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On the one hand, mainstream workers possessing the required knowledge and skills can benefit from the development of knowledge-based economy and become increasingly affluent.

Maybe, we must still wait until sometime in the future before this well-intentioned goal can be realized, but for the time being, if people belonging to different parties and groupings can be less self-centred and less confrontational on highly contentious issues, if they can be more tolerant and more concerned about the overall situation, it will not be long before we can achieve the goal.

Procurement processes are now under way for a main contractor to undertake this land release and a Demining Programme Office to provide quality control and assurance, and community confidence building measures.

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Hong Kong is an affluent society. We are absolutely capable of and we have the conditions for making our society fairer.

As they grow in size and wealth, cities become more difficult to police, the pickings for criminals grow bigger and bigger, while poorer neighbourhoods can become dominated by criminal gangs.

(b) secondary education in its different forms, including technical and vocational secondary education, shall be made generally available and accessible to all by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education

As the virus is a potentially dangerous pathogen, it is important for incidents of leakage of human swine influenza A virus (subtype H1) from laboratories to be subject to the statutory notification requirement, so as to facilitate early detection of such incidents, and to enable appropriate control measures to be implemented in a timely manner for the protection of laboratory workers and prevention of spread of diseases.

In a developed and wealthy economy, the public also expects the Government to provide some other services.

Dr LAW considered that the short-term measures to tackle poverty problem at less well-off districts were to create employment opportunities at district level.

This has led to the disparity between the rich and the poor. Does a wealthy society consider such a phenomenon fair, reasonable and normal?

According to the Secretary's main reply, though according to the Secretary's projection as stated in part (c), health care expenditure would increase from 3.1% of the GDP in 2001 to 5.3% of the GDP in 2030, the figure is not high when compared with the developed or well-off countries.

In the case of the United States, the country now generally considered to be economically most affluent and technologically most advanced, the Secretary of Agriculture is one of the key posts in the President's cabinet.

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In the Medical Services Section, the establishment of 15 additional national posts (6 National Officers and 9 national General Service staff) is proposed, as the Section has over the past years expanded the services it provides, which include round-the-clock operation of the UNOCI headquarters clinic, which is now functioning at level I-plus rather than the previous level I; patients are followed up at their homes after discharge from level III hospitals; patients are regularly visited in the 11 level III hospitals in Abidjan and in Sector West and Sector East; doctors in the regional headquarters perform outreach activity by visiting remote offices twice a week; support is provided to the Government during important functions and to the United Nations country team as part of the United Nations integrated framework; and medical support is proposed to be provided eight hours a day at the logistics base in Koumassi as opposed to the current two hours a day.

Chengdu is one of China's most modern and affluent cities, yet it is also rich in a history that goes back three millennia.

However, Hong Kong is a wealthy society full of loving care for other people, and as shown in the serious floods in the past or the more recent Sichuan earthquake, we can see the strong compassion of Hong Kong people.

We should know that Hong Kong must foster good living conditions so that well-off Chinese from all over the world may come here and adopt Hong Kong as their home away from home.

As societies get more civilized and as reason is given greater importance, people become more and more contemptuous of violence as society becomes more affluent.

The occurrence of such a phenomenon reflects to some extent the affluence and material advancements of a society.

(b) secondary education in its different forms, including technical and vocational secondary education, shall be made generally available and accessible to all by every appropriate means, and in particular by the progressive introduction of free education

Although Hong Kong is a highly commercialized society, hawker activities are still an important part of the overall economy.

The above goal cannot be achieved unless the Government is willing to take the housing policy on itself, by not only continue to provide free land but also injects money to the HA, so that the HA can be richer financially and have no need to be self-sufficient or be “moneyoriented”.

Despite these studies in economics, the Liberal Party also agrees that in an affluent society like Hong Kong, there are people who work very hard but can only earn a monthly salary of $3,000 to $4,000.

Mr President, the Liberal Party's "two-prong" proposal urges the Government to pay the elderly's welfare assistance and under such a condition, Hong Kong is able to pay without making any increase in tax, the proposal can become effective immediately and be implemented continuously.

This year Lam Kai San from the Generation Department received the Environmental Excellence Award by the project “CEM Coloane Power Plant A Lighting Electric Power Saving”, while the group from Procurement and Logistics Department Logistics and Administrative Support Premises Management won the Environmental Excellence Certificate of Merit for the project “Recycle of Cooking Oil and Industrial Oil”.