The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: early Apr 2003
Vol. 10, No. 8 (192)

11 Apr 2003

Iraq: Looking Ahead
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] - br."
Extract: "The Pentagon presently has a group of people ..., who are determined to put an end to jihadi terrorists, without worrying about the diplomatic niceties and about the likely damage to the US image in the eyes of the international community. This group is likely to emerge stronger after the Iraq operation. ... It is in India's national interest to work for a convergence of views with them, even if such a convergence immediately does not benefit us in dealing with Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in our territory. ... A modern, democratic and secular State in Iraq, opposed to the pan-Islamic terrorists, would be as much in India's national interest as it would be in the USA's. - b.raman."
The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers7/paper658.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* 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

07 Apr 2003

Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS)
Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS), Honolulu, HI, USA
Self-description "The Center was created [in 1994/95 ed] to build on the strong bilateral relationships between the United States Pacific Command and the armed forces of the nations in the Asia-Pacific region by focusing on the broader multilateral approach to addressing regional security issues and concerns."
Site contents: * Welcome from President H.C. Stackpole; * History of the Asia-Pacific Center; * Contact Information and Biographies; * College of Security Studies; * Conference Division; * Research Division; * Alumni Branch; * Admissions; * Publications (Special Assessment Series, (Asia-Pacific Responses to U.S. Security Policies [2003 - the publication comprises 3,500 word country-specific analyses of responses to U.S. policies as set forth in the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), the National Security Strategy (NSS), and other key policy statements and speeches - spl.]), Asia-Pacific Security Studies Series (Security in Southeast Asia, Japan Crosses the Rubicon, Taiwan 2001 Elections, China and Southeast Asia); Occasional Paper Series (Hindu Nationalism-What's Religion Got To Do With It? - By Dr. Arun Swamy, Taiwan's Threat Perceptions: The Enemy Within. - By Dr. Denny Roy, The China Factor In the India-Pakistan Conflict - By Dr. Mohan Malik, Japan's Burden of History-Can It Be Lifted? - By Dr. John Miller, Rethinking Education, National Security and Social Stability in China - By Xiong Yonggen, Security Policy in Indonesia: By Guess, or By Golly? - By John B. Haseman, Low Energy and High Friction: How Domestic Determinants Shape U.S. National Security Policy, in the Asia-Pacific - By Stephen D. Wrage, Reviewing the ASEAN Regional Forum and its Role in Southeast Asian Security - By Maria, Consuelo C. Ortuoste, SLOC Security in the Asia Pacific - By Professor Ji Guoxing, Chinese Negotiating Styles: Japan's Experience - By Ambassador Kagechika Matano, Financial Crisis in Korea: Implications for U.S.-Korean Relations - By Jin Song); Monographs (Domestic Determinants and Security Policy Policy-Making in East Asia - By Satu P. Limaye and, Yasuhiro Matsuda). * Library; * APCSS News; * Countries of the Region [links to the appropriate sections of the www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html - ed.] (Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Canada, China, Comoros, Cook Islands, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, Laos, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, Nepal, New Zealand, Niue, North Korea, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Russia, Samoa, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, Tuvalu, United States, Vanuatu, Vietnam); * Employment Information; * Links to other sites (Our Sister Organizations, Research Organizations, [US] Government Organizations).
URL http://www.apcss.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.apcss.org
Link reported by: Satu P. Limaye (limayes@apcss.org), forwarded by h-asia@h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Government
* 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

07 Apr 2003

The Pakistani-North Korean WMD Axis
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] - br."
Extract: "If there is one country in the world which has been systematically violating with impunity all regulations relating to nuclear and missile proliferation and from which there is a real danger of leakage of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and related technologies to pan-Islamic terrorists, that is Pakistan. - b.raman."
The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers7/paper654.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde@vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* 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 Apr 2003

Bangla Open Source Community
Bangladesh Institute of Technology, Rajshah, Bangladesh
Self-description: "Welcome to the website of Bangla Open Source Community. This site is dedicated for open source software development, specially bengali related. We believe that open source developemnt lead us to develop more flexible bengali application."
Suppplied note: "Hasin Hayder (hasin_raj@yahoo.com) has announced the uploading of English to Bangla translator source code to a Bangla Open Source Community Site at [the URL below] 'Download. The translator is easy for simple sentence conversion,' says Hasin Hayder, the administrator of www.evelindev.tk and www.banglaosc.tk - fn."
URL http://www.banglaosc.tk/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Frederick Noronha (fred@bytesforall.org), forwarded by bytesforall@sarai.net
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* 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 Apr 2003

