NEW YORK, July 16, 2008 – Global Sources Ltd. (NASDAQ: GSOL) expects to release results for the second quarter 2008 before the market opens on August 14, 2008.

Chairman and CEO, Merle A. Hinrichs, is scheduled to conduct a conference call at 8:00 a.m. ET on August 14, 2008 (8:00 p.m. on August 14, 2008 in Hong Kong) to review these results in more detail. Investors in the United States may participate in the call by dialing (888) 212-8315, and international participants may dial (1-706) 643-0144. Investors in Hong Kong may call (852) 3011-4522. A live webcast of the conference call is scheduled to be available on Global Sources' corporate site at http://www.investor.globalsources.com .

For those who cannot listen to the live broadcast, a webcast replay of the call is scheduled to be available on the company’s corporate site for 30 days. A telephone replay of the call is also scheduled to be available through August 18, 2008. To listen to the telephone replay, dial (800) 642-1687, or dial (1-706) 645-9291 outside the United States, and enter pass code 55221142#. For those in the Hong Kong area, the replay dial-in number is (852) 3011-4541, and enter pass code 55221142#.