Global Sources to Present at Investor Conferences in January 2008

HONG KONG, Dec. 21, 2007 – Global Sources (NASDAQ: GSOL) is scheduled to present at the following investor conferences in January 2008:

• Tuesday, Jan. 8 at 1:50 p.m. MT / 3:50 p.m. ET at the Citi Investment Research 18^th Annual Global Entertainment, Media and Telecommunications Conference.  The conference will be held at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa in Phoenix.  Chairman and CEO, Merle A. Hinrichs, is scheduled to present.

• Wednesday, Jan. 9 at 8:00 a.m. ET at the Needham 10^th Annual Growth Conference. The conference will be held at the New York Palace Hotel in New York City. Executive Vice President of Corporate Development, James Strachan, is scheduled to present.

• Monday, Jan. 14 through Thursday, Jan.17, at the CLSA Asia Investors Forum 2008.  The conference is to be held at the Four Seasons in Las Vegas. Hinrichs is scheduled to present.

Global Sources’ presentations, with the exception of the CLSA conference presentation, are scheduled to be webcast live and to be available via replay for 90 days. The link to the live webcast and replay are scheduled to be available at Global Sources' Investor Relations website: http://www.investor.globalsources.com.

About Global Sources

Global Sources is a leading business-to-business (B2B) media company and a primary facilitator of two-way trade with Greater China. The core business is facilitating trade from Greater China to the world, using a wide range of English-language media. The other key business segment facilitates trade from the world to Greater China using Chinese-language media.

The company provides sourcing information to volume buyers and integrated marketing services to suppliers. It helps a community of over 647,000 active buyers source more profitably from complex overseas supply markets. With the goal of providing the most effective ways possible to advertise, market and sell, Global Sources enables suppliers to sell to hard-to-reach buyers in over 230 countries.

The company offers the most extensive range of media and export marketing services in the industries it serves. It delivers information on 2 million products and more than 160,000 suppliers annually through 14 online marketplaces, 13 monthly magazines, over 100 sourcing research reports and nine specialized trade shows which run 22 times a year across seven cities.

Suppliers receive more than 23 million sales leads annually from buyers through Global Sources Online (http://www.globalsources.com) alone.

Global Sources has been facilitating global trade for 36 years. In mainland China it has over 2,000 team members in 44 locations, and a community of over 1 million registered online users and magazine readers for Chinese-language media.