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                                                                   Exhibit 10.59

                             Dated 24 September 2004


                              DEED OF TAX INDEMNITY


Linklaters

10th Floor, Alexandra House
Chater Road
Hong Kong

Telephone (852) 2842 4888
Facsimile (852) 2810 8133/2810 1695

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THIS DEED is made on 24 September 2004

BETWEEN:

(1)     Hutchison Telecommunications Limited, a company incorporated under the
        laws of Hong Kong whose registered office is at 22nd Floor, Hutchison
        House, 10 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong (the "Indemnifier");

and

(2)     Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited, a company
        incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands whose principal place
        of business is at 18th Floor, Two HarbourFront, 22 Tak Fung Street,
        Hunghom, Kowloon, Hong Kong (the "Company"), for itself and in its
        capacity as trustee for the other Beneficiaries (as defined below).

WHEREAS:

(A)     A number of restructuring steps have been taken to transfer certain
        companies within the group of the Indemnifier to the Company and its
        group (the "Restructuring") prior to a global offering and listing of
        the Company's shares.

(B)     In order to effect the Restructuring and the global offering and
        listing, the Indemnifier has agreed to execute and deliver this Deed in
        favour of the Company in respect of the Beneficiaries (as defined in
        Clause 1 of this Deed).

(C)     By restructuring documentation dated on or about the date of this Deed
        agreed between, inter alia, the Indemnifier and the Company, the
        Indemnifier and certain of its subsidiaries have agreed to sell and the
        Company and the Purchasing Companies have agreed to purchase the
        Beneficiaries (as defined in Clause 1 of this Deed) on the terms and
        conditions contained in those documents.

Now THIS DEED WITNESSES as follows:

1       DEFINITIONS AND INTERPRETATION

        1.1     DEFINITIONS

                In this Deed, except to the extent that the context requires
                otherwise:

                "Beneficiaries" means the Company and those companies which are
                accounted for in the combined financial statements of the Group
                for the year ended 31 December 2003 and as at 31 December 2003,
                contained in the accountants' report on the Group attached in
                Appendix 1 to the Prospectus and "Beneficiary" means any one of
                them as the context permits;

                "Claim" means the issue of any claim, notice, assessment,
                demand, letter or other document by or on behalf of any person,
                authority or body whatsoever or the taking of any other action
                by or on behalf of any person, authority or body from which it
                appears that a liability for or in respect of taxation is or may
                be imposed on any Beneficiary;

                "Commissioner" has the meaning given in section 3 of the Estate
                Duty Ordinance;

                "Costs" means all costs (including all legal costs), expenses,
                interests, penalties, fines, charges or other liabilities which
                any of the Beneficiaries may properly incur in connection with:

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                (i)     the investigation, assessment or the contesting of any
                        Claim contemplated in Clause 3 or 4.1, as the case may
                        be;

                (ii)    the settlement of any Claim contemplated in Clause 3 or
                        4.1, as the case may be;

                (iii)   any legal proceedings in which any of the Beneficiaries
                        make any Claim, as contemplated in Clause 3 or 4.1, as
                        the case may be, and in which judgment is given for any
                        of the Beneficiaries; or

                (iv)    the enforcement of any such settlement or judgement.

                "Estate Duty Law" means the Estate Duty Ordinance (or any other
                law having similar effect in the relevant jurisdiction in which
                any Beneficiary is affected).

                "Estate Duty Ordinance" means the Estate Duty Ordinance (Chapter
                111 of the Laws of Hong Kong);

                "Estate Duty Provision" means the provisions of section 35
                and/or section 43 of the Estate Duty Ordinance (or any other
                provision of law having similar effect in the relevant
                jurisdiction in which any Beneficiary is affected).

                "event" includes (without limitation) the death of any person,
                any action, omission or transaction whether or not any of the
                Beneficiaries is a party thereto and includes completion of the
                sale of the Beneficiaries to the Company or any of the
                Purchasing Companies and references to the result of events on
                or before the date hereof shall include the combined result of
                two or more events one or more of which shall have taken place
                before the date hereof;

                "Group" means the "Group" as defined in the Prospectus;

                "Hong Kong" means the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of
                the People's Republic of China;

                "Indemnity Period" means a period of six years commencing on the
                Restructuring Date;

                "Listing Date" means the date, expected to be on or about 15
                October 2004 on which trading in the shares of the Company
                commences on The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited;

                "Party" means a party to this Deed and includes its successors
                in title, permitted assigns and permitted transferees;

                "Prospectus" means the document so entitled to be dated on or
                about 30 September 2004 relating to the offering for sale of
                shares in the Company to potential investors in Hong Kong;

                "Purchasing Companies" means the companies listed in Schedule 1
                of this Deed;

                "Relief" means any relief, allowance, set-off or deduction in
                computing income, profits or gains or credits or rights to
                repayment of taxation available to any Beneficiary granted by or
                pursuant to any legislation concerning or otherwise relating to
                all forms of taxation;

                "Restructuring Date" means 22 September 2004;

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                "taxation" means any tax, levy, impost, duty or other charge or
                withholding of a similar nature (and, without prejudice to the
                generality of the foregoing, includes any amount payable to the
                revenue, customs or fiscal authorities in any part of the world
                and any costs, charges, penalty or interest payable in
                connection with any failure to pay or any delay in paying any of
                them).

