30 Sep 2005

Burma Economic Watch - Latest Edition (Issue No 1, 2005)
Department of Economics, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Supplied note: "Dear Burma-Watchers, The latest edition of 'Burma Economic Watch' (BEW) [i.e. Issue No 1, 2005 - ed.] is now available [at the URL below]
In this issue we have three papers: 1. The latest of our survey results on Burmese workers in Thailand 2. A comprehensive survey of microfinance institutions in Burma 3. A study of the role of the military, historically and to the present day, in Burma's economy.
As always, questions, comments, submissions...are greatly welcome. - st."
URL http://www.econ.mq.edu.au/BurmaEconomicWatch/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/%20http://www.econ.mq.edu.au/BurmaEconomicWatch/
Link reported by: Sean Turnell (sturnell[use"@"]efs.mq.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - 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 100

28 Sep 2005

Russia Eurasia Terror Watch
ARMMSI, Washington, DC, US
Supplied note: "Washington, D.C... ARMMSI, a not-for-profit education, training, and communication organization, recently unveiled its new daily news and analysis website Russia Eurasia Terror Watch www.retwa.org. The website focuses exclusively on terror related news and analysis in Russia and Eurasia. Dr. Paul Murphy, author of the controversial book Wolves of Islam: Russia and the Faces of Chechen Terror and a former U.S. Counterterrorism official who spent the last decade in Russia, is the site's director.
'We are unique. RETWA collects the latest news in the Russian language and simultaneously translates it into English for our readers. RETWA is the only site of its kind on the net offering up-to-the-minute news reporting as well as analysis. The site will serve as a primary resource for the media, academia, researchers, policy makers, and analysts who want to better understand and evaluate the complex issues surrounding extremism and terror in Russia and the Eurasian region, says Dr. Murphy. ' - lm."
Site contents: * Terror Chronology (Terror Attacks, Threats, Police Activities, Trials, and Related Information); * News Archives; * Analysis; * Links; * Interviews; * Event Calendar; * Terrorist Profiles; * Photo Gallery; * About Us; * Support RETWA; * Contact RETWA; * Bookshelf; * Link to Our News; * Become a Correspondent; * Russian Edition; * Terms of Use.
URL http://www.retwa.org/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) - the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.
Link reported by: L. Mitchell (mitchell[use"@"]retwa.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News/Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - NGO - other]: NGO
* 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 3,000

14 Sep 2005

Oscar Publications, India
Oscar Publications, New Delhi, India
Supplied note: "Online bookstore from India since 1997. One of the largest database of all subjects from over 1000 Indian publishers - ypg."
Site contents: * Art of Building (Architecture); * Books for All (Biography, Fiction, General, General Knowledge); * Current Scenario (Communication, Crime, Current-Affairs, International Relations, Journalism, Law); * Defence and Military (Defence Studies); * For Kids (Books for Children); * For Managers (Commerce, Economics, Management, Marketing, Public Administration); * Health and Fitness (Health, Medicine, Sports, Yoga); * Higher Studies (Education, Geography, Library Science, Linguistics, Population Studies); * Leisure and Past Time (Tourism); * Life Sciences (Agriculture, Biology, Horticulture, Zoology); * Look in the Past (Archaeology, History); * People and Culture (Arts And Culture, Literature, Performing Arts); * Physical Sciences (Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics); * Reference Work (Dictionary-Encyclopaedia, Reference Studies); * Social Sciences (Political Science, Psychology, Sociology-Anthropology, Women Studies); * Spritual World (Astrology, Indology, Islamic Studies, Philosophy, Religion); * Technological Advances (Computers, Project Reports, Sciences, Technology); * Women's World (For the Women).
URL http://www.alltimebooks.com
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.alltimebooks.com
Link reported by: Dr Y P Gogia (sales@alltimebooks.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* 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

10 Sep 2005

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture - Book Reviews Online
Ohio State University, OH, US
Supplied note: "In recent months, the print journal _Modern Chinese Literature and Culture_ and and its sister website, MCLC Resource Center (http://mclc.osu.edu), have published the following book reviews online. The reviews can be linked to from: [the URL below] * A Bilingual Edition of Poetry out of Communist China, by Huang Xiang. Tr. by Andrew Emerson. Reviewed by Dian Li (University of Arizona) * Big Breasts and Wide Hips, by Mo Yan. Tr. by Howard Goldblatt. Reviewed by Kenny Ng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) * Stone Turtle, by Mai Mang. Tr. by Mai Mang. Reviewed by Paul Manfredi (Pacific Lutheran University) - kad."
Self-description "This page contains links to book reviews published online by the journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture and the MCLC Resource Center. [...] Reviews are solicited by the MCLC Book Review Editors: Yomi Braester (film/media studies); Michel Hockx (literature studies); and Andrew F. Jones (translations). To propose a book for review, contact the appropriate editor. "
URL http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/reviews.htm
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://mclc.osu.edu/rc/reviews.htm
Link reported by: Kirk A. Denton (denton.2[use"@"]osu.edu), forwarded by h-asia[use"@"]h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* 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

