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"The Asian Studies WWW Monitor" (ISSN 1329-9778) was established 21 April 1994. The journal, a pioneering and the only publication of this kind in the world, provides virtually daily abstracts and reviews of new/updated online resources of significance to research, teaching and communications dealing with Asian Studies. It is published by the Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS, National Institute for Asia and the Pacific, ANU. The periodical forms a key element of the global, cooperative project Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library. For further details see a page About the Asian Studies WWW Monitor. The journal is complemented by its sister publication Pacific Studies WWW Monitor which was established in April 2000.

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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: Dec 2005
Vol. 12, No. 18 (243)

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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 6
Entries rejected: 7
The email edition of this Journal has now over 4960 subscribers.

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14 Dec 2005
5star
Economics Info: Structured Lists of Commonly Used Websites
home.earthlink.net, Honolulu, HI, US
Supplied note: "Based on research of Asia-Pacific economies, [... the site] collects weblinks in a cookie-cutter framework. Each page refers to the mode of research being used: reading reports, grabbing data, browsing home pages, wielding tools, etc. A common framework is generally used: rows represent topics, columns indicate the scope (World/ Region/ United States). The site points to commonly-used, recurring information that is often of an official nature. For parsimony's sake, one-time articles are avoided. - mgh."
Site contents: * Macro Economics; * Financial Economics; * Defense Economics; (Incl. Missile Defense, Arms Transparency); * Security Economics (Incl. Multiple Topics, Stabilization/ Reconstruction, Info Operations, Terrorism, WMD, Maritime, Energy, Environment, Forecasting the Future, Food); * Institutional Economics.
*Reports; *Data; *Charts; *Organizations; *Link Lists; *Search by Country, *Tools.
URL http://home.earthlink.net/~harstadm/econhome1.htm
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Mark G Harstad (harstadm--at--earthlink.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Other
* 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

13 Dec 2005
2star
Mumbai Free Map - Community Geographic Information System (GIS)
Collective Research Initiatives Trust, Mumbai, India
Self-description; "[A]n open-access spatial data infrastructure, and a set of simple tools and applications in localised in Indian languages, for knowledge transfer and participatory urban planning by communities and citizens in the Mumbai Metrpolitan Region."
Supplied note: "The project is a collaboration between CRIT (Collective Research Initiatives Trust) [1] and the IndicTrans Project [2] in Mumbai, and the authors of Mapping Hacks [3] in Cambridge, Massachusetts, San Francisco and London, U.K. See the Mumbai Free Map Community GIS home page [4] for more information on the project, which is supported by the ICT R&D Grants Programme of the Asia Pacific Development Information Programme (APDIP), UNDP Bangkok [5] - sk."
Site contents: * Community GIS Proposal (March 2005) (PDF) by CRIT; * Community GIS Proposal Addendum (June 2005) (PDF) by CRIT; * Mumbai Map Archive Curated by CRIT [in mid-Dec 2005 the archive consisted of 4 albums containing a total of 10 digital photographs of maps. The maps do not appear to be explicitly geo- and chrono-referenced, or be annotated with any metadata other than a very short title - ed.] ; * Mumbai Free Map Demo by Locative Tech and CRIT;
URL http://www.crit.org.in/projects/gis
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Shekhar Krishnan (shekhar--at--crit.org.in), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - 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

