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At the moment, the Central Provident Fund of private enterprises have amounted to nearly $80 billion.

When mainland visitors come to Hong Kong with rolls of banknotes in their pockets, they are doing this because goods in Hong Kong are affordably priced and they are of a good and reliable quality.

[...] [...] away significant sums in stamp duty [...]

The DEC raised such huge sums (over £350 million) from the public for the tsunami response that the DEC increased the period of expenditure to three years.

Therefore, I wish to ask the Government, apart from the introduction of a mediation mechanism, a measure commendable by the public, to deal with disputes before submitting the case to the Lands Tribunal, will the Government consider playing a more important role in view of the fact that the fees involved can be as high as hundreds of millions of dollars, and even $200 million to $300 million for large housing estates?

In regard to that point, it should be noted that “prudent contract management”, in this particular case, amounted to failure to comply with the Organization’s basic rules and regulations, such as competitive bidding and review of the largest contracts by a collegial body.

As war approaches, Livia is entrusted with a large sum of money meant for the Venetian resistance, but gives it to Franz so he can buy his way out of military service.

However, the situation is entirely different when it comes to the huge surplus recorded by the Government.

With savings of up to 80% off retail, owning a luxury women’s watch does not have to cost a small fortune.

Although Hong Kong is hoarding a huge amount of money now, it is unable to narrow the disparity between the rich and the poor.

Farmers and residents are still pretty much at odds even though farm owners have spent a lot of money to meet harsh requirements of sewage disposal.

During the second half of the eighteenth century, however, the colonial policy was abandoning in France and Britain when Adam Smith and Bentham strongly repudiated the costly and burdensome colonial management.

Compulsory training on the content of the Administrative Manual, which should also include the ethical dimension of compliance with the rules, should be organized for new arrivals and also for officers who, by the nature of their duties, incur high levels of expenditure.

People may perhaps say that though the CAPO can only achieve 1%, 2% or several percentage points of our performance requirement, it has not performed too poorly after all; it is still worth its existence and there is a point in retaining it.

We have also heard Mr LAW Chi-kwong discussing legal issues involved in handling trees on private lands, Mrs Sophie LEUNG expounding on how we should respect trees in the same way as we respect people, Mr David CHU mentioning the legal experience relating to trees of the various major cities in mainland China, Miss CHAN Yuen-han rhapsodizing about trees poetically, Mr IP Kwok-him telling the story of the Forbes Street stone wall and that of a tree in Lung Wah Street, and Mr Albert CHAN speaking of the preciousness and economic value of trees.