ORIENT POWER<00615> - Suspension of Trading

At the request of Orient Power Holdings Limited (the "Company"), trading 
in its shares will be suspended with effect from 9:30 a.m. today 
(23/10/2003) pending the release of an announcement relating to the 
unusual movement in the trading of the Company's shares on 22nd October, 
2003 and a proposed top-up placing of the shares.