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announced later in the year its intention to ban livestock
keeping in the urban areas, and to institute
controls in rural areas.
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(d) Culture, recreation and sport
During the last ten years
Kong have benefitted from major
the people of Hong
investment, by the WK-
Government, the Urban Council and
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organizations such as
the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club in facilities for the arts
and for recreation and sporting activities.
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The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts was
officially opened by Her Royal Highness
Highness the Duchess of
Kent in February 1986. It already has 345 full-time
students training in Chinese and western music, drama,
dance and related technical arts. When fully developed,
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it will provide for 600 full-time students. Hong Kong
already has eight cultural centres of difference sizes and
designs, and the Sha Tin Town Hall, with a 1,400-seat
auditorium, will open in 1987. The Hong Kong Cultural
Centre with a 2,250-seat concert hall, a 1,860-seat grand
theatre and a 500-seat studio theatre is under
construction and due for completion in 1989.
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