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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early Mar 2001
Vol. 8, No. 7 (139)

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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 28
Entries rejected: 8

08 Mar 2001
999star
UNESCO - Afghan Cultural Heritage Crisis
UNESCO - Bureau of Public Information, Paris, France
Supplied note: "UNESCO [...] has launched [in Mar 2001] an international petition and a special emergency fund to safeguard Afghan cultural heritage. We ask that you give the international e-mail petition ['UNESCO Petition to Safeguard Afghanistan Cultural Heritage', see the text in EN, ES, RU, and FR at (www.unesco.org/opi2/afghan-crisis/petitione.htm) - ed.] the widest possible distribution in your country. Sincerely yours, Mounir Bouchenaki (ADG/CLT) Helene-Marie Gosselin (DIR/OPI)."
Site contents: UNESCO Press Center; International Petition; Emergency Fund; Photos - Video; Afghan Heritage; About World Heritage; About UNESCO; The Heritage Portal; Heritage Pavilion.
[On 26 Feb 2001 the Taliban leadership ordered a mass destruction of pre-Islamic and Buddhist cultural artefacts in Afghanistan - including the world's largest standing Buddha statue at Bamiyan, AF. The UNESCO's Afghan Cultural Heritage Crisis site is available in EN, FR, RU and Arabic - ed.]
URL http://www.unesco.org/opi2/afghan-crisis/
Link reported by: Caroline Humphrey (ch10001@cam.ac.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Documents/Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not applicable

08 Mar 2001
4star
NKCHOSUN.COM - N.Korea news
Chosun Ilbo, Seoul, South Korea
Supplied note: "The Chosun Ilbo [S. Korean media group, publishers of the Digital Chosun Online Newspaper (english.chosun.com) - ed.] has opened a new web site dedicated to news from and about North Korea at 'NK.chosun.com' [...]. Contents [...] include news, information on people, geography and geology, photographs, original data, law and order, textbooks, North Korean experts, debates, economics and business, culture and arts, tourism and a children's class."
[A bilingual (KR, EN) site - ed.]
URL http://nk.chosun.com/
Link reported by: Moo-Young Han (myhan@phy.duke.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

08 Mar 2001
5star
The Chosun Journal
Edward Kim - Editor, New York, NY, USA
Self-description: "an independent, non-profit, reader-driven site whose sole agenda is to inform, provoke, and mobilize consciences for the sake of human rights in North Korea."
Site contents: Announcements; Discussion Forum; Weekly Poll; Utilities (Search, Korean-English Dictionary); Visuals; Archives; Organizations (Citizen's Alliance to Help Political Prisoners in NK, Defense Forum Foundation, Cornerstone Ministries, Commission to Help NK Refugees, RENK, Network for NK Democracy and Human Rights, Freedom House, Amnesty International, Voice of the Martyrs, The Hunger Site); Recent news [updated every 6 hrs]; Testimonies; Recommended books; Featured articles; Opinions, Getting involved.
URL http://www.chosunjournal.com/
Link reported by: Moo-Young Han (myhan@phy.duke.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News/Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

08 Mar 2001
999star
'Confucius' Mailing List
lists.gnacademy.org, USA
Supplied note: "This list focuses primarily on 'pure' Confucianism; that is, the text _The Analects_ (the _Great Learning_ etc) and its relevance, application or direct influence in ancient China or modern times. [...] To subscribe, [1] send a message to majordomo@lists.gnacademy.org [2] leave the Subject: field blank [3] in the body of the message type the command: subscribe confucius [4] or subscribe confucius-digest "
List reported by: Todd Cameron Thacker (tct25@yahoo.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

08 Mar 2001
3star
Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies
IMJS, Columbia University, USA
Supplied note: The IMJS, "founded in 1968, is an international liaison and research center. The overall purpose of the Institute is to encourage research on all aspects of Japanese civilization relative to the medieval period (primarily, but not exclusively, the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, 1185-1600), centuries which, until the 1970s, had been relatively neglected among Japanese and Western scholars alike."
Site contents: About the Institute; Spring 2001 Events; Research & Travel Grants; Publications (Days of Discipline and Grace: Treasures from the Imperial Buddhist Convents of Kyoto, kanaCLASSIC: An Electronic Guide to Learning Classical Japanese kana Writing, Seasons of Sacred Celebration: Flowers and Poetry from an Imperial Convent); IMJS Reports; Columbia Japanese Support Network; Links; Site Map.
URL http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ealac/imjs
Link reported by: Chin Yoo (cky8@columbia.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

