Mr. Chow Chan Lum, Charles, aged 59, is an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company and a Partner of Wong Brothers & Company, Certified Public Accountants. He is a member of Foreign Experts Consultative Committee on China Independent Auditing Standards, Finance Ministry, PRC and serves on a number of committees of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, including Auditing & Assurance Standards Committee, PRC Accounting and Auditing Sub-Committee, Practice Review Committee, Investigation Panel, Examination Panel, Complaints Panel, Taxation Committee and Professional Standards Monitoring Committee. He also carries duties in a variety of functional and social organizations, and is currently a member of the People’s Political Consultative Committee, Guangdong Province, PRC. He was appointed as an Independent Non-Executive Director of the Company in April 2000.