Sino Agro Food Inc (fka SIAF)

[ValueInvestor01]

you can skip it and remember, it is all about the ex-date

That's my whole point from the beginning. But when you said "you still qualify if you buy between the record date and the ex-date." Then things became more confusing.

Cash dividends of 25% or more of a company's stock price represent a fraction of one percent of all dividends paid and are handled quite differently from normal dividends.

According to the article you sent me, this distribution order only applies to "Cash-Dividend." It did not specify much about other type of dividend distribution such as stock dividend.

Cash-dividends of 25% distribution order:
Declaration Date > Record Date > Ex-dividend Date > Payment date

Normal dividend distribution order:
Declaration Date > Ex-dividend Date > Record Date > Payment date

-In Normal dividend distribution, you are NOT qualify after your purchase the stock AFTER the Ex-dividend Date. But since the article only talks about the Cash dividends of 25% and not much about stock dividend, we don't know for sure if they are going for the 1st order I described above.