Macao to issue new set of stamps

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 ◆ Macao to issue new set of stamps

The Macao Postal Services will issuea set of new stamps on July 24 to commemorate the 160th anniversary of the birth of Zheng Guanying, a reformist, literal man and philanthropist who received his childhood education in Macao.

The set includes four varieties of stamps which bear the face value ranging from 1 pataca (12.5 US cents) to 3.5 patacas (43.75 cents) and, a total of 500,000 sets will be issued, Carlos Roldao Lopes, director of the postal services, said at a press conferenceMonday.

Other postal products such as souvenir sheet, first-day cover and introduction paper will also be made available.

This will be the seventh among a dozen sets of stamps the postal services plans to issue for the year 2002.