SINCE May 1, 2008 KASE CHANGED PARAMETERS OF SHARES, INCLUDED TO THE RENEWED REPRESENTATIVE LIST OF KASE'S INDEX

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/KASE, April 30, 08/ - Since May 1, 2008 by decision of Risk committee of Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE) dated April 30, 2008 were determined the new parameters of shares, included to representative list of KASE index - stake of shares in free float and limiting coefficient. Below are given the new values of parameters and also values, acting before May 1. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As of May 1, 2008 As of February 1, 2008 ----------------- ------- --------- ----------- -------- --------- Amount of shares free Limitati Amount Limitati Share's paid float on coef of shares free on coef symbol (Fi), % ficient paid float, % ficient ------- ----------------- ------- --------- ----------- -------- --------- BTAS 8,370,158 26.7 0.8757200 8,370,158 27.1 0.5079012 CCBN 130,316,695 41.2 1.0000000 130,316,695 41.2 1.0000000 GB_KZMS 454,954,288 36.8 0.2042592 Х Х Х HSBK 984,016,660 28.9 0.9106020 984,016,660 28.9 0.6197637 KKGB 575,000,000 46.8 0.5121140 575,000,000 46.8 0.3689140 KKGBp 124,978,795 43.5 1.0000000 125,000,000 46.7 1.0000000 KZTK 10,922,876 22.5 1.0000000 10,922,876 22.5 1.0000000 KZTKp 403,194 100.0 1.0000000 403,194 60.1 1.0000000 RDGZ 70,220,935 38.6 0.2356411 70,220,935 38.6 0.1723591 TEBN 19,067,000 20.8 1.0000000 19,067,000 28.7 1.0000000 TEBNp 5,000,000 22.1 1.0000000 5,000,000 26.2 1.0000000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Except this by mentioned decision of Risk committee since May 1, 2008 while estimation of KASE index will be used the new value of correction coefficient (K) - 1.0179833. Till mentioned date K was equal to 1.5201792. NOTES TO THE TABLE KASE's index - index of KASE's shares market, which shows the change of prices on market deals with shares of representative list of index, considering the level of capitalization of their issuer and amount of shares being in free float. At that influence of share' price of one title on the value of index cannot exceed 15%. Index is calculated by KASE after making of each deal. Methods of calculation of index are regulated by KASE's internal document "Methods of calculation of stock market indicators", which is available at http://www.kase.kz/geninfo/normbase/indicators_met.pdf. The page of index is available at http://beta.kase.kz/ru/index_kase Symbol of shares reflects: code of the issuer of security, traded on KASE (the first 4 symbols, the same - code of common share); category of share (if the fifth symbol - "p", share is preferred); number of shares issue (if deemed as necessary, the sixth figure symbol). Symbols of issuers: BTAS - Bank TuranAlem JSC; CCBN - Bank CenterCredit JSC ; GB_KZMS - KAZAKHMYS PLC; HSBK - Halyk savings bank of Kazakhstan JSC; KKGB - Kazkommertsbank JSC; KZTK - Kazakhtelecom JSC; RDGZ - Exploration Production KaxMunayGas JSC; TEBN - Daughter organization of joint stock company Bank TuranAlem, BTATemirbank JSC. Amount of shares paid - parameter, which is determined by KASE independently on the basis of data of the company's register holder or the company itself as the number of offered shares of the listing company minus purchased by the company. KASE at computation of KASE_Shares index takes into account that value which is confirmed by documents available at KASE. Free float (Fi), % - parameter, which is determined by KASAE as number of shares, not belong to government, management of the issuer or shareholders, owing with more than 5% from total amount of common shares of the given issuer, excluding shareholders, concerning which by Risk committee of KASE was accepted the decision that given shareholders are not considered as strategic (institutional investors, nominal holders, executing the functions of settlement servicing, etc.). Limiting coefficient (Ci) - parameter, limiting the stake of influence of each type of shares on val;ue of index to 15%. [2008-04-30]