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70
REPORT BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
3 Directors’ Interests In Ordinary Shares, Share Options And Debentures (continued)
Direct interest Deemed interest
Name of Director 1.4.2008 31.3.2009 1.4.2008 31.3.2009
Interest in SP AusNet
Ordinary shares
James Koh Cher Siang 4,000 4,000 - -
Interest in Singapore Technologies Engineering Limited
Ordinary shares
Lucien Wong Yuen Kuai 211,125 216,000 20,000 20,000
Options to subscribe for ordinary shares
Lucien Wong Yuen Kuai 108,375 103,500 - -
There were no changes in any of the above-mentioned interests between the end of the fi nancial year and
21 April 2009.
Except as disclosed in this report, no other director who held offi ce at the end of the fi nancial year had
interests in ordinary shares, share options or debentures of the Company, or of related companies, either at
the beginning of the fi nancial year or at the end of the fi nancial year.
4 Directors’ Contractual Benefi ts
Except as disclosed in the fi nancial statements, since the end of the previous fi nancial year, no director of
the Company has received or become entitled to receive a benefi t by reason of a contract made by the
Company or a related company with the director, or with a fi rm of which the director is a member, or with
a company in which the director has a substantial fi nancial interest.
5 Options on Shares in the Company
(i) Employee Share Option Plan
The Singapore Airlines Limited Employee Share Option Plan (“the Plan”), which comprises the Senior Executive Share
Option Scheme and the Employee Share Option Scheme for senior executives and all other employees respectively,
was adopted at the Extraordinary General Meeting of the Company held on 8 March 2000 and modifi ed at the
Extraordinary General Meetings of the Company held on 14 July 2001 and 26 July 2003, respectively.
Under the Plan, all options to be issued will have a term no longer than 10 years from the date of grant.
The exercise price of the option will be the average of the closing prices of the Company’s ordinary shares
on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading Limited (“SGX-ST”) for the fi ve market days immediately
preceding the date of grant.