Holding(s) in Company

Asia Energy PLC
19 October 2005


                        Asia Energy plc ('the Company')

                      Notification of significant holding

Under sections 198 to 202 of the Companies Act 1985 and rule 15 of the AIM
Rules, the following information falls to be disclosed:

The Company was notified today that Morgan Stanley Securities Limited and its
direct and indirect subsidiaries no longer hold a notifiable interest in the
issued share capital of the Company.


19 October 2005



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