The Company is in a Closed Period pending the announcement of its results for the first quarter ended 31 March 2013.

This is to notify that the Company has received notifications from the following directors of Protasco Berhad (“PB” or “Company”) that they intend to deal in the securities of PB during the current closed period pending the announcement by the Company of its results for the first quarter ended 31 March 2013:

The current shareholdings of the directors concerned are as follows: 

Name of Director(s)	Direct Shareholding		Indirect Shareholding
	No. of Shares held	%	No. of Shares held	%
Tan Heng Kui	652,900	0.22	-	-
Dato’ Chong Ket Pen	83,710,292	27.58	837,000	0.28