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Chief executive officers of international companies who are planning expansion in Asia would do well to think of this, and of the role that Hong Kong will play in this key area of growth.

The mistreatment consisted, inter alia, of punches or kicks to different parts of the body or blows with weapons, as well as electrical shocks, burns, spraying with pepper gas, or suffocation with plastic bags.

As regards further intersectoral action, participants suggested linkages between ICTs and education (as is already elaborated above under “Education”) and the promotion of cooperation between virtual universities and training centres (together with ED).

The bloodiest incident was the attack of Mr KO Keung-wah, the Resident Representative of Shung Ching San Tsuen in Shap Pat Heung on the eve of the election.

Doubt No.3: In the media session conducted by the Secretary for Security, she began her analysis right from the local submissions received, and mentioned nothing about the 3,812 non-local submissions involving 29,099 signatures.

While the Water Supplies Department strongly insists that there are no problems with his water meter and that he has to pay the bill, this elderly pledges that he will definitely not pay it.

Yet, the Chief Secretary vowed at that time he would not betray the interests of Hong Kong people, saying he had been drinking Hong Kong's water and the blood of Hong Kong people was flowing in his body.

Participants also felt that the joint intersectoral initiatives in document 32 C/5 of linking biological and cultural diversity should be continued and that additional intersectoral mechanisms should be established within UNESCO for the follow-up of the recommendations of the Mauritius Meeting (Barbados+10) in line with the resolution adopted by the General Conference at its 32nd session.

The first problem was abuse of police power, resorting to road closure indiscriminately, making arrests and preventing members of the public from leaving the scene of protest; the second problem was using OC foam without warning; the third problem was using handcuffs to detain a 82-year-old elderly person; the fourth problem was unlawful arrests of reporters; the fifth problem was unreasonably preventing members of the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor from monitoring the acts of the police on the scene; and the sixth problem was launching a surprise attack on and punching protesters.

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[...] [...] and indicates that the Department of Field Support will continue to work closely with the Umoja team so as to ensure alignment with the new business processes in the Umoja environment as well as the time frame and deployment strategy of Umoja.

According to the geologist, water that penetrated into the rock during the ice age, went through countless froze and defrost process.

On one occasion (14.40 hours) the delegation arrived to find no guard at the outer gate and no guards visible on duty in the area between the inner and outer walls; the only people in view were a few prisoners chopping wood in the area between the outer and inner walls.

On the issue of duty on alcoholic beverages, as a number of Members have said, when the representatives of the alcoholic beverage trade lobbied us, I tried to be strict before being generous by questioning them personally if, should the Government reduce the duty, they would lower the sale prices accordingly.

The oily sap hardens into yellowish-white tears that turn red as they dry to form what is known as Myrrh.

In the presence of an American officer, he was then taken, handcuffed and hooded, to a police station and, shortly afterwards, to an old fortress outside Lahore, where he was held with other men from Palestine, Tunisia, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and Egypt, and beaten and kicked, and heard electroshocks and people screaming.

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In the context of international efforts for counter-piracy and the participation of military personnel in the operations referred to in article 4, para. 13 of this decree, and also in conjunction with the European Union Joint Action 2008/851/PESC of the Council, of 10 November 2008, and awaiting the approval of the guidelines of the Maritime Safety Committee of the United Nations within the International Maritime Organization (IMO), it is authorized — whereas the detachments referred to in para. 1, are not established — and in any case within the limits established in paras. 5, 5-bis, 5-ter, the employment of “sworn guards”, authorized under articles 133 and 134 of the Unified law text on Public Security, approved with Royal Decree 18 of June 1931, No. 773, on board merchant ships flagged in Italy transiting in international waters referred to in para. 1, for the protection of the said ships.

Members will recall that when we initially endorsed the measure to reduce the duty, everyone was very happy and hoped that there would be a reduction in wine prices.

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We do not know how we can believe them again in future. In future, if they lobby us again for a duty reduction, vowing adamantly that consumers would be benefited, it would be very difficult for us to believe them again.

In a meeting held by the Panel on Manpower, he pledged that proposals would be put forth upon the completion of the review at the end of last year, and yet, it is said in the Budget that proposals would be put forth upon the completion of the review at the end of this year.

I wish to ask the Secretary: Given that the staff of FEHD is so smart, why some places can be better managed where "wild drinking" does not exist and the residents living upstairs are free from disturbances, while others have been incessantly suffering from such disturbances for three to four years?

Drupe greenish white, rarely golden yellow, sometimes with a reddish tinge, compressed globose, rarely subglobose, 3.5–6 × 4.4–7 cm, pubescent, very rarely glabrous, occasionally slightly glaucous; mesocarp succulent, sour-sweet, fragrant, separating from endocarp, not splitting when ripe; endocarp flattened globose, rarely subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, compressed on both sides, 1.7–3.5 × 1.3–3 cm, surface longitudinally furrowed and very sparsely pitted, base subtruncate, apex long acuminate.