07 Sep 2005

British Intelligence on Russia in Central Asia
IDC Publishers, Leiden, the Netherlands
Supplied note: "India Office Political and Secret files and confidential print. Bolshevik and Pan-Islamic movements in Central Asia. 'Who's who' in Central Asia. Creation of Soviet Central Asian Republics. Secret and Confidential intelligence reports, maps, memoranda and handbooks.
Including free EAD finding aid. - wl."
Self description: "There is enormous interest today in the history, geopolitics and boundaries of the former Soviet Central Asian republics. Covering a vast area from the Caucasus to the Western border of China, the new states of Central Asia (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kirgistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan) are a focus of international attention.
In the nineteenth century the region was at the crossroads of war and commerce between Europe and Asia and it was of particular interest to the British imperial rulers of India, engaged in the so-called 'Great Game' for control of the relative balance of power and influence in the buffer states between the British and Russian empires.

This collection will not attempt to reproduce the overwhelming details of the various military campaigns on the frontiers but will present the intelligence gathered by the India Office on the political, economic, strategic and social history of the territories. It will include, for example: Handbooks, Route Books, Military Reports, Gazetteers and Who's Who India Office departmental memoranda on the Central Asian question, political developments in Central Asia etc Michell's Russian Abstracts and Memoirs (printed reports and extracts from Russian newspapers and other publications covering the period 1869-1883 and translated into English by Robert Michell, Russian Interpreter to the Political Department - newspapers include Moscow Gazette, St Petersburg Gazette, Golos, Turkestan Gazette, Novoye Vremia) Foreign Office confidential printed correspondence respecting the affairs of Central Asia, 1899-1913 India Office Political and Secret subject files and collections, 1904-1950

Some examples of individual items are as follows: Historical Summary of the Central Asian question, India Office, 1874, with map of the successive Russian acquisitions in Asia and map of part of Central Asia showing the principal communications Memorandum respecting the Central Asian boundary negotiations, Foreign Office, 1893 Political Department subject file on travellers in Russian Central Asia, 1904-1910 Political developments in Russian Central Asia since the Revolution, Foreign Office Political Intelligence Department, 1918 Routes in Russian Central Asia, Simla, General Staff, 1922-1924 Military report on Soviet Turkestan, Simla, General Staff, 1929 Who's Who in Central Asia, Simla, General Staff India, 1929 Political Department subject file on Central Asia, affairs in and reports on, extension of Soviet influence, Oct 1924-Oct 1937 includes: absorption of Republic of Bokhara into Union of Soviet Republics, 1924; Soviet aims in Persia; Soviet policy in connection with redistribution of territories; change of Khirgiz Republic to Khirgistan; absorption of Turkomanistan and Uzbekistan into Soviet Union, 1925; ethnographic and economic conditions; report on military organisation of the Republic of Tajikistan; confidential report by Foreign Office Eastern Department on Russian expansion into Asia, 1926; Soviet representation in Mongolia. Also includes: map 'illustrating recent extension of Soviet influence in Central Asia' showing boundaries defined by declarations, probable limits of projected expansion and territorial encroachments; map showing distribution of principal nationalities in Central Asia; economic map of Uzbek and Tadjik Soviet Socialist Republics Reports on Russian Turkestan including Russian military posts, Jan 1925-Sep 1936 includes: Bolshevik propaganda in Central Asia; resume of events in Soviet Turkestan; report on military garrisons, roads and railways; report on internal situation; report on Sino-Russian frontier Soviet policy in Central Asia: organisation of Central Asia intelligence system; propaganda, etc, in regard to the USSR, Sep 1939-Nov 1942 "
A site promoting the latest batch of microfilms and microfiches from IDC Publishers - ed.
URL http://www.idc.nl/ez/28
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) - the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.
Link reported by: Willemijn Lindhout (wlinhout@idc.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* 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

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