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Exchange Fund Bills tender results

The following is issued on behalf of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority:

     Exchange Fund Bills tender results:
 

Tender date : March 4, 2025
Paper on offer : EF Bills
Issue number : Q2510
Issue date : March 5, 2025
Maturity date : June 4, 2025
Amount applied : HK$191,480 MN
Amount allotted : HK$63,913 MN
Average yield accepted : 3.37 PCT
Highest yield accepted : 3.40 PCT
Pro rata ratio* : About 1 PCT
Average tender yield : 3.46 PCT
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Tender date : March 4, 2025
Paper on offer : EF Bills
Issue number : H2539
Issue date : March 5, 2025
Maturity date : September 3, 2025
Amount applied : HK$47,950 MN
Amount allotted : HK$16,000 MN
Average yield accepted : 3.41 PCT
Highest yield accepted : 3.44 PCT
Pro rata ratio* : About 75 PCT
Average tender yield : 3.49 PCT
 
*”Pro rata ratio” refers to the average percentage of allotment with respect to each tender participant’s tendered amount at the “highest yield accepted” level. 
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     Hong Kong Monetary Authority tenders to be held in the week beginning March 10, 2025:
 
Tender date : March 11, 2025
Paper on offer : EF Bills
Issue number : Q2511
Issue date : March 12, 2025
Maturity date : June 11, 2025
Tenor : 91 Days
Amount on offer : HK$62,337 MN
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Tender date : March 11, 2025
Paper on offer : EF Bills
Issue number : H2540
Issue date : March 12, 2025
Maturity date : September 10, 2025
Tenor : 182 Days
Amount on offer : HK$15,600 MN
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Tender date : March 11, 2025
Paper on offer : EF Bills
Issue number : Y2587
Issue date : March 12, 2025
Maturity date : March 11, 2026
Tenor : 364 Days
Amount on offer : HK$3,000 MN
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NG, NGD and NSOG volunteer service-themed cultural signs launched (with photo)

     The launch of the Games’ volunteer service-themed cultural signs for the 15th National Games (NG), the 12th National Games for Persons with Disabilities (NGD) and the 9th National Special Olympic Games (NSOG), and a volunteer service exchange event between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao was held at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou earlier.
                     
     The event was organised by the Guangdong Provincial Executive Committees for the NG, NGD, and NSOG and hosted by Sun Yat-sen University. The Games’ volunteer service-themed cultural signs were unveiled at the event. Persons in charge of volunteer services of the Games and volunteer service organisations in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao also shared and exchanged views on the Games’ volunteer services on the same occasion.
                     
     The Games’ volunteer service-themed cultural signs are important cultural symbols that carry the spirit of the NG, NGD and NSOG, as well as the vision of the volunteer services. The signs are meaningful for promoting the spirit of volunteers, the 15th NG, the 12th NGD and the 9th NSOG, and creating a favourable social atmosphere for community participation and dedication. The signs will be used conjointly in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao to further enhance collaboration of volunteer services among the three places, and promote the establishment of a volunteer culture system in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
                     
     The volunteer service emblem, echoing the main emblem of the 15th NG, the 12th NGD and the 9th NSOG, takes the shape of a heart as a whole. It adopts the same visual concept of a blooming flower used in the main emblem. The colours of the volunteer service emblem follow the main emblem’s tone, with the cotton red of Guangdong, the bauhinia purple of Hong Kong and the lotus green of Macao in the form of a concentric flower.
                     
     The volunteer service slogan is “Be more wonderful for you”. While “you” represents the events of the Games, and everyone who witnesses, participates in and supports the Games, “wonderful” is one of the requirements for hosting the Games, and also embodies athletes’ excellent performances and volunteers’ contributions to the Games. The volunteer nickname is Little Dolphin, signifying that the volunteers from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao are friendly, lovely, motivated, intelligent and united like dolphins.
                     
     For details of the Games’ volunteer service-themed cultural signs, please refer to the press release issued by the Guangdong Provincial Executive Committees for the NG, NGD, and NSOG (www.baygames.cn/node_0e9abf3fbd/2b01bc990f.shtml) (Chinese only). For more information on the 15th NG, the 12th NGD and the 9th NSOG in Hong Kong, please visit the thematic website (www.2025nationalgames.gov.hk/en/index.html) as well as the Facebook page (www.facebook.com/2025nationalgames.hk) and Instagram page (www.instagram.com/2025nationalgames.hk).

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Inspection of aquatic products imported from Japan

     In response to the Japanese Government’s plan to discharge nuclear-contaminated water at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station, the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene issued a Food Safety Order which prohibits all aquatic products, sea salt and seaweeds originating from the 10 metropolis/prefectures, namely Tokyo, Fukushima, Ibaraki, Miyagi, Chiba, Gunma, Tochigi, Niigata, Nagano and Saitama, from being imported into and supplied in Hong Kong.
 
     For other Japanese aquatic products, sea salt and seaweeds that are not prohibited from being imported into Hong Kong, the Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department will conduct comprehensive radiological tests to verify that the radiation levels of these products do not exceed the guideline levels before they are allowed to be supplied in the market.
 
     As the discharge of nuclear-contaminated water is unprecedented and will continue for 30 years or more, the Government will closely monitor and step up the testing arrangements. Should anomalies be detected, the Government does not preclude further tightening the scope of the import ban.
 
     From noon on March 3 to noon today (March 4), the CFS conducted tests on the radiological levels of 179 food samples imported from Japan, which were of the “aquatic and related products, seaweeds and sea salt” category. No sample was found to have exceeded the safety limit. Details can be found on the CFS’s thematic website titled “Control Measures on Foods Imported from Japan” (www.cfs.gov.hk/english/programme/programme_rafs/programme_rafs_fc_01_30_Nuclear_Event_and_Food_Safety.html).

     In parallel, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD) has also tested 50 samples of local catch for radiological levels. All the samples passed the tests. Details can be found on the AFCD’s website (www.afcd.gov.hk/english/fisheries/Radiological_testing/Radiological_Test.html).
 
     The Hong Kong Observatory (HKO) has also enhanced the environmental monitoring of the local waters. No anomaly has been detected so far. For details, please refer to the HKO’s website
(www.hko.gov.hk/en/radiation/monitoring/seawater.html).
 
     From August 24, 2023, to noon today, the CFS and the AFCD have conducted tests on the radiological levels of 119 887 samples of food imported from Japan (including 78 680 samples of aquatic and related products, seaweeds and sea salt) and 27 726 samples of local catch respectively. All the samples passed the tests. read more

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