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style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 19px; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><font size="4">Launch event: <span style="color: #274e13;"><font face="Arial">Fishing in Hong Kong</font></span></font></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><font face="Arial"><b><span lang="en-au"><font size="4"><font face="Arial"><b><span lang="en-au"><font size="4"><br /> </font></span><br /> </b></font></font></span></b></font></span></span></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" height="10" valign="top"> <img decoding="async" src="data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20width='534'%20height='2'%20viewBox='0%200%20534%202'%3E%3C/svg%3E" alt style="display: block;" height="2" width="534" class="perfmatters-lazy" data-src="http://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/divider.gif" /><noscript><img decoding="async" src="http://app.streamsend.com/images/templates/1051/divider.gif" alt="" style="display: block;" 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