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"The Pacific Studies WWW Monitor" (ISSN 1443-8976) was established
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The Pacific Studies WWW Monitor ISSN 1443-8976
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The Pacific Studies WWW Monitor: May 2000
Vol. 1, No. 2
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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 10
Entries rejected: 2
24 May 2000
Networking for Change in the Pacific Islands, Nov 2000
Public Administration Program, Golden Gate University, CA, USA
Supplied note:
"The Public Administration program at Golden Gate University in co
sponsorship with the Public Administration program, University of
Hawaii, Manoa and the American Society of Public Administration,
announce an invitational symposium, 'Managing for Results:
Networking for Change in the Pacific Islands.' This symposium will be
held between Nov 2-4, 2000 at the East West Center, University of
Hawaii."
URL http://www.ggu.edu/schools/ls&pa/public_admin/event.html
Link suggested by: Mercy Lim (mlim@ggu.edu), forwarded by Michael R. Ogden (ogden@hawaii.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
23 May 2000
Cook Islands Website
kiaorana.com, FL, USA
Supplied note:
"A website for current and former Cook Island residents, and those
interested in the Cook Islands around the world. Included is the Cook
Island Star newspaper, which I publish online in partnership with the print
publisher in Auckland, NZ."
Site contents: Home; Culture; Recreation; News; Weather; Vacation;
Sitemap; Contact Us; Links; Cook Island Star (kiaorana.com/star/index.html)
URL http://kiaorana.com/
Link suggested by: Benjamin F. DeClue (kiaorana@mac.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide/News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
23 May 2000
Travel,
trade, migration, and movement in Vanuatu, Oct 2000
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Self-description:
"'Walking about: travel, trade, migration, and movement in Vanuatu. A
cross-disciplinary discussion.' 13-14 Oct 2000 Centre for
Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University [...] Papers
are invited from a variety of disciplinary perspectives which address
the theme of movement in Vanuatu - in the past and in the present."
URL http://www.anu.edu.au/culture/activities/conferences.html
Link suggested by: Lissant Bolton (lbolton@british-museum.ac.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
22 May 2000
Best Web Sites for Information on the Fiji Crisis
Pacific Media Watch, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA
A list of links to USP's Journalism students, Fijian newspapers, and
the Pacific News Agencies.
URL http://pidp.ewc.hawaii.edu/PIReport/2000/May/05-19-Mon4.htm
Link suggested by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
20 May 2000
Solomon Islands Department of Commerce, Employment and Tourism
Solomon Islands Government, Solomon Islands
Supplied note:
"Official portal site, set up by UNDP/UNIDO project, promotes
government, commerce, investment, indigenous business, tourism section
with country info, all SIG contact details, latest news headlines from
solomon islands broadcasting authority, webmaster deals with all and
any enquiries about Solomon Islands promptly."
URL http://www.commerce.gov.sb
Link suggested by: David Leeming (Webmaster) (commerce@commerce.gov.sb)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
18 May 2000
Toxic
waste shipment to Wake Island for temporary storage
US Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
Self-description:
"The Defense Logistics Agency announced today [5 May 2000] that a
shipment of waste material containing very low levels of PCBs
(polychlorinated biphenyls) will be moved no later than May 18, 2000,
from Japan to Wake Island [Eneen-Kio, EnenKio Atoll - ed.] until final
disposition is determined."
[The Kingdom of Eneen-Kio's concerns regarding the above announcement
are made available at http://www.enenkio.org/WhatsNew/news_rel_5-10-00.htm
- ed.]
URL http://usembassy.state.gov/posts/ja1/wwwhp029.html
Link suggested by: Robert Moore (enenkio@webtv.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
08 May 2000
Asia-Pacific Library Conferences
www.geocities.com, Canberra, Australia
Self-description:
"A Calendar of conferences, seminars and workshops. This Calendar
contains details of conferences and similar activities relating to the
Asia-Pacific region which are of interest to librarians and other
information managers."
Site contents: Events in 2000; Events in 1999; Events in 1998; Events
in 1997; Events in 1996.
[The site is an official member of the Asian Studies and
Pacific Studies WWW VL (coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLAsianStudies.html, and
coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPacificStudies.html)
archipelago of online scholary resources - ed.]
URL http://www.geocities.com/asia_pages/asiaconf/APConfTop.html
Link suggested by: Susan MacDougall,
(susan.macdougall@alianet.alia.org.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
07 May 2000
Short Story set in Hawaii
home.earthlink.net, Kirby Wright, USA
Supplied note:
"Excerpt from a short story set on the island of Molokai.
Writer is listed in 18th edition of 'Who's Who in the World'."
URL http://home.earthlink.net/~kirby33
Link suggested by: Kirby Wright (kirby33@earthlink.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Marginal
05 May 2000
Government of the Cook Islands
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Supplied note:
"Government of the Cook Islands central site containing Government
news, media releases and links to Government sites."
URL http://www.cook-islands.gov.ck/
Link suggested by: (jeanne@oyster.net.ck)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
03 May 2000
Rongorongo Home Page
Sergei V. Rjabchikov, an independent expert, Russia
Supplied note:
"Sergei V. Rjabchikov's papers on his decipherment of the Easter
Island (Rapa Nui) script, rongorongo, are published here."
URL http://rongorongo.chat.ru/index.htm
Link suggested by: Sergei V. Rjabchikov (srjabchikov@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
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