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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
                                         (cont’d)
                                     31 March 2016

6	SUBSIDIARIES                                                               University Company

		                                                                           2016	                2015
		
		                                                                           $’000	               $’000
	
	 Equity investments at cost	                                                500	500
	 Loans to subsidiaries	                                                     291	291

		                                                                           791	                 791

	 The loans to subsidiaries are unsecured and interest-free. The settlements of the amounts are neither planned
         nor likely to occur in the foreseeable future. As the amounts are, in substance, a part of the University Company’s
         net investment in the subsidiaries, they are stated at cost less impairment losses.

	 Details of subsidiaries are as follows:

		Country of	Ownership

	Name of subsidiary	                       incorporation	  interest  	Principal activities

			                                                        2016	2015

			                                                        %	 %

	 Held by the University Company

	 @	 Nanyang Technological 	               Singapore	      100	  100	        Innovation and

		  University – NTUitive Pte Ltd				                                        enterprise company of

						 NTU.

	 @ 	 NTU Holdings Pte Ltd	                Singapore	      100	  100	        Investment holding.

	 @	 Singapore Centre for Chinese	         Singapore	      100	  100	        Provision of training/
                                                                             professional development
		  Language Limited				                                                     courses for Chinese
                                                                             language teachers and
				                                                                         conduct of educational
                                                                             research and activities.
				

		

		

	 @	 NIE International	                    Singapore	      100	  100	        Provision of training
                                                                             programs and consultancy
		  Private Limited				                                                      in teacher education and
                                                                             school leadership.
						

						

	 #	 Friends of NTU	                       United States	 100	   100	        Promote the
                                                                             advancement of NTU
						                                                                       in United States.

						

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