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Upon request, OHCHR also mediated or facilitated discussions or negotiations among stakeholders to resolve disputes.

This act seems like the parents force their children to get married, but, in fact, the parents only facilitate the marriage, and the children are still the ones who decide.

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Apart from assisting the ERB in its work and helping workers to get training and seek jobs, the Labour Department also plays the important role of a matchmaker who goes between the employer and the retrainees free of charge.

Nevertheless, the world is beginning to examine a new attitude, namely, that if wealth can bring togetheradonor and a recipient without displacing poor people in the recipients' queue, then saving a life via commercial means may be more desirable than condemning to death while sticking to high moral principles.

While the project envisages fostering a one-on-one relationship between a company and a school, the parties involved may also draw in expertise/project partners from other community organisations/NGOs for advice and additional support (e.g. training of employees or counselling of students).

There are many professional enterprises and research institutes in local universities of Hong Kong which can offer them certain assistance in this regard. We hope that the Government can play the role of a bridge to link up the two sides in order to solve problems encountered there by Hong Kong industrialists.

In response to members' call for greater transparency, the MPFA has agreed to consider making public the summaries of the cases found to be eligible for reference by the public.

4.14 Index and examples of Codex classification of foods is extracted at Annex V.

I look forward then, over the coming year and with your support, to putting new funding arrangements into place; to completing with ITDC members the initial review of their role; to bringing together the many strands of our industry support programmes into a comprehensive summary with a statement of aims that can be regularly reviewed and updated by the ITDC; to moving ahead with initiatives to enhance and encourage technological development in Hong Kong.

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While members supported the legislative proposals in general, some members expressed the view that the proposals should target at combating unscrupulous malpractices of a handful of retailers and should not affect the operation of honest traders.

According to Congolese gold export house managers, the small volume of official exports can be attributed to the fact thatahandful offraudulent traders in Kampala and Bujumbura have for many years monopolized the Congolese gold trade.

In reality, by glorifying his armed forces, which would be an object of shame and contempt in any civilized society, as well as eulogizing a handful of desperadoes who are responsible for atrocious crimes committed against Azerbaijani civilians during the war, the President of Armenia makes it absolutely clear what, in his view, “the Armenian brand” and “the Armenian system of values” mean.

Mr James TIEN suggested that consideration could also be given to requesting the Administration to prepare a gist of the written main replies so that public officers would not need to read out the full lengthy main replies but only the salient points at Council meetings, thus leaving more time for Members to ask supplementary or follow-up questions.

Dr. Robert Chung hopes, with the information in below sections, namely "Research Report", "References", "Column Articles by Research Team Members", "Abstracts of Other Column Articles", "Document Archive" and "Open Forum", to strengthen public awareness and understanding of the concept of referendum.

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A copy of the CFA judgment is enclosed for reference at Annex B. The following is extracted from the summary of the judgment given by the Chief Justice as the unanimous judgment of the CFA, prepared by the Judiciary.

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Regarding funding support for the arts groups, members in generally considered that the Administration should (a) ensure a reasonable and fair distribution of funding resources amongst arts groups; (b) review the existing mode of subsidy for the major performing arts groups to avoid stifling the development of non-subvented commercial arts groups; (c) provide more funding for the support of small and medium sized arts groups and budding artists; (d) explore means to minimize staffing and administrative expenses in the operation of arts programmes so that the savings could be re-allocated to the use of arts development; (e) examine the effectiveness of the current funding policy in achieving the policy goals, such as encouraging diversified and balanced development of arts and culture; and (f) consider increasing its overall allocation of funding for culture and the arts, given the imminent need to achieve the vision of the West Kowloon Culture District project.

[...] assistance on such terms as the Board thinks fit to directors and bona fide employees of the Company, any of its subsidiaries, any holding company of the Company or any subsidiary of any such holding company in order that they may purchase or subscribe or otherwise acquire shares (fully or partly paid) in the Company or any holding company of the Company and such terms may include a reference that, when a director ceases to be a director of, or an employee ceases to be employed by, the Company or such other company, shares purchased or subscribed or otherwise acquired with such financial assistance shall or may be sold to the Company or such other company on such terms as the Board thinks fit.

That this Council urges the Government to comprehensively review the West Kowloon Cultural District development project, consider the ‘software’ contents before planning the cultural facilities, extend the deadline for submission of development proposals, openly and thoroughly consult the cultural sector, professional bodies, the real estate sector, the Legislative Council, the public and relevant organizations, and uphold the ‘people-oriented’, ‘partnership’ and ‘community-driven’ principles put forward by the Culture and Heritage Commission for the West Kowloon development in formulating a development and operation plan that is open, fair and proper; and in the process of development, the Government should also facilitate a partnership between developers and the cultural sector, so as to allow the latter to participate in the planning and future operation of the facilities in the district.