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People whose profession is working with accounts are smart people and it is no easy task to oversee them and manage them.

Members of the public are not aware of their rights, and as the saying goes, "one does not speak out until he is at death's door"; the public spoke out only after 1 April and eventually gave rise to the serious public panic.

According to information received by the Special Rapporteur, in extreme cases, children and adults with mental disabilities have literally been tied up inside the home—with no access to sanitation—to hide them from the community.

As a result, data and back-up were lost and the project to build a platform for the creation of a data bank in support of integrated water resources management had to be cancelled.

Furthermore, the large infrastructure projects that are going to be built, particularly the new airport, the relocation of the port westward, the new container terminals at Tsing Yi and Lantau Island and the river port at Tuen Mun, will all put heavy pressure on the part of the New Territories stretching from Tsuen Wan and Kwai Tsing to Tai Po, Yuen Long and Tuen Mun, as the New Territories become the pivot of passenger and cargo transport, especially in the case of the cross-border land traffic between China and Hong Kong.

[...] [...] the database of lost and stolen passports; [...] [...]

During the rampant attack of SARS, the HEC had only suggested its customers to apply for loan guarantee for electricity tariffs, but this was virtually useless to the hardest-hit industries which were in deep water and on the verge of folding up.

[...] [...] (INTERPOL) for a lost or stolen travel [...]

Some participants, while agreeing that greater importance should be attached to results measurement, warned against “blind pragmatism”, as all activities are not immediately quantifiable and measurable and the Organization may end up doing away with philosophical and ethical issues.

Maybe they have grown used to the saying "it takes ten years to grow a tree, but a hundred years to rear a person" that they think that this is not the right method to handle the current urgent situation.

In my recent talks with government officials, they actually said they were literally "drowned in a sea of funds", not because there was a calamity, but because there was too much money.

But it is a pity that the commander in chief of this battle, the Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food, Dr YEOH Eng-kiong, who is so arrogant, behaves as if he had fulfilled all his duties, just like what he did during the SARS outbreak last year.

And if you will come to their rescue only after a long time and after taking into account the situation, they may have already collapsed and that will be too late then.

The same resolution also called upon the “Kosovo Albanian leadership to enter immediately into a meaningful dialogue without preconditions and with international involvement, and to a clear timetable, leading to an end of the crisis and to a negotiated political solution to the issue of Kosovo”; demanded that “the Kosovo Albanian leadership and all others concerned respect the freedom of movement of the OSCE Verification Mission and other international personnel”; “[i]nsist[ed] that the Kosovo Albanian leadership condemn all terrorist actions”; and demanded that the Kosovo Albanian leadership “cooperate with international efforts to improve the humanitarian situation and to avert the impending humanitarian catastrophe” (resolution 1203 (1998), paras. 5, 6, 10 and 11).

[...] [...] to meet their urgent needs.

[...] terror that is imminent in the Maldives, [...] [...]

There is a pressing need to create a central ministerial-level body with the authority and resources to manage energy security and effectively regulate energy policy and goals as well as reconcile competing interests between the vast state bureaucracy and state-owned companies.