09:51 SINOTRONICS<01195> - Announcement & Resumption (8) (a) the Company will make a monthly announcement (the ``Monthly Announcement'') on the website of the Stock Exchange. Such announcement will be made on or before the fifth business day following the end of each calendar month and will include the following details in a table form: (i) whether there is any conversion of the Bonds during the relevant month. If yes, details of the conversion(s), including the conversion date, number of new Shares issued, conversion price for each conversion. If there is no conversion during the relevant month, a negative statement to that effect; (ii) the number of outstanding Bonds after the conversion, if any; (iii) the total number of Shares issued and/or cancelled pursuant to other transactions, including Shares issued pursuant to exercise of options under any share option scheme(s) of the Company and/or Shares cancelled pursuant to repurchase of Shares by the Company, with a breakdown of the Shares concerned by the relevant transactions; and (iv) the total issued share capital of the Company announced in the previous Monthly Announcement and the total issued share capital of the Company as at the commencement and the last day of the relevant month; and (b) in addition to the Monthly Announcement, if the cumulative amount of new Shares issued pursuant to the conversion of the Bonds reaches 5% of the issued share capital of the Company as disclosed in the last Monthly Announcement or any subsequent announcement made by the Company in respect of the Bonds (as the case may be) (and thereafter in a multiple of such 5% threshold), the Company will make an announcement on the website of the Stock Exchange including details as stated in (a) above for the period commencing from the date of the last Monthly Announcement or any subsequent announcement made by the Company in respect of the Bonds (as the case may be) up to the date on which the total amount of Shares issued pursuant to the conversion amounted to 5% of the issued share capital of the Company as disclosed in the last Monthly Announcement or any subsequent announcement made by the Company in respect of the Bonds (as the case may be) and the Company will disclose the total issued share capital of the Company as at the date of any announcement which is published in-between any Monthly Announcement. GENERAL The Company will comply with all applicable Listing Rules in respect of any alterations in the terms of the Subscription Right after issue, except where the alterations take effect automatically under the existing terms of the Subscription Right. A separate announcement in respect of such change will be issued by the Company. The Additional Tranche 1 Bonds may or may not be issued and the Subscription Right in respect of the Original Tranche 1 Bonds and the Additional Tranche 1 Bonds may or may not be exercised. The Company will issue a further announcement as required by the Listing Rules if any of the Additional Tranche 1 Bonds are issued. The terms of the Subscription Agreement were negotiated on an arm's length basis and the Directors believe that they are fair and reasonable so far as the Company is concerned. The Company will ensure that each of the connected persons of the Company (as defined in the Listing Rules) will not subscribe for any of the Bonds at the issue of such securities and that, after the issue of the Bonds, the Company will disclose to the Stock Exchange any dealings by any of connected persons of the Company from time to time in the Bonds immediately upon the Company becoming aware of such dealings. Save the transactions as disclosed in this announcement, the Company has not carried out any fund raising activities during the 12-month period immediately preceding the date of this announcement. SUSPENSION AND RESUMPTION OF TRADING OF SHARES At the request the Company, trading in the Shares was suspended on the Stock Exchange from 9:30 a.m. on 28 April 2005 pending release of this announcement. Application for the resumption of trading in the Shares has been made by the Company to the Stock Exchange to the effect that trading in the Shares will resume at 9:30 a.m. on 6 May 2005.