KEPPEL LTD. 
By Pursuant to Rule 704(16) of the Listing Manual, Keppel Telecommunications & Transportation Ltd (the "Company") is pleased to announce that, at the Annual General Meeting ("AGM") of the Company held at 3.00 p.m. today, the Resolutions relating to the following matters as set out in the Notice of AGM dated 27 March 2013 were put to the Meeting and duly passed:-
Ordinary Resolutions | For | Against | |||
Ordinary Resolutions | Number of Shares | Percentage (%) | Number of Shares | Percentage (%) | |
1. | Adoption of Directors' Report and Audited Financial Statements | 449,517,302 | 100.00 | 9,500 | 0.00 |
2. | Declaration of dividend | 449,578,090 | 100.00 | 6,086 | 0.00 |
3. | Re-election of Mr Teo Soon Hoe as Director | 449,501,547 | 100.00 | 15,586 | 0.00 |
4. | Re-election of Mr Karmjit Singh as Director | 449,450,890 | 99.99 | 55,586 | 0.01 |
5. | Re-election of Prof Neo Boon Siong as Director | 446,412,465 | 99.26 | 3,330,011 | 0.74 |
6. | Re-election of Mr Michael Chia Hock Chye as Director | 446,159,379 | 99.26 | 3,345,097 | 0.74 |
7. | Approval of Directors' fees | 449,331,390 | 99.98 | 98,586 | 0.02 |
8. | Re-appointment of Auditors | 449,417,590 | 99.93 | 293,086 | 0.07 |
9. | Authority to issue shares and convertible instruments | 449,352,904 | 99.93 | 324,686 | 0.07 |
10. | Renewal of Share Buy-Back Mandate | 449,522,004 | 99.97 | 125,672 | 0.03 |
11. | Renewal of Shareholders' Mandate for Interested Person Transactions | 6,439,864 | 99.06 | 61,086 | 0.94 |
Resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting held on 18 April 2013
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Re-appointment of Directors to the Audit Committee (I) Professor Neo Boon Siong
Professor Neo Boon Siong was re-elected as director of the Company at the AGM and will continue to serve as the Chairman of the Audit Committee.
Professor Neo is currently a Professor, and was a former Dean, at Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University ("NTU"), Singapore. He taught at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in the National University of Singapore from 2006 to 2010, and is a Fellow of the Civil Service College and the Centre for Liveable Cities. He was the founder Director of the Information Management Research Centre (IMARC) in NTU and the Asia Competitiveness Institute in National University of Singapore. He currently serves as independent director on the board of directors of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation Limited and k1 Ventures Limited.
The Board considers Professor Neo an independent director for the purposes of Rule 704(8) of the
Listing Manual.
Mr Karmjit Singh was re-elected as director of the Company at the AGM and will continue to serve as a member of the Audit Committee.
Mr Singh was the Chief Executive of SATS Airport Services Pte Ltd from 1998 to 2004. He became the Chief Operating Officer of SATS Ltd (SATS) in 2004 where he held the post till his retirement in
2009. He was consultant to the President and Chief Executive Officer of SATS until end- September 2010. He was the Chairman of Asia Airfreight Terminal Co Ltd. Mr Singh is the Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Singapore, and is a member of the Board of The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific of the National University of Singapore (NUS) and of the Public Transport Council. He is a director of GATI Asia Pacific Pte Ltd and is the advisor to CEO/SVP NIIT Technologies. Mr Singh has also served on the Working Group for Logistics as part of the Government's Economic Review Committee.
The Board considers Mr Singh an independent director for the purposes of Rule 704(8) of the Listing
Manual.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD Tok Boon Sheng / Kelvin Chua
Company Secretaries
18 April 2013
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