31 May 2007

China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICR)
CICR, Beijing, China
Self-description: "In 2003, the Institute [est. 1980] was renamed and upgraded to 'China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations'. CICIR consists of 7 institutes, 3 research divisions under direct supervision of CICIR leaders, 10 research centers and several administrative departments, e.g. the President's Office. CICIR has now a staff of 380, including researchers, administrative and logistic personnel, among whom 150 are research professors or associate research professors. [...] Areas of Research - CICIR's research work includes world strategic, political, economic and security studies; country and regional studies; China's relations with other countries, etc. The research findings are either submitted to relevant government departments as reports or published in academic journals. Besides, CICIR also undertakes commissioned research projects and cooperates with its counterparts at home and abroad on issues of common concern."
Site contents:
* About CICIR; * Organizational Structure (Institute of Russian Studies, Institute of American Studies, Institute of European Studies, Institute of Japanese Studies, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Institute of Security and Strategic studies, Institute of World Economic Studies, Division for Central Asian Studies, Division for Latin-American Studies, Division for Korean Peninsula Studies, Center for Trans-Atlantic Studies, Center for Ethnic and Religions Studies, Center for the Third World Studies, Center for Globalization Studies, Center for Strategic Studies, Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies, Center for Crisis Management Studies, Center for Economic Security Studies, Center for Taiwan-related Studies, Center for Hong Kong and Macao-related Studies); * Publications; * Academic Exchange; * Contact Us.
[A bi-lingual site (CN, EN) - ed.]
URL http://www.cicir.ac.cn/en/item/item01.php
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news/comments - 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 300

31 May 2007

Australia Mekong Resource Center (AMRC)
AMRC, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Supplied note: "On 26-27 September 2007, the Australian Mekong Resource Centre and AusAID will co-host an international conference on regional integration, integrated water resource management and development in the Mekong titled: "A Greater Mekong? Poverty, Integration and Development" [...] Participants and speakers at the conference will come from academic, government, NGO, international organisation and community backgrounds, from around Australia, from Mekong countries and elsewhere. The conference will include keynote speakers, case studies, panel discussions and breakout sessions. There is no fee for the conference, however prior registration is required to assist with catering and conference planning. [...] Yours sincerely, Philip Hirsch, Director, Australian Mekong Resource Centre."
Self-description: "AMRC is a resource centre based at the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney. The Centre promotes research, discussion and debate on development and environment issues in the Mekong Region. Established in 1997, AMRC focuses on the role Australia plays in the region as a near neighbour, donor and major trading partner. The Centre is a focal point for information, dialogue and activities in support of an equitable and sustainable development path for the Region. [...]
What's new at the AMRC? AMRC-AusAID conference: "A Greater Mekong? Poverty, Integration and Development", September 2007 Conference Preliminary Announcement (pdf) [http://www.mekong.es.usyd.edu.au/AMRC-AUSAID%202007%20Conference%20Announcement.pdf]"
Site contents:
* News; * Projects (Mekong Learning Initiative, Mekong Water Governance, Research Training NUOL, Agrarian Transition, Completed Projects, Charlie Pahlman memorial); * Publications (Working Papers, Mekong Update & Dialogue, CD-ROMs, CD-ROMs in AMRC Library, Mekong Briefs, Other, Archives); * Education; * Case Studies; * Events (Mekong Discussion Group, Upcoming Events, Past events, Mekong Jobs/Opportunities); * Links (including: Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, Bank Information Center, Asian Development Bank, Rivers Watch East and SE Asia (RWESA), Focus on the Global South, Japan-ESCAP Cooperation Fund (JECP), Probe, International Rivers Network (IRN), Nautilus, Towards Ecological Recovery and Regional Alliance (TERRA), MekongInfo, AID/WATCH, Global Association for People and the Environment (GAPE), Oxfam Mekong Initiative, Protected Areas Review, Mekong River Commission (MRC), The Water Page, Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University, South East Asia Rivers Network (SEARIN)); * About Us (Concept Paper, Staff, Associates, Visiting Scholars, Interns & Volunteers, Alumni, Contact).
URL http://www.mekong.es.usyd.edu.au/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mekong.es.usyd.edu.au/
Link reported by: Sandra Davenport (sandra.davenport--at--anu.edu.au), forwarded by asia_news--at--anu.edu.au
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./Study/Online Guide
* 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 1,000