Bhutanese Refugees
Bhutan News Online, Kathmandu, Nepal
Self-description: "This site provides complete and authentic information on the origin, causes, and current situation about Bhutanese refugees.[...] This site is jointly hosted by Bhutan Women and Children Organisation (BWCO) [www.geocities.com/bhutanwomen/] and the Centre for Protection of Minorities and Against Racism and Discrimination in Bhutan (CEMARD-Bhutan) [www.geocities.com/cemardbhutan]"
Site contents: * About Us; * Bhutan at a Glance; * Demography; * What's New; * Contact Us; * Contents (Introduction, Origin of refugee crisis, Appeal to King, One nation one people, Human rights movement, Atrocities, NOC/PCC/SCC, Forced Eviction, Voluntary migration myth, Phoney illegal immigration, Sheltering Terrorists); * Refugee situation (Nepal-Bhutan talks, International concern, Refugees' joint verification, Resettlement, Refugee Population, Appeal to Donors & International Community); * Other Links (Bhutannewsonline, Bhutan4Christ, Bhutanese Refugees, Women & Children, CEMARD, Articles on Bhutan); * Amnesty (AI) Reports, View all AI Docuemts, Human rights violations, Forcible exile, Eastern Bhutanese, Nationality); * Other Reports, (US Human Rights Report, EU Resolutions, Habitat FFM, Cultural Cleansing, Crisis of Identity, Death List); * Photos & Maps (Bhutan Map, Refugee camps map, Properties demolition, Govt. Orders, Documents).
URL http://www.geocities.com/bhutaneserefugees
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.geocities.com/bhutaneserefugees
Link reported by: Frederick Noronha (fred@bytesforall.org), forwarded by bytesforall@sarai.net
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* 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 100

03 Apr 2003

Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus (HPCAC)
Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Supplied note: "[Since mid-2002], a number of name and address changes have taken place, of which I hope you'll take note: * Our program is now called the Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus (formerly it was the Harvard Forum for Central Asian Studies). * Our office address has changed, as we are in a temporary location [at] Harvard Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus 625 Massachusetts Avenue, room 262 Cambridge, MA 02139 U.S.A. * Central-Eurasia-L, one of our most popular resources, has a new name (formerly, it was CentralAsia-L). * One of our comprehensive, web-based information sources has a new name: Central Eurasian Studies World Wide (formerly Central Asian Studies World Wide), and has a new, simpler address: http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/ [...]
* Useful Addresses:
The Central Eurasian Studies Society http://cess.fas.harvard.edu
To join CESS : http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Membership.html
To join the CESS mailing list (for non-members): http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Mailing_List.html
The Central Eurasian Studies Review on-line: http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESS_Review.html
The Central-Eurasia-L Announcement List http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/CESWW_Central-Eurasia-L.html
The Central-Eurasia-L Archive: http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/CESWW_CEL_Archive.html
[...]
Comprehensive Listing of Dissertations in Central Eurasian Studies: http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/CESWW_Diss.html
Archive containing dozens of course syllabi on Central Eurasia: http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/CESWW_Syllabi.html
Experts Directory: http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/CESWW_Expert.html
- js."
URL http://centasia.fas.harvard.edu
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: John Schoeberlein (centasia@fas.harvard.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* 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

03 Apr 2003

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, GA, USA
Site contents: * Frequently Asked Questions (Apr 1, 2003); * Fact Sheet for the Public (Apr 2, 2003); * Guidelines & Recommendations; * CDC Resources & Advisories (incl. Travel Advisory, Notice for Travelers Arriving in U.S. From China, Vietnam, & Singapore (Mar 28, 2003), Americans Living Abroad, International Adoptees, Airline, Airport, & Air Travel Personnel); * World Health Organization (WHO) Resources; * Additional International Resources (incl. Hong Kong DOH Atypical Pneumonia site, Singapore Ministry of Health, Taiwan CDC, Thailand Ministry of Public Health, Health Canada SARS site); * News & Updates.
URL http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/SARS/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: ETN Global Travel Trade News (news@eturbonews.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/News
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Govt.
* 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 300

02 Apr 2003

ASEM Research Platform (ARP)
International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, The Netherlands
Supplied note: "ASEM Research Platform's [aka ARP - ed.] website is a source of information about the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), a unique interregional forum established in 1996. The main goal of ARP is to sensitize people at all levels of society in Europe and Asia for the ASEM process. The ARP is facilitated by the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS). - rssvs."
URL http://www.iias.nl/asem
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Rima Sondaite van Soest (r.van.soest@let.leidenuniv.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* 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

02 Apr 2003

Muslim Cultures along the Silk Roads: China and Central Asia, Apr 2003
Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
Supplied note: "The University of Kansas Center for East Asian Studies and Center for Russian and East European Studies are pleased to announce the conference: Muslim Cultures along the Silk Roads: China and Central Asia Featuring keynote speakers Jonathan Lipman and Martha Brill Olcott April 26, 2003, Kansas Union, Lawrence, Kansas 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Registration is free, but is required by April 21, 2003. For more information and to register, please go to [the URL below] - sw."
URL http://www.ceas.ku.edu/CEAS/MCC.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Sheree Willis (sawillis@ku.edu), forwarded by h-asia@h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* 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

