The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late Jun 2002
Vol. 9, No. 11 (171)

26 Jun 2002

Cultural Frontiers in Question - Nation, Religion, Refugees, Jul 2002
University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "'Cultural Frontiers in Question - Nation, Religion, Refugees.' National Museum of Australia, 10-12 July 2002. The conference interrogates the form and consequence of cultural encounters between nations and religions in the current troubled global political context. It brings together speakers from a variety of backgrounds and nationalities. In particular, a delegation from Turkey will discuss that country's role as a cultural frontier between Islam and the West."
URL http://www.ce.canberra.edu.au/cultfront/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this note]
Link reported by: Margaret Russell (margr@comedu.canberra.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

25 Jun 2002

Zawya.com: Arab Business and Finance
ABQ Zawya, Dubai, U.A.E/London, UK.
Supplied note: "If you have business interests in the Arab world, or simply want to keep up with what's happening in this volatile section of our globe, a good site to visit is Zawya.com. [...The site] focuses on business news and information, [... including] the stock market, the oil & gas industry, and other areas of the Arab world. There are some fee-based services on this site (the ones with a little green key next to them), but there's also a lot of free stuff."
Site contents: Search, Markets; Industries; Countries; All Arab News; Opinion; Press Releases; Press Digests; Agriculture; Environment; Healthcare; Political Affairs; Social Issues; Transport; Travel & Tourism.
URL http://www.zawya.com
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.zawya.com
Link reported by: Federation of International Trade Associations (newsletter@fita.imakenews.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 3000

25 Jun 2002

IraniBook.com, Tehran, Iran
IraniBook.com, Tehran, Iran
Supplied note: "IraniBook.com is the first [online] Iranian Bookshop for selling and buying rare and unused Persian Books."
URL http://www.iranibook.com
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this note]
Link reported by: IraniBook.com (admin@iranibook.com)
* 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

25 Jun 2002

Indian MEDLARS Centre
National Informatics Centre, New Delhi, India
Self-description: "The ICMR-NIC Centre for Biomedical Information (Indian MEDLARS Centre) has designed and developed a bibliographic database from Indian biomedical literature. To startwith 75 prominent Indian journals, have been selected to build up the database entitled IndMED. More journals would be added to the list as their quality improves in coming years. It is proposed to cover the journals from 1985 onwards in this database. "
URL http://indmed.nic.in
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/indmed.nic.in
Link reported by: Naina Pandita (nainap@hub.nic.in)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Documents
* 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 300

23 Jun 2002

Books & Periodicals Agency, New Delhi, India
Books & Periodicals Agency, New Delhi, India
An online bookshop with books in English, Hindi and Sanskrit. Over 1,30,000 books, 356 subjects, 39 countries.
Site contents: Search, E-shop; FAQ, WishList; Special Lists (Art, Afghanistan, Africa, Buddhism, Biology, Christianity, History, Indonesia, Library Science, Malaysia, Myanmar, Numismatics, Plants, South East Asia)
URL http://www.bpagency.com
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.bpagency.com
Link reported by: Books & Periodicals Agency (bpage@del2.vsnl.net.in)
* 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 300

23 Jun 2002

TARU - Books & Journals, New Delhi, India
TARU - Books & Journals, New Delhi, India
Supplied note: "Exporters [since 1976] of Books, Journals, Serial Publications, Proceedings, Govt. Publications, Rare Books, Back Volumes on all subjects from any publisher in India."
[Summary information about the enterprise. No online access, so far, to TARU catalogues - ed.]
URL http://www.tarubooks.com
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this note]
Link reported by: Rupesh Gupta (rupesh@tarubooks.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* 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

22 Jun 2002

Links to Resources on the Middle East and Judaica
Near East Division, The University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Site contents: [annotated links to world-wide] Resources on the Ancient Near East; General Middle Eastern Resources; Resources on Judaica and Hebraica (including Israel); Resources on Turkey and Turkish Studies; Computers and Languages of the Near East; Scholarly and Professional Associations; Library Related and Publishers' Site;s News and Electronic Publications; Resources in Linguistics; Electronic Text Collections; Bibliographical Resources in Middle Eastern Studies (Course Handouts and Other Bibliographic Resources, Other Guides, Bibliographic Managment Software).
URL http://www.lib.umich.edu/area/Near.East/NewLinks.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.lib.umich.edu/area/Near.East/NewLinks.html
Link reported 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]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

