NEW YORK, October 29, 2009 – Global Sources Ltd. (NASDAQ: GSOL) expects to release results for the third quarter 2009 before the market opens on November 12, 2009.

Chairman and CEO Merle A. Hinrichs and CFO David Gillan are scheduled to conduct a conference call at 8:00 a.m. ET on November 12, 2009 (9:00 p.m. on November 12, 2009 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 non-Hong Kong international participants may dial (1-706) 643-0144. Investors in Hong Kong are required to provide the conference ID 36252532; are encouraged to dial into the call 10 to 15 minutes prior to the call to prevent delay in joining; and may participate by dialing (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 November 19, 2009. To listen to the telephone replay dial (800) 642-1687 or dial (1-706) 645-9291 outside the United States, and enter pass code 36252532#. For those in the Hong Kong area, the replay dial-in number is (852) 3011-4541, and the pass code is 36252532#.