09 Dec 2005
4star
Reevaluated Democide Totals for 20th C. and China
Asia Pacific Research Online, Canberra, Australia.
Rummel, Rudy J. 2005. Reevaluated democide totals for 20th C. and China (a note sent to 21,000 email addresses on Tue, 29 Nov 2005). Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, US.
Extract: "Many scholars and commentators have referenced my total of 174,000,000 for the democide (genocide and mass murder) of the last century [Rummel, Rudy J. 1991. China's Bloody Century: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900. Transaction Publishers. ISBN: 088738417X - ed.].
I'm now trying to get word out that I've had to make a major revision in my total due to two books. One is Wild Swans: Two Daughters of China by Jung Chang, and the other is Mao: the Unknown Story that she wrote with her husband, Jon Halliday. I'm now convinced that that Stalin exceeded Hitler in monstrous evil, and Mao beat out Stalin. [...]
Now, I have to change all the world democide totals that populate my websites, blogs, and publications. The total for the communist democide before and after Mao took over the mainland is thus 3,446,000 + 35,226,000 + 38,000,000 = 76,692,000, or to round off, 77,000,000 murdered. [...] This exceeds the 61,911,000 murdered by the Soviet Union 1917-1987, with Hitler far behind at 20,946,000 wiped out 1933-1945.
For perspective on Mao's most bloody rule, all wars 1900-1987 cost in combat dead 34,021,000 -- including WWI and II, Vietnam, Korea, and the Mexican and Russian Revolutions. Mao alone murdered over twice as many as were killed in combat in all these wars.
Now, my overall totals for world democide 1900-1999 must also be changed. I have estimated it to be 174,000,000 murdered, of which communist regimes murdered about 148,000,000. Also, compare this to combat dead. Communists overall have murdered four times those killed in combat, while globally the democide toll was over six times that number. - r.j.rummel."
URL http://www.ciolek.com/SPEC/rummel-on-democide-2005.html
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* 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]: 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 2005
3star
Azerbaijani Studies Yahoogroup
groups.yahoo.com, US
Supplied note: "Dear all, If you want to get a free access to an interesting collection of papers/articles written on various aspects of Azerbaijani politics, if you want your voice and opinion to be heard by others, if you have an idea of writing about Azerbaijan and want to get a feedback, then feel free to write to fareedaz--at--yahoo.com so that we can include you to our Azerbaijani Studies yahoogroup. The purpose of this listserv is to bring together local and foreign students interested in exploring political institutions, political processes and political developments in Azerbaijan. - fg."
Self-description: "Group Information - Members: 144; [...] Founded: Feb 13, 2005; Language: English."
URL http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Azerbaijani_Studies/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Farid Guliyev (fareedaz--at--yahoo.com), forwarded by central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News/Study
* 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

02 Dec 2005
3star
Asia Pacific Cultural Studies (APCS) e-journal
School of Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, The University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Supplied note: "Asia-Pacific Cultural Studies (APCS), a refereed e-journal with an interdisciplinary orientation focusing on the Asia-Pacific, invites submissions for a special edition on 'The War on Terror: Its Impact on the Asia-Pacific Region'.
Electronic submissions of: * academic articles * photographic articles * book reviews * film/DVD reviews * website reviews * creative arts/music reviews
relating to the war of terror and the Asia-Pacific should be forwarded to the Managing Editor at j.devlin--at--auckland.ac.nz by 19 December 2005 for publication in February 2006. English language submissions are preferred, but submissions in Asian and Pacific languages will be considered. For the APCS styleguide and submission guidelines, please see: http://www.apcsjournal.org/Contributions
Please direct inquiries and submissions to: Jennifer Devlin, Managing Editor j.devlin--at--auckland.ac.nz - jd."
[Note: the above information was provided to the AS WWW Monitor on the 2nd Dec 2005 - ed.]
URL http://www.apcsjournal.org/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Jennifer Devlin (j.devlin--at--auckland.ac.nz)
* 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]: 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 2005
4star
VOAHA The Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
California State University, Long Beach, CA, US
Supplied note: "Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive has three sub components of interest 1. Asian American History; 2. Southeast Asian Communities; 3. Asian American Women's Movement Activists. You can listen to oral histories of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Cambodian and Hmong who have settled in the vicinity Long Beach and San Pedro (California) areas. Histories range from discussions of the 1920s to the 1980s. Topics include the Japanese fishing village on Terminal Island (in Long Beach); Japanese relocation during World War II; Cambodian refugee settlement in Long Beach in the 1980s. - ga."
URL http://salticid.nmc.csulb.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/OralAural.woa/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://salticid.nmc.csulb.edu/cgi-bin/WebObjects/OralAural.woa/
Link reported by: Greg Armento (garmento--at--csulb.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* 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

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