21 Jun 2002

Ghale Treks & Expeditions
Ghale Treks & Expeditions, Kathmandu, Nepal
Supplied note: "Tour operator in Nepal offering outdoor adventures and urban sightseeing..."
Site contents: Trekking; Expedition; Rafting; City Sightseeing; Jungle Safari; Tibet & Bhutan Tour; Village Home Stay; Tour Nepali Cooking Class.
URL http://www.ghalegroup.com
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.ghalegroup.com
Link reported by: Ram Ghale (rambg@mailbox.com.np)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

21 Jun 2002

The Empire that was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii Photographic Record Recreated
Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA
Supplied note: "Dear friends and colleagues, You may remember my recommendation of a few months back to take a look at the Library of Congress website: 'The Empire that was Russia [...]' It provides some striking [manually reconstructed] color views of Central Asia and the Caucasus taken [as three separate black-and-white glass-plate images, each through a different filter (red, green, or blue) - ed.] by this Russian photographer [... between 1907 to 1915 - ed.]. Since then, the LC has provided a searchable database for the whole collection [of 1,903 images] in b&w at: lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/prokquery.html They are still working out some of the subject indexing issues, but it is highly useful. Relatively rough color images [synthetised by a computer program by Frank Dellaert - ed.] for the whole collection are now available at: www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dellaert/aligned/ Furthermore, Russell Manning has posted his [automatic recombination of separated color channels of] color renderings at: www.cs.wisc.edu/~rmanning/homepage/research/prokudin-gorsky/ I trust you will find these interesting. Best, Jeff."
Site contents: Object List; Credits; Chronology; Exhibition sections: (Photographer to the Tsar: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii [1863-1944], Architecture, Ethnic Diversity, Transportation, People at Work); Making Color Images from Prokudin-Gorskii's Negatives; Read More About It; Search the Entire Collection.
URL http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
Link reported by: Jeff Spurr (spurr@fas.harvard.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* 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

21 Jun 2002

Central Eurasian Studies Society Annual Conference, Oct 2002
Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
Self-description: "The Central Eurasian Studies Society [...] is pleased to announce the convening of the Third Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society [October 17-20, 2002 University of Wisconsin-Madison]. We would like to request submission of paper proposals that concern Central Eurasian studies. These include: history, languages, cultures, and modern states and societies of the Turkic, Mongolian, Iranian, Caucasian, Tibetan and other peoples of the Black Sea region, the Crimea, the Caucasus, the Middle Volga region, Central and Inner Asia and Siberia, and teaching and research about these topics and areas. We also strongly encourage proposals for pre-organized panels, including a chair and discussant. Pre-organized panels may be sponsored by scholarly organizations related to any part of Central Eurasia. Additional information about past and forthcoming CESS Annual Conferences is available at the CESS website: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/cess/ "
URL http://www.wisc.edu/creeca/conferences/caworkshop.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this note]
Link reported by: Gregory Gleason (gleasong@unm.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

21 Jun 2002

The Terrorist Meteorites & The Pakistanisation of Al Qaeda
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]."
[Notes on post-October 7, 2001 developments among the approx. 600 strong Al Qaeda and approx. 50,000 strong International Islamic Front (a united front combining the Al Qaeda, the Taliban, five organisations of Pakistan, three of Egypt, two of Uzbekistan and one each of the Philippines and Xinjiang). The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers5/paper480.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this note. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.saag.org]
Link reported 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
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

21 Jun 2002

Indonesian Digital Library Network (IndonesiaDLN)
IndonesiaDLN, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Supplied note: "The Indonesian Digital Library Network, IndonesiaDLN, is the first digital library (DL) network in Indonesia [see the URL below]. The development was pioneered and driven by the Knowledge Management Research Group (KMRG) at the Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) Indonesia, together with other librarians and information engineers. [...] The mission of IndonesiaDLN is to [...] provide information about Indonesia, including information about Indonesian final projects, theses, dissertations and research reports, as well as such topics as its heritage, regional power and history. [...] IndonesiaDLN [...] will serve as a hub that will unify all metadata from all the DL networks in Indonesia."
Site contents: Search, Reports; Topik Forum; Highlights; News Headings; Mailing Lists (area-technical@idln.itb.ac.id, area-society@idln.itb.ac.id, area-scenario@idln.itb.ac.id); [links to repository partners including:] ITB Central Library; Badan Litbang Kesehatan; Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang; Atma Jaya Catholic University; Bina Nusantara University; Jaringan Informasi Islam; Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia; Universitas Yarsi; STIE Perbanas; PDII LIPI; Universitas Sam Ratulangi.
URL http://idln.itb.ac.id/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/idln.itb.ac.id/
Link reported by: Ismail Fahmi (ismail@netmon.itb.ac.id), forwarded by Maria Ng Lee Hoon (MNg@idrc.org.sg)
* 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

