Holding(s) in Company

TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi                                         
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer                                      
of existing shares to which voting rights are            Fidelity Asian Values PLC      
attached:ii                                                                             
                                                                                        
2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or boxes):               
                                                                                        
An acquisition or disposal of voting rights                                            Y
                                                                                        
An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial instruments which may result         
in the acquisition of shares already issued to which voting rights are attached         
                                                                                        
An acquisition or disposal of instruments with similar economic effect to               
qualifying financial instruments                                                        
                                                                                        
An event changing the breakdown of voting rights                                        
                                                                                        
Other (please specify): Increase in issuers voting rights                               
                                                                                        
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the City of London Investment Management Company   
notification obligation:iii              Limited                                        
                                                                                        
4. Full name of shareholder(s)                                                          
 (if different from 3.):iv                                                              
                                                                                        
5. Date of the transaction and date on                                                  
which the threshold is crossed or        24 January 2012                                
reached: v                                                                              
                                                                                        
6. Date on which issuer notified:        26 January 2012                                
                                                                                        
7. Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or   16%                                            
reached: vi, vii                                                                        
                                                                                        


 

8. Notified details:                                                                                   
                                                                                                       
A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix                                                           
                                                                                                       
Class/type   Situation previous                   Resulting situation after the triggering transaction 
of           to the triggering                                                                         
shares       transaction                                                                               
                                                                                                       
             Number                 Number        Number   Number of voting        % of  voting rights 
if possible  of                     of            of       rights                  x                   
using        Shares                 Voting        shares                                               
the ISIN                            Rights                                                             
CODE                                                       Direct xi Indirect xii  Direct  Indirect    
                                                                                                       
GB0003322319                                                                                           
             9,726,431              9,726,431     N/A                9,752,616             16.03%      
Ordinary                                                                                               
0.25                                                                                                   
                                                                                                       
                                                                                                       
                                                                                                       
B: Qualifying Financial Instruments                                                                    
                                                                                                       
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                                   
                                                                                                       
Type of        Expiration            Exercise/              Number of voting             % of voting   
financial      date xiii             Conversion Period xiv  rights that may be           rights        
instrument                                                  acquired if the                            
                                                            instrument is                              
                                                            exercised/ converted.                      
                                                                                                       
                                                                                                       
                                                                                                       
                                                                                                       
                                                                                                       
C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial                          
Instruments xv, xvi                                                                                    
                                                                                                       
Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                                   
                                                                                                       
Type of       Exercise price        Expiration  Exercise/  Number of voting rights    % of voting      
financial                           date xvii   Conversion instrument refers to       rights xix, xx   
instrument                                      period                                                 
                                                xviii                                                  
                                                                                                       
                                                                                      Nominal Delta      
                                                                                                       
                                                                                                       
                                                                                                       
                                                                                                       
                                                                                                       
Total (A+B+C)                                                                                          
                                                                                                       
Number of voting rights                                  Percentage of voting rights                   
                                                                                                       
9,752,616                                                16.03 %                                       
                                                                                                       


 

9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights and/or the          
financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi                          
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
All Voting Rights on all Shares are controlled by City of London Investment             
Management Limited.                                                                     
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
Proxy Voting:                                                                           
                                                                                        
10. Name of the proxy holder:            City of London Investment Management Company   
                                         Limited                                        
                                                                                        
11. Number of voting rights proxy holder                                                
will cease to hold:                                                                     
                                                                                        
12. Date on which proxy holder will                                                     
cease to hold voting rights:                                                            
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
13. Additional information:   Total voting rights in issue of 60,856,241as published on 
                              the London Stock Exchange web site                        
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
14. Contact name:             Jay McKenna or Chris Weaver                               
                                                                                        
                              [e-mail] - 001-610-380-0121 OR              
                                                                                        
15. Contact telephone number: [e-mail] - 020 7860 8329             
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
                                                                                        


 

B: Identity of the notifier, if applicable                                              
                                                                                        
Full name                                           Christopher Pirnie For and on behalf
                                                        of FIL Investments International
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
Contact address                                   Kingswood Place, Millfield Lane, Lower
                                                    Kingswood, Tadworth, Surrey KT20 6RB
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
Phone number & email                                                                    
                                                                            01737 837929
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
Other useful information                                                                
                                                                                        
(e.g. functional relationship with the person or                       Company Secretary
legal entity subject to the notification                                                
obligation)                                                                             
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
C: Additional information                                                               
                                                                                        
                                                                                        
                                                                                        

 


i This form is to be sent to the issuer or underlying issuer and to be filed
with the competent authority.

ii Either the full name of the legal entity or another method for identifying
the issuer or underlying issuer provided it is reliable and accurate.

iii This should be the full name of (a) the shareholder; (b) the person
acquiring, disposing of or exercising voting rights in the cases provided for
in DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h); (c) all the parties to the agreement referred to in
DTR5.2.1 (a), or (d) the direct or indirect holder of financial instruments
entitled to acquire shares already issued to which voting rights are attached,
or the direct or indirect holder of financial instruments having a similar
economic effect to qualifying financial instruments, as appropriate.

