Hong Kong's official foreign currency reserve assets amounted to US$125.9 billion at the end of March, US$200 million less than February, the Monetary Authority said in Hong Kong on Friday.

 

Including unsettled forward contracts, the foreign currency reserve assets of Hong Kong stood at US$125.9 billion.

 

Hong Kong is the world's seventh largest holder of foreign currency reserves, after the Chinese mainland, Japan, Taiwan, Republic of Korea, Russia and India.

 

(Xinhua News Agency April 8, 2006)