        1.2     INTERPRETATION

                In this Deed, except to the extent that the context requires
                otherwise:

                1.2.1   references to a statute, treaty or legislative provision
                        or to a provision of it shall be construed, at any
                        particular time, as including a reference to any
                        modification, extension or re-enactment at any time then
                        in force and to all subordinate legislation made from
                        time to time under it;

                1.2.2   references to this Deed include its Schedule, references
                        to Clauses or Schedules are references to such
                        provisions of this Deed;

                1.2.3   references to an agreement, deed, instrument, licence,
                        code or other document (including this Deed), or to a
                        provision contained in any of these, shall be construed,
                        at the particular time, as a reference to it as it may
                        then have been amended, varied, supplemented, modified,
                        suspended, assigned or novated;

                1.2.4   references in the singular shall include references in
                        the plural and vice versa, words denoting any gender
                        shall include any other gender and words denoting
                        natural persons shall include any other Persons;

                1.2.5   references to a Claim shall include any Claim whether
                        made before or after the date hereof and whether
                        satisfied or unsatisfied at the date hereof and shall
                        also include:

                        (i)     the loss of any Relief which could but for the
                                Claim in question have been available to the
                                Company or any of the Beneficiaries whether or
                                not the said loss results in any taxation being
                                payable at the time of such loss; and

                        (ii)    the nullifying or cancellation of a right to
                                repayment of taxation which would have been so
                                available or is at the date hereof assumed by
                                any of the Beneficiaries or the Company to be
                                available;

                        and in such a case the amount of taxation which could
                        otherwise have been relieved, allowed or credited by the
                        Relief so lost or the amount of repayment which would
                        otherwise have been obtained shall be treated as an
                        amount of taxation for which a liability has arisen;

                1.2.6   headings shall be ignored in construing this Deed;

                1.2.7   the language which governs the interpretation of this
                        Deed is the English language. All notices to be given by
                        any Party and all other communications and documentation
                        which are in any way relevant to this Deed or the
                        performance or termination of this Deed, including any
                        dispute resolution proceedings, shall be in the English
                        language;

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                1.2.8   a reference to a "Person" includes any person, firm,
                        company, corporation, government, state or agency of a
                        state, or any association, trust or partnership (whether
                        or not having separate legal personality) or two or more
                        of the foregoing.

2       CONDITION

        This Deed shall become effective on the Listing Date.

3       INDEMNITY

        The Indemnifier hereby undertakes to indemnify and keep indemnified the
        Company (both for itself and as trustee for each of the Beneficiaries)
        in accordance with the terms of this Deed on a full indemnity basis and
        hold the Company (both for itself and as trustee for each of the
        Beneficiaries) harmless from and against any diminution in the value of
        the assets of any Beneficiary which are attributable to the Company
        (through, in the case of a Beneficiary other than the Company, the
        Company's direct or indirect shareholding interest in any Beneficiary),
        as a result of any loss or liability suffered by any Beneficiary
        including, but not limited to, any diminution in the value of the assets
        of or shares in any Beneficiary, any payment made or required to be made
        by any Beneficiary and any Costs incurred as a result of or in
        connection with any Claim falling on any Beneficiary resulting from or
        by reference to any income, profits or gains earned, accrued or received
        on or before, or in respect of a period ending on or before, the
        Restructuring Date or as a consequence of any event which occurred on or
        before the Restructuring Date whether alone or in conjunction with other
        circumstances and whether or not such taxation is chargeable against or
        attributable to any other Person.

