CHINA TAIPING INSURANCE HOLDINGS COMPANY LIMITED 
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(Incorporated in Hong Kong with limited liability)
(Stock Code: 966)
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 31 MAY 2011 The Board is pleased to announce that all the resolutions as set out in the notice of AGM dated 28 April 2011 were duly passed by the Shareholders by way of poll at the eleventh AGM held on 31 May 2011. The board of directors (the “Board”) of China Taiping Insurance Holdings Company Limited (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that all the resolutions as set out in the notice of annual general meeting dated 28 April 2011 were duly passed by the shareholders of the Company (the “Shareholders”) by way of poll at the eleventh annual general meeting of the Company (the “AGM”) held on 31 May 2011. Hong Kong Registrars Limited, the share registrar of the Company, was appointed as scrutineers for the purpose of counting the votes at the AGM. As at the date of AGM, the total number of shares of the Company (the “Shares”) entitling the holders to attend and vote for or against all the resolutions at the AGM was 1,704,675,092 Shares. There was no Shareholder who was entitled to attend the AGM but was only entitled to vote against any of the resolutions. The poll results in respect of the resolutions were as follows:
ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS | FOR | AGAINST | |||
ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS | Number of votes (Shares) | Percentage of the total number of votes | Number of votes (Shares) | Percentage of the total number of votes | |
1. | To receive and adopt the audited financial statements, the report of the directors and the independent auditor’s report for the year ended 31 December 2010. | 1,359,903,057 Shares | 99.999897% | 1,400 Shares | 0.000103% |
2. | (a) To re-elect Mr. Ng Yu Lam Kenneth as director. | 1,345,477,320 Shares | 98.938059% | 14,441,537 Shares | 1.061941% |
2. | (b) To re-elect Mr. Lau Siu Mun Sammy as director. | 1,177,428,096 Shares | 91.889932% | 103,918,048 Shares | 8.110068% |
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ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS | FOR | AGAINST | |||
ORDINARY RESOLUTIONS | Number of votes (Shares) | Percentage of the total number of votes | Number of votes (Shares) | Percentage of the total number of votes | |
(c) To re-elect Mr. Li Tao as director. | 1,310,679,683 Shares | 96.379256% | 49,239,174 Shares | 3.620744% | |
(d) To re-elect Dr. Wu Jiesi as director. | 1,263,584,299 Shares | 92.916154% | 96,334,558 Shares | 7.083846% | |
(e) To authorize the Board to fix the directors’ fees. | 1,359,904,257 Shares | 100.000000% | 0 Share | 0.000000% | |
3. | To re-appoint Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu as auditor and to authorize the Board to fix their remuneration. | 1,359,917,257 Shares | 99.999882% | 1,600 Shares | 0.000118% |
4. | To give a general mandate to the directors to issue Shares. | 985,787,744 Shares | 72.488718% | 374,131,113 Shares | 27.511282% |
5. | To give a general mandate to the directors to repurchase Shares. | 1,359,918,857 Shares | 100.000000% | 0 Share | 0.000000% |
6. | To extend the general mandate to issue Shares by addition thereto the Shares repurchased by the Company. | 986,209,490 Shares | 72.533397% | 373,453,138 Shares | 27.466603% |
As more than 50% of the votes were cast in favour of each of the resolutions, all the resolutions proposed at the AGM were duly passed as ordinary resolutions of the Company.
Hong Kong, 31 May 2011 By order of the Board of China Taiping Insurance Holdings Company Limited CHAN Man Ko Company SecretaryAs at the date of this announcement, the Board comprises 11 directors, of which Mr. LIN Fan, Mr. SONG Shuguang, Mr. XIE Yiqun, Mr. PENG Wei, Mr. NG Yu Lam Kenneth, Mr. SHEN Koping Michael and Mr. LAU Siu Mun Sammy, are executive directors, Mr. LI Tao is a non-executive director and Dr. WU Jiesi, Mr. CHE Shujian and Mr. LEE Kong Wai Conway are independent non-executive directors.
This announcement is posted on the website of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited at www.hkexnews.hkand on the website of the Company at www.ctih.cntaiping.com.
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