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Question: (on successor)

Governor: I haven't taken a decision either not to or to appoint one.

Question: (on whether there are any further resignations)

Governor: No.

Question: Have

you

discussed...?

Governor: No.

Question: Do you think there is any pressure inside ExCo to force him to resign?

Governor: No. We all regard him as a very good colleague. Okay? Thanks very much indeed.

Question: What about the Civil Service pay rise?

Governor: I thought you were going to tell me. An announcement will be made later on today I think.

Question: Is it below or higher than the...?

Governor: It follows the normal criteria that we've applied. That is we try to ensure that people working in the civil service are treated in the same way that the private sector is treating its own employees.

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Chief Secretary launches HK-USA'96 promotion

The Chief Secretary, Mrs Anson Chan, completed her programme in Boston on Monday (Boston time) and moved on to New York to launch the HK-USA'96 promotion.

Before leaving Boston, she talked to the Boston Globe editorial board. She then had a roundtable discussion at the Fairbanks Centre of East Asia Studies and Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.