Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 10 March 2009 – Sino-Forest Corporation (TSX: TRE and TRE.S), a commercial forestry plantation operator in China, will host its fourth quarter and year-end 2008 earnings conference call and live webcast on 16 March at 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time.

Sino-Forest will release its Q4 and year-end results on 16 March 2009, before the conference call. A full copy of the company’s earnings release, financial statements, and management’s discussion and analysis will be posted on its Web site, http://www.sinoforest.com/earningsreleases.asp. 

The Canadian company started its operations in 1994 and was of the first few foreign and privately managed operators involved in forest products in China. Its principal businesses include the ownership and management of forest plantation trees, the sales of standing timber, wood logs, and the complementary manufacturing of downstream engineered-wood products. The Corporation’s common shares have traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol TRE since 1995.