21 Jun 2002

International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), Aug 2003
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Asia Research Institute, The National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Self-description: "About ICAS3, 19-22 August 2003, Singapore. The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) is one of the largest regular gatherings of scholars whose research centres on Asia and/or Asians, especially in the humanities and social sciences. Asian studies at the start of the new millennium is increasingly cross-disciplinary and inter-regional in character, a positive development which ICAS both demonstrates and seeks to further. Convened in Leiden, the Netherlands in 1998, and Berlin, Germany in 2001, the next conference (ICAS3) will take place in Singapore in August 2003, jointly hosted and organised by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore. The Organising Committee, ICAS3, is pleased to invite the participation of scholars in any Asia-related field of research. Proposals for panels, individual papers, poster presentations and special meetings are now being accepted - see Call for Papers. Over 1,000 scholars from around the world are expected to participate in ICAS3. Early registration is now open."
URL http://www.fas.nus.edu.sg/icas3/about.htm
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this note.]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.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

20 Jun 2002

China Regional Resources: Subject Guide
Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Self-description: "The East Asian Collection of the University of Melbourne Libraries holds a very strong collection of China regional resources. This subject guide aims to locate these resources to support the research activities in related areas. It covers reference materials, old and newly published gazetteers and electronic resources."
Site contents: Reference materials of China Regional Resources; Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing and early 20th Century Gazetteers Regional Gazetteers and resources [coverage: Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan Dao, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Xinjiang, Zhejiang - ed.] Electronic resources of China Regional Resources [access mostly by a password - ed.] (Chinese Academic Journal Web 2000-, China INFOBANK Online Information Service, Bibliography of Asian Studies, Fu yin bao kan zi liao quan wen shu ju guang pan, Chinese Studies WWW Virtual Library: Geography, Maps and Travel [note: not an official member of the WWW VL Project (vlib.org) - ed.], East Asian Buddy: Maps)
[A bi-lingual (EN,CN) site - ed.]
URL http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/asian/Chi-regional-resources.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this note.]
Link reported by: Bick-har Yeung (bhy@unimelb.edu.au), forwarded by Andrew Gosling (agosling@nla.gov.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/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

18 Jun 2002

The Nationalities Question in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), Japan External Trade Organisation (JETRO) Chiba, Japan
Supplied note: "The Middle East Series No. 51 'The Nationalities Question in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan' is now available on the Institute of Developing Economies (www.ide.go.jp/English/index4.html) web site at [the URL below]"
Site contents: 1. Perceptions of Ethnic and All-National Identity in Kazakhstan/NURBULAT MASANOV; 2. The Policy of Kazakhization in State and Government Institutions in Kazakhstan/ERLAN KARIN and ANDREI CHEBOTAREV; 3. Nationalities Policy in Kazakhstan: Interviewing Political and Cultural Elites/NATSUKO OKA
[A series of full-text documents in PDF format. The IDE site carries English language abstracts and TOCs of numerous publications: Periodicals - *The Developing Economies: Quarterly [on the economic development of Japan and the developing countries in Asia and elsewhere]; Books - *I.D.E. Symposium Proceedings, *I.D.E. Occasional Papers Series, *IDE Development and the Environment Series, *IDE International Joint Research Project Series; Reports - *Joint Studies on Economic Development Policies in ASEAN and Neighboring Countries (ASEDP), *Spot Survey, *The Middle East Studies Series - ed.]
URL http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Mes/51.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this note]
Link reported by: Natsuko Oka (oka@ide.go.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* 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

18 Jun 2002

The Pro-Bin Laden Terrorist Infrastructure in Pakistan
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]."
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers5/paper477.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this note. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.saag.org]
Link reported 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
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

