Notification of Major Interest in Shares

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| For filings with the FSA include    |                             |
| the annex                           |                             |
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| For filings with issuer exclude the |                             |
| annex                               |                             |
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| TR-1: NOTIFICATION OF MAJOR INTEREST IN SHARESi                   |
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| 1. Identity of the issuer or the          |                       |
| underlying issuer                         | Chaarat Gold Holdings |
| of existing shares to which voting rights |                   Ltd |
| are                                       |                       |
| attached: ii                              |                       |
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| 2 Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or |
| boxes):                                                           |
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| An acquisition or disposal of voting rights          |            |
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| An acquisition or disposal of qualifying financial   |            |
| instruments which may result in the acquisition of   |            |
| shares already issued to which voting rights are     |            |
| attached                                             |            |
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| An acquisition or disposal of instruments with       |            |
| similar economic effect to qualifying financial      |            |
| instruments                                          |            |
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| An event changing the breakdown of voting rights     |     X      |
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| Other (please        |                               |            |
| specify):            |                               |            |
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| 3. Full name of person(s)   |                                     |
| subject to the              |   First State Investment Management |
| notification obligation:    |                    (UK) Limited     |
| iii                         |                                     |
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| 4. Full name of             | Vidacos Nominees Limited as nominee |
| shareholder(s)              |  for First State Asia Pacific Fund, |
|  (if different from 3.):iv  | sub fund of First State Investments |
|                             |                                ICVC |
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| 5. Date of the transaction  | 15th September 2009                 |
| and date on                 |                                     |
| which the threshold is      |                                     |
| crossed or                  |                                     |
| reached: v                  |                                     |
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| 6. Date on which issuer     | 18th September 2009                 |
| notified:                   |                                     |
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| 7. Threshold(s) that is/are | Below 5 %                           |
| crossed or                  |                                     |
| reached: vi, vii            |                                     |
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|8. Notified details:                                                                                   |
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|A: Voting rights attached to shares viii, ix                                                           |
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|Class/type of       |Situation previous          |Resulting situation after the triggering transaction |
|shares              |to the triggering           |                                                     |
|if possible using   |transaction                 |                                                     |
|the ISIN CODE       |----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------|
|                    |Number           |Number    |Number    |Number of voting   |% of  voting rights x |
|                    |of               |of        |of shares |rights             |                      |
|                    |Shares           |Voting    |----------+-------------------+----------------------|
|                    |                 |Rights    |Direct    |Direct  |Indirect  |Direct     |Indirect  |
|                    |                 |          |          |xi      |xii       |           |          |
|--------------------+-----------------+----------+----------+--------+----------+-----------+----------|
|                    |                 |          |          |        |          |           |          |
|VGG203461055        |4,423,150        |4,423,150 |4,423,150 |        |4,423,150 |           |4.823%    |
|--------------------|                 |          |          |        |          |           |          |
|                    |                 |          |          |        |          |           |          |
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|B: Qualifying Financial Instruments                                                                    |
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|Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                                   |
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|Type of financial        |Expiration       |Exercise/            |Number of voting      |% of voting   |
|instrument               |date xiii        |Conversion Period xiv|rights that may be    |rights        |
|                         |                 |                     |acquired if the       |              |
|                         |                 |                     |instrument is         |              |
|                         |                 |                     |exercised/ converted. |              |
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|C: Financial Instruments with similar economic effect to Qualifying Financial Instruments xv, xvi      |
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|Resulting situation after the triggering transaction                                                   |
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|Type of      |Exercise price   |Expiration date|Exercise/   |Number of voting rights|% of voting rights|
|financial    |                 |xvii           |Conversion  |instrument refers to   |xix, xx           |
|instrument   |                 |               |period xviii|                       |                  |
|-------------+-----------------+---------------+------------+-----------------------+------------------|
|             |                 |               |            |                       |Nominal   |Delta  |
|             |                 |               |            |                       |----------+-------|
|             |                 |               |            |                       |          |       |
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|Total (A+B+C)                                                                                          |
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|Number of voting rights                                |Percentage of voting rights                    |
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|4,423,150                                              |                                               |
|                                                       |4.823%                                         |
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| 9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting      |
| rights and/or the                                                 |
| financial instruments are effectively held, if applicable: xxi    |
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| First State Investment Management (UK) Limited is appointed as    |
| investment manager by and entitled to exercise voting rights on   |
| behalf of the First State Asia Pacific Fund, sub-fund of First    |
| State Investments ICVC.                                           |
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| Proxy Voting:                              |                      |
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| 10. Name of the proxy holder:              | N/A                  |
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| 11. Number of voting rights proxy holder   |                      |
| will cease                                 |                      |
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| to hold:                                   | N/A                  |
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| 12. Date on which proxy holder will cease  |                      |
| to hold                                    |                      |
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| voting rights:                             | N/A                  |
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|                                            |                      |
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| 13. Additional information:                |                      |
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| 14. Contact name:                          | Linda Naylor         |
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| 15. Contact telephone number:              | [phone]     |
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