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Instantly, the employer indicated that "it does not look good" for a woman in her thirties to serve as a waitress and asked her to serve in the bar where she would receive a lower salary and would have no contact with the customers.

[...] [...] should turn into a wierd beast of a policy "that looks delicious but is inedible," a policy "that is too unpalatable to eat but too good to throw away.

Those who are experts in "watching football matches" have many comments and views on this topic of football, and I think the free expression of different ideas is desirable.

Regrettably, I believe that if this goddess learns about the ZHAO Lianhai incident, maybe she is blindfolded for avoiding to see the world instead of upholding the spirit of the rule of law.

I hope the Government can give a clearer answer on this issue because when I raised this question several years ago (in fact, I noted this problem at a very early stage and have pointed it out to the Government), the Government's position at that time was rather optimistic and it even said that further observation was necessary, or something to that effect.

Therefore, I believe if anyone thinks that education requires additional resources and it has to depend on the money available and we have to spend within our means, then this is an approach for doing business, not an approach that sets sights on the long-term development of the economy.

At present, the manpower has reached such a state that doctors, like fortune-tellers, can only spend five to six minutes on each patient, and yet the patients have to wait for one whole year.

If one talks too much about the long term, one will be criticized as being false, grandiose and empty and as issuing blank cheques; if one is being a little bit more pragmatic, one will be described as not being able to deliver and failing to deliver, so one is really finding oneself between the devil and the deep blue sea.

Professor Li agreed that he had, in response to media questions at his media tea reception in 2002, made reference to “match-making is successful” (“相睇成功”), “the authority is in my hand” (“權在我手”), and “starting with diplomacy and following up with the deployment of a troop” (“先禮後兵”).

Even though governments still have a preference for local satellite operators, we believe that they will recognise the benefits of an open market and hence will eventually allow foreign operators to enter these markets without restrictions.

[...] [...] organizations to better ensure human rights [...]

Passing the buck will not be an answer to the problem, nor will taking a rigid and inflexible approach help in resolving the issue.

[...] [...] they knew 'very little' or 'quite little' about [...] [...]

At its sixty-sixth session, the General Assembly stressed the importance of the continued substantive consideration of the follow-up to and implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and decided to consider at its sixty-seventh session the reports of the Secretary-General on concrete recommendations to enhance the implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (A/66/278) and on the review of United Nations system support to small island developing States (A/66/218), issued for the sixty-sixth session (resolution 66/198).

Just think, if the fund portfolio managers who charge members of the public fees on the services they provide will not be held responsible for their failure to help the public to make more profit, if the money that the Government requires members of the public to save up mandatorily is to be gambled away by portfolio managers in the market, how could this retirement system offer people any protection?

From the standpoint of fighting for the workers' benefits, any means which can effectively fight for more benefits for the workers will be recognized and accepted, and it is not that "the same old book will always be followed", as what Mr TAM Yiu-chung said.

In conjunction with the Television Broadcast Limited and the Asia Television Limited, the Standing Committee on Language Education and Research has launched a scheme entitled "English in the Air", whereby each of the English language serials broadcast on the English channels of these two stations is provided with English subtitles and an associated teaching kit.

Initially, we were really worried by his deletion of the words in Dr KWOK Ka-ki's original motion because we really have to spend within our means.

At this time when responses are so overwhelming, the developers have said straightforward that other such tours would be organized during the Labour Day golden week this year and similar group tours would continue to be organized.

Perhaps we have never imagined that nowadays, there are still some people who cannot easily go to restaurants or cinemas or go shopping.

The inordinate length of translation times, especially in cases of selfrepresented appellants, calls for greater explanation than suitable for a report of this size, but it can be said that efforts are under way to more effectively liaise with the supervisors in the Conference and Language Services Section on a continual basis in order to assess progress and determine the need for requesting prioritization of specific translations, and to readdress the internal requirement of the Conference and Language Services Section that the revision process for translation of a judgement must be accomplished as a whole, rather than volume by volume (which would allow for gradual release of translated portions).

In order to live up to its promise made during the scrutiny of the Betting Duty (Amendment) Bill 2003, the Administration would continue to launch public education programmes to alert public against excessive gambling and remind them not to take part in any illegal gambling activities.

The entire survey was conducted by telephone interviewers under close supervision. Target population being Cantonese speakers in Hong Kong of age 18 or above, who have watched or listened to the Political Reform Debate for more than 5 minutes.

Honestly, I believe many people would not want to bother others or their relatives to carry them upstairs and downstairs; they do not want to check which streets and shops they can go to before they go shopping; they do not want to check whether toilets facilities for persons with disabilities are provided in restaurants or cinemas, otherwise they cannot go toilet even if they have such a need.

In early October 2002, two months after Professor Li assumed office as SEM, there were press reports quoting him as saying, in connection with “mergers” of HEIs, that “match-making is successful” (“相睇成功”), “the authority is in my hand” (“權 在我手”) and “starting with diplomacy and following up with the deployment of a troop” (“先禮後兵”).

Meeting Point do not agree to China adopting a "cold-shouldered" attitude towards Hong Kong's future infrastructural development.