In relation to the transactions referred to in points DTR5.2.1 (b) to (h), the
following list is provided as indication of the persons who should be
mentioned:

- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (b), the person that acquires the
voting rights and is entitled to exercise them under the agreement and the
natural person or legal entity who is transferring temporarily for
consideration the voting rights;

- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR 5.2.1 (c), the person holding the
collateral, provided the person or entity controls the voting rights and
declares its intention of exercising them, and person lodging the collateral
under these conditions;

- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1(d), the person who has a life
interest in shares if that person is entitled to exercise the voting rights
attached to the shares and the person who is disposing of the voting rights
when the life interest is created;

- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (e), the parent undertaking and,
provided it has a notification duty at an individual level under DTR 5.1, under
DTR5.2.1 (a) to (d) or under a combination of any of those situations, the
controlled undertaking;

- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (f), the deposit taker of the
shares, if he can exercise the voting rights attached to the shares deposited
with him at his discretion, and the depositor of the shares allowing the
deposit taker to exercise the voting rights at his discretion;

- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (g), the person that controls the
voting rights;

- in the circumstances foreseen in DTR5.2.1 (h), the proxy holder, if he can
exercise the voting rights at his discretion, and the shareholder who has given
his proxy to the proxy holder allowing the latter to exercise the voting rights
at his discretion.

iv Applicable in the cases provided for in DTR 5.2.1 (b) to (h). This should be
the full name of the shareholder or holder of financial instruments who is the
counterparty to the natural person or legal entity referred to in DTR5.2.

v The date of the transaction should normally be, in the case of an on exchange
transaction, the date on which the matching of orders occurs; in the case of an
off exchange transaction, the date of entering into an agreement.

The date on which a threshold is crossed should normally be the date on which
the acquisition, disposal or possibility to exercise voting rights takes effect
(see DTR 5.1.1R (3)). For passive crossings, the date when the corporate event
took effect.

 

In the case of financial instruments with a similar economic effect to
qualifying financial instruments, the date on which a threshold is reached or
crossed is the date of entering into the agreement. In the case of reaching or
crossing a threshold passively as a result of a change in a delta adjusted
holding or due to a change in the total voting rights of the issuer, the date
should be that when the delta adjustment occurs or the total voting rights
change rather than the date at which the agreement was entered into.

vi Please refer to the situation disclosed in the previous notification, In
case the situation prior to the triggering transaction was below 3%, please
state 'below 3%'.

vii If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, the notifying party
should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding, only that the new
holding is less than 3%.

viii Direct and Indirect

ix In case of combined holdings of shares with voting rights attached 'direct
holding' and voting rights 'indirect holdings', please split the voting rights
number and percentage into the direct and indirect columns-if there is no
combined holdings, please leave the relevant box blank.

x If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, the notifying party
should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding, only that the new
holding is below 3%.

xi Voting rights attached to shares in respect of which the notifying party is
a direct shareholder (DTR 5.1)

xii Voting rights held by the notifying party as an indirect shareholder (DTR
5.2.1)

xiii date of maturity / expiration of the financial instrument i.e. the date
when the right to acquire shares ends.

xiv If the financial instrument has such a period-please specify the period-
for example once every three months starting from the [date]

xv In case of notifying the aggregate of all voting rights deemed to be held as
a result of holdings of instruments having a similar economic effect to (but
not including) qualifying instruments on a nominal basis, please also provide
the exercise price and either expiration date, or conversion period. If
notifying on a nominal basis there is no requirement to then provide the
delta-adjusted figures as well.

xvi In case of notifying the aggregate of all voting rights deemed to be held
as a result of holdings of instruments having a similar economic effect to (but
not including) qualifying instruments on a delta-adjusted basis, please provide
the expiration date/conversion period as appropriate.

xvii expiration date of the financial instrument with a similar economic effect
to a qualifying financial instrument i.e. the date when the instrument is due
to be settled.

xviii If the financial instrument has a conversion/settlement period-please
specify the period- for example once every three months starting from the
[date]

xix Nominal and delta-adjusted basis (transitional period to run until 31
December 2009)

xx If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, the notifying party
should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the holding, only that the new
holding is below 3%.

xxi The notification should include the name(s) of the controlled undertakings
through which the voting rights are held. The notification should also include
the amount of voting rights and the percentage held, or deemed to be held, by
each controlled undertaking, insofar as individually the controlled undertaking
holds 3% or more, and insofar as the notification by the parent undertaking is
intended to cover the notification obligations of the controlled undertaking.

xxii This annex is only to be filed with the competent authority.