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The Pacific Studies WWW Monitor ISSN 1443-8976
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The Pacific Studies WWW Monitor: Mar-Apr 2002
Vol. 3, No. 2(17)

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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 8
Entries rejected: 4

12 Apr 2002
3star
Rory Ewins' Pacific Islands Politics
www.speedysnail.com, Australia.
Self-description: "For much of the 1990s I was a student of Pacific islands politics, studying the interaction of tradition and politics in Fiji and Tonga. These pages collect some of my writings on the subject."
Site contents: Colour, Class and Custom: The Literature of the 1987 Fiji Coup; Changing Their Minds: Tradition and Politics in Contemporary Fiji and Tonga; The 1993 Silver Jubilee of Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, King of Tonga; Evolving a Theory of Tradition; Some Effects of Tradition on Politics; Notes on the 2000 Fiji Coup; The Papua New Guinea Constitution: Australia's Role in its Development, 1960-75; The Bougainville Conflict.
URL http://www.speedysnail.com/pacific/index.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.speedysnail.com/pacific/index.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

08 Apr 2002
4star
Asia Pacific - ABC Radio Australia
ABC Radio, Melbourne, Australia.
Supplied note: "'ASIA PACIFIC' - our popular thrice-daily 25-minute radio program, which is also accessible on the web - provides daily analysis and coverage of events throughout the region: from China to Cook Islands, from India to Papua New Guinea and all points in between. The program aims to provide background to the headlines, drawing on the expertise of specialist reporters, academics, analysts and key players from the worlds of politics, economics and social development across Asia and the Pacific. We are now offering, free of charge, a twice-daily email update, which summarises the content of each program. "
Site contents: Latest Program; Hear Us; Regional Info; Your Say; About Us; Search; Archives; Links; Events; Contact.
URL http://abc.net.au/ra/asiapac
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/abc.net.au/ra/asiapac
Link reported by: Andria E Hutchins (hutchins.andria@abc.net.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 3000

27 Mar 2002
3star
Calendar of Pacific Events
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Self-description: "[T]he South Pacific Information Network Calendar of Pacific Events [... deals] with Seminars and Conferences held on the region. [...] The calendar[...] can be browsed by day, week, month and year, there is also a search [...] facility. If you would like to submit a seminar, conference or event to do with the Pacific please e-mail Allison Ley at the Pacific Islands Liason Centre (allison@coombs.anu.edu.au)."
URL http://sunsite.anu.edu.au/spin/calendar/www-cal.cgi
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [Not archived. The Archive's access to the documents has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt.]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

11 Mar 2002
4star
Fiji Page
www.justpacific.com, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Site contents: * Essays and articles on Fiji (Fiji Coup 2000: essays, book reviews and weblinks Essays/articles on Fijian Art); * Fijian art and material culture; * Rod Ewins Anthropology Publications List (particularly Fiji); * Fiji photographs; * Engravings in old books on Fiji; * Fiji bibliographies: Fiji Bibliography (600+ entries) and Fiji Tourism Bibliography (c.200 entries) [Two documents in PDF format - ed.]; * Websites related to Fiji.
URL http://www.justpacific.com/fiji/index.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.justpacific.com/fiji/index.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/Documents/Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

12 Mar 2002
5star
The Compacts of Free Association Renegotiations
Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center & Center for Pacific Islands Studies/University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, USA
Supplied note: "The FSM and the Republic of the Marshall Islands are currently negotiating the terms under which their Compact of Free Association with the United States will be extended. This website, from the Pacific Islands Development Program/East-West Center in Hawaii, collects links to the current text of the Compact, statements and proposals by the negotiating teams, news articles on the negotiations, U.S. General Accounting Office reports relevant to the negotiations, and other sources. Much of this information is not easily obtainable elsewhere."
URL http://pidp.eastwestcenter.org/pireport/special/cofa_special.htm
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [not archived at the time of this notice]
Link reported by: Dan MacMeekin (dan@macmeekin.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

12 Mar 2002
5star
Legal Information System of the Federated States of Micronesia
FSM Supreme Court, Palikir, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia.
Supplied note: "The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) has established one of the most modern and accessible national online legal resources available anywhere. [...] The Legal Information System of the Federated States of Micronesia includes: * the national Constitution and the constitutions of each of the FSM's constituent states: Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Yap; * for the nation and for each state the code of aws, judicial decisions, rules of court, and selected administrative regulations, well organized by a user-friendly index of drop-down menus; * the Compact of Free Association, establishing the current relationship between the United States, on the one hand, and the FSM (as well as the Republic of the Marshall Islands); and * a collection of historical legal documents, including the Trusteeship Agreement for the Japanese Mandated Islands, under which the FSM and most of the rest of Micronesia were governed by the United States from 1947 until recent years."
URL http://www.fsmlaw.org/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [not archived at the time of this notice]
Link reported by: Dan MacMeekin (dan@macmeekin.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

07 Mar 2002
2star
Pacific Islands Music & Dance: A CyberGuide
personal homepage, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Supplied note: "Pacific Islands Music & Dance: A CyberGuide, Compiled Winter 2001. This site was started as a project for the 'Music of the Pacific Islands' course at the University of Michigan in Winter 2001 Contents Include: Pacific Islands: Web Directories; Pacific Islands: General Information; Pacific Islander Music & Dance: General Resources, Regions: Melanesia, Regions: Micronesia, Regions: Polynesia; Radio Stations and Archives; Exotica & Tiki Culture."
[The site contains occasional typing errors - ed.]
URL http://www-personal.umich.edu/~akstill/CyberGuide/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www-personal.umich.edu/~akstill/CyberGuide/
Link reported by: David P. Dillard (jwne@astro.ocis.temple.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

04 Mar 2002
3star
Samoan Pedagogy Workshop, Jun 2002
National Foreign Language Resource Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI, USA
Supplied note: "Ia Faalautele Lau Gagana - Samoan Pedagogy Workshop (June 24-29) [2002] This workshop will bring together experts in Samoan Language teaching, teacher training, materials development, and Samoan Language content areas (e.g., oratory, grammar, literature) to share information and to discuss a range of Samoan Language curriculum development issues (e.g., community awareness, literacy education, resources, language structure, and use, etc.). For applications or more information, visit [URL below]"
URL http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/si02s/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/prodev/si02s/
Link reported by: National Foreign Language Resource Center (nflrc@hawaii.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

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