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[...] [...] yoke and in the places like those Arab States that have achieved a new spring of freedom and are starting the difficult work of reforms.

It seems that Japan's attitude toward history has been positive, but in reality, all is just "window-dressing". What Japan has been doing over the past 10 years between the apologies of its two Prime Ministers, or, to be precise, what Japan has been doing since the end of World War II, such as the doctoring of its history of aggression, the paying of tribute at the Yasukuni Shrine, military expansion and its unlawful occupation of China's Diaoyutai Islands and East China Sea waters and Korea's Dokdo, are all evidence of the discrepancy between its words and deeds.

Hong Kong is no longer the same after the battle against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

As at the date of this announcement, the Board of the Company consists of Mr. Yu Rumin, Mr. Wu Xuemin, Mr. Dai Yan, Mr. Zheng Daoquan, Dr. Wang Jiandong, Mr. Bai Zhisheng, Mr. Zhang Wenli, Mr. Sun Zengyin, Dr. Gong Jing, Mr. Wang Zhiyong, Mr. Cheung Wing Yui*, Dr. Eliza Chan Ching Har*, Dr. Cheng Hon Kwan**, Mr. Mak Kwai Wing**, and Ms. Ng Yi Kum, Estella**.

The SBI also noted the difficulties faced by the secretariat [...] [...]

[...] to offset the difficulty in filling resource gaps in cluster offices in the near future, and so as to ensure that staff skillsets are in line with the profiles, roles and task-sharing between Headquarters, [...] [...]

Least developed countries’ economies feature limited productive capacities, which constrain their ability to produce efficiently and effectively and to diversify their economies.

[...] [...] caring support to survivors and families affected by the death or injury of a loved one (ibid., para. 2).

From this angle, we can better understand why successive Japanese Prime Ministers, from Yasuhiro NAKASONE, Ryutaro HASHIMOTO to the incumbent Junichiro KOIZUMI have exhausted every possible means to homage to the Yasukuni Shrine, turned the ceremony of offering sacrifices to Hideki TOJO into a normal practice, developed its Self-Defence Force (SDF) into an army by amending its constitution, and dispatched troops overseas under the pretext of keeping peace.

Following huge difficulties after the collapse [...] [...]

After the SARS incident, Hong Kong has striven to seek the State's liberalization of its policy to allow mainlanders to visit Hong Kong under the Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) with the primary objective that part of the huge spending power in the Mainland can be diverted to Hong Kong, thereby stimulating the Hong Kong economy and sustaining local consumption industries which employ the largest chunk of the workforce.

Even more challenging is the multiphase system of air and water that governs the formation of the free jet and the flow through the buckets.

In his report, the Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator highlighted the fact that the ongoing complex humanitarian emergency in Somalia had been exacerbated by intense and prolonged fighting, civil insecurity, continued displacement and food insecurity caused by poor rains.

If an Athlete subject to a period of Ineligibility retires from sport and is removed from Out-of-Competition Testing pools and later seeks reinstatement, the Athlete shall not be eligible for reinstatement until the Athlete has notified relevant Anti-Doping Organizations and has been subject to Out-of-Competition Testing for a period of time equal to the period of Ineligibility remaining as of the date the Athlete had retired.

His career has been illustrious: from active duty, he was promoted to instructor at the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center in Fallon, Nevada, home of the legendary Top Gun pilots.

The mandate was further expanded under Council resolutions 1445 (2002), 1468 (2003) and 1484 (2003) to include facilitating the establishment of the Ituri Pacification Commission and supporting the Commission’s work, which was successfully completed in 2004.

This shrine is particularly important for the Serbian people, as it was built on the foundations of the church in which the martyrs of 1389 took communion before going into the historic battle of Kosovo.

These authorities shall, on the request of the Organization and in case of a call-up for national service applicable to other officials of French nationality, grant such temporary deferments as may be necessary to avoid the interruption of essential work.

Battle of “Shushi”: pan-Armenian charity [...] [...]