KUALA LUMPUR (July 9): Singapore's OCBC-Chinese Banking Corp Ltd (OCBC) and Great Eastern Holdings Ltd have emerged as a substantial shareholder in JAKS Resources Bhd, with an indirect stake of 5.147%.

A filing with Bursa Malaysia today showed that Great Eastern Life Assurance (M) Bhd (GELM), Overseas Assurance (Malaysia) Bhd (OACM) and Pacific Mutual Fund Bhd (PMFB) had on July 7, 2015 acquired a total of 22.56 million shares in JAKS (fundamental: 0.65; valuation: 1.5).

By virtue of their interests in GELM, OACM and PMFB, both OCBC and Great Eastern have emerged with indirect stakes in the company.

On Monday, JAKS said it had teamed up with China Power Engineering Consulting Group Co Ltd to jointly build and run an US$1.87 billion (RM7.12 billion) 1,200MW power plant in Vietnam under a 25-year concession.

JAKS and China Power would each own a 50% stake in the project.

JAKS shares closed 4.5 sen or 6.34% higher at 75.5 sen today, giving it a market capitalisation of RM330.96 million.

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