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14 October 2002
2002 Hong Kong Definitive Stamps Issuing Ceremony

Hongkong Post issued today (October 14) a set of new definitive stamps, comprising 16 denominations. This is the second set of definitive stamps issued since the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. At the stamp issuing ceremony held in the morning at the General Post Office, Mr Luk Ping-chuen, Postmaster General and members of the Stamp Advisory Committee marked the launch of the new stamps by joining together the two blow-up images of the $1.4 definitive stamp - "Dim Sum/Bakery" to signify the harmony with which the east and the west cultures co-exist in Hong Kong. Mr Andre C. BROUWER, Consul-General of the Consulate-General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands then presented the printing sheet of the 2002 Hong Kong Definitive Stamps to Ms TAN Xiutian, Deputy Director-General Department of Consular Affairs, Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in the HKSAR, and Mr Luk, the Postmaster General. As a memento of the occasion, Mr Luk presented to members of the Stamp Advisory Committee, Mr. BROUWER, Ms TAN and Mr Arde LAM (designer of these definitive stamps) framed stamps and first day covers.

Speech for Postmaster General, Mr. P. C.LUK

Hongkong Post hosted the 2002 Hong Kong Definitive Stamps Issuing Ceremony at the General Post Office on 14 October 2002. Mr. P. C. LUK (middle), the Postmaster General and members of the Stamp Advisory Committee marked the launch of the new stamps by joining together the two blow-up images of the $1.4 definitive stamp ---- "Dim Sum/Bakery" to signify the harmony with which the east and the west cultures co-exist in Hong Kong.