29 May 2007

Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - Issue May 28, 2007
japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US
Supplied note: "The following articles were posted on May 28, 2007 at Japan Focus.
* Hank Nelson, The New Guinea Comfort Women, Japan and the Australian Connection: out of the shadows
*John Price, Herbert Norman, the Occupation of Japan, and Canada-U.S. Relations. A Canadian critique of MacArthur and the Occupation
*Xiaoyuan Liu, Reins of Liberation: Geopolitics and Ethnopolitics of China, Central Asia and the Asia Pacific
*Hisane Masaki, Japan Vies With China for Dominance in Indochina and ASEAN
*Graham Brooks, Thomas Ellis, and Chris Lewis, Pachinko: Declining Popularity or a Continuing Japanese Social Problem?
*Kim Do-hyeong, The Kamikaze in Japanese and International Film
*Wendell Minnick, US and Chinese Nuclear and Missile Development: the Risk of Accidental Nuclear War
Find them at http://japanfocus.org - m.selden."
Site contents:
* BROWSE ALL ARTICLES; * BROWSE BY REGION (Japan and the World, The United States, The Asia Pacific, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, Russia, Europe, The Americas, Okinawa, Africa); * BROWSE BY ISSUES (Diplomacy and Security, The Military and Security, War and Peace, History, Politics and Ideology, Economics, Social Issues, Culture, Education, The Atomic Bomb, Atomic War, Hiroshima and Nagasaki); * SEARCH BY AUTHOR/TITLE/KEYWORD/DATE OF PUBLICATION
[Japan Focus is a refereed e-journal (est. 2003, ISSN 1557-4660) and archive on the Asia Pacific. In addition to Japan Focus exclusives, it provides translations from Japanese and other languages as well as reprints of important articles. Its website with more than 800 articles provides a permanent resource for students and researchers. The coordinators of Japan Focus are Andrew DeWit, Laura Hein, Gavan McCormack, David McNeill, Mark Selden, Yuki Tanaka and William Underwood. Contact Japan Focus by email at info--at--japanfocus.org - ed.]
URL http://japanfocus.org
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://japanfocus.org
Link reported by: Mark Selden (ms44--at--cornell.edu)
* Resource type [news/comments - 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]: over 3,000 [in fact 6,640]

29 May 2007

Mahatma Gandhi Research and Media Service
GandhiServe Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Self-description: "GandhiServe, a charitable foundation registered in Germany, aims to spread the ethics of nonviolence by disseminating information about and popularizing Mahatma Gandhi's life and works.
GandhiServe Foundation hopes to help alleviate conflicts and inspire others through making available media and resources on Gandhi's life and thoughts."
Site contents: * Events; * About Us; * Research; * Education; * Arts; * Travels; * Newsletter; * Donations; * Mahatma Gandhi News Digest (latest issue May 21 2007, Mahatma Gandhi News Digest Archive (2004 - present); * Subscribe Mahatma Gandhi News Digest); * The Archives (# At a glance - Who's Gandhi, # Audio - 140 hrs of Gandhi's voice, music, interviews, # Writings - 8.800 books, 200 writings, 35.000 letters [incl. online texts of (a) Books by M.K. Gandhi, (b) Compilations of Gandhi's writings, (c) Books on M.K. Gandhi, (d) Articles on M.K. Gandhi - ed.], # Images - 15.000 photographs of Gandhi and India, # Video - 20 hrs footage, 120 hrs film of Gandhi and India, # Miscellaneous - Chronologies, Stamps, Coins, Medals, Banknotes, Cindrella, Gandhi Workshop, Genealogy, Q & A, Links, Addresses, Downloads, Gandhi Quiz)
[A multilingual site [ENG, ES, RU, CN, Esperanto, DE]
URL http://www.gandhiserve.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.gandhiserve.org/
Link reported by: gandhiserve--at--listi.jpberlin.de
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Study/Documents/News
* 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]: over 3,000 [in fact, 21,700]

28 May 2007

Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS)
PIPS, Lahore, Pakistan
Self-description: "Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) is an independent think tank committed to providing in-depth understanding and objective analysis of regional and global issues. PIPS provides a forum to international strategic thinkers to play an active role in understanding and researching real and perceived threats to regional and global peace and security. The objective is to engage leading regional and international strategic thinkers, academicians, and media persons in the pursuit to produce knowledge of national, regional and global security issues and to promote awareness about the importance of peace and democracy. The goal will be achieved through independent policy analysis, collection, processing and interpretation, dissemination of information and skills/training. [...] Scope: PIPS carries out and disseminates policy analysis and research studies on the regional and global strategic issues such as conflict and development, political violence, religious extremism, ethnic strife, terrorism - including state terrorism, economics, governance and democracy, foreign relations, and cultural learning of policy-making processes. It also conducts dialogues, trainings and other educational programs for strengthening partnerships and resolving inter-state conflicts, and clashes between the government and the public - including various sections of the public within the framework of civil society.
Database: At the national level, the institute is dedicated to building the knowledge base for peace and enlightenment of the society. PIPS is building one of the largest database on peace and security issues at the regional level."
Site contents: * Publications; * Research & Analysis; * Surveys; * Services; * Events; * Trainings; * PIPS Team; * Advisory Board; * SouthAsiaNet (Pakistan, South Asia, Central Asia, East Asia, Middle East); * Free Publications; * Contact Us.
URL http://www.pips.com.pk/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: PIPS (pips--at--pips.com.pk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - 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

