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  Pursuant to Paragraphs 10.08, 10.09 and Practice Note No. 12 / 2001 of the Listing Requirements of Bursa Malaysia Securities Berhad ("Bursa Securities"), the Board of Directors of AHB (“Board”) wishes to inform that the Company and its subsidiaries (“AHB Group” or the “Group”) have entered into recurrent related party transactions of a revenue or trading in nature, which are necessary for their day-to-day operations with related parties ("Recurrent Related Party Transactions"), as detailed below, which by way of aggregation have exceeded the prescribed limit of RM1.0 million in respect of the period from 1 January 2006 to 31 July 2006, both dates inclusive.

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  The Recurrent Related Party Transactions which have been entered into between the companies within the AHB Group and the related parties in the normal course of the AHB Group's businesses, are set out in Table 1 below (as per attached).

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  The Recurrent Related Party Transactions are necessary for the day-to-day operations of the AHB Group, undertaken at arm's length, normal commercial terms, on terms not more favourable to the related party than those generally made available to the public and are not detrimental to the minority shareholders.

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  The Recurrent Related Party Transactions will not have any effect on the issued and paid-up share capital, the net assets (“NA”) per share and earnings per share of the Company.

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  None of the other Directors and major shareholders of AHB and / or parties or person connected to them, have any interest, direct or indirect in any of the above Recurrent Related Party Transactions which may be regarded as a related party interest, save as disclosed above.

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  The value of the Recurrent Related Party Transactions for the financial year ending 31 December 2006 is estimated not to exceed 5% of the Group's latest audited NA as at 31 December 2005 of RM160.3 million, therefore the above Recurrent Related Party Transactions are not subject to the approval of the shareholders of AHB or any authorities.

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  The Board is of the opinion that the above Recurrent Related Party Transactions are fair and reasonable to the Company and are not to the detriment of the Company and its shareholders and are in the best interest of the AHB Group.