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Sor kor. 0473/50 August 14 ,2007 Subject : Report on the effect of change in accounting for investments To : Director and Manager of the Stock Exchange of Thailand On January 1, 2007, the Company has changed the accounting policy for investments in associates from the equity method to the cost method in the separate financial statements, in accordance with the Federation of Accounting Professions' announcement No. 26/2006 regarding the accounting practice for Accounting Standard No. 44 : Consolidated Financial Statements and Accounting for Investments in subsidiaries dated October 11, 2006. The Company has not retroactively adjusted the separate financial statements in the previous year taken for comparison, because such change has no effect on the financial statements of year 2006. The Company additionally presented the "financial statements in which the equity method is applied" for the three-month and six-month periods ended June 30, 2007 in order to conform with the new revised accounting standard. Such change, however, was the change in accounting policy only and did not cause any change in business fundamentals. Please notify the shareholders and investors as deemed necessary Sincerely yours, (Mr.Sompol Wongurai) Executive Director