09:29 PEARL ORIENTAL<00600> - Announcement (3) Holding Limited (collectively the "Vendors") and Pearl Oriental Macau Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company (the "Purchaser") dated 3 January 2005 whereby the Vendors have agreed to sell and the Purchaser has agreed to purchase 40% of the issued share capital of Hotel Golden Dragon (Macao) Company Limited at an aggregate consideration of HK$514,000,000 (the "Consideration"), the directors of the Company be and are hereby authorised to allot and issue 345,000,000 shares of HK$0.05 each in the share capital of the Company as fully paid at an agreed issue price of HK$0.80 per share upon completion of the Agreement in partial settlement of the Consideration; and (b) any one director of the Company be and is hereby authorised to do such acts or execute such other documents by hand or, in case of execution of documents under seal, to do so jointly with either the secretary or a second director of the Company or a person appointed by the board of directors of the Company, which in his or their opinion may be necessary, desirable or expedient to carry out or to give effect to the transactions contemplated under the Agreement." By Order of the Board Pearl Oriental Enterprises Limited Wong Kwan Chairman Hong Kong, 14 March 2005 As at the date of this announcement, the Board comprises Mr. Wong Yuk Kwan (alias Wong Kwan), Mr. Law Kar Po, Mr. Lee Sam Yuen, John, Ms. Law Wing Yee, Wendy, and Ms. Lee Siu Yuk, Eliza as executive Directors, Dr. Wong Alfonso as non-executive Director, and Mr. Chan Nim Leung, Leon, Mr. Ha Kee Choy, Eugene and Mr. Ng Kai Man, Luke as independent non-executive Directors. * For the Chinese name, please refer to the press announcements today.