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Increasing both the number of food items and the number of samples per individual food commodity for laboratory analysis could provide a more comprehensive coverage and a more precise estimate of the range and average EC concentration of fermented foods in the Hong Kong market.

(c) Communication with the Public - To enhance communication with passengers with the aid of additional equipment such as digital stanchions and giant information displays to advise passengers of the cause of incident, loop service patterns and alternative transport routes / modes; to conduct a system-wide review of passenger communication to deliver swift, accurate and more customer-oriented public announcements.

The net decrease reflects reductions under most objects of expenditure, including $242,800 under consultants, mainly as a consequence of the increased use of in-house expertise, where possible; $104,700 under experts, resulting mainly from concerted efforts to combine meetings or reduce the number of experts and the duration of meetings, whenever possible; $121,200 under travel of staff, mainly attributable to increased utilization of video conferencing, combining trips and/or reducing the duration of travel as much as possible; $460,800 under contractual services, primarily owing to increased utilization of electronic means of disseminating publications; $111,000 under furniture and equipment, reflecting reduced requirements for the replacement of furniture and office equipment resulting from extending the lifespan of furniture and equipment; and $781,600 under grants and contributions, mainly owing to the termination of the contract with the International Computing Centre.

In this chapter, we take you to the next level and explain the advanced features of this application.

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Any modification, amendment or addition to the project or the project agreement, including but not limited to change of project duration, project scope, budget or cashflow projection, or replacement of the project coordinator or deputy project coordinator, shall require prior written approval by DGTI.

If money allows, such items as microscopes and chemistry sets can be wonderful gifts and, if used seriously and responsibly, can expand a child’s knowledge and exposure to science.

(E) Where arrangements are under consideration concerning the appointment (including the arrangement or variation of the terms thereof, or the termination thereof) of two or more Directors to offices or places of profit with the Company or any other company in which the Company is interested, a separate resolution may be put in relation to each Director and in such case each of the Directors concerned shall be entitled to vote (and be counted in the quorum) in respect of each resolution except that concerning his own appointment (or the arrangement or variation of the terms thereof, or the termination thereof) and except (in the case of an office or place of profit with any such other company as aforesaid) where the other company is a company in which the Director together with any of his associates own 5% or more.

The absence of investor confidence can have financially damaging effects; investors may be discouraged from taking a long term interest in the company which may, in turn, erode investor support for fund raising in the primary market and may lead to a higher cost of capital for the listed company; liquidity and valuations may be adversely affected if investors cannot be confident that they will be treated equitably and decide to avoid the securities of certain listed companies.

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i. To create a more user-friendly environment, the Government should adopt a single and personalized “e-account” system on government services, under which individual citizens will be offered a single user account with sound security mechanism to access multiple government services.

Notwithstanding the date on which the Agreement comes into effect, if from the date of this Agreement there is any repeal or amendment to the APCO (other than pursuant to the Government’s proposal to amend the APCO to cap the emissions of the Pollutants and to facilitate the use of emissions trading as described in a Legislative Council Panel on Environmental Affairs Paper reference CB(1) 418/07-08(07) dated 17 December 2007 (“Legislative Proposal”)) or any renewal of or change to any Specified Process Licence (other than to the amount of the Initial Cap or pursuant to the Legislative Proposal), which has a material effect on the Mechanism or HEC’s emissions performance or compliance with the Total Permissible Emissions, the Mechanism shall not apply to that Applicable Year and any subsequent Applicable Years until HEC and the Government have reached agreement as to the amendments to this Schedule that are required to give continued effect to the Mechanism.

4.28 You and, where applicable, the Authorized User shall not, and shall not attempt to decompile, reverse-engineer, translate, convert, adapt, alter, modify, enhance, add to, delete or in any way tamper with, or gain access to, any part of the Internet/Phone Banking Services or any internet site or any software comprised in them.

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Further, they must learn to recognize the need for controlled experiments and the cumulative nature of scientific knowledge, integrate knowledge from more than one area of science, investigate science-based issues, and recognize that science is a human endeavor occasionally flawed by mistakes and even fraud.

(B) The provisions of this Bye-Law shall apply to the variation or abrogation of the special rights attached to the shares of any class as if each group of shares of the class differently treated formed a separate class the rights whereof are to be varied or abrogated.

Any required changes made to the provision for Asset Decommissioning Obligation, shall correspondingly form part of Total Operating Costs in the period of review.

A member did not support a territory-wide ban as the pattern of air pollution caused by vehicles were different in different areas, and it was more important to control the emission from moving vehicles than only focus on stationary vehicles.

The new labelling requirements in prepackaged food products included declaring the presence of the eight most common allergy causing substances, labelling the functional class of food additive and its specific name or its identification number under the International Numbering System for Food Additives, and labelling of date format in a more flexible manner.

(d) A Director shall not vote or be counted in the quorum on any resolution of the Board concerning his own appointment as the holder of any office or place of profit with the Company or any other company in which the Company is interested (including the arrangement or variation of the terms thereof, or the termination thereof).

Even though it is only present in trace amount in each mercury-containing lamp, release of mercury from broken lamps may contaminate the surrounding and create health hazard through inhalation or skin contact.

(D) An alternate Director shall be entitled to contract and be interested in and benefit from contracts or arrangements or transactions and to be repaid expenses and to be indemnified to the same extent mutatis mutandis as if he were a Director, but he shall not be entitled to receive from the Company in respect of his appointment as alternate Director any remuneration except only such part (if any) of the remuneration otherwise payable to his appointor as such appointor may by notice in writing to the Company from time to time direct.

4.2 Unless otherwise agreed between you and us in writing, any change in, addition to or revocation of the Authorized Signatory and, the Specimen Signature(s) or the Signature Arrangement shall not take effect unless and until we shall have actually received such documents and/or authorizations in the form and substance satisfactory to us and reasonable opportunity to respond such change, addition or revocation.

Achieving a higher level accessibility and deployment of e-government and information and communications technology (ICT) application across the territory will help bridge the digital divide and show a strong determination from the government to reconcile the alienation of the “digitally deprived.

To increase the manpower for the trade, they have agreed in principle to introduce the Contractor Cooperative Training Scheme for the electrical and mechanical trade and provide subsidy to those trainees who intend to join as electrical and mechanical apprentices after completing VTC's basic craft courses in electrical and mechanical engineering.

(iii) sub-divide its shares or any of them into shares of smaller amount than is fixed by the Memorandum of Association, subject nevertheless to the provisions of the Companies Ordinance, and so that the resolution whereby any share is sub-divided may determine that, as between the holders of the shares resulting from such sub-division, one or more of the shares may have any such preferred or other special rights over, or may have such deferred rights or be subject to any such restrictions as compared with the others as the Company has power to attach to unissued or new shares.

Examples of major projects contributing to the increase in the revised estimate for PWP in 2009-10 include Harbour Area Treatment Scheme, stage 2A (construction of the sewage conveyance system and advance works for upgrading of Stonecutters Island sewage treatment works); Hong Kong West drainage tunnel; Lai Chi Kok drainage tunnel; Central Reclamation phase 3; replacement and rehabilitation of water mains, stage 2; and Ngau Tam Mei treatment works.

Because they are in charge of their own learning, students will show more curiosity and a greater sense of responsibility in their work, leading to significant gains in their basic science process skills.