Shareholders’ Information

Statistics of Shareholders as of February 28, 2006
Authorised Share Capital:
2,000,000,000 ordinary shares
Issued and fully Paid-up Capital:
1,749,082,097 ordinary shares
Number of Shareholders:
24,524
Class of Shares: Ordinary Shares with equal voting rights

Shareholdings held by the public
Based on information available to the Company as of February 28, 2006, 49.42 per cent of the issued ordinary shares of the Company is held by the public and therefore, Rule 723 of the Listing Manual issued by SGX-ST is complied with.

Substantial Shareholders Direct Interest Indirect Interest Total Interest %
Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited 871,200,328 13,479,040 * 884,679,368 50.58

* Temasek is deemed to be interested in the 13,479,040 shares held by its other subsidiaries.

Top 20 Shareholders as of February 28, 2006
No. Name     No. of Shares Held %
1 Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited     871,200,328 49.81
2 DBS Nominees Pte Ltd
    209,599,402 11.98
3 Raffles Nominees Pte Ltd
    190,909,666 10.91
4 HSBC (Singapore) Nominees Pte Ltd
    93,561,442 5.35
5 Citibank Nominees Singapore Pte Ltd
    90,379,735 5.17
6 United Overseas Bank Nominees Pte Ltd
    69,046,514 3.95
7
OCBC Nominees Singapore Pte Ltd
    12,645,444 0.72
8 Startree Investments Pte Ltd
    9,400,000 0.54
9 Morgan Stanley Asia (Singapore)
    9,369,110 0.54
10
Macquarie Securities (S) Pte Ltd
    3,613,410 0.21
11
Oversea-Chinese Bank Nominees Pte Ltd
    3,518,997 0.20
12 UOB Kay Hian Pte Ltd
    3,202,875 0.18
13 DB Nominees (S) Pte Ltd
    3,174,327 0.18
14 Merrill Lynch (Singapore) Pte Ltd
    2,974,013 0.17
15
The Asia Life Assurance Society Ltd - Par Fund
    1,886,580 0.11
16 DBS Vickers Secs (S) Pte Ltd
    1,715,812 0.10
17 Phillip Securities Pte Ltd
    1,695,325 0.10
18
OCBC Securities Private Ltd
    1,580,158 0.09
19
Royal Bank of Canada (Asia) Ltd
    1,400,200 0.08
20 Wong Kok Siew
    1,260,959 0.07
        1,582,134,297 90.46
         
Range of Shareholdings No. of Shareholders % No. of Shares %
1 – 999
3,351 13.66 2,130,319 0.12
1,000 – 10,000
18,203 74.23 64,761,595 3.70
10,001 – 1,000,000
2,948 12.02 97,738,496 5.59
1,000,001 and above
22 0.09 1,584,451,687 90.59
  24,524 100.00 1,749,082,097 100.00