In European terminology,the Far East is the geographical region that encompasses the easternmost portion of the Asian continent,including East,North and Southeast Asia. South Asia is sometimes also included for economic and cultural reasons.
"One country,two systems" is a constitutional principle of the People's Republic of China (PRC) describing the governance of the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.
The Four Asian Tigers are the developed East Asian economies of Hong Kong,Singapore,South Korea,and Taiwan. Between the early 1950s and 1990s,they underwent rapid industrialization and maintained exceptionally high growth rates of more than 7 percent a year.
Jinan University is a public research university based in Guangzhou,China. "Jinan" literally means "reaching southward",indicating the university's original mission to disseminate Chinese learning and culture from North to South when it was founded in 1906 in Nanjing. It is the first Chinese university to recruit foreign students and one of the universities with the largest number of international students in China.
Stanley Ho Hung-sun was a Hong Kong-Macau billionaire businessman. His original patrilineal surname was Bosman,which was later sinicized to 何(Ho). He was the founder and chairman of SJM Holdings,which owns nineteen casinos in Macau including the Grand Lisboa.
National Taiwan Normal University,or Shīdà師大 is an institution of higher education and normal school operating out of three campuses in Taipei,Taiwan. NTNU is the leading research institute in such disciplines as Education,Linguistics,Fine Arts,Music and Sports in Taiwan. NTNU enjoys a long and distinguished history as one of the four oldest universities in Taiwan. Founded in 1922 during the Japanese regime,it was first known as Taihoku High School under the Government-General of Taiwan before being renamed as Taiwan Provincial Teachers College in 1946,and subsequently restructured as a comprehensive university in 1994.
Most of the schools in Macau are private or subsidized schools. As of the 2015-2016 school year,there were 74 primary and secondary schools that provided formal education,including ten public schools and 64 private schools. Of the schools all but ten were a part of Macau's free education network. As of 2006 many of the schools in Macau are operated by Catholic organizations. A basic 15 years compulsory,free education,is offered to those pupils who have been enrolled at the schools which have met certain requirements stipulated by the government.
Huaqiao University is a national university located in Xiamen and Quanzhou,Fujian province,China.
East China University of Political Science and Law is a public university in Shanghai,China,founded in 1952.
The University of Macau is an internationalised public comprehensive university in Macau. The UM campus is located in the east of Hengqin Island,Guangdong province in Mainland China,on a piece of land leased to the Macau SAR government,and is under the jurisdiction of Macau.
The economy of Asia comprises about 4.7 billion people living in 50 different nations. Asia is the fastest growing economic region,as well as the largest continental economy by both GDP Nominal and PPP in the world. Moreover,Asia is the site of some of the world's longest modern economic booms,starting from the Japanese economic miracle (1950–1990),Miracle on the Han River (1961–1996) in South Korea,economic boom (1978–2013) in China,Tiger Cub Economies (1990–2020) in ASEAN,and economic boom in India (1991–present).
The East Asian cultural sphere,also known as the Sinosphere,the Sinic world,the Sinitic world,the Chinese cultural sphere,or the Chinese character sphere,encompasses multiple countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia that were historically influenced by Chinese culture. The East Asian cultural sphere is made up of several countries and territories:Mainland China,Taiwan,Hong Kong,Macau,Japan,South Korea,North Korea,and Vietnam. Other definitions may include Mongolia and Singapore,because of limited historical Chinese influences or increasing modern-day Chinese diaspora. The East Asian cultural sphere is not to be confused with the Sinophone world,which includes countries where the Chinese-speaking population is dominant.
The Macau University of Science and Technology is a private university founded in 2000 at Taipa,Macau,China.
University of Science and Technology or University for Science and Technology can refer to any of a large number of institutions of higher education,some of which have very similar names:
East Asia is the easternmost region of Asia,which is defined in both geographical and ethno-cultural terms. The modern states of East Asia include China,Japan,Mongolia,North Korea,South Korea,and Taiwan. Hong Kong and Macau,two small coastal quasi-dependent territories located in the south of China,are officially highly autonomous but are under Chinese sovereignty. Japan,Taiwan,South Korea,Mainland China,Hong Kong,and Macau are among the world's largest and most prosperous economies. East Asia borders Siberia and the Russian Far East to the north,Southeast Asia to the south,South Asia to the southwest,and Central Asia to the west. To the east is the Pacific Ocean and to the southeast is Micronesia.
The 2010 EAFF East Asian Football Championship was the fourth edition of the tournament which was held between 6 and 14 February 2010. Two preliminary competitions were held during 2009.
A de facto embassy is an office or organisation that serves de facto as an embassy in the absence of normal or official diplomatic relations among countries,usually to represent nations which lack full diplomatic recognition,regions or dependencies of countries,or territories over which sovereignty is disputed. In some cases,diplomatic immunity and extraterritoriality may be granted.
Macao Polytechnic University was established in 1981. It is located in the Macao Special Administrative Region (MSAR) of the People's Republic of China. MPU is a public Higher education institution with an emphasis on applied knowledge and skills.
The East Asian Youth Games (EAYG) is a continental multi-sport event organised by the East Asian Olympic Committee (EAOC) and held every four years since 2019 among athletes from East Asian countries and territories of the Olympic Council of Asia (OCA),as well as the Pacific island of Guam,which is a member of the Oceania National Olympic Committees.
