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Mr. Lim Toon, aged 63, has been a Director of APT Satellite Company Limited since February 1993 and was appointed as the Non-Executive Director of the Company in October 1996. Mr. Lim is also the Director of APT Satellite Company Limited and APT Satellite Investment Company Limited, subsidiaries of the Company. He is also the Director of APT Satellite Telecommunications Limited, a jointly controlled entity between a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company and one of the shareholders of APT Satellite International Company Limited, the substantial shareholder of the Company. Mr. Lim is also the Director of APT Satellite International Company Limited. In 1966, Mr. Lim graduated from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, with a first class honours degree in Engineering. In 1975, Mr. Lim obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration from the University of Singapore. He attended the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School in 1992. He has been the Chief Operating Officer of SingTel, the holding company of one of the shareholders of APT Satellite International Company Limited, since April 1999 and has worked for Singapore Telecom since 1970, serving in various appointments of engineering, radio services, traffic operations, personnel & training and information systems departments. He was appointed Executive Vice President of Network Services in April 1989 and Executive Vice President of International Services in April 1994. He was awarded the Efficiency Medal in 1978 and the Public Administration Medal (Gold) in 1991 by the Singapore government. He is presently a Director of a number of overseas companies. Mr. Lim has retired from SingTel on 26 February 2006. | 