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A far greater change is that in the beginning the Government said that after the Municipal Councils were "scrapped", a lot of savings would be made.

At that time, the HA or the Policy Bureau concerned did not want to face the reality and so the median was allowed to soar while no rent was reduced.

[...] [...] so you decided not to do so again [...]

Hong Kong's major trading partners including the United States have on many occasions praised our control system on the trade in strategic commodities.

The old man wants to watch the television and he feels so wronged for being cheated.

I have read the letter by Secretary YEOH I understand why he has some grievances over the wording of the motion which carries the wording "deeply regrets".

It simply reflects the public discontent with the Government's distortion of public opinion and frequent adoption of misleading questionnaires to derive figures in support of the Government.

[...] SARS patients and the families [...]

Chairman, what angered us most is why the CPU refused to release the report of that study.

[...] feel aggrieved and do not work cheerfully, even [...] [...]

Nevertheless, the termination of employment was not likely to be considered unlawful under the DDO because C was unable to perform the inherent requirements of the job.

Just now, Mr Abraham SHEK pointed out angrily that there was simply no need for him to make declarations because the matters discussed at the meetings were mainly about the Kam Sheung Road option.

The Commission underlined that development must be people-centred, including through good governance and public policies that promote health, education, skills development, decent job creation, gender equality and empowerment, as well as through measures to enhance social protection and social justice, while simultaneously addressing the challenges of increasing social disparity and income inequality.

These included the social disparities between non-Maori and Maori; the status of the Treaty of Waitangi in domestic legislation; family violence; equality of opportunity; overrepresentation of Maori in the criminal justice system; and ratification of human rights treaties to which New Zealand was not party.

The major challenge encountered in this process has been how to maintain UNESCO’s specificity, hence strength, as a specialized agency with its complex composites of intergovernmental committees with its own political and technical agendas in the promotion of international conventions, normative and standard-setting programmes to serve as exemplars in addressing major global issues in the fields of competence of the Organization.

In determining whether the existing pension scheme for permanent judges should be extended to cover ad litem judges who have served continuously for more than three years, the General Assembly may wish to consider whether, given the changed circumstances of the Tribunals’ operations (namely that the number of ad litem judges has been temporarily increased; several ad litem judges have been authorized by the Security Council to serve beyond the three-year maximum; and some Trial Chambers have been split into sections which may consist only of ad litem judges), the differences in the conditions of service of the two categories of judge continue to be justified.

This responsibility includes designing, implementing and maintaining internal control relevant to the preparation and the true and fair presentation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error; selecting and applying appropriate accounting policies; and making accounting estimates that are reasonable in the circumstances.

Every person who finds any article or object in or upon any bus or vehicle of the North-west Railway or any part of the railway premises shall hand over the same to an official as soon as is practicable and no person other than an official shall remove from any bus or vehicle of the North-west Railway or any part of the railway premises any property lost or left behind therein, save for the purpose of handing over the same as soon as is practicable to an official and all articles or objects so found shall as between the finder and the Corporation be deemed to be in the possession of the Corporation.

[...] Directors are not aware of any [...] [...]

(i) The Company may give financial assistance on such terms as the Board thinks fit to directors and bona fide employees of the Company, any of its subsidiaries, any holding company of the Company or any subsidiary of any such holding company in order that they may purchase or subscribe or otherwise acquire shares (fully or partly paid) in the Company or any holding company of the Company and such terms may include a reference that, when a director ceases to be a director of, or an employee ceases to be employed by, the Company or such other company, shares purchased or subscribed or otherwise acquired with such financial assistance shall or may be sold to the Company or such other company on such terms as the Board thinks fit.

During their visit, the Working Group found that the challenges faced by people of African descent in Portugal related mainly to their lack of recognition as a specific group in the national policy and legal framework; the lack of recognition of their positive contribution throughout history to the construction and development of the country; the lack of qualitative and quantitative disaggregated data by racial or ethnic origin; the existence of a circle of poverty, unequal access to education, public services, employment, as well as discrimination in the administration and functioning of the justice system; existence of racial profiling and police violence; underrepresentation in political and institutional decision-making processes, as well as the lack of special measures or affirmative action policies in Portugal for people of African descent or other minorities.