27 May 2007

Water-related Information System for the Sustainable Development of the Mekong Delta (WISDOM)
Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany
Supplied note:
"Joint German-Vietnamese Research Program 'WISDOM' (Water-related Information System for the sustainable Development Of the Mekong Delta)
The approach is to design an information system that integrates multidisciplinary expertise of research institutes, universities, state agencies and small medium enterprises. This information system will integrate existing and newly generated data and enable more efficient analysis and distribution of water-related information. The objective of WISDOM is to enable stakeholders to build-up, maintain, use and extend their capacity for processing, modelling and analysing spatial and statistical information with respect to sustainable natural resource management and water-related development in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam.
The provision of water related data and information, such as hydrological, climate and socio-economic data constitutes the core aspect of the project. Nevertheless, the provision of data and information itself does not automatically lead to a more efficient and sustainable water resources management. Before knowledge can be used it must not only be generated but also represented and disseminated. Capacity building and research in Knowledge Management will therefore be carried out in the first phase of the project 2007 to 2010.
The program will be a joint effort of The Southern Institute of Water Resources Research Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology - Division of Remote Sensing and GIS Southern Institute of Social Sciences Can Tho University German Aerospace Center (DLR) - German Remote Sensing Data Center Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn United Nations University - Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS), Bonn, and other institutions in Vietnam and Germany. The research program will be jointly financed by the Vietnamese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). - hde."
URL http://www.zef.de/1052.0.html
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it should be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.zef.de/1052.0.html]
Link reported by: Hans-Dieter Evers (hdevers--at--uni-bonn.de)
* Resource type [news/comments - 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

26 May 2007

Al-Qaeda Illustrated Torture Manual
Courtroom Television Network LLC, New York, NY, US
Self-description: "May 24 [2007] -- In a recent raid on an al-Qaeda safe house in Iraq, U.S. military officials recovered an assortment of crude drawings depicting torture methods like "blowtorch to the skin" and "eye removal." Along with the images, which you'll find on the following pages, soldiers seized various torture implements, like meat cleavers, whips, and wire cutters. Photos of those items can be seen here [i.e. at http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0524072torture7.html - ed.]. The images, which were just declassified by the Department of Defense, also include a picture of a ramshackle Baghdad safe house described as an "al-Qaeda torture chamber. It was there, during an April 24 raid, that soldiers found a man suspended from the ceiling by a chain. According to the military, he had been abducted from his job and was being beaten daily by his captors. In a raid earlier this week, Coalition Forces freed five Iraqis who were found in a padlocked room in Karmah [a town some 70 km NW of Baghdad - ed.]. The group, which included a boy, were reportedly beaten with chains, cables, and hoses. Photos showing injuries sustained by those captives can be found here. (12 pages)."
Site contents: Drawings found in an Al-Qaeda safe house, in pencil and colour, of the following torture techniques: (1) Drilling hands; (2) Severing limbs; (3) Dragging vicitims behind cars; (4) Eye removal; (5) [applying] Blowtorch to the skin; (6) Suspension from ceiling and electrocution; (7) Braking limbs and restricting breath; (8) Binding and beating; (9); Suspending and whipping; (10) [applying] Clothes iron to skin; (11) [crushing] Victim's head in a vice. Also, the site publishes: (a) a colour photograph of Al-Qaeda torture implements; (b) a colour photograph of the Al-Qaeda torture chamber; (c) several colour photographs of damaged bodies of the Iraqi kidnap and torture survivors freed in Karmah on 21 May 2007.
[Acc. to Wikipedia "The Smoking Gun is a website that posts legal documents, arrest records, and police mugshots on a daily basis. The intent is to bring to the public light information that is damning, shocking, outrageous, or amazing, yet also somewhat obscure or unreported by more mainstream media sources." The Smoking Gun website, is owned by The Courtroom Television Network (aka. Court TV), an American cable television network wholly owned by Time Warner - ed.]
URL http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0524072torture1.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.thesmokinggun.com]
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - 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 3,000 [in fact, 1040]

23 May 2007

The Citizen Jihadi - International Terrorism Monitor---Paper No. 237
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, 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: "Jihadi terrorism in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region is undergoing a disquieting metamorphosis. More and more individual Muslims are taking to jihad and suicide terrorism out of their own volition. They were not made into suicide terrorists, with offers of money, women or a place in heaven by their religious leaders. One has been seeing this not only in Afghanistan, but also in the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan. - b. raman."
[The writer is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Distinguished Fellow and Convenor, Observer Research Foundation (ORF), Chennai Chapter - ed.]
URL http://www.saag.org/papers23/paper2253.html
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.saag.org]
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde--at--vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - 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

