Transaction in Own Shares

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London Asia Capital PLC
22 January 2008


22 January 2008

                            LONDON ASIA CAPITAL PLC
                        ("London Asia" or "the Company")

                           Transaction in own shares


London Asia, the AIM listed (code LDC.L) Asian focused investment group,
announces that on 21 January it purchased into treasury a further 200,000 of its
own ordinary shares by a purchase at a price of 6.75p per share. Following this
transaction, London Asia's capital consists of 327,378,990 ordinary shares with
voting rights and London Asia holds 1,200,000 ordinary shares in treasury.
Therefore the total number of voting rights in, and the figure to be used by
shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will
determine whether they are required to notify their interests in, or change to
their interest in, London Asia under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency Rules
is 326,178,990.


For further information please visit www.londonasiacapital.com or contact:


Cecilia Wong                John West/Andrew Dunn           Jonathan Wright
London Asia Capital plc     Tavistock Communications        Seymour Pierce
Tel: [phone]         Tel: [phone]              Tel: [phone]







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