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The Articles of Association of the Company provides the shareholders with several basic right. The following are the rights of the shareholders relating to general meetings as extracted from the Company's Articles of Association:-

1. Articles 64
   1. In every notice calling a meeting of the Company there shall appear with reasonable prominence, a statement that a Member of the Company who is entitled to attend and vote at a meeting of the Company, or at a meeting of any class of Members of the Company, may appoint not more than two (2) proxies to attend and vote instead of the Member at the meeting.
   2. Where a member appoints two (2) proxies to attend and vote at the same meeting, the proportion of shareholdings to be represented by each proxy must be specified in the instrument appointing the proxies.
   3. A proxy need not be a member. There shall be no restriction as to the qualification of the proxy and the provisions of Section 149(1)(b) of the Act shall not apply to the Company.
   4. A proxy appointed to attend and vote at a meeting of the Company shall have the same rights as the Member to speak at the meeting.
   5. Where a Member of the Company is an authorised nominee as defined in the Securities Industry (Central Depositories) Act, 1991 ("SICDA"), it may appoint not more than two (2) proxies in respect of each securities account it holds in ordinary shares of the Company standing to the credit of the said securities account.
   6. Where a Member of the Company is an exempt authorised nominee which holds ordinary shares in the Company for multiple beneficial owners in one (1) securities account ("omnibus account"), there is no limit to the number of proxies which the exempt authorised nominee may appoint in respect of each omnibus account it holds.
      
      An exempt authorised nominee refers to an authorised nominee defined under SICDA which is exempted from compliance with the provisions of subsection 25A(1) of SICDA.
   7. Where the authorised nominee appoints two (2) proxies, or where an exempt authorised nominee appoints two (2) or more proxies, the proportion of shareholdings to be represented by each proxy must be specified in the instrument appointing the proxies.
2. Articles 70

   At any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided on a show of hands unless a poll is (before or on the declaration of the result of the show of hands) demanded:-

   1. by the Chairman;
   2. by at least three (3) Members present in person or by proxy;
   3. by any Member or Members present in person or by proxy and representing not less than one-tenth (1/10) of the total voting rights of all the members having the right to vote at the meeting; or
   4. by a Member or Members holding shares in the Company conferring a right to vote at the meeting being shares on which an aggregate sum has been paid up equal to not less than 1/10 of the total sum paid up on all the shares conferring that right'

   Unless a poll is so demanded, a declaration by the Chairman of the meeting that a resolution has on a show of hands been carried unanimously by a particular majority or lost, and an entry to that effect in the book containing the minutes of the proceedings of the Company, shall be conclusive evidence of the fact without proof of the number of proportion of the votes recorded in favour of or against the resolution. The demand of poll may be withdrawn.

3. Article 73

   Subject to any rights or restrictions for the time being attached to any class or classes of shares, at meetings of Members or classes of Members and Article 60, Article 61 and Article 62, each member shall be entitled to be present and to vote at any general meeting in respect of any share or shares of which he is the registered holder and upon which all calls due to the Company have been paid, and may vote in person or by proxy or by attorney or by duly authorised representative, and on a resolution to be decided on a show of hands and each holder of an ordinary share, and each holder of a preference share who has a right to vote, must be entitled to one (1) vote and on a poll, every Member present in person or by proxy or attorney or representative shall have one vote for each share he holds. A proxy shall be entitled to vote on a show of hands or on a poll, on any question, at any general meeting.

4. Article 80

   The instrument appointing a proxy and the power of attorney or other authority, if any, under which it is signed or a duly notarized certified copy of that power or authority, shall be deposited at the Office or at such other place within Malaysia as is specified for that purpose in the notice convening the meeting, not less than forty eight (48) hours before the time appointed for holding the meeting or adjourned meeting as the case may be, at which the person named in the instrument proposes to vote, and in the case of a poll, not less than forty-eight (48) hours before the time appointed for the taking of the poll, and in default, the instrument of proxy shall not be treated as valid. A member shall not be precluded from attending and voting in person or any general meeting after lodging the form of proxy but however such attendances shall automatically revoke the proxy's authority.

5. Article 144

   A copy of the reports by the Directors and auditors of the Company, the profit and loss accounts, balance sheets and group accounts (if any) (including all documents required by law to be annexed or attached to all or any of them) shall be sent (not later than 6 months after the close of the financial year and at least 21 days before the general meeting at which they are to be laid) to all Members, holders of debentures and all other persons entitled to receive notices of general meetings under the Act or these Articles. The interval between the close of a financial year of the Company and the issue of the annual audited financial statements, the directors' and auditors' reports shall not exceed four (4) months. A copy of each such documents in printed form or in CD-ROM form or in such other form of electronic media, shall not less than twenty-one (21) days before the date of the meeting be sent to every member of and to every holder of debentures of the Company and to every other person who is entitled to receive notices from the Company under the provision of the Act or of these Articles. The requisite number of copies of each such documents as may be required by the Exchange or other stock exchange(s), if any, upon which the Company's shares may be listed, shall at the same time be likewise sent to the Exchange or other stock exchange(s) provided that this Article shall not require a copy of these documents to be sent to any person of whose address the Company is not aware or outside Malaysia but any member to whom a copy of these documents has not been sent shall be entitled to receive a copy free of charge on application at the Office of the Company. In the event that the annual report is sent in CD-ROM form or such form of electronic media and a Member requires a printed form of such documents, the Company shall send such documents to the Member within four (4) market days from the date of receipt of the Members' request or such period as may be prescribed by Bursa Securities.