Earlier, SGX had issued a directive to allow companies to delay their AGM by 2 months to end June 2020.
Since final dividends have to be approved by shareholders via passing a resolution, a delay of the AGM simply means that the dividends for companies ending their FY on 31st Dec, would be similarly delayed.
So far, we have had Bonvest making the "atrocious" announcement of cancelling their dividend resolution. At the other end of the spectrum, Xinghua Group, a spin off from Pan United and listed on the HKEX 2 years ago, decides to skip the final dividend resolution (paid Aug2020) and pays out an interim dividend (paid June2020). While Towkay Ng is known to be OPMI friendly, there are probably a couple of implications i could think of wrt to Pan United:
(1) Will the expedition of dividends from Xinghua back to Towkay Ng actually means that he is preparing himself for a rights issue soon? Based on PanUnited's balance sheet and business, one can't rule it out.
(2) The amount of expedited proportioned payment that Towkay Ng receives from Xinghua Group is approximately equal to PanUnited's final dividend (which has to be approved in AGM, and now could be simply further delayed) at ~4-5mil SGD. In another sense, this could simply be Towkay Ng expediting payment from Xinghua as a replacement to fund his other private projects?
Xinghua Group interim dividend announcement on 26th March 2020:
https://attachment.website.wisdomir.com/...543_en.pdf