News at Seven-Thirty highlights:Budget address will be held tomorrow; SFC invented the privatisation of PCCW; work-to-rule protest by PCCW Staff Association; Asian stock markets tumbled; PRC Foreign Ministry voiced discontent over planned auction of two bronze fountainheads; political tension in Thailand; Gary Locke became frontrunner to be nominated as U.S. commerce secretary; a man being killed in a knife attack in To Kwa Wan; Edison Chan testified in a Canadian court; red tide at Clearwater Bay Beach; grocery sale in To Kwa Wan.