Nettel Trading, Providential Holdings' Recent Acquiree, Receives Firm Order Valued at $2,875,000 from Vietnam-based MINEXPORT for Urea Fertilizer.

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FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 19, 2002

Providential Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:PRVH), http://www.prvh.com, announced today that Nettel Trading Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nettel Global Communication Corp. ("Nettel"), had received a firm purchase order valued at $2,875,000 from Vietnam National Minerals Export -- Import Corporation (MINEXPORT HANOI) for Agricultural Grade Urea Fertilizer.

This order is financed by an irrevocable confirmed letter of credit and is to be fulfilled by May 13, 2003.

Providential Holdings has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 46.5% of Nettel and anticipates that Nettel's business transactions will generate increased revenues and profitability for both companies.

About Nettel Trading Corporation

Nettel Trading Corporation, a subsidiary of Nettel Global Communication Corporation, was set up in 2001. The business scope covers: import and export of technology, machinery, equipment, instrument, light industry products, textile and chemicals, seafood products and also investment in different enterprises. Over the past years, Nettel Trading has established excellent connections and cooperative relations with over 1,000 companies of more than 40 countries and regions in the world, with and through which, the company has successfully imported plenty of advanced plants, production lines, key equipment and technologies, know-how for the fields of textile, machinery, electronics, chemicals, light industry, building materials, transportation and agriculture. The company has also exported all kinds of mechanical, electrical and instrumental products as well as completed plants and technologies to the international market. During recent years, Nettel Trading has concentrated efforts on expanding its export scale and the volume of export has consistently increased every year. URL: www.netteltrading.com, www.nettelcommunication.com

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