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CALENDAR OF EVENTS IN 2002

February

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March

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The international Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering concludes a plenary meeting in Hong Kong, with the Commissioner for Narcotics, Mrs Clarie Lo, the FATF President, in the chair.

Opening the Planning Department's Building a Dynamic Hong Kong Exhibition, the Chief Executive says projects to be undertaken in the next 10 years will yield major social and economic benefits.

The Chief Secretary for Administration begins a round of meetings on Hong Kong-related matters with CPG leaders and officials in Beijing, including Premier Zhu Rongji and Vice-Premier Qian Qichen.

The Secretary for Justice, Ms Elsie Leung, calls on CPG leaders and officials during a two-day visit to Beijing.

Mr Tung Chee Hwa is declared elected unopposed in the HKSAR's second Chief Executive election, at the close of the two-week nomination exercise in which Mr Tung is the only validly nominated candidate.

A Mainland delegation completes a three-day visit to Hong Kong to exchange views with principal and other officials of the HKSAR on infrastructure coordination and cooperation.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the opening of City Hall on March 2, 1962, the Leisure and Cultural Services Department organises a special birthday party there for people who were born on that day.

The Chief Executive attends the opening ceremony of the fifth session of the Ninth National People's Congress in Beijing.

The Financial Secretary presents his first Budget in the Legislative Council, identifying directions for Hong Kong's economic development in the medium term, and setting out various measures to redress fiscal deficits by 2006–07.

The Securities and Futures Ordinance is passed by the Legislative Council; it consolidates and modernises 10 existing ordinances into a single piece of legislation to govern financial and investment products, regulate the securities and futures market, and protect investors.

The Chief Secretary for Administration leads a government delegation in the fifth meeting of the Hong Kong/Guangdong Cooperation Joint Conference, held in Zhuhai.

The Commissioner of Police, Mr Tsang Yam-pui, gives a keynote address at the opening of a four-day Transnational Organised Crime Conference at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The Director-General of Civil Aviation, Mr Albert Lam, presents the first Hong Kong Air Operator's Certificate issued since the establishment of the HKSAR to a new helicopter company - CR Airways Limited, which will provide passenger charter services within the Pearl River Delta region.