During the boardroom tussle, Tan Tew Han and Huang Hanguang said that they would voluntarily resign14 if the other four directors were to be removed. Eventually, Huang Hanguang was removed by shareholders in a resolution, while Simon Littlewood, Victor Ng, Sha Guangwen and Addyson Xue resigned. All four directors gave similar reasons for resigning – “the need for an extensive time commitment to the distressed company was something that they were unable to handle”. Also, Victor Ng and Tan Tew Han cited health reasons. Time commitment was also cited in the resignation of the newly-appointed independent director, Peter Lai.