THE SCOTTISH ORIENTAL SMALLER COMPANIES TRUST PLC
First State Investment Management (UK) Limited, manager of The Scottish Oriental Smaller Companies Trust PLC ("Scottish Oriental") announces a corrected unaudited Net Asset Value of Scottish Oriental Ordinary Shares as at 17 December 2010 of 637.86p. This figure was incorrectly stated to be 637.26p on 17 December 2010. This figure does not include any income retention for the year to-date.
The corrected cum-income NAV calculated to include an estimate of income net of expenses retained from 1 September 2010 was 638.27p. This replaces the previously announced figure of 637.67p.
These figures do not include any provision for capital gains tax on net unrealised gains on holdings of Indian securities.