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At the onset of Nigeria’s avian influenza outbreak, widespread panic had caused many people to stop consuming chickens.

They were so helpless and terrified, and all those who heard them felt sad and had a deep feeling of grief.

The ultimate aim should be to remove anxiety and the feeling of insecurity for the future from those who may have no one on whom to depend when they retire.

We have come to appreciate better, through the months of deliberation in the Bills Committee, that those being released from prison are returning to an environment that will be unfamiliar, challenging and, in some cases, frightening.

At the several special meetings of the Legislative Council in the past few days, Members could hear all sorts of grievances from these manufacturers and SMEs and saw how helpless they were.

Since the Basic Law has already spelt out the blueprint of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government's future democratic development of the political system, Hong Kong people, to be sensible and realistic, should work for the realization of the Basic Law, not to repudiate it and replace it with a so-called "reform" package which gives rise to political and social disturbances, unsettled feelings and economic ups-and-downs.

Worse still it has caused unrest among staff, thereby affecting the feelings of teachers and students and indirectly causing harm to the quality of higher diploma and associate degree courses.

This is similar to the point mentioned by me earlier in a question to the Secretary for Security during the Question Time, that I feel frightened whenever I go to Sham Shui Po and Shanghai Street, for those places are linked with certain vice activities.

During the financial turmoil in 2001, the wage earners in Hong Kong were helpless and terrified in the face of unemployment; their problems could not be solved by increasing training, creating positions and expediting the launch of government works projects.

Outside the boundaries of international law, there can be no justice or friendly relations amongst States, much less cooperation for the good of the billions of individuals we represent.

Therefore, though that man is receiving treatment, his family members are still living in apprehension.

Therefore, those people are willing to contribute a little more money, so that poor pupils can receive free kindergarten education, more places of university education can be available, more members of the public can be offered housing and all of us do not have to be so worried, so that they can have greater peace of mind when taking public transport, instead of saying, "Ms LAU, I can skip meals but I cannot skip taking transport.

At the same time, there remain serious challenges, including serious financial crises, insecurity, poverty, exclusion and inequality within and among societies.

Although we are now living under the sovereignty of China, we, the group of people who are being denied of entry into the Mainland over the past 20 years, still have to voice out unceasingly the fear and anger of Hong Kong people.

In one of such cases, a wife alleged that her husband had the tendency of chopping her head off, that is, that husband wanted to chop off the head of his wife.

Some people have suggested that the conclusions of that survey were not quite as damaging as the headlines suggested, but they were, it has to be said worrying, even not as worrying as some headlines made out, worrying because of the anxieties which were expressed about the situation in 1997 and beyond, worrying because of concerns about interference after 1997.

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It was reported that he, his wife, and his parents lived under constant fear.

As a cosmopolitan city, we think that the food safety regulation system we have ought to be comparable to that in other advanced societies and hence the people should be made not to have any fears or doubts when they consume food.

Some members further pointed out that civil servants were now extremely skittish after the incidents relating to the Cyberport, the Hunghom Peninsula, the Grand Promenade, and so on, and they were very afraid of being accused of collusion between property developers and the Government.

They also said that there were daily fights between inmates and some said that they lived in constant fear and that they were sometimes beaten, not only by the guards but also by other inmates, often for reasons of discrimination.

If anyone intends to give a warning by punishing the social worker, so as to make certain social workers in the front line and people fighting for the public's interest (whether in respect of human rights, improvement to the community environment or improvement in any other area) feel intimidated and apprehensive, and to make the organizations concerned feel nervous whenever they bid for government funding or government contracts and hence become cautious in choosing the teams to be hired or even consider it necessary to urge their supervisory staff to keep an eye on their subordinates, and if the Government really wishes to achieve this purpose, then I can say that it may have succeeded this time around.

When the public are in panic, the authorities should calmly provide the public with relevant information as soon as possible, so that they will respond in a mature manner to a crisis which development is still unknown.