02 Apr 2003

Indonesian Acquisitions List at The National Library of Australia
Asian Collections, The National Library of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "The Indonesian Acquisitions List (IAL) details new books and serials which have recently been acquired by the National Library of Australia through its Regional Office in Jakarta. The March 2003 edition of the IAL is now accessible at [the URL below] - om."
Self-description: "The IAL was produced quarterly in hard copy until September 2001. It has also been accessible on the Web since 1996. There was a break in production from September 2001 to December 2002. The quarterly IAl resumed on the Web only from March 2003. * IAL Online Editions, * Indonesian Acquistions Program, * Arrangement and Content of Entries, * Use of the Library's Indonesian Collection, * Enquiries. "
URL http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/pub/ial/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.nla.gov.au/asian/pub/ial/
Link reported by: Oliver Mann (oliver.mann@dfat.gov.au), forwarded by asialib@mailman.anu.edu.au
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* 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 100

02 Apr 2003

Republic or Empire: American Resistance to the Philippine War
www.boondocksnet.com, USA?
Supplied note: "The full text of Daniel B. Schirmer's classic Republic or Empire: American Resistance to the Philippine War (Preface by Howard Zinn) Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Co., 1972, Revised BoondocksNet Edition, 2003) is now available free on-line at [the URL below] - ms."
Site contents: [Republic or Empire: American Resistance to the Philippine War]: Acknowledgments, Preface by Howard Zinn, Foreword, 1. Massachusetts Anti-Imperialism: The Background, 2. Countervailing Forces and Early Contests, 3. The Venezuelan Crisis, 4. The Spanish War: 'The Political Economy of Barbarism', 5. Faneuil Hall and Aguinaldo, 6. Aging Abolitionists, Rejuvenated Racism, 7. The New England Anti-Imperialist League, 8. Opposition to the Treaty, 9. The Treaty Passes, 10. Against the Philippine War, 11. Atkinson and the Volunteers, 12. The Rise of Monopoly and Finance, 13. An Organization Formed, A Republic Smashed, 14. Forging an Anti-Imperialist Coalition, 15. The Victory of Imperialism, 16. Against Atrocities: The Last Campaign, 17. The Dissolution of the Movement, Afterword, Bibliographical Note, Search this Book;
Other Writings by Daniel B. Schirmer (The Philippines -- Another Vietnam? [1973] Philippine Bases and the Nuclear Madness [1978], The Philippines and a War for Oil [1980], The Movement Against U.S. Intervention in the Philippines: A Sketch [nd.], U.S. Bases in Central America and the Opposition to Them [1990], Access: Imperial Expansion Post-Cold War [1993], VFA: The Shape of Things to Come? [1999], 'Wag the Dog' on February 4, 1899 [1999], President Clinton, a Corporate Offensive, and Okinawan Bases [2000], The Philippines and the Terrorist Crime of September 11 [2001])
URL http://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/dbs/index.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Mark Selden (ms44@cornell.edu), forwarded by h-asia@h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other
* 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 Apr 2003

African and Asian Studies
Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "Volume 2, Number 1 of African and Asian Studies, a journal from Brill Academic Publishers is now available online via the Ingenta Select service, and contains the following articles: Transformation of ECOWAS as a Security Apparatus and Its Implications in Ghana's Political Orientation, 1990-2000 - Joshua Dapaah-Agyemang, The Untold and Alternate Story of the Indian Subcontinent's War of Independence - Tahseen Ali, The Lome Convention from Inception to the Dynamics of the Post-Cold War, 1957-1990s - Ismael Musah Montana - avh."
[Unfettered online access to these and other full-text articles is available by subscription - ed.]
URL http://www.ingentaselect.com/rpsv/cw/brill/15692094/v2n1/contp1-1.htm
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Anja van Hoek (hoek@brill.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* 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 Apr 2003

