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The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region releases 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 2004-05 financial year in accordance with the following timetable:

         Month                          Release Date
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      April 2004                    May 31, 2004
      May 2004                      June 30, 2004
      June 2004                     July 31, 2004
      July 2004                     August 31, 2004
      August 2004                   September 30, 2004
      September 2004                October 30, 2004
      October 2004                  November 30, 2004
      November 2004                 December 31, 2004
      December 2004                 January 31, 2005
      January 2005                  February 28, 2005
      February 2005                 March 31, 2005
      March 2005 (provisional)      April 30, 2005

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

Ends/Saturday, January 31, 2004

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