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The Native-speaking English Teacher (NET) Scheme came into operation in Hong Kong in 1998. It is a scheme which allows governmental and government subsidised primary and secondary schools in Hong Kong to employ English teachers from overseas. The aim of the scheme is to provide local students with exposure to authentic English language and to ...
In 2007, free-to-air television broadcasters in Hong Kong were allocated extra frequency bands and bandwidth to provide additional digital broadcasts over and above that needed to provide simultaneous digital and analogue broadcasting of the four original multi frequency free-to-air channels. Digital terrestrial broadcasts began on 31 December ...
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HOY TV (channel 77): Formerly named Fantastic TV Chinese Channel and Hong Kong Open TV (Chinese: 香港開電視).; HOY International Business Channel (Chinese: HOY國際財經台, channel 76): The channel was tentatively named Fantastic TV English Channel, but after Forever Top's acquisition of Fantastic Television's parent company I-Cable Communications in 2017, it was later announced in ...
The term is used to describe new immigrants from the Mainland, seen as lazy, laid-back and idle, unable to adapt to the fast pace of Hong Kong life. [ 3 ] The term only fell out of widespread usage after the 1997 handover.
Television in Hong Kong is primarily in Cantonese and English. It is delivered through analogue and digital terrestrial , cable , IPTV , and the Internet. Satellite TV is not common, although many housing estates have dishes and re-distribute a limited number of free channels through coaxial cables.
ViuTVsix is a general entertainment channel airing 17 hours of a wide variety of programmes from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. It airs news, imported television series, factual television and documentary (some programs were bought from ITV Studios, Fremantle, Sony Pictures Television, Universal Television, ABC Signature, ABS-CBN Studios and other production units).
Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong and the SAR's charter, the Basic Law of the SAR, specified that Hong Kong will enjoy a high degree of autonomy except in matters of defence and foreign affairs. [2]