Acronyms Used by Asian / Pacific Studies' Scholars:
a Dictionary

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AAA	Australian Archaeological Association	---	Australia
AAAPS	Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies	---	Australia
AAARI	Asian American / Asian Research Institute	City U. of New York	US
AAAS	Association for Asian American Studies	---	US
AABC	Australian Association for Byzantine Studies	---	Australia
AABS	Australasian Association of Buddhist Studies	---	Australia
AACAI	Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists	---	Australia
AAEC	La Asociacion Argentina de Estudios Coreanos / Argentina Association for Korean Studies	---	Argentina
AAEI	l'Association pour l'Avancement des Etudes Iraniennes / Association for the Advancement of the Iranian Studies	---	France
AACS	American Association for Chinese Studies	---	US
AAERI	Association of Australian Education Representatives in India	---	India
AAGS	Asia Association for Global Studies	---	Japan
AAI	Asia-Australia Institute	UNSW	Australia
AAI	Asien-Afrika-Institut	Hamburg U.	Germany
AAMH	Australian Association for Maritime History	---	Australia
AAIOFI	Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions	---	Bahrain
AAJ	Akademischer Arbeitskreis Japan	---	Austria
AAKKL	Aasian ja Afrikan Kielten ja Kulttuurien Laitos	U. Helsinki	Finland
AALCO	Asian African Legal Consultative Organisation	---	India
AANM	Arab American National Museum	---	US
AAOU	Asian Association of Open Universities	---	US
AAP	Asia Policy Point (formerly: Japan Information Access Project, JIAP)	---	US
AAPI	Australia Asia Pacific Institute	Victoria U.	Australia
AAPS	Asian Association of Police Studies	---	South Korea
AAR	American Academy of Religion	---	US
AARDO	Afro-Asian Rural Development Organization	---	India
AAS	Association for Asian Studies	---	US
AAS	Asian American Studies	U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	US
AAS	Asian American Studies	U. of Minnesota	US
AAS	Asian American Studies	Stanford U.	US
AASC	Asian American Studies Center	U. of California, Los Angeles	US
AASP	Asian American Studies Program	U. of Wisconsin-Madison	US
AASP	Asian American Studies Program	Cornell U.	US
AASP	Asian Association of Social Psychology	---	Australia
AASR	Australian Association for the Study of Religions	---	Australia
AASRN	Asian Australian Studies Research Network	---	Australia
AAST	Asian American Studies Program	U. of Maryland	US
AATA	American Association of Teachers of Arabic	---	US
AATJ	Alliance of Association of Teachers of Japanese	---	US
AATK	American Association of Teachers of Korean	---	US
AATT	American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages	Princeton U.	US
AAVAA	African & Asian Visual Arts Archive	---	UK
AAWH	Asian Association of World Historians	U. of Osaka	Japan
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ABAC	Australian Business Association of Cambodia	---	Australia
ABERU	Asian Business and Economics Research Unit	Monash U.	Australia
ABF	Asia Business Forum	Copenhagen Business School	Denmark
ABIA	South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index (Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology)	IIAS	The Netherlands
ABTHIS	Departement d'Etudes Arabes, Berberes, Turques, Hebraiques, Iraniennes et Semitiques	U. Provence, Marseille	France
ABZU	A Guide to Information Related to the Study of the Ancient Near East on the Web	The Oriental Institute	US
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ACAES	American Committee on Asian Economic Studies	---	US
ACAPA	Australian Centre of Asia-Pacific Art	Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art	Australia
ACARI	Afghanistan and Central Asia Research Information	Indiana U.	US
ACAS	Ateneo Center for Asian Studies	Ateneo de Manila U.	Philippines
ACASIAN	Asian Spatial Information and Analysis Network	Griffith U.	Australia
ACBC	Australia China Business Council	---	Australia
ACBUT	Association for Computerization of Buddhist Texts	---	Japan
ACC	The Australia-China Council	Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)	Australia
ACC	Arts of China Consortium	---	US
ACCU	Asia/Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO	UNESCO	Japan
ACEA	Association Canadienne des Etudes Asiatiques	---	Canada
ACES	Association of Central Eurasian Students	Indiana U.	US
ACGA	Asian Corporate Governance Association	---	Hong Kong
ACICIS	Australian Consortium for 'In-Country' Indonesian Studies	Murdoch U.	Australia
ACIP	Asian Classics Input Project	Princeton U.	US
