(a) In these Articles save where the context otherwise requires: associate in relation to any Director, has the meaning ascribed to it under the Listing Rules; Auditors means the Auditors of the Company for the time being; Chairman means the Chairman presiding at any meeting of members or the Board; Company means the above-named Company; Board and Directors means the directors for the time being of the Company or the Directors present at a duly convened meeting of directors at which a quorum is present; call includes any instalment of a call and, in the application of provisions of these Articles to forfeiture of shares, a sum which, by the terms of issue of a share, is payable at a fixed time either in respect of the nominal value of the share or by way of premium; capital means the share capital from time to time of the Company; Clearing House shall mean a recognised clearing house within the meaning of Schedule 1 to the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Chapter 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong); Dividend includes distributions in specie or in kind, capital distributions and capitalisation issues; Dollars & $ means dollars in the lawful currency of Hong Kong; Hong Kong means the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China; Listing Rules means the Rules Governing the Listing of Securities on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited; month means calendar month; Office means the registered office of the Company for the time being; paid up includes credited as paid up; Ordinance means the Companies Ordinance (Chapter 32 of the Laws of Hong Kong), and includes every other ordinance incorporated therewith or substituted therefor, and in the case of any such substitution the references in these Articles to the provisions of the Ordinance shall be read as references to the provisions substituted therefor in the new ordinance; Register means the register of members of the Company kept pursuant to the Ordinance and includes any branch register kept pursuant to the Ordinance; Seal means the common seal of the Company or any official seal that the Company may have as permitted by the Ordinance; Secretary means the person or persons appointed for the time being to perform for the Company the duties of a secretary; share means a share in the capital of the Company and includes stock except where a distinction between stock and shares is expressed or implied; Stock Exchange means The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited; these Articles means these Articles of Association in their present form or as altered from time to time; in writing and written shall include printing, lithograph, xerography, photography or other modes of representing or reproducing words in a permanent visible form or, to the extent permitted by and in accordance with the Ordinance and any other applicable laws, rules and regulations, any visible substitute for writing (including a communication sent by electronic transmission in any form through any medium), or modes of representing or reproducing words partly in one visible form and partly in another visible form.

(b) In these Articles, if not inconsistent with the subject or context, words importing the singular

number only shall include the plural number and vice versa, words importing any gender shall

include all other genders and references to persons shall include corporations (acting, where

applicable, by their duly authorised representatives).