07 Mar 2001
4star
Northern Pakistan's Rock Carvings and Inscriptions
www.thewalt.de, Wiesenbach, Germany
Site contents: A series of pages in German on (1) Buddhist rock carvings and inscriptions along the Indus river; (2) Jataka representations at Chilas and Shatial; (3) Horse representations in rock drawings in the upper Indus region; (4) Images of stupas and temples from rock carvings near Chilas; (5) Lokapalas and Caturmaharajikas in rock drawings near Chilas and Thalpan. The site also contains a number of minimalistically annotated photographs from fieldwork (1981-1984) in Altit, Bubur, Chilas, Danyor, Haldeikish, Hunza, Oshibat, and Thalpan.
URL http://www.thewalt.de/documentation/
Link reported by: Volker Thewalt (vthewalt@gmx.net), forwarded by Joanna Kirkpatrick (jkirk@micron.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

07 Mar 2001
3star
Images from Kabul Museum and Afghanistan, 1969-1974
www.thewalt.de, Wiesenbach, Germany
Supplied note: "A new Web-Site containing photographs of the years 1969-1974 from the Kabul Museum and many other places in Afghanistan. The texts are in German for the time being, but I will add english texts as soon as time allows as well as more photographs."
Site contents: Five sets of scantily annotated B&W and colour photographs from Museum Kabul-1; Museum Kabul-2; Hadda-Tepe Shotur-1; Bamiyan-1; Ghandak, Stupa Mori, Museum Ghazni, Qarez-i Mir; Bamiyan, Shewaki Surkh Kotal Minar-e Chakri.
URL http://www.thewalt.de/afghanistan/
Link reported by: Volker Thewalt (vthewalt@gmx.net), forwarded by Joanna Kirkpatrick (jkirk@micron.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

07 Mar 2001
3star
Japan Information Access Project (JIAP)
JIAP, Washington D.C, USA
Self-description: "The Japan Information Access Project is a Washington, DC-based, independent, nonprofit research center to strengthen international understanding of Japanese science, technology, industry, security, and policy."
Site contents: About; Membership; What's New? Japan Washington Watch; Programs; Pentagon Study Group; Polls; Information Resources; Publications (Conference Proceedings, Working Papers, Resource Guides, Other); Special Reports; Contact Us and Comments; Search.
URL http://www.nmjc.org/jiap/
Link reported by: Japan Information Access Project (2qstreet@nmjc.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

07 Mar 2001
4star
List of Major Search Engines and Directories in Asia
www.dreamsubmit.net, India
Self-description: "List of Search Engines and Directories specific to each country in Asia: Central Asia (103); Bangladesh (5); India (75); Nepal (5); Pakistan (11); Sri Lanka (7); East Asia (160); China/HongKong (17); Indonesia (14); Japan (17); South Korea (12); Malaysia (35); Philippines (15); Singapore (15); Taiwan (12); Thailand (12); Vietnam (11); List of major Search Engines and Directories common to [all] countries in Asia (11). [Middle East resources (48 items) have a separate page at www.dreamsubmit.net/series/Series_list_regional_middleeast1.html - ed.]."
[The list is annotated with asterixes which denote the level of difficulty in adding URLs - ed.]
URL http://www.dreamsubmit.net/series/Series_list_regional_asia1.html
Link reported by: Ravi Poovaiah (ravipoovaiah@ureach.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

07 Mar 2001
3star
ICG Central Asia Project
International Crisis Group (ICG), Brussels, Belgium and Washington D.C./New York, USA.
Supplied note: "Please note that the next in the International Crisis Group's [www.crisisweb.org - ed.] series of reports on issues effecting the potential for conflict in Central Asia has just been published: 'Islamist Mobilisation and Regional Security in Central Asia.' You may find the report on the web at [the URL below] and you can find future reports on conflict-related issues in Central Asia here as well."
URL http://www.crisisweb.org/projects/project.cfm?subtypeid=6
Link reported by: John Schoeberlein (ICG-CAP@crisisweb.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

