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In this age of technology, the Government needs far-sighted and competent technocrats, and "omnipotent" management bureaucrats will only perform thankless tasks under this new environment.

The action plan envisaged a broad range of measures, including professional training, adoption of legislative and administrative guidelines for avoiding excessive use of force.

The Financial Secretary should be more "generous" whereas Members should not bicker over the issue of airport financing any more.

How will the Government contact these young people in the future who represent their own selves as they neither have any "big brothers" nor anyone to represent them?

The concept of Loyal Dining is derived from the idea of revisiting this colonial era, when East meets West.

Therefore, the Government should make some changes, to stop BRO from acting like a protective shield for the rich, while making available no avenue to the rest of the public to challenge government actions in violation of human rights.

[...] [...] big shots said no, they could not [...]

Their reply was: "Why would the police work for the British but not the SAR or the Chinese Government?

This is due to the trade winds that blow east-west across the Atlantic to the American continent and the warm currents flowing from the Equator to the Norwegian Sea, where the angle of the Norwegian coastline and the open path to the Arctic Ocean guides the temperate air and waters to more northerly latitudes.

I also wish that the clock could be turned back to the time of my childhood, when objects kept but no longer needed, such as electric wires, could be traded with "junk collectors" for candies so that some other people could use them for other purposes.

They must be endless unless we can convince all the several millions people into accepting that we should continue to serve the several prominent families (or a small group of rich), that we could surrender all our political rights, or even everything to them.

The Government is afraid that we restaurant guys will cheat, but can we trust it conversely?

[...] [...] the broader context of sustainable [...]

The Commission also noted the reservations of the European Community and Norway on MRLs for carbaryl (008) in citrus fruit; fusilazole (165) in edible offal, apples and pear; dimethoate (027) in peppers and lettuce; malathion (049) in wheat; methomyl (094) in grapes and tomato; cypermethrins (118) in cauliflower, scarole, apples and peaches; and cyhalothrin (146) in apricots, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage head, milk, nectarines, peaches, tomatoes, peppers sweet, and corn for reasons presented in CAC/32 LIM/16.

A photographer hits it off with a girl that just broke up with her rich ex-boyfriend; an office boy in advertising mistakes his cell phone for a pretty married woman’s; a broker gets to know a prostitute a lot more than he should; and a patrol officer comes across a female DJ working at a night club.

In other words, the OPS and all other patching up motions, including today's original motion and the amendment proposed by Mr LAU Chin-shek all have these three inevitable defects, and it is just a plan where the poor pretends to be rich.

When these mothers in single-parent families submit their applications, basically, their husbands were still in Hong Kong but after they had submitted their applications, their husbands might have passed away as a result of accidents, deserted them or even asked for a divorce and as a result, there was no more opportunity for these single-parent mothers to reunite with their children, who were waiting to come to Hong Kong.

Very often, in the course of our work, when we talk to the "big brothers" of some trade unions or "leaders" of container truck drivers, we learn that they work 13 to 14 hours a day and are likely to make an income of $13,000, $14,000 or $15,000.

[...] [...] to watch the "gwai los" roll their bowls.

At that time, they were just asking how they could be given a better business environment and they did not want to see anything like the three cases of brokerage houses running away with their clients' shares.

[...] [...] to organize football teams, so the phenomenon of so-called "factory owners football" has [...]

However, although the accountancy sector has all along advocated that the Government review the tax regime in Hong Kong, particularly the tax regime for profits tax, the Government's attitude towards this matter is one of "I couldn't care less".