- Honored for Best IR Website and Corporate Governance Practices in Greater China & Asia/Pacific - HONG KONG, March 26 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Global Sources (NASDAQ: GSOL) won two top awards in the 2009 IR Global Rankings (IRGR): -- "Best Ranked IR Website in Greater China & Asia/Pacific": selected based on content, technology and data manipulation, interactivity, design and timeliness. -- "Best Ranked Corporate Governance Practices in Greater China": selected based on creating, maintaining and managing value, while balancing stakeholder interests. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030303/LNM011LOGO-b ) Global Sources' Deputy Chief Financial Officer, David Gillan, said: "We are proud and delighted to have been honored by IRGR for the fourth consecutive year. Our objective is to adhere to best practices in corporate governance and we are committed to providing transparency to our shareholders." The IR Global Rankings ( http://www.irglobalrankings.com/ ) is the most comprehensive ranking system for IR website, corporate governance practices and financial disclosure procedures. Based on extensive proprietary research of public companies and investors, supported by the input of independent audit, corporate governance, and legal experts, MZ's ( http://www.mz-ir.com/ ) methodology is highly detailed, transparent, and completely accessible to all participants. The IR Global Rankings, supported by KPMG, Demarest & Almeida, Corporate Asia Network and Arnold & Porter, is a unique external review of any company's communication process with analysts and investors worldwide. The evaluations are executed by a team of experienced investor relations professionals and are reviewed by independent audit and legal experts. More than 160 companies from over 30 countries registered for the 2009 IR Global Rankings. About Global Sources Global Sources is a leading business-to-business media company and a primary facilitator of trade with Greater China. The core business uses English-language media to facilitate trade from Greater China to the world. The other business segment utilizes Chinese-language media to enable companies to sell to, and within Greater China. The company provides sourcing information to volume buyers and integrated marketing services to suppliers. It helps a community of over 790,000 active buyers source more profitably from complex overseas supply markets. With the goal of providing the most effective ways possible to advertise, market and sell, Global Sources enables suppliers to sell to hard-to-reach buyers in over 240 countries. The company offers the most extensive range of media and export marketing services in the industries it serves. It delivers information on 4.3 million products and more than 196,000 suppliers annually through 14 online marketplaces, 13 monthly magazines, over 100 sourcing research reports and 11 specialized trade shows which run 32 times a year across 11 cities. Suppliers receive more than 53 million sales leads annually from buyers through Global Sources Online ( http://www.globalsources.com/ ) alone. Global Sources has been facilitating global trade for 38 years. Global Sources' network covers more than 69 cities worldwide. In mainland China, Global Sources has over 2,800 team members in more than 44 locations, and a community of over 1 million registered online users and magazine readers for Chinese-language media. Global Sources Press Contact in Asia Camellia So Tel: +852-2555-5021 Email: Global Sources Press Contact in U.S. James W.W. Strachan Tel: +1-480-664-8309 Email: Global Sources Investor Contact in Asia Investor Relations Department Tel: +852-2555-4777 Email: Global Sources Investor Contact in U.S. Kirsten Chapman & Timothy Dien Lippert/Heilshorn & Associates, Inc. Tel: +1-415-433-3777 Email: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030303/LNM011LOGO-b DATASOURCE: Global Sources CONTACT: Press contact in Asia: Camellia So, +852-2555-5021, ; Press contact in U.S.: James W.W. Strachan of Global Sources, +1-480-664-8309, ; Investor contact in Asia: IR Department of Global Sources, +852-2555-4777, ; Investor Contact in U.S.: Kirsten Chapman & Timothy Dien of Lippert-Heilshorn & Associates, Inc., +1-415-433-3777, , for Global Sources Web site: http://www.mz-ir.com/ http://www.globalsources.com/ http://www.irglobalrankings.com/

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