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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early Dec 2001
Vol. 8, No. 27 (159)

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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 9
Entries rejected: 15

05 Dec 2001
4star
Institute for War and Peace Reporting's site in Russian
Institute for War and Peace Reporting, London, UK.
Supplied note: "[IWPR's] first fully-in-Russian site for Central Asia and Afghanistan at [the URL below]. The new Russian-language site contains the news reports and analyses from Central Asia (including news from Afghanistan) as well as information on the regional project activities and events. It also contains additional materials from the region that did not appear on the English site. Russian native speakers translate all of the materials. Just as our English site www.iwpr.net, the Russian one is updated regularly."
Site contents: [in Russian] Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Region, Round Table, Search, Archive, Links.
URL www.iwpr.net/rus.html
Internet Archive [not archived at the time of this note]
Link reported by: Natasha Chernyshova (natasha@iwpr.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News/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

05 Dec 2001
5star
Project South Asia (PSA)
Missouri Southern State College, Joplin, MO, USA.
Self-description: "A digital library for improving the study and teaching of South Asia, focusing especially on India and Pakistan."
Site contents: About PSA; Project Director and Staff; Board of Editors; Information for Contributors, Have Suggestions?; Search; [documents archive for] - Anthropology, Archaeology, Art History, Drama, Economics, Folklore Studies, Geography, Health Sciences, History, International Affairs, Kashmir Studies, Languages, Law, Literature, Music, Numismatics, Philosophy, Political Science, Religions, Sociology, Women's Studies; Teaching South Asia; Maps; Images; Course Syllabi; Study Abroad; External Links; Conferences.
[An important and promising collaborative initiative, launched in Feb 2000. The website, when completed, will contain an (1) on-line historical dictionary of South Asia; (2) an encyclopedia of indexed on-line essays; (3) annotated bibliographies of works in the field and other reference materials; (4) an image bank of historical and contemporary South Asian political figures, cityscapes and landscapes, secular and religious architecture, the arts, and maps; (6) a digital archive of documents, texts, translations, and other primary sources; (7) course syllabi; (8) information about the study and teaching of South Asian languages, especially Hindi; (9) details about study and internship abroad programs in South Asia. The Project's goal is to include materials that will be of utility to a wide range of users, emphasizing those materials and resources that are not currently available on the Internet, and are not easily accessible through inter-library loan or other similar means - ed.]
URL http://www.mssc.edu/projectsouthasia
Internet Archive http://web1.archive.org/web/*/www.mssc.edu/projectsouthasia
Link reported by: Dr Karl Schmidt (schmidt-k@mail.mssc.edu)
* 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

04 Dec 2001
3star
Risorse per Gli Studi Buddisti su Internet [Internet Resources for Buddhist Studies]
www.rekalldesign.com, Rovigno, Croatia.
Supplied note "A[n annotated] library of [50 - ed.] most important Buddhist Resources on the World Wide Web. Each of the resources is carefully selected and analyzed [in terms] of its tradition, content, language, etc. The resources are sorted [... by their geographic location] (China, Taiwan, South-East Asia, West) and category (academic and non academic resources [...]. The resources belong to various traditions. The web site is in Italian language, [...] Chinese characters have not been displayed yet."
Site contents: Theoria - Indice; Prefazione; Capitoli: I, II, III, IV; Appendici: A , B; Bibliografia. Risorse - Geographia; Tipologia.
[Results of a ?BA thesis completed in Oct 2001 at the Universita Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy - ed.]
URL http://www.rekalldesign.com/users/risorse/
Internet Archive [not archived at the time of this note]
Link reported by: Ingrid Stojnic (ingridstojnic@lycos.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: 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

04 Dec 2001
3star
Center for Korean Image Promotion Project (KIPP)
Korea Educational Development Institute (KEDI), Seoul, Korea.
Self-description: "A program dedicated to correcting and adjusting various misinformation and inaccuracies about Korea in foreign educational materials such as textbooks, publications, maps, encyclopedias, dictionaries, yearbooks, and displays. KIPP provides accurate information about Korea; advises and suggests the respective publishing authorities to promote a correct image of Korea all over the world."
Site contents: Mission; History; Activities; Direction; East Asia; Southeast Asia; Southwest Asia; Africa; Europe and Australia; North and South America; Finding Errors; Chronology; Reports for analysis of contents; Materials for analysis of contents; Survey Reports; Materials for correction of contents; Sites; Bulletin Board.
[A bilingual web site (KR, EN) which grew out of a governmental project commenced in 1975. According to its own statistics, between the launch on 1 Nov and 4 Dec 2001 it had had 10 (ten) online visitors - ed.]
URL http://koreana.kedi.re.kr/english/
Internet Archive http://web1.archive.org/web/*/koreana.kedi.re.kr/
Link reported by: Jung-Ah Lee (leex0487@kedi.re.krg), forwarded by Moo-Young Han (myhan@phy.duke.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