06 Feb 2001
3star
Buddha, Taliban & Gen. Musharraf
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, (Tele.Fax.No. 44-4895235) on the above subject is now available at the Web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below]."
URL http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper208.htm
Link suggested by: B. Raman (corde@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

06 Mar 2001
999star
Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST)
SIPRI, Stockholm, Sweden
Self-description:"A free-of-charge service for politicians, journalists, researchers and the interested public. FIRST is a joint project of the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)."
Site contents: A common interface to a series of integrated online databases dealing with all countries of the world - Membership, agreements and events (Membership of international organizations, Membership of multilateral weapons and technology export control regimes, Arms control and disarmament agreements, Chemical and biological weapons conventions, Chronology of events); Conflicts and peace keeping activities (Multilateral peace missions, Major armed conflicts, Violent and non-violent conflicts, Crisis Watch: News on Current Conflicts and Peace Negotiations, Guide to internet sources on conflicts, Political violence indicators); Arms production and trade (The largest arms-producing companies, Transfers and licensed production of major conventional weapons, International arms embargoes, National conventional arms export controls); Military expenditure (Government military research and development expenditure, Military expenditure); Weapons of mass destruction (Nuclear forces, Nuclear explosions); Armed forces and conventional weapon holdings (Armed forces, weapons holdings and employment in arms production, CFE ceilings and holdings, Planned notifiable military activities, Armed forces indicators); Political system and country indicators (World Development Indicators, National parliament, electoral system and recent elections, Government stability indicators, Ethnic and religious diversity indicators, Human rights indicators, Crime/terrorism indicators, Environmental indicators, Human security indicators, Trade profile/exposure indicators); Other reference data (Security Watch: Latest News on security policy in the Euro-Atlantic region, Links to governmental and related establishments Internet sites, Map).
[For unknown reasons the interface generates only partial answers to the queries - ed.]
URL http://first.sipri.org/
Link reported by: Scout Report (scout-report@cs.wisc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

06 Feb 2001
2star
Bush Administration & India
Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, India
Supplied note: "The latest paper of the Institute For Topical Studies, A-2/3, Bharathi Dasan Colony, K.K.Nagar, Chennai---600078, India, (Tele.Fax.No. 44-4895235) on the above subject is now available at the Web site of the South Asia Analysis Group (SAAG), New Delhi, at [the URL below]."
URL http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper206.htm
Link suggested by: B. Raman (corde@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

06 Mar 2001
4star
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2000
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, US Department of State, Washington, D.C., USA, UK
Site contents: Africa; East Asia and the Pacific; Europe and the New Independent States; Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada; Near East and North Africa; South Asia; Appendixes.
URL http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/
Link reported by: Scout Report (scout-report@cs.wisc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

06 Mar 2001
5star
Manuscripts Catalogue - British Library
British Library, London, UK
Self-description: "This On-line Catalogue is designed to offer a single means of access to the mainstream catalogues of the Department of Manuscripts covering accessions from 1753 to the present day."
Site contents: About the Manuscripts' Catalogue; Search the Index; Search the Descriptions.
[An Alladin's cave, full of fabulous and most unexpected treasures - ed.]
URL http://molcat.bl.uk/
Link reported by: Scout Report (scout-report@cs.wisc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

05 Mar 2001
3star
Indonesia Human Rights Network (IHRN)
IHRN, Washington DC, USA
Supplied note: "[IHRN is] a grassroots movement actively campaigning, through public education and national advocacy in support of the archipelago's pro-democracy movement and against U.S. complicity with Indonesian military repression. The network is comprised of human rights advocates, educators, and concerned citizens from across the U.S. and around the world."
Site contents: About IHRN; Indonesia Human Rights Network Kick-Off Conference Feb 23-25 2001 at George Washington University, Washington, DC.; Action Alert: February 2001; Statements & Press Releases; About Jafar Siddiq Hamzah; Reports; Letters from IHRN; Background on Indonesia (Aceh, West Papua).
URL http://www.indonesianetwork.org/
Link reported by: Lynn Fredriksson (ihrn@etan.org), forwarded by John Miller (fbp@igc.apc.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

