MTR Metal Tiger Plc

RNS Number:6338B
MTR Corporation Ltd
07 August 2007

                             MTR CORPORATION LIMITED

                                 (the "Company")

               (Incorporated in Hong Kong with limited liability)

                                (Stock code: 66)


                       Appointment of Alternate Directors


The Company is pleased to announce that Mr. Alan Lai Nin (Permanent Secretary
for Financial Services and the Treasury (Treasury)) and Mr. Leung Cheuk-man
(Deputy Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury (Treasury)2) have been
appointed as Alternate Directors to Professor Chan Ka-keung, Ceajer (Secretary
for Financial Services and the Treasury), non-executive Director of the Company,
with effect from 10 July 2007.


Mr. Lai (aged 56) and Mr. Leung (aged 41) have not entered into any contract of
service with the Company nor is either of them appointed for a specific term.
They do not receive any emoluments from the Company.


Mr. Lai and Mr. Leung were not directors of any company listed on The Stock
Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the "Stock Exchange") during the past three years
although they were Alternate Directors to Mr. Ma Si-hang, Frederick (the former
Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury) until 9 July 2007.  Following
the resignation of Mr. Ma as a non-executive Director of the Company with effect
from 10 July 2007, Mr. Lai and Mr. Leung also ceased to be Alternate Directors
to Mr. Ma with effect from the same date.


Mr. Lai has served in various bureaux and departments of the Government of the
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (the "Government") since 1974.   Before
joining the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau, he was the Commissioner,
Independent Commission Against Corruption. He is a graduate of the University of
Hong Kong, and holds a Master degree of Social Science.


Mr. Leung has served in various bureaux and departments of the Government since
1987.   Before joining the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau, he was
the Deputy Director-General of Trade and Industry.  He is a graduate of the
Chinese University of Hong Kong and holds a Stanford University Master of
Science degree in Management.


Mr. Lai and Mr. Leung are not related to any Directors, senior management or
substantial or controlling shareholders of the Company except that they hold
posts in the Government, and The Financial Secretary Incorporated which holds
shares in the Company in trust for the Government, is a controlling shareholder
of the Company.  As at the date of this announcement, neither of them is
interested in any shares of the Company within the meaning of Part XV of the
Securities and Futures Ordinance ("SFO") as recorded in the register required to
be kept under section 352 of the SFO or as otherwise notified to the Company and
the Stock Exchange pursuant to the Model Code for Securities Transactions by
Directors of Listed Issuers.


In respect of the appointments of Mr. Lai and Mr. Leung, there is no other
information which is discloseable nor are/were they involved in any of the
matters required to be disclosed pursuant to any of the requirements of the
provisions of rules 13.51(2)(h) to (v) of the Rules Governing the Listing of
Securities on the Stock Exchange, and there is no other matter relating to their
appointments which needs to be brought to the attention of the shareholders of
the Company.



                                                           By Order of the Board
                                                            Leonard Bryan Turk
                                                                 Secretary


Hong Kong, 6 August 2007


Members of the Board: Dr. Raymond Ch'ien Kuo-fung (Chairman)**, Chow Chung-kong
(Chief Executive Officer), Professor Cheung Yau-kai*, David Gordon Eldon*,
Christine Fang Meng-sang*, Edward Ho Sing-tin*, Lo Chung-hing*, T. Brian
Stevenson*, Professor Chan Ka-keung, Ceajer (Secretary for Financial Services
and the Treasury)**, Secretary for Transport and Housing (Eva Cheng)** and
Commissioner for Transport (Alan Wong Chi-kong)**


Members of the Executive Directorate: Chow Chung-kong, Russell John Black,
William Chan Fu-keung, Thomas Ho Hang-kwong, Lincoln Leong Kwok-kuen, Francois
Lung Ka-kui, Andrew McCusker and Leonard Bryan Turk


*           independent non-executive Directors
**          non-executive Directors


This announcement is made in English and Chinese.  In the case of any
inconsistency, the English version shall prevail.


                      This information is provided by RNS
            The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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