03 Dec 2001
999star
The Ongoing Sixth Dalai Lama Project
Inverlussa, Argyll, Scotland
Self-description: "Translations and studies of documents concerned with tle life and work of Tsangyang Gyatso, the sixth Dalai Lama [(1683-1706) - ed.]."
Site contents: Tsang-dbyangs rGya-mtshoši mgu-glu ('The Songs of Tsang-dbyangs rGya-mtsho'); Rig-'dzin Tsang-dbyang rGya-mtsho'i gSung-mgur ('The Lyrics of the Vidyadhara Tsang-dbyangs rGya-mtsho') Folksongs; The Edict, issued by the Fifth Dalai Lama, appointing Sangs-rgyas rGya-mtsho as his sDe-srid.
URL http://pages.eidosnet.co.uk/~qamutiik/6dlindex
Internet Archive http://web1.archive.org/web/*/pages.eidosnet.co.uk/~qamutiik/6dlindex
Link reported by: Simon Wickham-Smith (qamutiik@eidosnet.co.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

01 Dec 2001
3star
Institute for International Cooperation and Development
IICD, Williamstown, MA, USA
Supplied note: "IICD is a nonprofit organization which educates volunteers to do training (cultural, language) and participate in development projects in [... several countries, including ] India, [and] Vietnam [...] Our aim is to enable ordinary people to become a part of improving the living conditions of others on our planet and to promote global understanding and respect. The areas where our volunteers learners take an active role are Education, Agriculture, Health Care, AIDS awareness campaigns, Micro economic development and Environmental programs. The Institute [...] cooperates [...] with the [...] HUMANA People to People movement. HUMANA is an international N[GO] currently running over 150 projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America involving more than 300,000 people. So far, more than 4000 volunteers have participated as Development Instructors in starting up and running these projects."
URL http://www.iicdmi.org/
Internet Archive http://web1.archive.org/web/*/www.iicdmi.org/
Link reported by: Teresa Boness (information@iicdmi.org)
* 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

01 Dec 2001
5star
Asia: The World News Network
The World News Network, South Roy, UT, USA
Self-description: "Worldnews.com, a multilingual news portal known for its independent coverage, offers a unique, tailor-made [online] news service [...]. Powered by a proprietary news search engine, Worldnews uses several hundred online news sources in 20 languages and presents them in over 500 subject and geographical categories."
Site contents: A fully searchable collection of current and past news from AsiaDaily.com; AsiaHeadlines.com; AsiaPacificNews.com; BangkokNews.com; BeijingGlobe.com; BangaldeshDaily.com; BurmaDaily.com; CalcuttaPost.com; ChinaNewsAgency.com; Timor.com; FijiPost.com; IndonesiaPost.com; PanIndiaNews.com; JapanGlobe.com; Asia News Sites:; LaosGlobe.com; TokyoGlobe.com; KashmirNews.com; MalaysiaPost.com; North Korea Daily; PakistanDaily.com; PhilippinesPost.com; SingaporeNews.com; SeoulDaily.com; Sri Lanka; TaiwanGlobe.com; ThailandDaily.com; HongKongRadio.com; TaiwanFM.com [Middle East is dealt with at www.wnmideast.com address - ed.] Also, a collection of photos from: Arab World; Asia; Asia Pacific; Middle East; Australia & Oceania and other parts of the world.
URL http://www.worldnewsasia.com/
Internet Archive http://web1.archive.org/web/*/www.worldnewsasia.com/
Link reported by: Alan S. Harrell (ashandrr@ashlists.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News/Online Guide
* 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

01 Dec 2001
4star
1000dictionaries.com
www.1000dictionaries.com, FL , USA
Supplied note: "Links to over 3,000 Free Online Dictionaries & Many Other Means of Reference."
Site contents: Arts; Business & Finance; Computers & Internet; Encyclopedias; Food; Health & Medicine; Languages (Translating); Law; Music; Reading & Writing (English); Religion & Philosophy; Science; Sports; Miscellaneous.
[A collection of largely unannotated links - ed.]
URL http://www.1000dictionaries.com/dindex.html
Internet Archive http://web1.archive.org/web/*/www.1000dictionaries.com/dindex.html
Link reported by: Anonymous (foggy@terragon.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* 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 1000

01 Dec 2001
3star
West Papua Project: Promoting Dialogues for Peace
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS), University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Self-description: "Goal: To promote dialogue between the people of West Papua and Indonesia, and promote strategies for the resolution of conflict."
Site content: Project; Links; Position Papers; Personnel; Workshops.
URL http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/Arts/departs/cpacs/wppmain.htm
Internet Archive http://web1.archive.org/web/*/www.arts.usyd.edu.au/Arts/departs/cpacs/wppmain.htm
Link reported by: Allison Ley (allison.ley@anu.edu.au)
* 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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