ACLK	Association of Chinese Linguistics in Korea	---	S. Korea
ACM	Asian Civilisations Museum	---	Singapore
ACMR	Association for Chinese Music Research	U. of Hawaii	US
ACMS	American Center For Mongolian Studies	---	US
ACOR	American Center of Oriental Research	---	Jordan
ACORN	Asia-Pacific Cross-Border Online Rights Network	RSPAS	Australia
ACPS	Association of Chinese Political Studies	USCS	US
ACPSS	Association of Chinese Professors in Social Sciences	USCS	US
ACRP	Asian Conference on Religion and Peace	---	---
ACRSN	Asian Century Research School Network	NIAS	Denmark
ACSI	Association for Chinese Studies in Ireland	---	Ireland
ACSS	Asian Cinema Studies Society	---	US
ACWF	All-China Women's Federation	---	China
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ADA	Azerbaijan Diplomatic Academy	---	Azerbaijan
ADB	Asian Development Bank	---	Philippines
ADIAS	Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey	---	UAE
ADR	Asian Development Review	ADB	Philippines
ADRI	Asian Development Research Institute	---	India
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AEAS	Academy of East Asian Studies	Sungkyunkwan U.	South Korea
AEB	L'Asia Economic Brief d'Asia Centre	---	France
AEC	Asia Europe Centre	---	France
AECA	European Association of Cooperation With Asia	---	Brussels, Belgium
AEEP	Asociacion Espanola Estudios del Pacifico	---	Spain
AEF	Asia Education Foundation	U. Melbourne	Australia
AEJF	Association des Enseignants de Japonais en France	---	France
AEMS	Asia Educational Media Service	U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	US
AEN	Aotearoa Ethnic Network	---	NZ
AEPR	Asian Economic Policy Review	JCER	Japan
AETBC	Australia East Timor Business Council	---	Australia
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AFA	Advanced Filipino Abroad	CSEAS	US
AFAR	Association for Asian Research	---	US
AFBC	Australia Fiji Business Council	---	Australia
AFE	Asia for Educators	Columbia U.	US
AFEC	Association Francaise d'Etudes Chinoises	---	France
AFEMOTI	l'Association Francaise pour l'Etude de la Mediterranee Orientale et du Monde Turco-Iranien	---	France
AFPC	Association Francaise des Professeurs de Chinois	---	France
AFPPD	Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development	---	Thailand
AFRASE	Association Francaise pour la Recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est	---	France
AFTA	ASEAN Free Trade Area	ASEAN	---
AFWG	Arab Families Working Group	---	US
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AGA	Arbeitsgemeinschaft Afghanistan	---	Germany
AGSG	Asian Geography Specialty Group	Association of American Geographers	US
AH back
AHAD	American Hindus Against Defamation	---	US
AHRC	Asian Human Rights Commission	---	Hong Kong, China
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AIAS	American Institute of Afghanistan Studies	Duke U.	US
AIBC	Australia India Business Council	---	Australia
AIBS	American Institute of Bangladesh Studies	---	US
AIEJ	Academia Iberoamericana de Estudios sobre Japon	---	Mexico
AII	Australia-Indonesia Institute	DFAT	Australia
AIIA	Australian Institute of International Affairs	---	Australia
AIIFL	Asian Institute of International Financial Law	U. of Hong Kong	HK
AIIrS	American Institute of Iranian Studies	---	US
AIIS	American Institute of Indian Studies	---	US
AIJC	Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication	---	Philippines
AILS	Annual Indonesia Lecture Series	CSEAS	Australia
AIM	Asian Institute of Management	---	Philippines
AIM	Australian Islamist Monitor	---	Australia
AIMA	Australasian Institute of Maritime Archaeology	---	Australia
AIPP	Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact Foundation	---	Thailand
AIPRG	Armenian International Policy Research Group	---	US
AIPS	American Institute of Pakistan Studies	---	US
AIR Japan	Japanese Artist-in-Residence Programs	JPF	Japan
AISLS	American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies	---	US
AISRF	Australia-India Strategic Research Fund	---	Australia
AISTUGIA	Associazione Italiana per gli Studi Giapponesi	---	Italy
AIT	American Institute in Taiwan	---	Taiwan
AITPN	Asian Indigenous & Tribal Peoples Network	---	India/td>
AIU	Association of Indian Universities	---	India
AIYS	American Institute for Yemeni Studies	---	Yemen/US
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AJAL	Australian Journal of Asian Law	ALC	Australia
AJAS	American Journal of Arabic Studies	---	US
AJBA	Australian Journal of Biblical Archaeology	---	Australia
AJBA	Australia Japan Business Association	---	Australia
