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Only when citizens can get the low-rent housing will they be able to save money and then be able to put down a deposit and mortgage for a flat.

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This results in a ―vicious downward spiral‖ as the regularity, reliability and affordability of services deteriorates.

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Dr Kwok Ka-ki stressed that the principle of people-oriented planning should be observed and adequate transport facilities must be provided in the proposed NDAs to enable the residents to travel to their work places in the urban area at less cost and time.

These surely compare most favourably with fares charged in other major cities.

We have therefore suggested a series of measures, which include reducing the "Forbearance Fee for Commercial Use in Existing Industrial Buildings" in the Metro Area in, say, Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, Tsuen Wan and Kwai Tsing, so as to relieve the burden of property owners; relaxing the approval criteria for converting single or multiple industrial buildings units to commercial use, for example, allowing the canteens of industrial buildings to open to the public (if the fire safety or structural requirements permit) and operate in the same way as ordinary restaurants, as well as developing suburb centres in the New Territories to provide cheaper industrial and commercial land and create more job opportunities for the new towns in their vicinity.

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(5) Set up a tribunal for building management so as to perform an arbitration role in an efficient and economical way in respect of disputes among owners, residents and management companies.

The basic determinants of health are nutritious food, adequate shelters, clean water, elementary education (especially of women), being a non-smoker, and having access to low-cost, low-tech primary preventive health services, which include immunization and family planning.

The continuation of mandatory Type II interconnection in these buildings until the buildings are connected by at least one alternative customer access network, or until the cable modem service is upgraded so as to qualify HKCTV’s HFC network as an alternative customer access network, would generate substantial benefits from expanded consumer choice and more effective competition which would outweigh any detriment from potential dampening of investment incentive given the clear signal that once the buildings are connected to at least one alternative customer access network, mandatory Type II interconnection would be withdrawn after a transitional arrangement.

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We will continue to monitor the price of recycled paper and explore opportunities for extending its use; but we will also bear in mind the possibility of using other renewable sources of paper which are competitive in price.

Moreover, private school light bus operators have more flexibility in refilling (and hence could take advantage of the lower motor LPG price) as well as the proposed FRT exemption should constitute a reasonable attraction to private school light bus operators in switching to LPG light buses.

If I purchase all the newspapers I read, I may have to pay for tens of dollars, now that I can read so many newspapers, I am paying a price much lower than others.

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The SCCCI SME Centre (SMECentre@SCCCI) taps on to the vast management, financial and technological resources within the membership of the SCCCI to provide affordable business consultancy and advisory services for business expansion, especially in gaining access to government assistance schemes and overseas markets such as China and India.

To address members' concern about the RAS, the HA agreed to make a number of amendments, which mainly include revising the RIR of the RAS from 20% to 18.5%; relaxing the income threshold from 60% to 70% of the respective Waiting List Income Limits; requiring non-elderly RAS beneficiaries to move to cheaper flats after receiving rent assistance for a continuous period of three years if there are suitable flats available.

In passing the amendment, Members of the former Legislative Council were abiding by the original intention of the public housing policy in providing low-cost housing to the lower classes and ensuring the rent was affordable to tenants.

To break this monopoly, the Government should take the lead to use LINUX as well, which has no copyright, in order to encourage more companies to use less expensive or even free software, thereby rendering the software market more pluralistic.

The Bill also contains provisions to facilitate those owners of rural land who wish to avoid the effect of customary rules of succession on their property by providing for the exemption of land, including undivided shares, from the application of Part II of the New Territories Ordinance, by the Director of Lands upon application of the landowner concerned by a simple and inexpensive procedure.

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New and existing Equinix customers in these regions will be able to lower network costs into and out of AWS by reducing bandwidth commitments to ISPs and taking advantage of reduced AWS Direct Connect data transfer rates.