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While the international company had no direct contractual relationship with the tobacco farm owners, it has nevertheless found it difficult to disassociate itself from the allegations in the light of the significant economic benefits that it ultimately derives from such conduct.

The Medan robbery may have been an example of the symbiosis noted in Section II, where a larger organisation like JAT can provide the necessary framework for the violent actions of a smaller group while at the same time trying to ensure plausible deniability for itself.

President, the Chief Executive Donald TSANG has said time and again that the method for the election of the Chief Executive by universal suffrage in 2017 will be dealt with by the next term Chief Executive; he refused to fulfil his election pledge and cast away all his responsibilities.

After excluding those respondents who said they had not heard of the [...] [...]

As for people's satisfaction rating of the Policy Address, after excluding those respondents who said they had not heard of it, the figure has dropped from 51.6 marks recorded on the first day to 47.5 marks registered on the second day, showing a significant decrease of 4.1 marks.

The sample size of the survey is 1,047 respondents. At 95% confidence level, the sampling errors of the ratings of CE, CS and FS are plus/minus 1.4, 1.0 and 1.2 marks correspondingly, that of other percentages is less than plus/minus 3 percentage points, except for the single question on people's instant satisfaction with the Budget, which is about plus/minus 5 percentage points.

As for people's satisfaction rating of the Policy Address, after excluding those respondents who said they had not heard of it, an average rating of 51.6 marks was registered this year, a significant decrease of 5.1 marks from that of 2001.

LS has expressed the views that the proposed section 7AI is unclear by reason that the meaning of "contingent" referred to in subsection (4) is not defined and that LLPs are left to their own judgement in figuring out when [...] [...]

[...] [...] amount in default is fully repaid or written off (other than [...] [...]

In the event any amount in an account is written-off due to a bankruptcy order being made against a data subject, the account repayment data (as defined in paragraph 8 (v) above) may be retained by the credit reference agency, regardless of whether the account repayment data reveal any default of payment lasting in excess of 60 days, until the expiry of five years from the date of final settlement of the amount in default or the expiry of five years from the date of discharge from a bankruptcy as notified by the data subject with evidence to the credit reference agency, whichever is earlier.

[...] [...] prepare a revised list of innovative approaches [...] [...]

(ii) The Directors may do all acts and things considered necessary or expedient to give effect to any capitalization pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (a), with full power to the Directors to make such provisions as they think fit in the case of shares becoming distributable in fractions (including provisions whereby, in whole or in part, fractional entitlements are aggregated and sold and the net proceeds distributed to those entitled, or are disregarded or rounded up or down or whereby the benefit of fractional entitlements accrues to the Company rather than to the members concerned).

The accumulative share of losses has exceeded the Group’s interest in the jointly controlled entity and hence the Group did not recognise the excess amount and has reduced its investment cost to zero as at 31 December 2011.

The Government should develop a nationwide rural land policy in consultation and cooperation with the concerned communities in order to gain a clear picture of the issue of land and its prosperity, break the link between land and ethnicity and foster cooperation and complementarity in land use for shared prosperity.