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I spoke on that occasion to ask the Government to provide special guarantee to Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) so that it would have enough room for manoeuvre in the highly competitive commercial environment and maintain its proper role in “producing a diverse range of impartial and high quality programmes” to cater for the needs of the minority.

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In the case of Argentina, some concerns have arisen following the violent reaction of some sectors involved in the former military regime, but the overwhelming majority of the population has condemned this reaction.

On the whole, if the Social Welfare Department and other voluntary organizations can increase the provision of family support services at the district level, it can surely help ease family problems and encourage women to participate in the labour market and in community affairs.

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The first was the intensive armed conflict which impacted heavily on the skeleton procurement team in the Gaza field office and the suspension of normal procurement activities and focus rather on emergency activities of relocating displaced persons who were in UNRWA schools.

Despite an intensely competitive environment, the Company managed to outperform its peers because of double-digit growth rates in its cable and mobile broadband businesses.

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In view of the intense market competition for the Group’s existing business particularly for the security and surveillance division, the Company has been exploring business opportunities to expand the Groups’ operations and enhance its earnings.

Contact us to find out how our range of services can help your business grow and thrive in an increasingly competitive and global marketplace.

Nevertheless, such renewable energy projects face serious challenges competing with conventional fossil fuel-fired power projects, as technologies are still evolving and costs have remained relatively high.

It is pleasing that, despite the significant oversupply in Asia Pacific and an extremely competitive environment, we successfully renewed several major contracts that expired in the first half of the year.

The potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, such factors as rapidly changing technology and product obsolescence, potential cost increases, variations in customer order preferences, weakness or competitive pricing environment of the marketplace, uncertain demand for and acceptance of the company's products, adverse circumstances in any of our end markets, results of in-process or planned development or marketing and promotional campaigns, difficulties foreseeing future demand, potential non-realization of expected orders or non-realization of backlog, product returns, product liability, and other potential unexpected business and economic conditions or adverse changes in current or expected industry conditions, difficulties and costs of protecting patents and other proprietary rights, inventory obsolescence and difficulties regarding customer qualification of products.

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The subprogramme will focus on improving the integration of all three pillars of sustainable development — economic, social and environmental — and on increasing the quantity and improving the quality of growth in order to reduce the impact of external economic and financial shocks, resource crises characterized by commodity price volatility, and ecological crises.

This strong order book is a direct result of the Group’s cohesive strategies in a strong albeit competitive market to (i) maintain a significant market share via participation in major market segments such as public housing; (ii) target particular growth areas in accordance with the Hong Kong Government’s initiatives such as new MTR lines, new hospitals and university expansions; (iii) developing professional and technical talents and skills of its people resources to pursue excellence in higher-value contracts such as data centres and hospitals; and (iv) continue its convincing track record achieved over many years for execution and delivery of all prior projects.

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If another coalition is pushed together under pressure from the royalist establishment, it will be a rallying cry for renewed mass protests by the Red Shirts that could plunge Thailand into more violent confrontation.

These three drivers will be the catalyst for six “mega trends”: increased demand for packaged food; greater diversification of consumer needs; changing dynamics in food manufacturing and retailing; more food safety awareness; rising competitive pressure; and acceleration in green solutions as a “musthave” for businesses.

In the shortest time, the region has been caught in the limelight of the international security agenda and generated intense discussion over the causes of these transformational processes, the courses of action and strategies to be adopted by the international community, and the future that these events presage for the entire region.

The continued delay in adopting the legislation is a concern, given the contentious nature of most land disputes, many of which have led to violent confrontations between opposing groups and communities.

(b) the characteristics of the armed conflict, such as its territorial extent, its scale and intensity, its duration and, in the case of non-international armed conflict, also the degree of outside involvement.

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In the face of the challenges of sustained margin pressure and intense competition we will build on our financial strength, quality customer service and growing wealth management capabilities to deliver value to our shareholders and customers.

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