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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 its monthly financial results for the 2000-01 financial year in accordance with the following timetable :

     Month                             Release Date

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     April 2000                       May 31, 2000

     May 2000                         June 30, 2000

     June 2000                        July 31, 2000

     July 2000                        August 31, 2000

     August 2000                     September 30, 2000

     September 2000                 October 31, 2000

     October 2000                    November 30, 2000

     November 2000                   December 30, 2000

     December 2000                   January 31, 2001

     January 2001                    February 28, 2001

     February 2001                   March 31, 2001

     March 2001 (provisional)      April 30, 2001

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/Monday, January 31, 2000

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