Released on = July 26, 2006, 11:56 pm

Press Release Author = Global Sources

Industry = Financial

Press Release Summary = Global Sources Ltd. expects to release results for the
second quarter results before the market opens on August 10, 2006.

Press Release Body = Global Sources Ltd. (NASDAQ: GSOL) expects to release results
for the second quarter results before the market opens on August 10, 2006.

Chairman and CEO, Merle A. Hinrichs, is scheduled to conduct a conference call at
8:00 a.m. EDT on August 10, 2006 (8:00 p.m. on August 10, 2006 in Hong Kong) to
review these results in more detail. Investors in the United States may participate
in the call by dialing (800) 240-2134, and international participants may dial
(1-303) 262-2142. Investors in Hong Kong may call (852) 3002-5027. A live webcast
of the conference call is scheduled to be available on Global Sources\' corporate
site at http://www.investor.globalsources.com

For those who cannot listen to the live broadcast, a webcast replay of the call is
scheduled to be available on the company's corporate site for at least 30 days. A
telephone replay of the call is also scheduled to be available through August 14,
2006. To listen to the telephone replay, dial (800) 405-2236, or (1-303) 590-3000
outside the United States, and enter pass code 11065483#. For those in the Hong
Kong area, the replay number is (852) 2287-4304, with pass code 503110#.

About Global Sources

Global Sources is a leading business-to-business (B2B) media company and a primary
facilitator of two-way trade with Greater China. The core business is facilitating
trade from Greater China to the world, using a wide range of English-language media.
The other key business segment facilitates trade from the world to Greater China
using Chinese-language media.

The company provides sourcing information to volume buyers and integrated marketing
services to suppliers. It helps a community of over 530,000 active buyers source
more profitably from complex, overseas supply markets. With the goal of providing
the most effective ways possible to advertise, market and sell, Global Sources
enables suppliers to sell to hard-to-reach buyers in 230 countries.

The company offers the most extensive range of media and export marketing services
in the industries it serves. It delivers information on 1.8 million products and
more than 130,000 suppliers annually through 11 online marketplaces, ten monthly
magazines, over 100 sourcing research reports and 14 trade shows, including six
China Sourcing Fairs. Suppliers receive more than 7 million sales leads annually
from buyers through Global Sources Online
( http://www.globalsources.com ) alone.

Global Sources has been facilitating global trade for 35 years. In mainland China it
has over 1,400 team members in 44 locations, and a community of over 1 million
registered online users and magazine readers for Chinese-language media.



Web Site = http://www.investor.globalsources.com

Contact Details = Phone Number: 6565472668
Email: press_corp@globalsources.com