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[...] [...] downward spiral of a regime gasping its last.

I am very much worried that the authorities will resort to the same trick again and adopt a couldn't-care-less attitude to the live poultry trade after the slaughtering plant is built.

The international community must not create conditions of dependence where a State is kept on life support, but rather conditions for recovery.

Lavishing public money on struggling companies will also only prevent more innovative firms from being able to compete.

As an exception or the last of its kind, Dr CHEUNG has been allowed to stay in the PolyU Council.

Thus, we find that the Government on the one hand sets up funds for the people to start their businesses or encourages them to do that, and conducts retraining or encourages them to do that, and yet on the other, it quickens through various means the closure of some estate agents companies despite the fact that there are only a handful of them struggling to stay afloat.

However, if the Chief Executive intends to continue working in an ordinary way, I can only conclude that the Government will only linger on in a steadily worsening condition.

Through our votes against the Bill, the Democratic Party is now giving a warning to the TUNG Chee-hwa Administration: That it is now already lingering at the crater of the volcano of the anger of the people.

While GMB routes operated by the consortia can be maintained, those not operated by the consortia can hardly continue.

But there is no way to know what the authorities have in mind.

[...] concerns on the long delay to adopt the MRLs based [...] [...]

But in stark contrast there are lots of SMEs which operate in miserable conditions for mere survival.

At the same time, people who do not see eye to eye with Mr TUNG may think that his governance has been reduced to a mere nominal existence after the march on 1 July, that his administration is on its last legs, and that his popularity is now inversely proportional to his public exposure and workload — the harder he works, the stronger will be the people's discontent and the lower his popularity, which is why he can only "go into hiding" and contend himself with being a "lame duck" for four more years.

But the bigger picture is the once-in-a-century financial tsunami. Regarding this economic factor, although the Secretary has mentioned that vehicle owners who plan to apply for this grant should also consider their own financial status and outlook on business prospects, has he taken into account that over an extended period of the Scheme, the economy was under the impact of the financial tsunami which had dealt a severe blow to various industries and trades, especially the trade operating tourist and passenger coaches?

In particular, it was badly hit in the wake of the financial turmoil in 1997 and as Hong Kong people have travelled north for spending more frequently, the sector is lingering on in a steadily worsening condition.

If we say that it does have a hidden agriculture and fisheries policy, then it is a policy of leaving the industries to their own destiny ― if they are on their demise, then let them perish; if they can survive, then let them stay.

Although the doctors concerned and the Government have agreed in as early as 1992 to abandon this "tasteless" Scheme, unfortunately, it still lingers on feebly.

The Special Rapporteur expressed his deep concern at the Government’s continued attempt to prevent the world from knowing the extent of atrocities unfolding on the ground, by refusing access to foreign journalists.