4       ESTATE DUTY INDEMNITY

        4.1     The Indemnifier shall indemnify and at all times keep the
                Company (both for itself and as trustee for each of the other
                Beneficiaries) fully and effectively indemnified from and
                against any depletion in or reduction in value of the assets of
                any Beneficiary which are attributable to the Company (through,
                in the case of a Beneficiary other than the Company, the
                Company's direct or indirect shareholding interest in any
                Beneficiary) as a consequence of, and in respect of any amount
                which any of the Beneficiaries may hereafter become liable to
                pay, being:

                (a)     any duty which is or hereafter becomes payable by the
                        Beneficiaries or any of them by virtue of an Estate Duty
                        Provision by reason of the death of any person and by
                        reason of the assets of the Beneficiaries or any of them
                        being deemed for the purpose of estate duty to be
                        included in the property passing on his or her death by
                        reason of that person making or having made a relevant
                        transfer to the Beneficiaries or any them;

                (b)     any amount recovered against the Beneficiaries or any of
                        them under an Estate Duty Provision in respect of any
                        duty payable under an Estate Duty Provision by reason of
                        the death of any person and by reason of the assets of
                        the Beneficiaries or any of them being deemed for the
                        purpose of estate duty to be included in the property
                        passing on his death by reason of that person making or
                        having made a relevant transfer to the Beneficiaries or
                        any of them;

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                (c)     any amount of duty which the Beneficiaries or any of
                        them is obliged to pay by virtue of an Estate Duty
                        Provision in respect of the death of any person in any
                        case where the assets of another company are deemed for
                        the purpose of estate duty to be included in the
                        property passing on that person's death by reason of
                        that person making or having made a relevant transfer to
                        that other company and by reason of the Beneficiaries or
                        any of them having received and distributed assets of
                        that other company on their distribution within the
                        meaning of an Estate Duty Law, but only to the extent to
                        which the Beneficiaries or any of them is unable to
                        recover an amount or amounts in respect of that duty
                        from any other person under an Estate Duty Provision;
                        and

                (d)     all Costs.

        4.2     Notwithstanding any other provision of this Deed, the
                Indemnifier will not be liable for any penalty imposed on the
                Beneficiaries or any of them under section 42 of the Estate Duty
                Ordinance (or any other provision of law having a similar effect
                in the relevant jurisdiction in which any Beneficiary is
                affected) by reason of the relevant Beneficiary defaulting in
                any obligation to give information to the Commissioner under
                section 42(1) of the Estate Duty Ordinance (or any other
                provision of law having a similar effect in the relevant
                jurisdiction in which any Beneficiary is affected), provided
                that any such obligations on the part of the Beneficiaries or
                any of them to give information do not go beyond the extent of
                the actual knowledge of the relevant Beneficiary, but the
                Indemnifier shall be liable for any interest on unpaid estate
                duty.

5       EXCLUSIONS

        Clauses 3 and 4 do not cover, and the Indemnifier shall be under no
        liability in respect of, any Claim:

        5.1     to the extent that provision has been made for such Claim in the
                combined financial statements of the Group as shown in the
                accountants' report in Appendix I to the Prospectus or to the
                extent that it relates to taxation incurred or accrued since 30
                June 2004 which arises in the ordinary course of business of the
                Group as described in the section entitled "Business" in the
                Prospectus; or

        5.2     falling on any Beneficiary in respect of any accounting period
                commencing on or after 30 June 2004 unless liability for such a
                Claim would not have arisen but for some act or omission of, or
                transaction entered into by, the Indemnifier, the Beneficiaries
                or any of them (whether alone or in conjunction with some other
                act, omission or transaction, whenever occurring), otherwise
                than in the ordinary course of business or in the ordinary
                course of acquiring or disposing of assets, on or before the
                date of this Deed; or

        5.3     to the extent of any provisions or reserve made for any Claim in
                the audited accounts of any Beneficiaries or of the Group up to
                and including 30 June 2004 which is finally established to be an
                over-provision or an excessive reserve provided that the amount
                of any such provision or reserve applied pursuant to this Clause
                5 to reduce the Indemnifier's liability in respect of the
                taxation shall not be available in respect of any such liability
                arising thereafter; or

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        5.4     to the extent that such a Claim is discharged by another person
                who is not any of the Beneficiaries and none of the
                Beneficiaries is required to reimburse such person in respect of
                the discharge of the Claim; or

        5.5     to the extent that such Claim would not have arisen but for a
                voluntary act or transaction carried out (other than pursuant to
                a legally binding commitment created on or before the date of
                this Deed) by the relevant Beneficiary after the date of this
                Deed; or

        5.6     to the extent that such Claim arises or is increased as a result
                wholly or partly of any increases in rates of taxation or change
                in law made after the date of this Deed with retrospective
                effect; or

        5.7     which arises as a result of any Beneficiary failing to act in
                accordance with the reasonable request of the Indemnifier in
                avoiding, resisting, compromising or settling such taxation but
                only where such failure to act occurs after the Restructuring
                Date, or;

        5.8     to the extent that such Claim arises, or is referable to any
                period, after the end of the Indemnity Period.

