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MINOR Group sets up a special relief fund to help the victims of the Tsunami

Greetings from Phuket. We have received many requests from people wanting to donate to the victims of the Tsunami. Mr Bill Heinecke's company, the MINOR Group, has set up a special relief fund to help the victims of the Tsunami. MINOR's Royal Garden Resorts is the owner of JW Marriott Phuket Resort & Spa, the Marriott hotels in Bangkok, Hua Hin and Pattaya as well as Four Seaons and Anantara Hotels in Thailand. The Anantara Khao Lak was destroyed by the Tsunami.

MINOR have set up a special relief fund to provide long term assistance to the Tsunami victims; details of which follow. Many thanks for your help - please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of assistance.

Best regards,
Lee Sutton
Director of Public Relations, Asia, Australia
Marriott International Inc.

Mailing Address :
C/- JW Marriott Phuket Resort & Spa
231, Moo 3, Mai Khao, Talang, 83110
Phuket,
THAILAND

Tel: 66 76 338 021 - direct
Fax: 66 76 348 360
Email: lee.sutton@marriott.com
Website: <www.marriott.com>

Dear Friends, Partners and Associates of the Minor Group

On behalf of all of us at the Minor Group, I would like to express our appreciation for your concern and support for our staff and the communities affected by the recent tragic tsunami.

The Minor Group, through both our operations and people, are an integral part of these communities and have a responsibility to assist in their recovery and continued development. To this end, we have established two recovery funds dedicated to meeting the objective and would like to invite you to participate in it alongside ourselves.

The first "MINOR Tsunami Recovery Fund" will assist in the recovery efforts in the Phuket Mai Khao and the Khao Lak area where the tsunami hit the hardest and will function as a channel for our Company, its staff, guests, business partners and well wishers who would like to offer direct assistance to communities in the South of Thailand. It will be managed by the MINOR Group's organization network and distributed to affected people through local community organizations and schools. These funds will be especially helpful when the aid agencies finish their work and move on in a few weeks, when there will be a whole range of new challenges for these communities, especially with the children, for years to come.

Contribution to "MINOR Tsunami Recovery Fund" will be made through a variety of means :

1. Our 14,000 associates are encouraged to make voluntary contributions
2. From January to March 2005, all MINOR hotels will ask resort guests
for a US$1 contribution of each room night spent, to help boost the tsunami recovery fund
3. Minor Group will match both staff and guest contributions dollar for
dollar
4. The company will make request to all its business, trade and media
partners for contributions to the Fund. It will also make a public appeal on its website for donation.

Account name : "MINOR Tsunami Recovery Fund"
Account type : Current Account
Account No. : 035-3-0-3553-4
Bank name : Siam Commercial Bank Pcl.
Bank Branch : Rama 4
Swift Code : SICOTHBK
Bank address : 4796/8 Rama 4 Road, Prakanong, Klongtoey,
Bangkok 10110

Please inform us or fax your pay in slip or bank advice to Fax no. 66 (0) 2381 5777 or send your check to "MINOR Tsunami Recovery Fund" Attn: Mr. Chanchai Pewlongsawut, 18/F Berli Jucker Bldg., 99 Soi Rubia, Sukhumvit 42 Road, Bangkok 10110 Thailand. Or email to : Chanchai_pe@minornet.com

The second fund "Donation for MINOR Group Employees affected from Tsunai" is a special fund established to assist it's staff who have been effected by the Tsunami and who may obtain assistance in rebuilding their homes and lives. The MINOR Group will also match all funds donated.

Account name : "Donation for MINOR Group Employees
Affected From Tsunami"
Account Type: Current Account
Account Number: 035-3-0-3550-0
Bank Name: Siam Commercial Bank Pcl.
Bank Branch: Rama 4
Swift Code: SICOTHBK
Bank Address: 4796/8 Rama 4 Road, Prakanong ,
Klongtoey, Bangkok 10110

Please inform us or fax your pay in slip or bank advice to Fax no. 66 (0) 2381 5777 or send your check to "Donation for MINOR Group Employees affected from Tsunami" Attn: Mr. Chanchai Pewlongsawut, 18/F Berli Jucker Bldg., 99 Soi Rubia, Sukhumvit 42 Road, Bangkok 10110, THAILAND. Or email to : Chanchai_pe@minornet.com

Thank you again for all your support in these difficult times. It's really a consolation to know we have so many friends, in the hours and days, after the disaster.

Warm regards,


William E. Heinecke
Chief Executive Officer
THE MINOR GROUP