05 Mar 2001
3star
Center for Black Sea and Central Asia (KORA)
Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey
Self-description: "The main objective of this center [est. 1992] is to collect reliable and systematic information about the region and to develop technical cooperation with the countries of the region through various projects and research oriented activities particularly in the process of social and economic transformation these countries have been undergoing."
URL http://www.metu.edu.tr/home/wwwkora/
Link reported by: Ayse Ayata (kora@metu.edu.tr)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

05 Mar 2001
3star
Thailand Update 2001, Apr 2001
National Thai Studies Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "The 2001 National Thai Studies Centre Update will be held on the 26th and 27th of April at the Coombs Lecture Theatre at the Australian National University, Canberra. The Thai Update 2001 will be on a defence and strategic theme. Some of the topics covered will be developments in the Thai military, Thailand's strategic outlook, Thailand and its borders, peacekeeping exercises, Thailand and Australia, and Thai views on a range of regional strategic questions. Speakers will include senior Thai generals, parliamentarians and academics as well as a range of Australian officials and academics."
URL http://www.anu.edu.au/thaionline/
Link reported by: Caroline O'Sullivan (osullivan@anu.edu.au), forwarded by Greg Young (greg@orient.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

05 Mar 2001
5star
Lost and Stolen Images: Afghanistan
Huntington Archive of Buddhist and Related Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Information on stolen, lost or destroyed Afghan Buddhist art based on systematic photographs and field notes taken in Afghanistan by John and Susan Huntington in 1970.
Site contents: Bamiyan: (Big Buddha, Small Buddha); National Museum, Kabul: (Glass, Ivory, Metal, Stone , Stucco, Terracotta/Clay); A link to: Society for the Preservation of Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage's (SPACH).
Supplied note: "[Prof John Huntington] is happy to hear from anyone else with links or additional images or geospatial information. You can contact him at: huntington.2@osu.edu "
URL http://kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu/loststolen/lsafgh.html
Link reported by: Ruth Mostern (ruth@socrates.berkeley.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

02 Mar 2001
4star
Libraries of Asia Pacific (LAP)
National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Site contents: Directory of Libraries of Asia Pacific; About the Libraries of Asia Pacific Web Site; About the Conference of Directors of National Libraries of Asia and Oceania (CDNLAO); CDNLAO Meetings; CDNLAO Members; Contact Us; Calendar of Asia-Pacific Library Conferences; IFLA Section on National Libraries; IFLA Core Programme for Universal Availability of Publications (UAP); IFLA Core Programme for the Advancement of Librarianship (ALP); IFLA Section on Regional Activities: Asia and Oceania; IFLA Core Programme for Preservation and Conservation (PAC); Congresss of Southeast Asian Librarians (CONSAL); Asia and Pacific Special Interest Group (APSIG).
URL http://www.nla.gov.au/lap
Link reported by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

02 Mar 2001
4star
UCLA Center for East Asian Studies
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Supplied note: "In addition to detailed information about East Asian studies at UCLA and Asia-related programs in Southern California, the site offers several resource collections: fellowships, journals, language training, educational films, curriculum resources, Asia in the K-12 curriculum, historical documents, statistical information, today in Asian history, and Asia via the Web."
URL http://www.isop.ucla.edu/eas/
Link reported by: Clayton Dube (cdube@isop.ucla.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

01 Mar 2001
3star
30th Annual Conference on South Asia, Oct 2001
Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
Supplied note: "The 30th Annual Conference on South Asia, Oct 18-21, 2001."
Self-description: "This conference attracts 500+ scholars and other interested parties annually, and features about 70 academic panels and roundtables. [...] The Conference is sponsored by the Center for South Asia (www.wisc.edu/southasia/index.html) at the U. of Wisconsin-Madison, and held in Madison, WI, USA, in mid-October. [...] May 15, 2001: Proposal deadline."
URL http://www.wisc.edu/southasia/conf/
Link reported by: Chrissy Colby (conference@southasia.wisc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