6       COSTS AND EXPENSES

        The indemnities given under this Deed shall cover all costs and expenses
        (on a full indemnity basis) attributable to the Company (through, in the
        case of a Beneficiary other than the Company, the Company's direct or
        indirect shareholding interest in any Beneficiary) and incurred by any
        Beneficiary in connection with any Claim, and any penalties, fines or
        interest payable by any Beneficiary relating to any Claim for which the
        Indemnifier is liable under this Deed.

7       REIMBURSEMENT

        In the event that any Claim the subject of an indemnity hereunder is or
        has been discharged or suffered by any of the Beneficiaries (whether by
        payment or by the loss of any Relief) the indemnity given hereunder
        shall take effect as a covenant by the Indemnifier forthwith to
        indemnify the Company (both for itself and as trustee for each of the
        other Beneficiaries) pursuant to the terms of this Deed.

8       CONDUCT OF CLAIMS

        If the Company becomes aware of a Claim relevant for the purposes of
        this Deed, it shall as soon as reasonably practicable give notice
        thereof to the Indemnifier and shall (subject to the Company being
        indemnified to its satisfaction against any liability, costs, damages or
        expenses which may be incurred thereby) take such action and procure
        that the Beneficiaries shall take such action as the Indemnifier may
        reasonably request to avoid, resist, dispute, defend, compromise or
        appeal against the Claim, provided that none of the Beneficiaries shall
        be required to take any steps which would require any admission of guilt
        or liability relating to matters connected with the Claim in question or
        which would affect the future conduct of the business of the relevant
        Beneficiary or affect the rights or reputations of any of them nor shall
        they be required to take any such action unless the Indemnifier shall
        have produced to them a leading barrister's opinion that such action is
        reasonable.

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9       SET-OFF AND DEDUCTIONS

        All payments to be made by the Indemnifier under this Deed shall be made
        in full without set-off or counterclaim or any restriction or condition
        and free and clear of any present or future taxes, duties, charges or
        other deductions or withholdings of any nature. If any deduction or
        withholding is required to be made from any such payment the Indemnifier
        shall, together with such payment, pay such additional amount as is
        necessary to ensure that the recipient receives the full amount due
        hereunder.

10      WAIVER AND SEVERABILITY

        No failure or delay by any Beneficiary in exercising any right, power or
        remedy under this Deed shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any
        single or partial exercise of the same preclude any further exercise
        thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy. If at any
        time any provision of this Deed is or becomes illegal, invalid or
        unenforceable in any respect, the legality, validity and enforceability
        of the remaining provisions of this Deed shall not be affected or
        impaired thereby.

11      ASSIGNMENT

        The Company may assign its rights and benefits under this Deed.

12      NOTICES

        12.1    Each notice, demand or other communication given or made under
                this Deed shall be in writing and delivered or sent to the
                relevant party at its address or telex number or fax number set
                out in Clause 12.2.

        12.2    The addresses and fax numbers of the parties for the purpose of
                Clause 12.1 are as follows:

                The Indemnifier

                HUTCHISON TELECOMMUNICATIONS
                LIMITED

                Address:                         22nd Floor, Hutchison House, 10
                                                 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong

                Fax Number:                      (852) 2128 1778

                Attention:                       Company Secretary

                THE COMPANY

                HUTCHISON TELECOMMUNICATIONS
                INTERNATIONAL

                Limited
                Address:                         18th Floor, Two HarbourFront,
                                                 22 Tak Fung Street, Hunghom,
                                                 Kowloon, Hong Kong

                Fax Number:                      (852) 2827 1393

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                Attention:                       Company Secretary

                With a copy to:

                HUTCHISON WHAMPOA LIMITED

                Address:                         22nd Floor, Hutchison House,
                                                 10 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong

                Fax Number:                      (852) 2128 1778

                Attention:                       Company Secretary

13      GOVERNING LAW, JURISDICTION AND SERVICES OF PROCESS

        This Deed shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws
        of Hong Kong and the parties irrevocably agree that the Hong Kong courts
        are to have non-exclusive jurisdiction to settle any disputes which may
        arise out of or in connection with this Deed.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF this Deed has been executed on the day and year first above
written.


EXECUTED AND DELIVERED as a DEED                )
under the COMMON SEAL of HUTCHISON              )
TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED                      )         [Common Seal]
in the presence of:                             )


/s/  Edith Shih

/s/  Susan Chow


EXECUTED AND DELIVERED as a DEED                )
under the COMMON SEAL of HUTCHISON              )
TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL                )         [Common Seal]
LIMITED                                         )
in the presence of:

/s/  Susan Chow

/s/  Edith Shih

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                                   SCHEDULE 1

                              PURCHASING COMPANIES

1.      HTI (BVI) Holdings Limited

2.      Hutchison Telecommunications International (Thailand) Holdings Limited

3.      Hutchison Telecommunications International (Cayman) Holdings Limited

4.      Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited

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