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NEW YORK, November 3, 2011 — Global Sources Ltd. (NASDAQ: GSOL) expects to release its financial results for the third quarter 2011 before the market opens on November 17, 2011.

Executive Chairman Merle A. Hinrich and CFO Connie Lai are scheduled to conduct a conference call at 8:00 a.m. ET on November 17, 2011 (9:00 p.m. on November 17, 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 4476730 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 November 24, 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 4476730. For those in the Hong Kong area, the replay dial-in number is (852) 3056-2777, and the pass code is 4476730.