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public interest. It is the first time in almost 40 years that new free television licences have been awarded in Hong Kong.

The Chief Executive sets up a task force led by the Chief Secretary, with the Secretary for Justice and the Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs, Mr Raymond Tam, as members, to handle the public consultation on the methods for selecting the Chief Executive in 2017 and for forming the Legislative Council in 2016.

On the day marking the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the Linked Exchange Rate System, the Financial Secretary says the system has been integral to economic and financial stability in Hong Kong over the last 30 years and the government sees no need, and has no intention, to change the system.

A two-storey museum with more than 1,200 exhibits illustrating the early history of public housing opens in the restored Mei Ho House in Shek Kip Mei, one of the first six-storey resettlement blocks built in 1954 to resettle squatters left homeless after the Shek Kip Mei fire on 25 December 1953.

The Steering Committee on Population Policy launches a public engagement exercise to deepen public understanding of demographic challenges and forge a consensus on policy direction.

The Air Pollution Control (Air Pollutant Emission) (Controlled Vehicles) Regulation is gazetted, aimed at phasing out some 80,000 pre-Euro IV diesel commercial vehicles and introducing a 15-year service limit for newly registered diesel commercial vehicles.

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The Steering Committee on Review of the Regulation of Private Healthcare Facilities endorses a report submitted by the Working Group on Differentiation between Medical Procedures and Beauty Services which recommends that high-risk cosmetic procedures should be regulated and that some procedures should only be performed by registered medical practitioners or registered dentists.

Robotic model dinosaurs (including one 30 metres long and 10 metres high) and more than 190 fossils and other exhibits feature in the 'Legends of the Giant Dinosaurs' exhibition which opens in the Science Museum.

The government announces that the Antiquities Authority has declared the Cenotaph in Central and the Béthanie in Pok Fu Lam as monuments under the Antiquities and Monuments Ordinance.

The Chief Executive meets the President of the European Commission, Mr José Manuel Barroso, at Government House.

The HKSAR and the Kingdom of Sweden sign a bilateral agreement on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters.

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The Community Care Fund rolls out the 'One-off Living Subsidy for Low-income Households Not Living in Public Housing and Not Receiving CSSA assistance programme to help low-income households, with subsidies of $3,500 for one-person

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