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Hongkong Post issues a Prestige Stamp Booklet and a souvenir cover to commemorate its 160th anniversary.
After six years' preparatory work, The Hong Kong Story, the latest permanent exhibition of the Hong Kong Museum of History, is completed and opens to the public.
The Chief Secretary for Administration announces а 10-month moratorium on the sale of Home Ownership Scheme flats and after that HOS sales will not exceed 9 000 flats a year up to 2005-06.
The Commissioner for Narcotics presides at a three-day plenary meeting in Paris of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering; it is the first plenary meeting since Hong Kong, China assumed the FATF Presidency in July.
The Security for Security officiates at the opening of the FATF plenary meeting, in the course of a nine-day visit to Europe that includes Brussels and London.
The Chief Secretary for Administration visits Los Angeles on the first leg of a visit to the United States his first since taking up the post in May; the visit will also take him to New York and Washington DC.
The Education and Manpower Bureau launches the first batch of courses under the Skills Upgrading Scheme, a $400 million package that provides tailor-made training courses for workers with low education levels.
The Chief Secretary for Administration expresses shock at the deadly terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, which occurred shortly after he had flown to the US capital from New York. The next day, at a meeting with the Secretary of State, Mr Colin Powell, Mr Tsang extends condolences on behalf of Hong Kong.
The Chief Executive expresses to the US Consul General in Hong Kong his shock and concern at the terrorist attacks in the United States.
The Chief Executive officiates at a welcoming reception at Government House for participants in the Global Summit of Women 2001 held between September 13 and 15.
The Chief Executive signs a Book of Condolence at the United States Consulate General in memory of the victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11.
Mr Ma Fung-kwok, a company managing director, wins a Legislative Council by-election to fill a vacancy in the Election Committee constituency.
The Secretary for Transport, Mr Nicholas Ng, announces that the Chief Executive in Council has endorsed the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation's proposal to adopt the tunnel option for construction of the Sheung Shui to Lok Ma Chau Spur Line project.