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He opined that the experience in Singapore should provide a useful reference to the Administration in formulating a long-term and sustainable waste management strategy for Hong Kong.

(a) Comparison of the functions, powers, governing structure (especially composition and appointment mechanism), mode of operation, funding arrangements, consultation mechanism, procedures and practices of proceedings, accountability measures, safeguards of public interest etc. of the proposed West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) with those of comparable local and overseas statutory bodies.

We consider that we have reviewed sufficient information and have taken reasonable steps as required under Rule 13.80, including the notes thereto of the Listing Rules, to reach an informed view, to justify reliance on the accuracy of the information contained and the Directors’ representations made in the Circular and to provide a reasonable basis for our recommendation.

However, the knowledge, qualification, education, experience and training of these persons must be comparable to the two groups of professionals I mentioned previously.

A UNESCO world heritage site, the city of Visby in Sweden is arguably one of the best-preserved medieval cities in Scandinavia.

The Procurement Division’s presentation adequately described the scope of the project and the procedures for the evaluation of Skanska’s proposal.

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[...] [...] market conditions and Skanska could guarantee the price [...]

He did not consider it a desirable arrangement to schedule many frequent meetings as Members would become exhausted and could be more prone to making mistakes.

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It also indicated that it would overload sewage-treatment systems in such a way as to possibly cause significant adverse public-health impacts.

In his view, the opt-out regime was unfair to data subjects because (a) it would be incumbent upon data subjects to make a specific opt-out request or else they would be deemed not to have opted-out; (b) as a data subject might have provided his personal data to various data users and if he wished to exercise his opt-out right, it would be very difficult for him to identify which data user had used their personal data for direct marketing purposes; and (c) as a data user might sell the collected personal data to any persons unless the data subject had exercised his optout right, it was burdensome for the data subject to identify each and every data transferee that approached him and make an opt-out request.

Hong Kong offers virtually free access to hospital services and health care which compares well with what is provided anywhere in the advanced world.

This situation is made even more serious by the inadequate infrastructure, such as a shortage of court houses, dilapidated court premises, and the absence of a court database system to ensure vital case tracking.

Experiences such as these were examples of good practices for the promotion and protection of human rights.

[...] [...] indebted developing countries is unsustainable and constitutes [...] [...]

Treating people less favourably on the basis of their race or engaging in an unwelcome, abusive, insulting or offensive behavior because of another person’s or his / her near relative’s race, which makes the person feel threatened, humiliated or embarrassed might have contravened the Race Discrimination Ordinance and would entail legal consequences.

[...] [...] on 31 October 2008, Skanska may seek competitive [...] [...]

[...] [...] Pakistan is considered comparable to [...]

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While exemplary in terms of ratification, an important strategy would be to implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child appropriately at the national level and to assure that policies are designed so as to realize the right to food of children, a group with particular nutritional needs.

(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 [...] [...]