Engineering Scholarships for Myanmar Students from NUS & NTU

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Two Singapore state universities will provide scholarship to Myanmar maritime students for the year 2009-2010 to help nurture qualified experts of the country in the field, the local weekly journal Voice reported Saturday.
The National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Nanyang Technology University (NTU) will reserve the scholarship for eight outstanding Myanmar students who are set to take up four major subjects covering Mechanical Engineering (ME), Civil Engineering ( CE), Electrical and Electronic (EE) and Maritime Studies, the report said.
Besides, the NUS and NTU, which are among the world's top universities, have also invited Myanmar students, who passed the matriculation examination and GCE O-level, to join their organized educational field trip mainly to study the education status of Singapore, other reports said.
Meanwhile, as part of the cooperation between Myanmar and Singapore in the education sector, a Singapore education fair, sponsored by the education agency of RV Center, was held in Myanmar's two major cities of Yangon and Mandalay in July this year.
Besides, the Institute of Technical Education (ITE) of Singapore has also planned to open a branch institution in Myanmar, aiming to nurture more Myanmar experts in the future, according to earlier report.
The move of the ITE, which stands an institution recognized by the Singapore Education Ministry as well as the international, is being assisted by the Myanmar domestic education company.
Myanmar student, who wins ITE diploma certificate, are set to join the Singapore Polytechnic School and the National University of Singapore for further pursuit of bachelor degree with technical subject.

So I went looking for more. The next best thing i could find is this link here.
Some links to discover more about NTU,
http://admissions.ntu.edu.sg/undergraduate/scholarships/newundergrad/Pages/default.aspx

Now I heard that Singaporeans would never admit foreign students to their popular and high demand speciality degree courses. So giving out scholarships to these programmes must mean that there are hardly anyone enrolling for these courses.

ITE stands for Its The End.
Any comments on that anyone?

Full Scholarship to Myanmar Students from HK University

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University will provide full scholarship to Myanmar students, the local weekly Pyi Myanmar reported on Wednesday.
The weekly Pyi Myanmar cited Myanmar representative in the university, the Future Way Education and Service as reporting that the scholarship will be reserved for 10 outstanding Myanmar students to join the polytechnic university which is set to open in September next year and the closing date for the scholarship application is fixed for March 31, 2009.
According to the report, Hong Kong Tourism Ambassador and world-known movie star Jackie Chan is occasionally invited to conduct lecture on subjects related to movie and tourism.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University was first established in 1937 under its previous name "Government Trade School" until 1994.It has become an international-level institution standing as one of the institutions in Hong Kong which has the highest number of students.
The report added that the university now has 26,000 students majoring a total of 130 subjects.