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He also remarked that the state of public finance in Hong Kong and the ability of the Government/HKMA in maintaining robust reserves had considerable impact on market confidence in the stability of the local currency.

These attenuators leverage the extensive design knowledge, technical leadership, manufacturing expertise, and superior quality of Skyworks.

This project is fully consistent with UNESCO’s general aims and the size of its budget means that there is scope for strategic action transcending the positive local results obtained at the pilot sites.

On the basis of powerful engineering disciplines, under the support of solid scientific research strength, starting with cultivation for students’ innovation spirit and practical capacity, SJTU greatly reformed the concept of cultivating mechanical engineering talents and teaching mode; the aims of mechanical engineering school of SJTU are to build up engineering senses, develop capacity of study and cultivate innovative senses; in addition, depending on the quick development of manufacturing of Shanghai, the said school will organically combine with engineering education, engineering practice and engineering research to improve comprehensive engineering capacity of students in all aspects.

The third reason for our discontent, which causes us to abstain from voting today, is that given Hong Kong's affluence nowadays and the huge reserves and surplus of society, as Premier WEN said, with such abundant revenues and robust foreign exchange reserves, it is necessary to resolve the deep-rooted social conflicts, strengthen social security and take care of the socially disadvantaged groups.

Given that Singapore also has strong economic fundamentals and has in some areas surpassed Hong Kong according to certain economic indicators, the Hong Kong Government should develop long-term measures to enhance international competitiveness and economic resilience.

Strong reserve positions and capital account regulatory measures helped countries to come relatively unscathed out of the financial turmoil of the second half of 2011: banks survived the storm, while the sharp reversal in capital inflows did not seem to have affected economic activity too much.

With strong financial position, DCH is well-placed to meet any development opportunities to enhance the shareholders’ value.

The structure of the Group and the approach we have taken to managing our risks, with a sizeable credit reserve in the UK annuity book, a strong inherited estate in UK with-profits and the relatively low risk nature of our asset management and Asian operations, together with a high level of IGD surplus means we have positioned ourselves well for future regulatory developments and stresses to our business.

These have created new trading opportunities for many developing countries, including in dynamic products, but they also come with potential costs linked to the dominant position within these chains of large and powerful TNCs.

Clarification was sought concerning the impact of the current financial crisis on the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals, as well as the reasons why, despite the great economic power of the region, ESCAP had decided to concentrate its programme of work in only eight subprogrammes, whereas other regional commissions had more subprogrammes (for example, the Economic Commission for Africa had 10 subprogrammes and Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean had 13).

Our focus on Asia Pacific markets in which we have a leading position and depth of experience, combined with our financial strength and a highly motivated team, put us in a very strong position to optimise opportunities for further growth and generate strong and sustainable returns for our shareholders.

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.

The combination of our highly committed employees, proprietary distribution platform, extensive brand reach, broad product range and balance sheet strength puts us in an excellent position to capture the significant growth opportunities available from our markets and to generate sustainable value for our shareholders.

Whilst the current REC prices in Australia do not support commercial investment in new wind farm developments right now, our Roaring 40s joint venture has strong capabilities and an attractive pipeline of wind farm opportunities for investment once market conditions are more favourable.

With support for opening up the economy building across the country, previously favoured businessmen and rich politicians appear to recognise that the political risks of challenging economic reform could outweigh the likely benefits.

If the Chinese race continues to capitalize on our immense cultural influence heritage, and face the new global culture and order with pride and dignity, the way to resolve the cross-strait dispute will come one day.

Our expertise with engineered fabrics and our asset base for fabric formation and coating are enabling us to bring innovation to the most essential of human needs – clean water.

Persisting global imbalances, the sustained net capital export from developing countries to the capital-rich developed countries, continued volatility in the exchange rate of major currencies, the unregulated expansion of speculative markets, the deadlock or slow progress in multilateral trade negotiations, and the rapid pace of climate change, coupled with dangerous financial shocks in mature economies, leading to recession, volatility in oil and non-oil commodity prices, particularly the unprecedented food price rise, all pose grave threats to achieving sustained economic growth, poverty alleviation and sustainable development in developing countries, particularly the LDCs.

What Cuba is doing today for Timor-Leste is just a modest example of how much could be achieved in that country through international cooperation and solidarity, in particular by States with greater economic and financial resources.

With a strong balance sheet, an experienced management team, excellent relationships with vendors, a wide reseller network coupled with our industry leading position, the Group is well positioned to explore business opportunities, strengthen our position and pursue opportunities for profitable growth during this time.

Providing ‘extremely high levels of service’, the ‘prompt, proactive and very commercial’ team at Stephenson Harwood advises on insurance and reinsurance, and is strong in both contentious and non-contentious matters.

For example, apart from the research team, whether the technology transfer office of the university will devote effort to bring it to realisation, or whether it has the support of companies already well established in the market.

a division of Emerson (NYSE: EMR), recently won Jiangsu Province's "Best Foreign Investment R&D Facility Award" in 2011 from the Science & Technology Department of Jiangsu Province at the 2011 Foreign Investment R&D Facilities Annual Summit in Suzhou. This award aimed to recognize the company's strong capital investment, professional talents and innovative technology achievements in Suzhou.

The restructuring effectively enhanced the Group’s property portfolio, creating a strong and growing revenue source from recurrent income of Winsor Properties’ investment portfolio and offering higher financial flexibility and capacity.

Regional players were able to realise similar economic advantages to the newly consolidated global players and there were no scale disadvantages to strong regional players such as Modern Terminals.

In order to achieve the HCFC consumption reductions required to meet the freeze and the 10 per cent reduction target, the Government of Malaysia has given priority to the PU foam manufacturing sector, in particular to applications and sub-sectors where mature, low-GWP technologies are available and can be applied to financially sound and viable enterprises with good technical and managerial capacity and large consumption.

Leveraging on our brand recognition in Hong Kong market and the strong network and formidable strength of our parent company in Mainland China, we will be able to provide more superior and advance international financial services to our clients.