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Only persons who are not holding Permanent Identity Cards (including children under the age of 11), who have lost their previous passports, or who need the passport for urgent travel should apply in person.

For more information, members of the public may telephone 2824 1177 (English) or 2824 1717 (Chinese).

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Water storage figure

Storage in Hong Kong's reservoirs at 9 am today (Monday) stood at 79.4 per cent of capacity or 465.526 million cubic metres.

This time last year the reservoirs contained 391.861 million cubic metres of water, representing 68.9 per cent of capacity.

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Hong Kong Monetary Authority money market operations

Cumulative

Time

change

$ million

(hours)

($million)

Opening balance in the account

2,456

0930

+345

Closing balance in the account

2,551

1000

+345

Change attributable to:

1100

+345

Money market activity

+345

1200

+345

LAF today

-250

1500

+345

1600

+345

LAF rate 4.00% bid/6.00% offer TWI 123.7*+0.0* 1.4.96

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