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covering
Hong Kong also possesses 21 country parks
some 40 per cent of the territory's land
mass. They now receive around 10 million visitors a
year and provide excellent opportunities for a
largely urban population to enjoy the open
countryside.
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Broadcasting
52.
A new statutory Broadcasting Authority,
with responsibility for the regulation of all aspects
of wireless television, was established on
1
September 1987.
Its functions will later be
extended to cover radio and cable television.
Consultants were also commissioned to study and
report on the technical and economic implications of
introducing a second domestic telecommunications
network, a matter relevant not only to the
introduction of cable television, but also to a wide
range of other telecommunications services. When the
consultants' report has been considered and decisions
taken on its findings, the Hong Kong Government hope
to be in a position, in the second half of 1988, to
invite tenders for a cable television service.
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