Martin Currie High Income Trust plc
              Stock Exchange Announcement - 5 January 2004
                                    
In  accordance  with the Listing Rules, which require, inter  alia,  UK-
listed  investment  companies  to notify  to  a  Regulatory  Information
Service,  within two business days of the end of each calendar month,  a
list of all investments in other investment companies that do not have a
stated  investment  policy to invest no more than  15%  of  their  gross
assets  in other UK-listed investment companies as at the last  business
day  of that month, Martin Currie High Income Trust plc announces  that,
as  at  31  December  2003,  its investments in  such  other  investment
companies were:

                                 % of gross assets    
BFS Equity Inc & Bond Trust Plc        0.332%         
Exeter Selective Assets Plc            0.009%         
Gartmore Distribution Trust            0.006%         


For further information, please contact:

Michael Woodward
Martin Currie Investment Management Ltd                0131 229 5252