Common shares of ASIA SAKHAR JSC (Kazakhstan) pass listing procedure at KASE under "B" category

/KASE, December 23, 05/ - By the decision of Kazakhstan stock exchange's (KASE) Council dated December 22 of 2005 common shares KZ1C52510019 of ASIA SAKHAR JSC (Almaty) have been included in KASE's official "B" listing category under ASSA symbol. Date, on which the decision will take effect, will be announced later after the issuer pays the listing fee for these securities and makes listing agreement with KASE. Information about opening of trades in the shares on KASE will also be given later. Kazkommerts Invest JSC (Almaty) acted as the issuer's financial consultant to bring the shares to the organized market. The share issue of ASIA SAKHAR JSC, consisting of 250,000 common shares, was registered by Kazakhstan Agency for financial market and financial organizations regulation and supervision on May 12 of 2005. The issue was included in the State securities register under А5251 number. As of October 1 of 2005 the company offered 200,000 common shares for a total of KZT200.0 m. Shareholders register is maintained by REGISTER-SERVICE JSC (Almaty). Primary activity of ASIA SAKHAR JSC is production and sale of sugar. Detailed information about the securities and their issuer will be available on KASE's web-site after the mentioned decision takes effect. [2005-12-23]