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City Chase will be staged in Hong Kong for the second year on 18^th October. Rolling on from the huge success of last year’s sell out event this years race will be double the size with a maximum of 400 teams and many more secret ChasePoint locations all over Hong Kong. The challenges at each ChasePoint are guaranteed to push your comfort zones and test your fitness, local knowledge and lateral thinking.

City Chase will take place on Saturday 18^th October and registration is already open online (www.citychaseasia.com). To conquer the 4-6 hour urban event, teams need to run, walk or use public transport to navigate their way around Hong Kong. Teams can call family and friends for help, access the Internet, or even get assistance from total strangers on the street. The first team to complete the required number of ChasePoints and cross the finish line wins.

The competition course and challenges will be a closely guarded secret and only divulged to race goers on the day of the event.

The winning team from Hong Kong will then jet off on an all expenses paid trip to Marrakech, Morocco, to compete in the City Chase World Championships from November 5^th-9^th 2008. The winning Hong Kong team will compete against winners from Canada, USA, France, UK, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Germany, Australia and Singapore.

Hong Kong City Chase is proud to announce that Nat Geo are the Title Sponsor and Standard Life is the Presenting Partner for this unique event

For further information on City Chase please visit www.citychaseasia.com. Entry to Hong Kong City Chase costs HK$1,000 per team of two. Closing date for online registration is 11^th October 2008

About Standard Life:

Standard Life was established in 1825. It is a financial services group with principal activities which include providing life assurance and pensions, investment management, banking and healthcare insurance products. It has approximately 10,000 employees spread across the UK, Canada, Ireland, Germany, Austria, India, Hong Kong and Mainland China. On 10 July 2006, Standard Life plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange.

Standard Life is a major asset managing business with around 1.5 million shareholders in over 50 countries, and more than £143bn of assets managed by Standard Life Investments for around 7 million customers. Their aim is to keep adding value for our shareholders by growing our customers’ wealth with strong investment performance and market-leading products that are also capital-efficient from a business perspective.