HONG KONG, Nov. 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- In light of the Government's recent Policy Address promoting Hong Kong as an international hub for post-secondary education, and to build the "Study in Hong Kong" brand, Lingnan University gave its annual International Day on 29 October a "Cultural Fusion, Global Vision" theme. The event attracted about 500 faculty members and students for a lively celebration of diversity and cultural exchange.
Dynamic performances included K-pop dancing, Pakistani music, and traditional Kazakh instrumentals. Booths from 11 countries and regions, including those involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, such as Mainland China, Germany, Japan, Kazakhstan, and Mexico, provided everyone with an immersive cultural experience. Each booth offered local foods, crafts, and games, creating an interactive and colourful multicultural adventure on campus.
In his speech, Prof S. Joe Qin, President and Wai Kee Kau Chair Professor of Data Science, highlighted Lingnan's progress, saying "I am pleased to share with you some encouraging achievements in our internationalisation efforts. This semester, we have welcomed over 180 exchange students from more than 20 countries, including Mainland China, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Poland, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. Additionally, we have many international students pursuing their degrees here. This diversity enriches our campus, providing invaluable opportunities for students to interact with peers from various backgrounds and to learn about different cultures."
President Qin said that Lingnan has also established a network of over 270 international exchange partners in more than 50 countries and regions, and this semester 90 Lingnan students have gone on exchanges to 17 countries, including Mainland China, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Lithuania, Norway, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. He added that another 92 students will participate in exchange programs next semester: "We believe this will enhance collaboration with counterparts around the world in promoting the 'Study in Hong Kong' brand on a global scale, and attracting global talent to pursue their dreams in Hong Kong, which will, in turn, inject new impetus into Hong Kong's social and economic growth."
President Qin also expressed his delight in seeing the purposeful strides made welcoming international students to study at Lingnan and facilitating opportunities for Lingnan students to study abroad. With students' whole-person development and well-being as top priorities, he is confident that the University is on the right path to presenting them with opportunities to grow and excel in an increasingly interconnected world.
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500 students and faculty celebrate Lingnan's International Day, Supporting the Government's 'Study in Hong Kong' brand initiative
Tencent Esports Competition Solution (ECS), a first-of-its-kind designed for large-scale intercontinental esports competitions, provides end-to-end technical support across 11 esports events, helping safeguard fair play and consistent competition across one of the most complex esports programmes in Asian Games history
TOKONAME, Japan, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Esports will return as an official medal event for the second time at the 20th Asian Games, with its largest programme in Asian Games history set to take place from September 22 to October 2 at Hall D of the Aichi Sky Expo in Japan. Featuring 11 events across six game categories and multiple publishers, the programme will bring together different games, devices and technical environments within a single multi-sport competition, requiring teams to coordinate across different game engines, version management systems and device formats. Tencent Esports Competition Solution (ECS) will provide end-to-end technical support across all 11 esports events.
Designed to support referees, competition operations and monitoring teams throughout the competition lifecycle, ECS covers everything from pre-match equipment checks and real-time match monitoring to post-match review and record management.
Creating a Consistent Competition Environment Across 11 Events
Unlike professional esports leagues, where technical and operational workflows can be built around the requirements of an individual game, a multi-sport event needs multiple titles, teams and competition officials to operate within a consistent framework.
ECS operates across three key stages of competition. Before a match, the Inspection Station supports checks of player peripherals, devices and the competition environment, while maintaining check-in records. During competition, the Monitoring Console tracks more than 30 indicators in real time, including device and network status, and brings together multiple video sources such as Player POV, Observer View (OB) and Hand Cam.
Following each match, the Review Room provides competition officials with access to match records and footage for post-match review, information retention, record summaries and video archiving.
Building on Asian Games Experience
ECS builds on Tencent Esports' previous experience supporting esports at the 19th Asian Games, where its technical team supported 217 matches with zero technical incidents.
Ahead of the 20th Asian Games, ECS underwent three test events between January and June 2026 in Japan, Singapore and Vietnam. These provided opportunities for the technical team to test and validate the solution across different venues, competition environments and network conditions.
The team subsequently moved into the Asian Games venue earlier this month to conduct integrated system testing ahead of the official competition.
"Esports entering multi-sport events means that its competition processes need to align with the standards of fairness established across traditional sports," said Yati Zhang, Director of Tencent Esports. "ECS translates areas that have traditionally relied on manual experience, such as equipment checks, live monitoring and officiating support, into technical processes that can be recorded, traced and reviewed. We hope ECS can serve beyond a single event and provide a reusable technical foundation for esports competitions across Asia and other competitive environments."
Developing Infrastructure for Esports Beyond a Single Event
The deployment of ECS also reflects the growing focus on building more standardised competition infrastructure as esports becomes further integrated into Asia's wider sporting ecosystem.
As part of the Olympic Council of Asia's (OCA) 10-year strategic partnership with Tencent Esports from 2025 to 2035, OCA Director General Husain Al-Musallam has highlighted the evolution of Asian esports from "event participation" towards a new phase centred on "co-building technology and systems".
"As esports continues to develop across Asia, establishing more standardised and institutionalised competition systems will be an important long-term direction," said Husain Al-Musallam, Director General of the Olympic Council of Asia. "The adoption of Tencent Esports' Competition Solution at the Asian Games represents another step towards this goal. We hope this collaboration can contribute to the development of competition systems, technical standards and the wider esports ecosystem, helping establish an Asian benchmark for the sport.
With ECS deployed across all 11 esports events at the 20th Asian Games, Tencent Esports is extending its role beyond supporting individual competitions towards developing technical infrastructure that can be applied across increasingly complex esports environments.
The Asian Games deployment will provide another large-scale test of how standardised technical solutions can support esports within a multi-sport setting.
About Tencent Esports
Tencent E-sports, established on December 9, 2016, is the world's leading and most influential e-Sports brand and event operator. Tencent E-sports has eight categories of top e-Sports titles, with events covering over 90 countries and regions. In 2023, the global viewing volume exceeded 100 billion times. Leading various professional and comprehensive aspects, including e-Sports events, education, technology, industry ecosystem, franchising, and e-Sports standards, Tencent E-sports is promoting e-Sports as a new industry. Following e-Sports becoming an official event at the Hangzhou Asian Games, Tencent E-sports launched the "Empower Esports Worldwide Series" in June 2024. This initiative aims to join hands with industry partners globally and promote e-Sports cultural exchange and long-term cooperation through open communication. The first batch of exchange activities will be held in Saudi Arabia, France, Japan, and China.
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Tencent Esports Competition Solution to Power Esports Competition at the 20th Asian Games