AJBI	Annual of the Japanese Biblical Institute	---	Japan
AJBS	Association of Japanese Business Studies	---	US
AJCP	Australian Joint Copying Project	NLA	Australia
AJCS	The American Journal of Chinese Studies	AACS	US
AJISS	Association of Japanese Institutes of Strategic Studies	---	Japan
AJJ	Anthropology of Japan in Japan	---	Japan
AJLS	Association for Japanese Literary Studies	---	US
AJRC	Australia-Japan Research Centre	APSEG	Australia
AJRP	AustraliaÐJapan Research Project	Australian War Memorial	Australia
AJS	Association for Jewish Studies	---	US
AJSS	Asian Journal of Social Sciences	--	Singapore / Hong Kong
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AKBC	Australia Korea Business Council	---	Australia
AKDN	Aga Khan Development Network	---	Switzerland
AKIP	Australia-Korea Internship	RIAP	Australia
AKPIA	Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture	Harvard U. and the MIT	US
AKS	Academy of Korean Studies	---	South Korea
AKSE	Association for Korean Studies in Europe	---	---
AKU-ISMC	Aga Khan University's Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations	Aga Khan U.	UK
AKWA	AusAID's Knowledge Warehouse	---	Australia
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ALAA	Applied Linguistics Association of Australia	---	Australia
ALADAA	Asociacion Latinoamericana de Estudios de Asia y Africa	---	Mexico
ALANZ	Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand	---	New Zealand
ALC	Asian Law Center	U. Washington	US
ALC	Asian Law Centre	U. Melbourne	Australia
ALIM	Asian Libraries in Melbourne	Monash U.	Australia
ALL	Asian Languages and Literatures	U. Minnesota	US
ALLEX	Alliance for Language Learning and Educational Exchange	---	Japan
ALMISBAH	Database of Internet Resources on the Middle East and Islam	MENALIB	Germany
ALRC	Asian Legal Resource Center	---	Hong Kong, China
ALS	Australian Linguistic Society	---	Australia
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AMBCWA	Australia-Malaysia Business Council (WA Division)	---	Australia
AMC	Asian Migrant Centre	---	Hong Kong
AMES	Asian and Middle Eastern Studies	U. Pennsylvania	US
AMEWS	Association for Middle East Women's Studies	---	US
AMI	Amnye Machen Institute	---	India
AMIC	Asian Media Information & Communication Centre	---	Singapore
AMRC	Australia Mekong Resource Center	U. of Sydney	Australia
AMRC	Asia Monitor Resource Center	---	Hong Kong
AMRC	Afghan Media Resource Center	Williams College, MA	US
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ANELL	Department of Asian & Near Eastern Languages and Literatures	Washington U. in St. Louis	US
ANEPR	Asian Network of Economic Policy Research	Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry	Japan
ANERI	Academic Network for European Research related to India	EIAS	Belgium
ANFREL	Asian Network for Free Elections	---	Thailand
ANGED	Arab Network for Gender and Development	Center of Arab Women for Training and Research	Tunisia
ANHS	Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies	---	US
ANTHSI	Anthropological Survey of India	---	India
ANUCAP	ANU College of Asia and the Pacific	ANU	Australia
ANZUS	Security Treaty between Australia, New Zealand and the United States of America	---	---
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AOS	American Oriental Society	---	US
AOV	Acta Orientalia Vilnensia	Vilnius U.	Lithuania
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APAC	Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections	British Library	UK
APACIC	Asian Pacific American Census Information Center	U. of Maryland	US
APARC	Asia/Pacific Research Center	Stanford U.	US
APBC	Australia Philippines Business Council	---	Australia
APBC-PABC	Australia Philippine Business Council and Philippine Australia Business Council	---	Australia
APCCA	Asian and Pacific Conference of Correctional Administrators	---	---
APCD	Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy	ANU	Australia
APCEIU	Asia Pacific Center for Education on International Understanding	UNESCO	---
APCICT	Asian and Pacific Training Centre for Information and Communication Technology for Development	ESCAP	S. Korea
APCS	Asia Pacific Cultural Studies e-journal.	U. Auckland	NZ
APCSN	ANU Asian and Pacific Cultural Studies Network	ANU	Australia
APCSS	Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies	---	US
APCTT	Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology	ESCAP	India
APDC	Asian and Pacific Developing Centre	---	Malaysia
APDIP	Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme	United Nations	Thailand
