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Many users have been using metallization due to advantages such as excellent bonding strength and economy, but because of its shortcoming of requiring a complex process, there has been a longstanding demand to simplify the process.

Glass of suitable type, thickness and size should be selected to provide an appropriate [...] [...]

For QG 9, the Standing Commission has noted, in particular, the differences in the salary structure of degree jobs in the civil service and the private sector (viz. degree jobs in the private sector generally enjoy a larger jump after a few years) and the importance to maintain the competitiveness of jobs in the QG which form the backbone of the civil service, etc.

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.

[...] [...] African descent; the strengthening of Afro-Ecuadorian [...] [...]

[...] [...] Director-General to strengthen UNESCO’s specialized capacity on climate change, building upon UNESCO’s [...]

[...] [...] non-exclusive or limited right to use or any [...] [...]

(C) A certificate or report by the Auditors of the Company as to whether or not the Subscription Right Reserve is required to be established and maintained and if so the amount thereof so required to be established and maintained, as to the purposes for which the Subscription Right Reserve has been used, as to the extent to which it has been used to make good losses of the Company, as to the additional nominal amount of shares required to be allotted to exercising warrantholders credited as fully paid, and as to any other matter concerning the Subscription Right Reserve shall (in the absence of manifest error) be conclusive and binding upon the Company and all warrantholders and shareholders.

If the proposed new Second TM commences to have effect before the end of 2010, the new emission allowances in relation to the emission years from 1 January 2015 would take effect starting from 1 January 2015, having regard to the statutory requirement in section 26G(4) of the APCO that an allocation of emission allowances made by the TM in relation to an emission year (other than an allocation made under the First TM) could only take effect at least four years after the commencement of the TM making the allocation.

As it is proposed to adopt Codex MRLs as the backbone of the local set of MRLs for pesticide residues in food, to ensure compatibility, it is also proposed to make reference to Codex when developing such classification system under the new regulatory framework.

[...] [...] analyses and developing base-level [...] [...]

[...] [...] Vision 2030: strengthening the planning, monitoring and evaluation of the education system through EMIS; enhancing the education sector responses to HIV and AIDS; improving the quality of education for peace programme; and strengthening literacy development [...] [...]

[...] [...] maintaining the correct cold chain, preferably at or below 20°C and critically not [...] [...]

Notwithstanding the date on which the Agreement comes into effect, if from the date of this Agreement there is any repeal or amendment to the APCO (other than pursuant to the Government’s proposal to amend the APCO to cap the emissions of the Pollutants and to facilitate the use of emissions trading as described in a Legislative Council Panel on Environmental Affairs Paper reference CB(1) 418/07-08(07) dated 17 December 2007 (“Legislative Proposal”)) or any renewal of or change to any Specified Process Licence (other than to the amount of the Initial Cap or pursuant to the Legislative Proposal), which has a material effect on the Mechanism or HEC’s emissions performance or compliance with the Total Permissible Emissions, the Mechanism shall not apply to that Applicable Year and any subsequent Applicable Years until HEC and the Government have reached agreement as to the amendments to this Schedule that are required to give continued effect to the Mechanism.

g. Longer opening hours: Computer rooms in public libraries especially those in the areas with high concentration of the digitally deprived, and in the district digital centres in as suggested in the 2008-09 Budget should extend their opening hours in order to accommodate the needs of the users.

Since all of the Cap Amounts for each of the Non-Exempt Continuing Connected Transactions exceed HK$1,000,000 but the relevant applicable percentage ratios calculated under Rule 14.07 of the Listing Rules in respect of the Annual Cap Amounts under each of the Non-Exempt Continuing Connected Transactions are greater than 0.1% but less than 5%, each of the Non-Exempt Continuing Connected Transactions is only subject to the reporting, annual review and announcement requirements but is exempted from the independent shareholders’ approval requirements under Chapter 14A of the Listing Rules.

Some consider that it would have the benefits of nurturing creativity, attracting more overseas enterprises to apply for patents for their inventions in Hong Kong and developing Hong Kong into a regional innovation and technology hub.

When such transactions are aggregated for the purpose of deriving at the applicable percentage ratios as defined under Rule 14.07 of the Listing Rules pursuant to Rules 14A.25 and 14A.26 of the Listing Rules, the Board anticipates that the applicable percentage ratios as defined under Rule 14.07 of the Listing Rules in respect of the annual caps for the transactions contemplated under the Changzhou ZKLF Purchase Agreement, Chengdu Yindile Purchase Agreement and Existing Purchase Agreements, in aggregate, will exceed 0.1% but will be less than 5% and the Changzhou ZKLF Purchase Agreement and Chengdu Yindile Purchase Agreement are subject to the reporting and announcement requirements set out in Rules 14A.45 to 14A.47, annual review requirements set out in Rules 14A.37 to 14A.40 but exempt from the Independent Shareholders’ approval requirements under Chapter 14A of the Listing Rules.

[...] [...] Year of the previous approved Development [...]

In view of the factors above, the Directors (including the independent non-executive Directors) consider that the transactions contemplated under the Supply Framework Agreement are in the ordinary and usual course of business of the Group and on normal commercial terms and the terms of the Supply Framework Agreement including the annual caps are fair and reasonable and in the interests of the Company and its shareholders as a whole.

(c) The register may, on the Company giving at least 14 days’ notice published on the Exchange’s website, or, subject to the Listing Rules, by electronic communication in the manner in which notices may be served by the Company by electronic means as herein provided or by advertisement published in the newspapers, be closed at such times and for such periods as the Board may from time to time determine, either generally or in respect of any class of shares, provided that the register shall not be closed for more than 30 days in any year (or such longer period as the members may by ordinary resolution determine provided that such period shall not be extended beyond 60 days in any year).

(c) The extent of recovery of deformation 15 minutes after the removal of the test load should be at least 95% and the specimen should not show any signs of separation, plastic deformation or deleterious effect.

c) "The DC requests that residents in the vicinity should be consulted on the scaffolding design of the CPS Compound and that the Government should reduce the height of the new structure to a level acceptable to the residents.

Examples of major projects contributing to the increase in the revised estimate for PWP in 2009-10 include Harbour Area Treatment Scheme, stage 2A (construction of the sewage conveyance system and advance works for upgrading of Stonecutters Island sewage treatment works); Hong Kong West drainage tunnel; Lai Chi Kok drainage tunnel; Central Reclamation phase 3; replacement and rehabilitation of water mains, stage 2; and Ngau Tam Mei treatment works.

(K) If any question shall arise at any meeting of the Board as to the materiality of the interest of a Director (other than the Chairman of the meeting) or as to the entitlement of any Director (other than such Chairman) to vote or be counted in the quorum and such question is not resolved by his voluntarily agreeing to abstain from voting or not to be counted in the quorum, such question shall be referred to the Chairman of the meeting and his ruling in relation to such other Director shall be final and conclusive except in a case where the nature or extent of the interest of the Director concerned as known to such Director has not been fairly disclosed to the Board.

Cash and cash equivalents comprise cash on hand, demand deposits and other short-term highly liquid investments that are readily convertible to a known amount of cash and are subject to an insignificant risk of changes in value, having been within three months of maturity when acquired.