Aberdeen Asian Income Fund Limited (LSE:AAIF) commences share repurchases on May 19, 2023, under the program mandated by the shareholders in the Annual General Meeting held on May 10, 2023. As per the mandate, the company is authorized to repurchase up to 25,382,977 shares, representing 14.99% of its issued share capital. The minimum price (exclusive of expenses) which may be paid for each ordinary share is £0.01 and the maximum price which may be paid for each ordinary share is the higher an amount equal to 105% of the average of the middle market quotations for an ordinary share as derived from the London Stock Exchange Daily Official List of the UK Listing Authority for the five business days immediately preceding the day on which the ordinary share is contracted to be purchased and an amount equal to the higher of the price of the last independent trade of an ordinary share and the current highest independent bid for an ordinary share as derived from the London Stock Exchange Trading System.

The shares purchased may either be cancelled or held as treasury shares, which may then be cancelled, sold for cash, or used to meet the company's obligations under its employee share schemes. The authority shall expire at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting in 2024, or if earlier, on the expiry of 18 months from the passing of this resolution. As of April 4, 2023, the company had 169,332,732 ordinary shares in issue and 25,600,657 ordinary shares in treasury.