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Hiram's Highway - Improvement between Nam Wai and Ho Chung and Upgrading Local Access Road

(Highways Department)

17. Engineering Works (Roads & Drains) - Aldrich Bay Reclamation

(Highways Department)

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Kennedy Road Improvement and Queen's Lines Link (Highways Department)

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South East Kowloon Development Feasibility Study (Territory Development Department)

Disposal of Contaminated Mud in the East Sha Chau Marine Borrow Pits

(Civil Engineering Department)

Tour of China'96 souvenir sheet and serviced cover on sale

The Postmaster General, Mr Robert Footman, announced today (Wednesday) that a souvenir sheet and a serviced cover issued by the United States Postal Service to commemorate the US professional cycling team's participation in the Tour of China 96' will be placed on sale at 19 philatelic offices from Friday (November 8).

The selling prices of the souvenir sheets and serviced covers are $8 and $20 respectively.

The Tour of China 96' is an international cycling event which commenced on November 1 and will end on November 11. The tour began at Stonecutters Island of Hong Kong and ends at Xinzhuang of Jiangsu in China. Eleven professional and five amateur teams, representing 18 countries, are participating.

The souvenir sheet contains two US50c stamps depicting cycling. The serviced cover is affixed with the souvenir sheet and cancelled by the postmark of November 1, 1996.