APDR	Asia Pacific Dispute Resolution Research Program	IAR	Canada
APEBH	Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference	U. of Sydney	Australia
APEC	Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation	---	---
APECLIT	A bibliography of published materials about APEC	Australian APEC Study Centre	Australia
APECRIN	APEC Research Information Network	IAR	Canada
APEN	Asian Pacific Environmental Network	---	US
APETAU	Association of Professors of English and Translation at Arab Universities	---	Jordan
APFC / APF Canada	Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada / Fondation Asie Pacifique du Canada	---	Canada
APFRN	Asia-Pacific Futures Research Network	---	Australia
APHD	Asian Partnership for Human Development	---	Thailand
APHERN	Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Network	APRIM	Australia
APHNC	Asia Pacific Health and Nutrition Centre	Monash U.	Australia
APIBC	Australian Pacific Islands Business Council	---	Australia
APIC	Asian and Pacific Islander Caucus of the National Education Association	---	US
APISA	Asian Political and International Studies Association	Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia	Malaysia
APISR	Asian Political and International Studies Review	APISA	Malaysia
APLP	Asia Pacific Leadership Program	EWC	US
APLPJ	Asian Pacific Law and Policy Journal	U. of Hawaii	US
APL2C	Association for Persian Language, Linguistics and Computing	U. Edinburgh	UK
APMCP	Asia Pacific Management Cooperative Program	Capilano College	Canada
APME	Asia Pacific MediaEducator	U. of Wollongong	Australia
APMRN	Asia Pacific Migration Research Network	ANU	Australia
APNA	Academy of the Punjab in North America	---	US
APNIC	Asia Pacific Network Information Center	---	Australia
APNGBC	Australian Papua New Guinea Business Council	---	Australia
APP	Asia Pacific Press	ANU	Australia
APP	Asia Policy Point	---	US
APPAF	Asia-Pacific Public Affairs Forum	---	Taiwan
APPS	Asia-Pacific Seminar Series	Australian Defence Force Academy	Australia
APQ	Asia Pacific Queer	ANU	Australia
APR	Asia Pacific Reader	U. of Toronto	Canada
APRIM	Asia Pacific Research Institute	Macquarie U.	Australia
APRMF	Asia Pacific Regional Migration Forum	ANU	Australia
APRU	Asia-Pacific Research Unit	School of Humanities, U. Sains Malaysia, Penang	Malaysia
APRU	Association of Pacific Rim Universities	---	Singapore
APS	Asia Pacific Studies	U. Helsinki	Finland
APSA	Asia Pacific Sociological Association	---	Australia / Thailand
APSA	Asian Planning Schools Association	---	Hong Kong
APSEG	Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government	ANU	Australia
APSI	Asian/Pacific Studies Institute	Duke U.	US
APSIG	Asia-Pacific Special Interest Group	Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)	Australia
APSS	Asia-Pacific Seminar Series	Australian Defence Force Academy	Australia
APT	Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art	Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art	Australia
APU	Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University	---	Japan
APW	Asia Policy Weekly	JIAP	US
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ARAL	ALAA	Australia
ARAM	Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies	---	UK
ARC	Asia Research Center	Copenhagen Business School	Denmark
ARC	Asia Research Center	National U. of Mongolia	Mongolia
ArchSoc	U. of Auckland	New Zealand
ARCM	Asian Research Center for Migration	Chulalongkorn U.	Thailand
ARCS	American Review of China Studies	ACPSS	US
ARENA	Asian Regional Exchange for Alternatives	---	South Korea
AREU	Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit	---	Afghanistan/Pakistan
ARG	Afghanistan Research Group	---	Germany
ARGO	Analisi e Ricerche Geopolitiche sull'Oriente / Geopolitical Analysis and Research on the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia	---	Italy
ARIAC	Association de Recherches et d'Informaton sur l'Asie Centrale	---	France
ARI	Asia Research Institute	NUS	Singapore
ARIC	Asia Regional Information Center	ADB	Philippines
ARIRIAB	Annual Report of The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University	IRIAB	Japan
ARISC	American Research Institute of the South Caucasus	---	US
AROSE	NBR's Asia Research Organization Search Engine	NBR	US
ARIT	American Research Institute in Turkey	---	Turkey
ARMACAD	Armenian Association for Academic Partnership and Support	---	Armenia
ARRC	Asia-Pacific Regional Resource Center for Human Rights Education	---	Thailand
ARTI	Aceh Research Training Institute	U. of Melbourne	Australia
