NASDAQ Stock Market issues noncompliance letter to Encorium Group

Encorium Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENCO), a full service multinational clinical research organization (CRO) conducting studies in over 30 countries for many of the world's leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, today announced that on August 25, 2009, it received a letter from The NASDAQ Stock Market notifying the Company that, based on its Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2009, NASDAQ has determined that the Company's stockholders' equity does not comply with the minimum $2.5 million stockholders' equity requirement for continued listing on The NASDAQ Capital Market as required by NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 5550(b)(1).

As provided in the NASDAQ Marketplace Rules, the Company has the opportunity to submit to NASDAQ a specific plan and timeline to achieve and sustain compliance. The Company intends to submit to the NASDAQ staff in a timely manner a plan to continue listing on The NASDAQ Capital Market. Under NASDAQ Marketplace Rules, the Company must submit its plan by September 9, 2009, and, if it is accepted, the Company will then be given up to 105 calendar days from the date of the August 25, 2009 letter to regain compliance.