**** Mainland Affairs Department

The Chinese term 內地, meaning the inland but still translated mainland in English, is commonly applied by SAR governments to represent non-SAR areas of PRC, including Hainan and coastal regions of mainland China, such as " Constitutional and Mainland Affairs " ( 政制及內地事務局 ) and Immigration Departments.

" Both the PRC and the ROC carry out cross-strait relations through specialized agencies ( such as the Mainland Affairs Council of the ROC ), rather than through foreign ministries.

According to an October 2008 poll from the Mainland Affairs Council, on the question of Taiwan's status, 36. 17 % of respondents favor maintaining the status quo until a decision can be made in the future, 25. 53 % favors maintaining the status quo indefinitely, 12. 49 % favors maintaining the status quo until eventual independence, 4. 44 % favors maintaining the status quo until eventual reunification, 14. 80 % favors independence as soon as possible, and 1. 76 % favors reunification as soon as possible.

* Mainland Affairs Council of the ROC

* Republic of China Mainland Affairs Council

* Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau

Ma was deputy secretary-general of the KMT from 1984 to 1988, also serving for a period as deputy of the Mainland Affairs Council ( MAC ), a cabinet-level body in charge of cross-straits relations.

According to the Mainland Affairs Council of the ROC, the major obstacle resided in the PRC's One-China position which does not recognize the sovereignty of the ROC.

" This move was not endorsed by the Presidential Office and the Mainland Affairs Council clarified that it would only apply to internal documents.

* Mainland Affairs Council

* Mainland Affairs Council

She was a strategist for the Pan Blue Coalition in the ROC presidential election, 2004 and debated Mainland Affairs Council Chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen on the March 20 referendum.

In order to effect negotiations with mainland China on operational issues without compromising the government's position on denying the other side's legitimacy, the ROC government under Chiang Ching-kuo created the " Straits Exchange Foundation " ( SEF ), a nominally non-governmental institution directly led by the Mainland Affairs Council, an instrument of the Executive Yuan.

Office of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in Beijing and other parts of Mainland China placed under the Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureaus.

Although the PRC's official English translation of the law is the Anti-Secession Law, the Mainland Affairs Council on Taiwan has consistently translated it as Anti-Separation law as secession implies that Taiwan is a part of the PRC.

The Mainland Affairs Council and the ROC government has argued that the relationship across the Taiwan strait is not analogous to the situation during the American Civil War since Taiwan was never part of the PRC.

Prior to the passage of the bill, a statement from Taipei's Mainland Affairs Council and a resolution overwhelming passed by the ROC legislature stated that the status quo is that the Republic of China is sovereign and independent.

After the law was passed, the Mainland Affairs Council official referred to Beijing's definition of " one China " in the PRC law as fiction.

Though technically a private organization, it is funded by the government and controlled by the Mainland Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan.

The Mainland Affairs Council ( MAC ) is a cabinet-level administrative agency under the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China.

The Mainland Affairs Council is administered by a cabinet level Minister.

* Qi Shu ( 蘇起 ), Director of Mainland China Affairs

Inter-Island flights are available from the Shetland Mainland to most of the inhabited islands including those from Tingwall Airport west of Lerwick, operated by Directflight Ltd., in partnership with Shetland Islands Council.

In Mainland Europe, some scholars have suggested Glass-Steagall should be a model for any in-depth reform of bank regulation: notably in France where SFAF and World Pensions Council ( WPC ) banking experts have argued that " a new Glass-Steagall Act " should be viewed within the broader context of separation of powers in European Union law.

Inter-island ferry services connect all the inhabited islands to Orkney Mainland, and are operated by Orkney Ferries, a company owned by Orkney Islands Council.

The island is part of the " East Mainland, South Ronaldsay and Burray " ward, represented on the Orkney Islands Council by three independent councillors.

* National Unification Council, a governmental body in the Republic of China on Taiwan whose aim is to promote unification with Mainland China

Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Stephen Lam proposed that a Legislative Council seat in any geographical constituency or one of the five newly-created district council ' superconstituencies ' vacated by the resignation or death of a legislator would be filled by a ' leapfrog ' mechanism by the next best placed candidate at the previous election.

The agency said the NDP took more than $ 5, 000 from a single donor and failed to return $ 45, 000 from eight unions and one union affiliate, though it " knew or should have known " the money was all from the Mainland Building and Construction Trades Council.

The different script systems resulting from the preservation or simplication of original pre-Republic Chinese characters are used by Chinese people living under different jurisdictions: " Simplified Chinese " in Mainland China ( the People's Republic of China ), " Traditional Chinese " in the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, and " Proper Chinese " ( which is the same script as " Traditional Chinese ") in Taiwan ( the Republic of China ).

* September 3 – WWII: Mainland Italy is invaded by Allied forces under Bernard L. Montgomery, for the first time in the war.

On Mainland China under the People's Republic of China, counties are the third level of local government, coming under both the province level and the prefecture level.

Mainland China, the Chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is a geopolitical term that refers to the area under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ).

This is largely the position of current supporters of Chinese reunification in Mainland China who believe that this " one China " should eventually reunite under a single government.

" Mainland China " is used to refer to areas under the jurisdiction by the PRC usually excluding Hong Kong and Macau.

In 1954, the Judicial Yuan ruled that the delegates elected to the National Assembly and Legislative Yuan in 1947 would remain in office until new elections could be held in Mainland China which had come under the control of the Communist Party of China in 1949.

The Mainland once again attempts to exert control over the Lost Ground by sending in a fleet of refined Alter users under their control, but they are defeated by Kazuma and Ryuhou.

The Hong Kong Government repeatedly pointed out that the crime rate of Mainland visitors under the scheme was very low.

This ruling would have granted immediate right of abode to up to 300, 000 people in Mainland China, depending upon whether family unification would have been limited to children under a certain age, or extended to all people.

Many people from Hong Kong had moved to Mainland China and started families, and under the immigration law prior to 1 July 1997, their children born in mainland China had no right of abode in Hong Kong.

In Mainland China, Swire Properties has a portfolio amounting to approximately 12. 9 million sq ft ( approximately 1. 20 million sqm )*, the majority of which is under construction.

Born in Daytona Beach, Florida, Carter was a 1995 McDonald's All-American at Mainland High School in Daytona Beach, leading Mainland to its first Class 6A state title in 56 years before spending three seasons playing college basketball at North Carolina under Dean Smith and later, Bill Guthridge.

Douglas was named joint governor of the three colonies ( the Colony of the Queen Charlotte Islands had been in existence since 1853 and was merged with the Mainland Colony under Douglas ' regime, in 1863 ).

In the next few years, under CPC supervision, Li published various books on the practice, and attracted an estimated 70 million followers in Mainland China alone, exceeding the number of Communist Party members.

Mainland Finland (, ) is a term used in statistics and in other contexts to exclude the autonomous Åland Islands under Finnish sovereignty from the rest of Finland.

Japan joined World War I as the United Kingdom's ally under the terms of the alliance and captured German-occupied Tsingtao ( Qingdao ) in China Mainland.

From 1969 until the creation of Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996, Armdale and its neighbouring communities west of the Halifax Peninsula were grouped under the colloquial term " Mainland Halifax ".