18 Jun 2002

The Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies (CPAS)
The Centre for Pacific and Asian Studies, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Self-description: "The Centre [...] was established in 1991. Developed from the former Centre for Australian and Oceanic Studies, the CPAS has an interdisciplinary character and covers Oceania, including Australia and New Zealand, Continental Asia and insular Southeast Asia. The staff consists of anthropologists, legal anthropologists, development sociologists, geographers, historians, and linguists at the University of Nijmegen and at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen."
Site contents: Research (Colonial and post-colonial developments in the Pacific, Women in post-colonial societies, Ethnic minorities in the Pacific and Southeast Asia, Spatial conceptualization and shape discrimination in Australia and Melanesia, Intellectual property rights of indigenous peoples, Indigenous art and its relationship with the wider world, Australian Aboriginal and Maori identities, Christianity and indigenous religion in Oceania, The anthropology of social security in Indonesia, Adat law in Indonesia, Rural and economic development in Southeast Asia, Asian plantation societies); Teaching Programme; Documentation; Publications; Board; Cooperation with Aarhus and Heidelberg; Oceania Newsletter [online copies since Issue 5, Feb 1988 - ed.]; Bibliographical database; An Asmat and Mimika archive; [Internet] Bookmarks.
URL http://www.kun.nl/cps/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.kun.nl/cps/
Link reported by: JHR Van Der Haar (csacps@baserv.uci.kun.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* 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

17 Jun 2002

New Zealand Asia Society (NZAsia)
NZAsia, Department of Asian Studies, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Site contents: Introduction to the NZ Asian Studies Society; Membership Form; 14th Biennial NZASIA Conference 2000; New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies; NZASIA Newsletter - April 2002; Asia 2000 - NZASIA Research Awards; Previous NZASIA Conferences; Notices and Links; Counterpart Societies.
URL http://www.asia.canterbury.ac.nz/nzasia/nzasia.htm
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this note. - ed. However, two earlier incarnations of the site are archived at web.archive.org/web/*/www.vuw.ac.nz/~caplab/nzasia.htm and at web.archive.org/web/*/www.nzasia.waikato.ac.nz/ - Tim Beal, Victoria Univ. of Wellington, NZ.]
Link reported by: Dave Cheseldine (daveches@waikato.ac.nz)
* 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

16 Jun 2002

Sacred Educational Society of Ladakh (SESOL)
Sacred Educational Society of Ladakh (SESOL), Leh, Ladakh, India
Self-description: "The ultimate aim of the society is to work towards the sustainable development of Ladakh region and its people; it would concentrate its operation to the villages and interior parts of Ladakh as a priority."
Supplied note: "We are glad to bring to your kind notice that Sacred Educational Society of Ladakh (SESOL) has launched its website, which would help you to keep in touch with Ladakh."
Site contents: The Founder, About Us; Current Projects (The School, Learning Resource Centre, Educational Counselling); Future Projects; Presence in Kargil; Get Involved; SESOL News; Contact Us; Ladakh News; Ladakh Directory; Ladakh Employment; Ladakh Travel.
[Portions of the site are over-designed and hence they load slowly. The site is scheduled to be completed by Aug 2002 - ed.]
URL http://www.sesolladakh.org/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this note.]
Link reported by: Shabir Banday (bandays@yahoo.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Online Guide
* 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

15 Jun 2002

South Asian Journalists' Association (SAJA)
SAJA, New York, NY, USA
Self-description: "We're now 800+ journalists of South Asian origin in [...] the US and Canada [...]. We are a professional networking group for journalists. Our goal is to foster ties among South Asian journalists in North America and improve standards of journalistic coverage of South Asia and South Asian America."
Site contents: About SAJA; What's New; The Tiny Newshole; Washington; BayArea; Chicago; Chapters; SAJA Calendar; Roundup; SAJA Stylebook for Covering South Asiana; Membership Info; Press Releases; Mailing Lists; Speakers Bureau; Reporting Tips; Journalism Awards; Roundup; Job Bank; http://www.saja.org/wharton.html; Past Events; Ask SAJA; Students; In Memoriam; US Media in South Asia; Profiles; Pulitzers; Senior SAJAers; Site Suggestions.
URL http://www.saja.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.saja.org
Link reported by: Federation of International Trade Associations (newsletter@fita.imakenews.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* 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]: over 3000

15 Jun 2002

Vegetation Changes in East Timor 1989 -1999
School of Environmental Science, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia.
Self-description: "Assessing Vegetation Change in East Timor Using Landsat Thematic Mapper Data. This study [by George Bouma and Halina Kobryn finds that between 1989 and 1999] [...] There was a decline in dense forest, forest and [particularly in] woodland areas [...]. Increases in human modified plantation areas and coffee areas were also apparent. However, the largest single increase occurred in the degraded woodlands category."
Site contents: Executive summary; References; Download the report (Winzip pdf format, 2.3MB); Picture gallery; Contacts.
URL http://macserv.murdoch.edu.au:16080/HK/research_interests/projects/east_timor/Timor.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this note.]
Link reported by: Halina T. Kobryn (kobryn@essun1.murdoch.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

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