Customs is armed with an intellectual-property law that was strengthened just three days before the handover from Britain.
The CFA was intended to replace the Privy Council, the highest appeal court in Hong Kong before the handover.
Unemployment before the handover, at about 2% of the workforce, was almost negligible.
Before the handover, most Hong Kong media took a much more impartial view.
The Taliban's aim seems to be to wear out coalition forces before the handover, and to diminish the West's credibility among the local population.
Mr Sarkozy wants the climate package completely finished before the handover.
Two days before the handover, 15 people were killed in the province in a land dispute between two tribes outside Hilla, according to the Interior Ministry.
"The so-called policy of positive non-interventionism before the handover was actually a policy of no commitment and no planning, " says Tsang Shu-ki, economics professor at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Strong growth has long been a point of pride for the current leaders, and analysts pointed out they would be eager to get the economy back on track before the handover.
Now he is promoting another controversial plan, for the development, first mooted before the handover from Britain, of three new towns near the border with the exploding Chinese city of Shenzhen.
It is on this basis that the U.S. continues to give Hong Kong privileges extended before the handover, but in return the U.S. Congress requires the State Department to monitor compliance with the treaty.
Shiites, who represent the majority of the population in Iraq, want direct elections, but coalition officials say that can't be pulled off in the few months before the political handover at the end of June.
He may not even wait for the traditional week before the official handover to start his presidency.
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Mr Bremer had insisted that there was not enough time, technical wherewithal or security to hold an election before the scheduled handover to Iraqis by July 1st.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) The long-awaited transfer of the U.S. detention center in Afghanistan was delayed once again Saturday after a deal struck between the two governments broke down before the planned handover ceremony.
The coalition and IGC have called for Iraqis to choose a transitional government through caucuses, saying there is no time to pull together an electoral infrastructure before the scheduled handover of power to a new Iraqi government by June 30.
Less than 90 days before the formal American handover, Mr Bremer is growing impatient.
This is likely to be Mr Hu's last state visit to the US before a handover of power is completed in China in 2013.
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The US, attempting to defend their title, failed to progress from the heats after 200m finalist Muna Lee struggled to get hold of the baton on the second handover and stumbled before pulling up with a hamstring injury.
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