordinary shares as at 15th August
2005 was 219.55p (assuming full conversion of all outstanding warrants). This
equates to an undiluted figure of 241.72p. Neither of these figures include any
income retention for the year to-date. These figures do not include any
provision for capital gains tax on net unrealised gains on holdings of Indian
securities.



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