FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Release SPH APPOINTS NEW BOARD DIRECTOR SINGAPORE, 28 February 2014 - Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH) has appointed Mr Tan Chin Hwee as an independent director to its Board with effect from

1 March 2014. Mr Tan will be a member of the Audit Committee and the Board Risk

Committee.

Mr Tan, 43, is the founding partner in Asia for Apollo Global Management, a global alternative investment firm. Prior to joining Apollo (Singapore), he was a Managing Director at Amaranth, an American hedge fund.

Mr Tan is also a non-executive Director of Keppel REIT and a Director of Lien Aid Limited (Singapore) and KK Endowment Fund. He is a member of the Panel for Government Parliamentary Committee for Finance and Trade and Industry, as well as the new Advisory Panel for Volunteer Youth Corp of the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth.

Mr Tan graduated from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, with Second Class Upper Honours in Accountancy in 1995. He has a MBA from Yale University and completed a postgraduate course at Harvard Kennedy School. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and is both an Australian and Singapore registered Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Mr Tan was honoured as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader 2010 and as a World Cities Summit Young Leaders 2014.

Mr Tan said: "I am both honoured and thrilled to be given the opportunity to contribute to a company I greatly respect. We face challenging but exciting times ahead. I look forward to working with the Board to enhance our core businesses and invest in new areas of growth."

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Dr Lee Boon Yang, Chairman of the SPH Board, said: "On behalf of fellow directors, I welcome Mr Tan to the SPH board. Mr Tan comes to SPH with valuable experience in investment. I am confident that he will be able to contribute ideas for our growth strategy and help us to better deal with the evolving media landscape."

Issued by Singapore Press Holdings Ltd Co. Regn. No. 198402868E

For more information, please contact: Chin Soo Fang

Head

Corporate Communications & CSR Singapore Press Holdings Limited

DID: 6319 1216

Email: soofang@sph.com.sg

About Singapore Press Holdings Ltd

Incorporated in 1984, main board-listed Singapore Press Holdings Ltd (SPH) is Asia's leading media organisation, engaging minds and enriching lives across multiple languages and platforms.

Newspapers, Magazines and Book Publishing

SPH has 19 titles licensed under the Newspaper Printing and Presses Act, of which nine are daily newspapers across four languages. On an average day, 3.05 million individuals or 76 per cent of people above 15 years old, read one of SPH's news publications. SPH also publishes and produces more than 100 magazine titles in Singapore and the region, covering a broad range of interests from lifestyle to information technology. SPH's subsidiaries, Straits Times Press and Focus Publishing, produce quality books and periodicals in English and Chinese.

Internet and Mobile

Beyond print, SPH's suite of digital products, including online editions of newspapers and magazines, as well as mobile applications, enjoy over 400 million page views with 20 million unique visitors every month. Apart from AsiaOne, SPH's online and new media initiatives include ST701, the leading online marketplace for jobs (STJobs), property (STProperty), cars (STCars) and general classifieds (STClassifieds); Stomp, omy.sg and The Straits Times RazorTV. SPH also launched The Straits Times' iPad and enhanced iPhone applications, an Android smartphone application and The Business Times' iPhone application. SPH's Chinese flagship newspaper Lianhe Zaobao has also launched its digital editions which include a web application, as well as online and PDF versions.

Broadcasting

In the radio business, SPH Radio Pte Ltd operates entertainment stations UFM 100.3 in Mandarin, as well as Kiss92 and HOT FM91.3 in English. SPH has a 20 per cent stake in MediaCorp TV Holdings Pte Ltd, which operates free-to-air channels 5, 8 and U, and a 40 per cent stake in MediaCorp Press Limited, which publishes the free newspaper, Today.

Events and Out-of-Home Advertising

SPH's events arm Sphere Exhibits organises innovative consumer and trade events and exhibitions as well as large scale conferences in Singapore and the region. In addition, SPH has ventured into out-
of-home (OOH) advertising through its digital out-of-home platform SPHMBO.

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Properties

SPH REIT is a Singapore-based REIT established principally to invest, directly or indirectly, in a portfolio of income-producing real estate which is used primarily for retail purposes in Asia-Pacific, as well as real estate-related assets. SPH REIT is managed by SPH REIT Management Pte. Ltd., which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Singapore Press Holdings Limited.
The initial portfolio of SPH REIT comprises the following two high quality and well located commercial properties in Singapore:
· Paragon, a premier upscale retail mall and medical suite/office property, well known for its upscale mall housing many luxury brands, located in the heart of Orchard Road; and
· The Clementi Mall, a mid-market suburban mall located in the centre of Clementi town, an established residential estate in the west of Singapore.
The Seletar Mall is SPH's latest retail development and is expected to open at the end of 2014. This property is a potential asset to be injected into SPH REIT. SPH's wholly-owned subsidiary, Times Development Pte Ltd, also developed a 43-storey upmarket residential condominium, Sky@eleven, at Thomson Road.
For more information, please visit www.sph.com.sg

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