World class: Secretary for Home Affairs Tsang Tak-sing (second right), accompanied by Director of Leisure & Cultural Services Thomas Chow (right), inspects Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground.

A host of activities will be organised in the coming year to promote the 2009 East Asian Games and enhance public knowledge of the event, Secretary for Home Affairs Tsang Tak-sing says.

They include issuing souvenir stamps, a 100-day countdown, school seminars, roving exhibitions and district promotional activities, in addition to the one-year countdown celebration starting December 5.