Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings Limited announced the appointment of Professor Leung Gabriel Matthew as an independent non-executive director, a member of each of the Nomination Committee and the Remuneration Committee of the Company with effect from September 1, 2013. The Board further announces that Mr. Chu Yu Lun, non-executive director of the Company, has been appointed as a member of Audit Committee of the Company and will cease to be a member of Nomination Committee of the Company with effect from September 1, 2013. Professor Leung, GBS, aged 40, is the nineteenth Dean of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at The University of Hong Kong ("HKU").