The delivery of the 2003-04 Budget Speech by Financial Secretary Antony Leung, at 2.30pm tomorrow (March 5) in the Legislative Council will be broadcast live by the electronic media.

Following his delivery of the Budget Speech, the Financial Secretary will hold a press conference around 5pm and participate in a joint television panel discussion titled "Budget Forum" at 9pm tomorrow. These will be broadcast on TV and radio channels.

Members of the public may watch the broadcast of the speech and his subsequent activities live with a simple click into the Government's Budget website: http://www.budget.gov.hk.

The Financial Secretary will take part in radio phone-in programmes on March 6 (Thursday) and March 8 (Saturday).

Following is the time-table for the broadcast:

  March 5 (Wednesday) 

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  Live broadcast of Budget Speech delivery at 2.30pm 

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  Channels 

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  ATV-Home and ATV-World 

  Cable TV News Channel 1 

  Pheonix Infonews Channel 

  TVB-Jade and TVB-Pearl 

  Commercial Radio FM903 and AM864 

  Metro Finance 

  RTHK Radio 1, 3, 5 and Putonghua Channel  

  Live broadcast of press conference around 5pm 

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  Cable TV News Channel 1 

  RTHK Radio 1, 3 and Putonghua Channel

  TVB-Jade 

  Joint television panel discussion "Budget Forum"

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  Channels               Time 

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  ATV-Home              9m  (live broadcast 

                              in Nicam) 

  Cable TV News         9pm (live broadcast in Nicam) 

     Channel 1          1am and 9am on March 6 (in Nicam)

  RTHK Radio 1          9pm (live broadcast) 

  TVB-Jade              10.35pm (in Nicam) 

  March 6 (Thursday) 

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  Financial Secretary to attend the following phone-in programmes:

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  Channels                     Time       Programme

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  Metro Finance               7am       Breakfast with 

                                        Heung Shue Fai

  Commercial Radio FM881      8.10am    Tea Cup in a Storm

  RTHK Radio 1, 3, 5 and      9am       Financial Secretary's

     Putonghua Channel                  Budget Phone-in

  March 8 (Saturday) 

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  Financial Secretary to attend the following radio programme:

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  Channels                     Time    Programme

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  Commercial Radio FM881      9am      Hong Kong Economy

                                       and Politics

Members of the public may access the Government's Budget website through the 100 computer terminals at the Home Affairs Department's Super Cyber Centre at Canton Road Government Offices, Kowloon; and the Community Cyber Points in the 18 districts. The Super Cyber Centre will be open till 10pm on March 5.

End/Tuesday, March 4, 2003

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