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AS	Academia Sinica	---	Taiwan
ASAA	Asian Studies Association of Australia	---	Australia
ASAO	Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania	---	US
ASARC	Australia South Asia Research Centre	RSPAS	Australia
ASC	Asian Studies Center	U. of Cambridge	UK
ASC	Asian Studies Center	U. of Pittsburgh	US
ASCJ	Asian Studies Conference Japan	Meiji Gakuin U.	Japan
ASCK	Alliance of Scholars Concerned about Korea	---	US
ASDP	Asian Studies Development Program	EWS	US
ASI	Archaeological Survey of India	---	India
ASIAC	Associazione per lo Studio in Italia dell'Asia centrale e del Caucaso	---	Italy
ASIANET	Asian Studies in Asia Network	ANU	Australia
ASIANPA	Asian Philosophical Association	---	---
ASCJ	Asian Studies Conference Japan	Meiji Gakuin U.	Japan
ASCNK	APEC Study Center at Nankai University	Nankai U.	China
ASDP	Asian Studies Development Program	U. of Hawaii	US
ASEA UNINET	ASEAN-European Academic University Network	---	Austria
ASEAN	Association of South East Asian Nations	---	---
ASEASUK	Association for Southeast Asian Studies	---	UK
ASEF	Asia-Europe Foundation	---	Singapore
ASEM	Asia-Europe Meeting	IIAS	The Netherlands
ASEMUS	Asia-Europe Museum Network	---	Sweden
ASiA	Asian Studies in Amsterdam	U. of Amsterdam	The Netherlands
ASIAC	Associazione per lo Studio in Italia dell'Asia Centrale e del Caucaso / Italian Association for Central Asia and Caucasus	---	Italy
ASIALEX	Asian Association for Lexicography	---	Singapore
ASIANET.FI	Finnish National University Network for East and Southeast Asian Studies	---	Finland
ASIS	Icelandic Centre for Asian Studies	U. of Akureyri	Iceland
ASCJ	Asian Studies Conference Japan	AAS	Japan
ASHA	Australasian Society For Historical Archaeology	---	Australia
ASIALEX	Asian Association for Lexicography	---	---
AsianDOC	Asian Database Online Community	Ohio State U.	US
ASIANLII	Asian Legal Information Institute	U. of Technology, Sydney	Australia
ASILE	Australian Society of Indonesian Language Educators	U. of Sunshine Coast	Australia
ASJ	Asiatic Society of Japan	---	Japan
ASJ	Gateway to Asian Studies in Japan	RICAS	Japan
ASK	Advanced Study of Khmer	CSEAS	US
AskEASL	Ask an East Asian Studies Librarian	---	US
ASLI	Asian Law Institute	National U. of Singapore	Singapore
ASN	Aziatische Studenten Nederland - Asian Student Network	---	The Netherlands
ASNET	Asian Studies Network - Network for Education/Studies on Asia at the University of Tokyo	U. of Tokyo	Japan
ASNIC	Asian Studies Network Information Center	U. of Texas	US
ASOPA	Australian School of Pacific Administration	---	Australia
ASOR	American Schools of Oriental Research	Boston U.	US
ASP	Armenian Studies Program	U. of Michigan	US
ASP	American Society of Papyrologists	---	US
ASPAC	Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast	AAS	US
ASPS	Association for the Study of Persianate Societies	---	US
ASRC	Asian Studies Research Collection	Monash U.	Australia
ASRI	Asian Studies Research Institute, now Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies (RIFIAS)	Indiana U.	US
ASrIA	Association for Sustainable & Responsible Investment in Asia	---	Hong Kong
ASRL	Asian Studies Research Library	Monash U.	Australia
ASSV / VASS	Academie des Sciences Sociales du Vietnam / Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences	---	Vietnam
ASWWWVL	Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library	RSPAS	Australia
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ATBC	Australia Thailand Business Council	---	Australia
ATBC	Australia-Taiwan Business Council	---	Australia
ATD	Associazione Tibet Domani	---	Italy
ATJ	Association of Teachers of Japanese	U. of Colorado at Boulder	US
ATRF	Arafura Timor Research Facility	---	Australia
ATSEF	Arafura and Timor Seas Experts Forum	---	Australia
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AUCA	American University of Central Asia	---	Kyrgyzstan
AUW	Asian University for Women	---	Bangladesh
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AVSAM	Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies	---	Turkey
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AWAAZSAW	AWAAZ - South Asia Watch	---	UK
AWMC	Ancient World Mapping Center	U. of North Carolina	US
AWORC	Asian Women's Resource Exchange	---	---
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AYBC	Australia-Asia Youth Business Council	---	Australia
AYIEP	Australia-Indonesia Youth Exchange Program	AII	Australia

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