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NEW YORK, August 4, 2011 — Global Sources Ltd. (NASDAQ: GSOL) expects to release its financial results for the second quarter 2011 before the market opens on August 18, 2011.

Chairman and CEO Merle A. Hinrichs and CFO Connie Lai are scheduled to conduct a conference call at 8:00 a.m. ET on August 18, 2011 (8:00 p.m. on August 18, 2011 in Hong Kong) to review these results in more detail. Investors in the United States may participate in the call by dialing (877) 941-1427, and non-Hong Kong international participants may dial (1-480) 629-9664. Investors in Hong Kong may participate by dialing (852) 3009-5027. The conference ID is 4458398 and participants are encouraged to dial 10 minutes prior to the call to prevent a delay in joining. 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 30 days. A telephone replay of the call is also scheduled to be available through August 25, 2011. To listen to the telephone replay dial (800) 406-7325 or dial (1-303) 590-3030 outside the United States, and enter pass code 4458398. For those in the Hong Kong area, the replay dial-in number is (852) 3056-2777, and the pass code is 4458398.