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The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has been releasing a monthly summary of its financial results in accordance with the International Monetary Fund's Special Data Dissemination Standard.

The government will release the monthly financial results for the 1999-2000 financial year in accordance with the following timetable :

     Month                          Release Date
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     April 1999                    May 31, 1999
     May 1999                      June 30, 1999
     June 1999                     July 31, 1999
     July 1999                     August 31, 1999
     August 1999                   September 30, 1999
     September 1999                October 30, 1999
     October 1999                  November 30, 1999
     November 1999                 December 31, 1999
     December 1999                 January 31, 2000
     January 2000                  February 29, 2000
     February 2000                 March 31, 2000
     March 2000 (provisional)      April 29, 2000

In addition to release to the media, the financial results will be published on the Treasury's website (http://www.info.gov.hk/tsy/).

End/Saturday, January 30, 1999

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