Asia Orient Holdings Limited provided group earnings guidance for the six months ended September 30, 2012. The board of directors of the company announced that based on management information currently available, the group is expected to record a profit attributable to shareholders of the company for the six months ended September 30, 2012 as compared to a loss for the same period in 2011. The turnaround from loss to profit was mainly attributable to net gain on investments in financial assets as opposed to a net loss for the same period in 2011.