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Plans to improve and increase recreational facilities throughout Hong Kong are going ahead, ranging from smaller scale projects to international-standard sports stadia. The Queen Elizabeth Stadium, with a seating capacity of 3,500 was opened in August 1980. It provides indoor facilities of international standards for various sports and cultural activities. An even larger and more sophisticated indoor stalium, the Hung Hom Stadium is scheduled to open in 1982 and will be able to accommodate about 12,500 spectators.
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The Urban Council and the Government are planning a cultural complex in Tsim Sha Tsui that will become the centre of Hong Kong's cultural life. Upon completion, its facilities for the arts will include a 2,300-seat concert hall for presenting unamplified orchestral music a 2,000-seat lyric theatre for opera, ballet and stage shows; and a 350-seat threatre-in-the-round for drama and chamber music; an arts library and a new Museum of Arts. The Hong Kong Space Museum which forms the first stage of the Tsim Sha Tsui Cultural Complex, was opened in October 1931. It provides the public with an exceptional entertainment venue in which knowledge of the universe, space exploration and related sciences are presented through sky shows, exhibitions, lectures in astronomy and telescopic observations. Hong Kong also has the world's largest oceanarium, the Ocean Park, and it is one of the most spectacular recreational and educational complexes in Asia.
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It is the general policy freely to permit, to encourage and support scientific research, its application for the benefit of the community as a whole and international contacts and co-operation between scientists. A far-reaching review has just been initiated to consider how the Government can best carry out these objectives and it is hoped that more information on new initiatives in these areas will be available in six to twelves months' time.
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Hong Kong's copyright laws are based on those which apply in the United Kingdom. A list of the relevant legislation is at Appendix B together with copies of the Registration of Patents Ordinance and Copyright Ordinance. The principal aim is to protect the holder of the copyright for any production of which he is the author. Infringement of copyright is actionable and can be taken to the courts.
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