NEW YORK, February 21, 2006 – Global Sources Ltd. (NASDAQ: GSOL) expects to release results for the fourth quarter and year-end 2005 before market opens on March 7, 2006.

Chairman and CEO, Merle A. Hinrichs, is scheduled to conduct a conference call at 8:00 a.m. EST on March 7, 2006 (9:00 p.m. on March 7, 2006 in Hong Kong) to review these results in more detail. Investors in the United States may participate in the call by dialing (800) 218-0713, and international participants may dial (1-303) 262-2130. Investors in Hong Kong may call (852) 3009-3050. A live webcast of the conference call is scheduled to be available on Global Sources' corporate site at 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 at least 30 days. A telephone replay of the call is also scheduled to be available through March 9, 2006. To listen to the telephone replay, dial (800) 405-2236, or dial (1-303) 590-3000 outside the United States, and enter pass code 11052987#. For those in the Hong Kong area, the replay dial-in number is (852) 2287-4304, and enter pass code 253110#.

Safe Harbor Statement
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27-A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21-E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The company's actual results could differ materially from those set forth in the forward-looking statements as a result of the risks associated with the company's business, changes in general economic conditions, and changes in the assumptions used in making such forward-looking statements.