Singapore, 31 January 2007 - Following the latest scheduled review of component stocks of the Straits Times Index (STI), the following changes will be made at the start of trading on Monday, 5 February 2007:

- Four stocks will be replaced, viz. BIL International Ltd, Dairy Farm International Holdings Ltd, Haw Par Corporation Ltd and TPV Technology Ltd;

- Six stocks will be added to bring the number of components back to 50, viz. Thai Beverage Public Company Ltd, Suntec REIT, Olam International Ltd, Genting International Public Ltd, Labroy Marine Ltd and CapitaCommercial Trust.

The main criterion used in this review of component stocks was liquidity as measured by the average daily value traded over one year. Market capitalisation and free float were also taken into account.

The weight factors of several index stocks will also be updated on Monday, 5 February 2007 to reflect corporate actions that have taken place (see table below).

With these changes, the 50 stocks in the STI capture 51% of the average daily value traded on the SGX and 64% of the market capitalisation of stocks listed on the SGX.

Table of index stocks with new weight factors

	Name	Current weight factor	New weight factor
1	Allgreen Properties	0.35	0.45
2	CapitaCommercial Trust	-	0.35
3	Datacraft Asia	0.50	0.45
4	Genting International	-	0.25
5	Hyflux	0.50	0.45
6	Jurong Technologies	0.65	0.25
7	Labroy Marine	-	0.35
8	Olam International	-	0.30
9	Parkway Holdings	0.80	0.55
10	Singapore Exchange	0.90	1.00
11	Singapore Petroleum	0.20	0.35
12	SingTel	0.35	0.45
13	StarHub	0.25	0.35
14	Suntec REIT	-	0.75
15	Thai Beverage	-	0.20
16	Total Access	0.20	0.15
17	UOL Group	0.45	0.60
18	Venture Corporation	0.70	0.50
19	Wing Tai	0.60	0.50

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Julie Wee
STI Review Committee
The Straits Times
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