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The delivery of the 2004-05 Budget Speech by the Financial Secretary, Mr Henry Tang, at 2.30pm tomorrow (March 10) 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 8.30pm 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 and other officials will take part in media programmes after the Budget Day.
Following is the time-table for the broadcast:
March 10 (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
TVBN
Commercial Radio AM864
Metro Finance
RTHK Radio 1, 3, 5 and Putonghua Channel
Live broadcast of press conference around 5pm
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ATV-Home
Cable TV News Channel 1
TVB-Jade and TVB-Pearl
TVBN
RTHK Radio 1, 3, 5 and Putonghua Channel
Joint television panel discussion "Budget Forum"
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Channels Time
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ATV-Home 9.35pm (in Nicam)
Cable TV News Channel 1 8.30pm (live broadcast in
Nicam)
1am on March 11 (in Nicam)
TVB-Jade 10.35pm (in Nicam)
TVBN 8.30pm (live broadcast in
Nicam)
RTHK Radio 2 8.30pm (live broadcast)
March 11 (Thursday)
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Financial Secretary to attend the following phone-in programme:
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Channels Time Programme
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RTHK Radio 1, 3, 5 and 7.30am Financial Secretary's
Putonghua Channel Phone-in
Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury(SFST), Mr Frederick Ma, will appear on the following media programmes:
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Commercial Radio FM881 6.30pm Close Encounter
of the Political
Kind
ATV-Home 7pm RTHK's programme
"LegCo Review"
Cable TV 8.30pm RTHK's programme
News Channel 1 "LegCo Review"
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 10.
Ends/Tuesday, March 9, 2004
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