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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late Sep 2000
Vol. 7, No. 123

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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 9
Entries rejected: 9

29 Sep 2000
5star
Tibetan Language Kit (Mac) Home Page
Shin Buddhist Comprehensive Research Institute, Otani University, Japan
Self-description: "The TLK is a 'plug-in' for your Macintosh computer running MacOS versions 7.6 or later. It provides the fonts, keyboard layouts, and script information needed to enter and display Tibetan text. With the TLK installed, you can enter Tibetan text in word processors, databases, and other Macintosh software that handles multi-script text."
[The software is freely available from Tibetan Works Project, Shin Buddhist Comprehensive Research Institute, Otani University, Kyoto, Japan - ed.]
URL http://www.otani.ac.jp/cri/TLK/index.html
Link suggested by: Philippe Lepleux (Phil.Lepleux@pop.wanadoo.fr)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

28 Sep 2000
5star
Owed Justice: Thai Women Trafficked into Debt Bondage in Japan
Human Rights Watch, USA
Supplied note: "Thousands of Thai women are 'trafficked' every year into Japan, where many of them endure slavery-like conditions in the Japanese sex industry. According to 'Owed Justice: Thai Women Trafficked into Debt Bondage in Japan,' (published on Sep 21, 2000), the women are typically promised lucrative jobs by traffickers in Thailand, but arrive in Japan to find themselves trapped in 'debt.'"
[Report details: 'OWED JUSTICE Thai Women Trafficked into Debt Bondage in Japan', New York - Washington - London - Brussels: Human Rights Watch. ISBN 1-56432-252-1 Library of Congress Card Number: 00-107963 - ed.]
URL http://www.hrw.org/reports/2000/japan/
Link suggested by: Web Admin (webadmin@hrw.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

26 Sep 2000
4star
Indian Cyber Resources for Journalists: Technology, Tools and Ethics
vsnl.com, Mumbai, India
Supplied note: "Tips for Computer Assisted Reporting: How to find owners of domains, paper on Technology Advances in Journalism, Manisana Wage Board (tentative proposal), Report of the Press Council of India on 'favours' to journalists and links to more than 600 Government Departments, agencies, research institutions and banks in India."
[R. Mathew works as a Special Correspondent, "The Hindu" (www.the-hindu.com), Kerala, India - ed.]
URL http://education.vsnl.com/journalist/
Link suggested by: Roy Mathew (roymathew@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

25 Sep 2000
4star
Motilal Banarsidass: Online Indian Bookstore
Motilal Banarsidass, India
Supplied note: "We publish and sell Indian books [since 1903 - ed.] from all Indian Publishers. We can meet all your requirements of Indian books."
[Another informative and well structured site (this time commercial) from South Asia - ed.]
URL http://www.mlbd.com
Link suggested by: Varun Jain (mlbd@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

25 Sep 2000
4star
Rahmat Ali (1897-1951), Founder of Pakistan
rahmatali.com, Cambridge, UK
Self-description: "A Cambridge University law student, Rahmat Ali, has played a crucial role in Pakistan history. Rahmat Ali coined the name 'Pakistan' and initiated a movement for its realisation in 1933 with the publication of his Pakistan Declaration (Now or Never), which led to the Pakistan or Lahore Resolution seven years later and eventually to the establishment of the country in 1947. He has, hence, been called the 'Founder of Pakistan' and ranks among Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah (Father of Pakistan) and Allama Iqbal (Poet-Philosopher). This [site] is dedicated to his life and works."
Site contents: Chronology; Rahmat Ali, 1897-1951; Biographical articles; Photographs of Rahmat Ali; The word 'Pakistan'; Text of Pakistan Declaration, 1933; Shelleys Rahmat Ali page.
URL http://www.slam33.freeserve.co.uk/index.htm
Link suggested by: Ihsan Aslam (ihsan@rahmatali.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

24 Sep 2000
999star
A Companion to Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching
www.taoteching.co.uk, Harrogate, UK
Supplied note: "Provision of enhanced access to Tao-Te-Ching for 'non-Chinese readers' which does not depend on interpretative material. Includes: full range of meaning for each Chinese character (Lao-Chieh-Lao edition to Karlgren) guide to syntax for each sentence. Some content in draft form as the resource is being continuously developed. Sorry, but there is a nominal charge for one downloadable item. (This to help meet on-going costs as the resource is retirement-pension funded.) Editions 1 & 2 of the material in printed book format - 'A Companion to Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching' - have been purchased by a number of European Universities."
URL http://www.taoteching.co.uk
Link suggested by: Dan Hermann (dan@taoteching.co.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

24 Sep 2000
4star
U.S., Tibet and China 1964-1968
U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, USA
Self-description: "Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, Volume XXX, China, Department of State, Washington, DC, Questions Pertaining to Tibet."
Declassified documents about US overt and covert support for, and dealings with, Tibetans during the years 1964-1968.
Site contents: Document 337. Memorandum for the Special Group [Jan 1964]; 338. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in India [Dec 1964]; 339. Telegram From the Mission to the United Nations to the Department of State [Nov 1965]; 340. Memorandum of Conversation [Dec 1965]; 341. Telegram From the Department of State to the Embassy in India [Mar 1966]; 342. Memorandum for the 303 Committee [Jan 1968]; 343. Memorandum of Conversation [Dec 1968].
URL http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/vol_xxx/337_343.html
Link suggested by: Dan Martin (msyben@mscc.huji.ac.il)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

21 Sep 2000
5star
Digital South Asia Library (DSAL)
Center for Research Libraries, University of Chicago, Chicago, Il, USA
Supplied note: "A global collaborative effort to make important and rare resources available to the international community. [...] DSAL has acquired permission to digitize and scan an array of important resources from a variety of institutions, thereby making access to rare materials a reality for scholars worldwide. [...] Participants in DSAL include CRL, the South Asia Microform Project, the Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation, the Association for Asian Studies, the Library of Congress, the Asia Society, the British Library, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, MOZHI in India, the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in India, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya in Nepal, other institutions in South Asia, and leading universities in the U.S."
Site contents: Reference Resources; Bibliographies and Union Lists; Images; Indexes; Maps; Books and Journals; Statistics; Other Internet Resources [wisely and efficiently DSAL does not compile a brand new catalog of relevant links, but takes advantage of the existing expert resource at Columbia U., namely it makes a link to SARAI (www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/area/sarai/) - ed.]; About DSAL; Site Map; Copyright; Contact Information; Search this Site; Funding; Participating; Institutions.
[Site under intensive construction. Its full usefulness will become apparent in in the next few months - ed.]
URL http://wwwcrl.uchicago.edu/dsal
Link suggested by: Michael Khoo (cas@spot.colorado.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

21 Sep 2000
3star
Intl. Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) - Aug 2001
Freie Universitaet Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Supplied note: "All Asia Scholars around the world are invited to participate in the Second International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 2) to be held in Berlin, Germany, between Aug 9 and 12, 2001.[...] The conference [a follow up on Jun 1998 ICAS 1, Leiden, Netherlands - ed.] is aimed at providing a broad and inclusive forum for all scholars working on issues related to Asian studies and seeking a way of establishing or improving their international networks."
[Deadline for proposals of papers and sessions 1 Dec 2000 - ed.]
URL http://www.fu-berlin.de/icas2/
Link suggested by: Michael Paschal (mpaschal@aasianst.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

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