Center for International Policy Asia Program
The Center for International Policy, Washington, DC, USA.
Self-description: "Founded in 1975, the Center for International Policy is a nonprofit educational and research organization promoting a U.S. foreign policy based on international cooperation, demilitarization and respect for basic human rights [...] CIP's Asia program challenges the Bush administration policy of confrontation with North Korea while turning a blind eye toward Pakistan's role in North Korea's acquisition of nuclear weapons. It also promotes U.S. support for long-term nation building in Afghanistan."
Site contents: * Task Force (Turning Point in Korea: New Dangers and New Opportunities for the United States [2003 report of the Task Force on U.S. Korea Policy], Key Recommendations of the Task Force Report); * Working Papers (Finding Our Way Anew to a Denuclearized Korean Peninsula, By David Albright, Economic Cooperation on the Korean Peninsula, By Bradley Babson, The United States and Korean Unification, By Bruce Cumings, The Conventional Arms Control Agenda, By Selig S. Harrison, The Ties That Unbind: Japan and U.S. Korea Policy, By K.A. Namkung, China and the Korean Peninsula: Playing for the Long-Term, By David Shambaugh, U.S. Interests and Goals on the Korean Peninsula, By Leon Sigal, A Role for Russia in a Korean Settlement, By David Wolff, The North Korean Missile Program, By David Wright); * Recent Articles; * Conferences; * Publications.
URL http://www.ciponline.org/asia/index.htm
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.ciponline.org/asia/index.htm
Link reported by: Moo-Young Han (myhan@phy.duke.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* 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

01 Apr 2003

South Central China and Tibet: Hotspot of Diversity
The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, Jamaica Plain, MA, USA.
Self-description: "For over a century, Arboretum staff have explored and documented the natural and cultural resources of Asia. In 1924, a three-year expedition departed for one of the most unusual areas on earth - the first of many Arboretum expeditions to a region that is floristically one of the richest in the world. Seventy years later, other Arboretum expeditions returned to collect and inventory the flora. Today the Hengduan Mountain region, comprising western Sichuan and eastern Tibet (Xizang), is considered by international conservation organizations to be a hotspot of biodiversity, a term used to designate areas with a high number of endemic species (those found only in a single region) that are under severe threat of destruction due to human activities. Members of these expeditions returned to the Arboretum with seeds and live plants, dried herbarium specimens, stuffed birds, and images not only of plants but of people and landscapes as well. These web pages provide access to the natural history and ethnographic collections that resulted from these expeditions and are now held at Harvard University Herbaria, Museums, Libraries, and Archives. The digital format links these various repositories allowing students and scholars to move through time and within collections, accessing material that not only depicts the area's natural and ecological resources, but also documents the social and cultural history of China and Tibet."
Site contents: Expeditions; Researchers; Publications; Participating Institutions; Map and Gazetteer [1523 records with map grid numbers, place names (with Wade-Giles, Pinyin, Modern Chinese, and Tibetan equivalents when available), and geographical coordinates, geographic site type, and province (historic and modern) details - ed.]; Search Expedition Collections.
URL http://www.arboretum.harvard.edu/library/tibet/expeditions.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Raymond Lum (rlum@fas.harvard.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* 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

01 Apr 2003

INFO Nepal
Inside Nepal Friendship Organization (INFO), Kathmandu, Nepal
Supplied note: "We provide volunteer opportunities in various fields such as Teaching English, Environmental Awareness, Health and Sanitation issues, Home Stay Programme and Cultural Exchange. [...] INFO [est. 2000 - ed.] is a formally registered NGO and is affiliated with the [Nepal's] Social Welfare Council. [...] INFO is a non-profit organization run by Volunteers. To date, we do not have any donor agencies helping us. However, such help would be extremely beneficial to our programs and most welcome. Any revenue accumulated is used to educate poor students by providing scholarships.
Scope of work to date: * Recruited, trained, and placed 135 volunteers from various countries around the world. * Staffed six Health Posts and 14 Environmental Posts throughout Nepal with volunteers. * Initiated and staffed Conversational English programs at 25 rural schools throughout Nepal. * Developed and administered eight environmental projects, including garbage management, plastic bag replacement with woven jute bags, paper recycling and clean-up programs. * Established Cultural Exchange/Homestay programs with over 58 Nepali participant families. * Developed and delivered Nepali language and cultural classes to over 135 volunteers. * Created Income Generation Programs involving livestock purchases and the production of reusable, woven jute bags. * Developed and delivered various health programs including: food preparation and nutrition, general hygiene practices, and first aid. * Continuously developing and revising volunteer placement, teaching and program methodologies by requesting and reviewing feedback from all parties involved. [...] - nrg."
URL http://www.infonepal.org
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Naresh Raj Ghimire (infonp@ntc.net.np)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO
* 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 Apr 2003

Brill's 2003 Asian Studies and Middle East & Islamic Studies Catalogues
Brill Academic Publisher, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "The 2003 Spring/Summer Catalogues Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Medieval & Early Modern Studies and Middle East & Islamic Studies from Brill Academic Publishers are now available. We have decided to continue our policy of publishing catalogues on specific areas. This year we have - for the first time - combined the Asian Studies and Middle East & Islamic Studies titles in one catalogue. All catalogues are available in print but can also be downloaded as PDF file - avh."
URL http://www.brill.nl/m_catalogue_sub1.htm
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Anja van Hoek (hoek@brill.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* 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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