Bangkok--24 Jul--Kim Eng Securities Kim Eng Securities (Thailand) Plc. opens its 40th new branch in Fortune Town Building, Ratchadaphisek Road, using the strategy by expanding new branches to the potential prime area, focusing on new investors training and keeping its momentum as the leader in new financial products innovation. Mr. Montree Sornpaisarn, Chief Executive Officer of Kim Eng Securities (Thailand) Plc., said that the company will open a new full branch in Fortune Town Building, Ratchadaphisek Road on 25 July, which is ranked as our 40th branch. We consider the business potential in this area which is the prime area linked to business area, office buildings, well-known modern department stores, convenient transportation by the MRT to the building. This branch will serve all investors around Ratchada and Praram 9 areas and support the SET’s headquarter relocation plan to to Ratchadaphisek Road. We would like to expand our business and services to cover every area and be accessible by our clients. Presently, the company has 40 branches including our headquarter, 23 branches in Bangkok and other 17 branches in other provinces. The Fortune Town Branch is located at the basement floor of Fortune Town Building, Ratchadaphisek Road, Tel. 0-2641-0977 with professional marketing team to serve all investors in both stock and derivatives trading. Although the market situation over the past year was not in a good shape, our new opening branches performance was quite satisfactory. The company expects that the market in the 2nd half of the year will recover and be better than the 1st half compared to the neighboring countries due to the political situation which seems to promise a better and clearer direction with an imminent general election in the foreseeable future. We believe the market situation will be on a rising trend in the medium to long term, even though the market has corrected for a while but still be interesting when compared with other neighbor countries but sometimes need to be corrected from time to time. We have recommended our clients to buy stocks with strong fundamental which price are still not too high. The company has developed its financial products and services expected to be launched in the 3rd quarter such as SET50 Index Option and ETF Fund. The training project in Nano CFA course has been continuously arranged for those who do not have stock knowledge and new investors. The next course will be held soon on July 31, 2007 from 17.30 to 20.30 p.m. at Ajarn Sangvien Meeting Room, SET. Interested persons can register to reserve their seats at the company’s call center 0-0658-5050 or website www.kimeng.co.th from now on. We have also planned to arrange Nano CFA course at Chiangmai to provide knowledge for new investors in northern part of Thailand in early of September. Corporate Communications Dept.,Kim Eng Securities (Thailand) Plc. Tel. 0-2658-6300 ext : 5180, 7401 — 7402