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AUDITOR'S REPORT ON REVIEW OF INTERIM FINANCIAL STATEMENTS To the Shareholders and the Board of Directors of Noble Development Public Company Limited I have reviewed the accompanying consolidated and company balance sheets as at 31 March 2001, and the related consolidated and company statements of income, changes in shareholders' equity, retained earnings and cash flows for the three-month period then ended of Noble Development Public Company Limited and its subsidiaries, and of Noble Development Public Company Limited, respectively. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. My responsibility is to issue a report on these financial statements based on my review. I conducted my review in accordance with the standard of auditing applicable to review engagements. This standard requires that I plan and perform the review to obtain moderate assurance as to whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. A review is limited primarily to inquiries of company personnel and analytical procedures applied to financial data and thus provides less assurance than an audit. I have not performed an audit, and, accordingly, I do not express an audit opinion. Based on my review, nothing has come to my attention that causes me to believe that the consolidated and company financial statements referred in the first paragraph are not presented fairly, in all material respects, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The consolidated and company balance sheets as at 31 December 2000, presented for comparative purposes, are components of the audited consolidated and company financial statements of Noble Development Public Company Limited and its subsidiaries, and of Noble Development Public Company Limited, respectively, for the year ended 31 December 2000 which were audited by another independent auditor from the same firm as myself whose reported dated 20 February 2001 expressed an unqualified opinion on those statements. The consolidated and company statements of income, changes in shareholders' equity, retained earnings and cash flows for the three-month period ended 31 March 2000, presented for comparative purpose, are components of the interim consolidated and company financial statements for the same period of Noble Development Public Company Limited and its subsidiaries, and of Noble Development Public Company Limited, respectively, which were reviewed by another independent auditor from the same firm as myself whose report dated 11 May 2000 stated that nothing has come to his attention that causes him to believe that those financial statements are not presented fairly, in all material respects, in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. BOONMEE NGOTNGAMWONG Certified Public Accountant (Thailand) No. 3673 PricewaterhouseCoopers ABAS Limited Bangkok 11 May 2001