Released on = October 5, 2006, 11:14 pm

Press Release Author = Corporate Marketing

Industry = International Trade

Press Release Summary = Machinery manufacturers and suppliers from mainland China,
Taiwan and Hong Kong are now part of a newly launched site devoted to quality
machinery suppliers.

Press Release Body = Hong Kong -- Online media company Global Sources has announced
plans to launch a website devoted exclusively to quality suppliers of machinery
products. The site is slated for launch on October 9, 2006

For importers of machinery from Greater China, this represents a ground-breaking
development. Buyers can now access a single site to find reliable information on the
latest packaging machinery and equipment, metalworking machinery, material equipment
handling and system, construction machinery, power transmitting machinery, textile
machinery, electronic production machinery, vending machines, industrial machinery,
farm equipment, plastic machinery and more products.

Even more important, volume buyers no longer have to perform extensive searches to
find qualified machinery suppliers. Thousands of new products are now readily
available at this "Online Machinery Manufacturers Directory" provided by Global
Sources.

Buyers interested in reviewing the complete list of machinery products offered by
mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and other Asian machinery manufacturers should
visit the new export site beginning on October 9, 2006 at
http://www.machinery.globalsources.com. The export site will feature thousands of
machines and machinery-related items.

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, 10 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.

Global Sources Press Contact in Asia:
Camellia So
Tel: (852) 2555-5023
e-mail: cso@globalsources.com

Global Sources Investor Contact in Asia:
Eddie Heng
Tel: (65) 6547-2850
e-mail: eheng@globalsources.com

Global Sources Press Contact in U.S.:
James W.W. Strachan
Tel: (1 602) 978-7504
e-mail: strachan@globalsources.com

Global Sources Investor Contact in U.S.:
Kirsten Chapman & Moriah Shilton
Lippert/Heilshorn & Associates, Inc.
Tel: (1 415) 433-3777
e-mail:kirsten@lhai-sf.com

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

Contact Details = Global Sources Ltd.
Phone: (852) 2555-5023
Fax: (852) 2518-8764
Website: http://www.globalsources.com/
Email: press_corp@globalsources.com