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[...] [...] and, at the same time, clench his fist [...]

At the end of the day, you would face sore hands, hard to open your palm or make a fist.

Chief executive officers of international companies who are planning expansion in Asia would do well to think of this, and of the role that Hong Kong will play in this key area of growth.

The mistreatment consisted, inter alia, of punches or kicks to different parts of the body or blows with weapons, as well as electrical shocks, burns, spraying with pepper gas, or suffocation with plastic bags.

[...] [...] squat racks and boxing stations) [...]

As some of the new prohibitions involve a consideration of whether a commercial practice causes or is likely to cause an average consumer to make a transactional decision that the consumer would not have made otherwise, the proposed section 13D provides that in determining the effect of a commercial practice on the average consumer, account must be taken of the material characteristics of such an average consumer, including that the consumer is reasonably well informed, reasonably observant and circumspect.

I must stress that the toll adjustment mechanism is an inseparable part of the BOT package, because without a degree of certainty on the part of the Company to earn sufficient revenue to service its debts, bankers simply would not lend the Company this money to finance such a costly project.

Among the recommendations were that UNRWA must: impress upon donors that its core budget was not an administrative black hole but the key to running its educational programmes and thus should be seen as an investment in the future of the Palestine refugees; exploit all funding opportunities; enlarge its donor base for the core budget, to which only a small number currently contributed — a point to which he had drawn attention in Cairo at a meeting of Arab League ministers whose countries gave welcome support to specific projects and emergency appeals but not to the core budget; expand its partnerships with non-State actors such as foundations and other institutions in the private sector; and continue to be cost-effective in conducting its programmes through better planning, implementation and oversight.

The first problem was abuse of police power, resorting to road closure indiscriminately, making arrests and preventing members of the public from leaving the scene of protest; the second problem was using OC foam without warning; the third problem was using handcuffs to detain a 82-year-old elderly person; the fourth problem was unlawful arrests of reporters; the fifth problem was unreasonably preventing members of the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor from monitoring the acts of the police on the scene; and the sixth problem was launching a surprise attack on and punching protesters.

In the presence of an American officer, he was then taken, handcuffed and hooded, to a police station and, shortly afterwards, to an old fortress outside Lahore, where he was held with other men from Palestine, Tunisia, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and Egypt, and beaten and kicked, and heard electroshocks and people screaming.

(b) Development of a World Heritage Education programme, the target group of which are 12-16 years old students, within the framework of the UNESCO Special Project “Young People’s Participation in World Heritage Preservation and Promotion”, through workshops diffusing already available materials: the practical manual Introducing Young People to Heritage Site Management and Protection (adapting an activity initiated in 2002 in Petra by UNESCO and ICCROM to the case of Jerusalem) and the World Heritage in Young Hands Kit in Jerusalem secondary schools.

It shall provide the Regional Centre with relevant UNESCO publications and other pertinent material, and shall disseminate information on the activities of the Regional Centre via the UNESCO website and other newsletters and mechanisms at its disposal.