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Hongkong Post today (July 17) issued the "Miniature Landscapes" special stamps.

At a ceremony at the General Post Office this morning, Mr Tsang Kwok-lam, JP, Acting Postmaster General and Miss Choi Suk-kuen, JP, Deputy Director of Leisure and Cultural Services (Culture), marked the issue of the stamps by stamping an enlarged first day cover.

As a memento of the occasion, Mr Tsang presented Miss Choi and Mr Simon Check, the designer of the stamps, with framed stamps and first day covers.

End/Thursday, July 17, 2003

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