01 Mar 2001
4star
Buddhist Resources LinksPitaka
www.ville-ge.ch, Switzerland
Supplied note: "Classified links, bibliographies, directories, documents on Buddhism. Emphasis in Pure Land Buddhism. Bilingual French-English."
URL http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/ethg/ducor/intro.htm
Link reported by: Jerome Ducor (jerome.ducor@ville-ge.ch)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

01 Mar 2001
4star
Central Asia Catalogue - Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - PK
East Asia Department - Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Germany
Supplied note: "The Central Asia Catalogue (GB encoded) contains books in the Mongolian, Tibetan, and Uyghur languages. The main bulk of the Catalogue consists of books in the Mongolian language mostly published in Mongolia after World War II, but also a fair number of publications from China (Inner Mongolia). Tibetan is represented by items published partly in China, and partly by the Tibetan exile communities in India and Nepal. There are also a few Dzongkha publications from Bhutan. Uyghur books number only a few hundreds at the time of writing (March 2001). Information on transliteration (romanization) will be found on this site as well."
URL http://ead.sbb.spk-berlin.de:8080/cat.html#cac
Link reported by: Michael Balk (michael.balk@sbb.spk-berlin.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

01 Mar 2001
5star
Center for Study of the Life and Work of William Carey, D.D. (1761-1834)
William Carey College, Hattiesburg, MS, USA
Supplied note: "[Persons] interested in British India, the Bengal Renaissance and related topics might want to investigate a fledgling website [...] on William Carey [...] (1761-1834) [...] a missionary, botanist and linguist whose career in Britain and Bengal raises questions and associations relevant to diverse disciplines."
Site contents: Baptist Missionary Society; Bible Translations; Bibliography; Digital Library; Gazetteer and Maps; History; Internet Resources; Memorabilia; Memorial Stamp and Brochure of the Indian Government; Missiology; Obituaries; Portrait Gallery; William Carey College (home of the Center and this website).
URL http://www.wmcarey.edu/carey/index2.html
Link reported by: Myron Noonkester (mnoonkester@wmcarey.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

01 Mar 2001
5star
Pure Land Buddhism WWW Virtual Library
www.ville-ge.ch, Geneva, Switzerland
Self-description: "The Internet Guide to Pure Land (Jingtu, Jodo, Shinshu) Online Resources. [...] This document is a part of the Buddhist Studies WWW Virtual Library [(www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-Buddhism.html)]"
Site contents: Resources (Jodo-shu, Jodo-Shinshu Sites, Shinshu [lists of links] Other Pure Land Sites, Pure Land / Shinshu Lists, Sites in Japanese); Directories (Academic, Jodo-shu Temples, Jodo-Shinshu Associations: America - Asia - Australia - Europe); Bibliographies; [Online] Documents; Art.
URL http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/ethg/ducor/vlpl.htm
Link reported by: Jerome Ducor (jerome.ducor@ville-ge.ch)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

01 Mar 2001
3star
Vietnam Cultural Window e-Magazine
The Gioi Publishers, Hanoi, Vietnam
Supplied note: "The Gioi Publishers (World Publishers) has been introducing Vietnam to readers at home and abroad for more than 40 years. Our monthly magazine 'Vietnam Cultural Window' is a leading English-language magazine published in Vietnam to give deep insight into Vietnamese culture and people, present and past. Since its first issue in 1998, our readers have valued the magazine as a cultural bridge connecting Vietnam with the rest of the world."
URL http://www.vnn.vn/english/vncw/
Link reported by: Le Thu Thuy (vncw@hn.vnn.vn)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News/Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

01 Mar 2001
3star
Asia-Europe Institute (AEI)
Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Self-description: "AEI is a postgraduate research and teaching institution established [in 1997 - ed.] under the Asia-Europe meeting (ASEM) process [...] it is hosted by the University of Malaya, the oldest university in Malaysia."
Site contents: About us; Location; The People; UMESP, Research Projects; Activities & Events; Application forms.
URL http://www.asia-europe-institute.org/
Link reported by: Ibrahim bin Ismail (a4rahim@umcsd.um.edu.my)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

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