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Mr. Li Anhua successively invented a variety of electric vacuum metal materials, including Dumet wire, steel cored wire, nickel-plated iron wire, molybdenum wire and cobalt wire mixed with nickel, etc., which filled the technology gaps of electric light source and meant a new start of electric light source tech in China.

[...] [...] against corruption and fraud, UNDP support to anti-corruption initiatives [...]

The debt crisis in the Western countries will create further ripples, particularly in countries that depend on agricultural exports.

The significance and value of this “participation” lie in the fact that it is both a collective action by Yao Jui-chung and his students, and in that it used artistic methods to hold up a social issue to scrutiny and engage the awareness of the people in regards to that issue.

More importantly, it initiated a policy debate within Europe that culminated with important, positive reforms of European Union (EU) legislation on chemicals.

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[...] [...] Cui Ruzhuo set off waves in this [...]

The Permanent Representative of Azerbaijan has circulated an appalling letter, contained in document A/64/658-S/2010/78 of 8 February 2010, under agenda items 14 and 18 of the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly for the sole purpose of spreading a new wave of hate propaganda against the Republic of Armenia and Nagorno Karabagh.

In one word, under the guidance of our academicians and on the basis of our academic discipline superiority, our group of academic discipline buys a share with technical fruit and cooperates with social investors, which raised an innovative upsurge and promoted the healthy development of “academic based company”.

Rather, the Scheme has not only provoked the conflict of interests between employers and employees but as the contribution now is also uncommensurable with earnings in the future that a great dissimilation has arisen amongst the salaried class.

In the present report, the Special Rapporteur hopes to catalyse a robust discussion among States, scientific researchers and practitioners, civil society groups and the private sector to further elucidate the right to science.

Therefore, as long as Members of this Council have a reasonable ground for raising a query which may cause the society to care more about judicial independence in Hong Kong and whether or not such judicial independence can be maintained successively, it is already a reasonable starting point, and it will also enable the people of Hong Kong to be more aware of the value of judicial independence to the future of Hong Kong, especially in a society with the separation of powers.

With this year’s TED Prize looking for new ideas on City 2.0, this combination of gaming, crowd sourcing, and local participation may be the perfect storm to start a revolution in urban design to create a new active populace of passionate urban citizens.

Concrete follow-up initiatives have included the organization of specific training sessions with a view to stimulating decision- and policy-makers to enact the right of universal online access to public and government-held records, to identify and promote repositories of information and knowledge in the public domain and to make them accessible to all, as well as to undertake the preservation and digitization of public domain information held by governments.

Specific activities that assisted countries in relation to terrorism targeted at food products included: (a) capacity-building (training courses, projects) concerning food safety, animal and plant health, including promotion of risk analyses and developing base-level capacity to ensure national ability to monitor, diagnose, report and respond to pest and disease outbreaks; (b) the standard setting work of the Codex Alimentarius Commission and the International Plant Protection Convention; (c) the establishment of a Food Chain Crisis Management Framework for prevention, early warning, preparedness and response to food chain crises caused by transboundary animal and plant pests and diseases, food safety threats and emergencies, as well as nuclear and radiological threats and emergencies; and the organization of international forums to discuss biological risk management in relation to food and agriculture.

It is noteworthy that programmes implemented by the Office in the area education focused on the following strategic areas of support, all directly responding to strategies and results contained in Kenya Education Sector Support Programme (KESSP), the education sector’s plan to materialize 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 through advocacy and technical support to strategic planning.

Gambia also reported that it continues in collaborate to deliver mine risk education in communities in the affected areas and has a well trained and fully equipped humanitarian demining team which is always ready to respond to any emergencies.

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.