News Release

Northern Shield and East West Option Agreement on Max Property Accepted for Filing by TSX Venture Exchange

NICKEL-COPPER-PGE TARGET
SOUTH OF McFAULDS LAKE and NORONT DISCOVERY
DRILLING IN JULY

TORONTO, ONTARIO: July 14, 2008; East West Resource Corporation (TSX Venture Exchange: EWR) (“East West” or “the Company”) announces that the TSX Venture Exchange has accepted for filing documentation pertaining to an agreement whereby Northern Shield Resources Inc. (Northern Shield) can earn a 66% interest in the company’s Max property. In consideration Northern Shield will issue 300,000 common shares at a deemed price of $0.56 and make a payment of $75,000. If Northern Shield wishes to proceed after 1 year, they will issue a further 100,000 common shares, and make a further payment of $50,000.

The Max property is located 52 km east of the company's Norton copper-nickel-PGE deposit, and 112 kilometers south of Noront’s nickel-copper-PGE discovery in the McFaulds Lake area.

A drilling program planned for later this month will test a 700 metre long electromagnetic conductor located by a VTEM survey flown earlier this year. Robert Middleton, P.Eng., is the designated qualified person responsible for the preparation of this news release.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
M.J.(Moe) Lavigne, President and CEO

Certain information regarding East West Resource Corporation contained herein may constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking statements may include estimates, plans, expectations, opinions, forecasts, projections, guidance or other statements that are not statements of fact. Although East West Resource Corporation believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations will prove to have been correct. East West Resource Corporation cautions that actual performance will be affected by a number of factors, most of which are beyond its control, and that future events and results may vary substantially from what East West Resource Corporation currently foresees. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include market prices, exploitation and exploration results, continued availability of capital and financing and general economic, market or business conditions. The forward-looking statements are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. The information contained herein is stated as of the current date and subject to change after that date.

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