Memorandum and Articles - Sino

or about to carry on or engage in, any business or transaction which this Company is authorised to carry
on or engage in or any business or transaction capable of being conducted so as directly or indirectly to
benefit this Company and to lend money to, guarantee the contracts oi or otherwise assist any such person
or company, and to take or otherwise acquire shares and securities of any such company, and to sell, hold,
re-issue with or without guarantee, or otherwise deal with the same.
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To take, or otherwise acquire, and hold shares in any other company having objects altogether or in part
similar to those of this Company, or carrying on any business capable of being conducted so as directly
or indirectly to benefit this Company.
To acquire and hold shares, stocks, debentures, debenture stocks, bonds, obligations, and securities issued
or guaranteed by any Company constituted or carrying on business in Hong Kong or in part of the world,
and debentures, debenture stocks, bonds, obligations, and securities, issued or guaranteed by any government,
sovereign ruler, commissioners, publíc body, or authority, supreme, municipal, Iocal, or otherwise, whether
in Hong Kong or abroad.
To enter into any arrangements with any governments or authorities, municipal, local, or otherwise, that
may seem conducive to the Company's objects, or any of them, and to obtain from any such government
or authority, any rights, privileges, and concessions which the Company may think it desirable to obtain,
and to carry out, exercise and comply with any such arrangements, rights, privileges, and concessions.
To promote any company or companies for the purpose of acquiring all or any of the property, rights and
liabilities of this Company, or for any other purpose which may seem directly or indirectly calculated to
benefit this Company.
To establish and support or aid in the establishment and support of associations, institutions, funds, trusts,
and conveniences calculated to benefit employees or ex-employees of the Company or the dependents or
connections of such persons, and to grant pensions and allowances, and to make payments towards insurance
and to subscribe or guarantee money for charitable or benevolent objects, or for any exhibition or for any
public, general or useful objects.
Generally to purchase, take on lease, or in exchange, hire or otherwise acquire, any real and personal
property and any rights or privileges which the Company may think necessary or convenient for the purposes
of its business and in particular any land, buildings, easements, machinery, plant and stock-in-trade.
To construct, maintain and alter any buildings, factories or works necessary or convenient for the purposes
of the Company whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere.
To lend money to such persons or companies upon security of mortgage of properties in Hong Kong or
elsewhere either real or personal or upon security of mortgage of shares in other companies or without
security and on such terms as may seem expedient, and in particular to customers and others having dealings
with the Company, and to guarantee the performance of contracts by any such persons or company.
To borrow or raise or secure the payment of money in such manner as the Company shall think fit, and
ìn particular by the issue of debentures, or debenture stock, perpetual or otherwise, charged upon all or
any of the Company's property (both present and future), including its uncalled capital, and to purchase,
redeem or pay off any such securities.
To guarantee or otherwise support or secure, either with or without the Company receiving any consideration
or advantage and whether or not exercised in furtherance of the Company's business interest and whether
by personal covenant or by mortgaging or charging all or part of the undertaking, property, assets and rights
(present and future) and uncalled capital of the Company or by both such methods or by any other meâns
whatsoever, the liabilities and obligations of and the payment of any moneys whatsoever (including but
not limited to capital, principal, premiums, interest, dividends, costs and expenses on any stocks, shares
or securities) by any person, firm or company whatsoever including but not limited to any company which
is for the time being the holding company or a subsidiary of the Company or of the Company's holding
company or is otherwise associated with the Company in its business, and to act as agents for the collection,
receipt or payment of money, and to enter into any contract of indemnity or suretyship (but not in respect
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