22 May 2007

Innovations in Tibetan Information Technology, May 26-27, 2007, New York
Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library, New York, NY, US
Supplied note: "Trace Foundation's Latse Library is pleased to announce: Innovations in Tibetan Information Technology: A Workshop on Tibetan Unicode and Tibetan Language Support in Windows Vista
May 26-27, 2007 at Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library, 132 Perry St., #2B, New York, NY
The Workshop on Tibetan Unicode and Tibetan Language Support in Windows Vista will explore the history of computing in Tibetan, the development of Tibetan Unicode by dedicated IT professionals, organizations, and individuals, and finally the commitment to Tibetan Unicode by Microsoft with the inclusion of Tibetan language support in the Windows Vista operating system. The two-day workshop will include demonstrations on how to implement Tibetan Unicode in a variety of applications, and how to use the Tibetan features in Vista.
General schedule and topics covered:
Saturday, May 26 Morning Session (9:15 am - 12 pm) Brief history of computing in Tibetan; Implementation of Tibetan Unicode; How Windows Vista supports Tibetan; Tibetan Unicode supported in other major operating systems (Mac and Linux); Tibetan OpenType font; Tibetan keyboards; Himalaya Unicode font.
Saturday, May 26 Afternoon Session (2 pm - 5 pm) Using Tibetan in Office 2007; Web pages, blogs, and instant messaging in Tibetan; Discussion, practice and consultation.
Sunday, May 27 Morning Session (10 am - 12:30 pm) Converting legacy Tibetan data to Unicode data; Bugs in Tibetan language features of Windows Vista and Office 2007; Developing OpenType fonts for other types of traditional Tibetan fonts; Designing your own Tibetan keyboard; Developing a Tibetan spelling and grammar checker; Tibetan web page and blog development; Tibetan capable search engine; Designing software with Tibetan interface.
Sunday, May 27 Afternoon Session (2 pm - 3:30 pm) Discussion, practice and consultation.
Schedule subject to change. Please check our website calendar for updates: [at the URL below]
The Workshop on Tibetan Unicode and Tibetan Language Support in Windows Vista will feature presenters Tashi Tsering, Christopher Walker and Yeshi Tashi. Tibetan-English / English-Tibetan translation will be provided as needed. The workshop is designed to provide practical information to a general audience, as well as more detailed discussion for professional applications. Each day will close with a Discussion, Practice and Consultation period, so please feel free to bring along your laptop and any questions.
The workshop is free and open to the public. - ec."
URL http://www.latse.org/calendar/index.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.latse.org/calendar/index.html
Link reported by: Eric Colombel (ecolombel--at--trace.org)
* Resource type [news/comments - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Library
* 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

22 May 2007

Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - Issue May 22, 2007
japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US
Supplied note: "The following articles were posted on May 22, 2007 at Japan Focus.
*John McGlynn, North Korean Criminality Examined: Part I
*Roh Moo-hyun, On History, Nationalism and a Northeast Asian Community
*Brian Victoria, Karma, War and Inequality in Twentieth Century Japan
*Kyodo News, Secret Details of Sordid Okinawan Reversion Deal Revealed
Find them at http://japanfocus.org - m.selden."
Site contents:
* BROWSE ALL ARTICLES; * BROWSE BY REGION (Japan and the World, The United States, The Asia Pacific, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, Russia, Europe, The Americas, Okinawa, Africa); * BROWSE BY ISSUES (Diplomacy and Security, The Military and Security, War and Peace, History, Politics and Ideology, Economics, Social Issues, Culture, Education, The Atomic Bomb, Atomic War, Hiroshima and Nagasaki); * SEARCH BY AUTHOR/TITLE/KEYWORD/DATE OF PUBLICATION
[Japan Focus is a refereed e-journal (est. 2003, ISSN 1557-4660) and archive on the Asia Pacific. In addition to Japan Focus exclusives, it provides translations from Japanese and other languages as well as reprints of important articles. Its website with more than 800 articles provides a permanent resource for students and researchers. The coordinators of Japan Focus are Andrew DeWit, Laura Hein, Gavan McCormack, David McNeill, Mark Selden, Yuki Tanaka and William Underwood. Contact Japan Focus by email at info--at--japanfocus.org - ed.]
URL http://japanfocus.org
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://japanfocus.org
Link reported by: Mark Selden (ms44--at--cornell.edu)
* Resource type [news/comments - 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]: over 3,000 [in fact 6,640]

21 May 2007

Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific (CHCAP)
Citizenship and Globalisation Research Priority Area, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC, Australia
Self-description: "The Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific (CHCAP) undertakes research into issues of cultural heritage protection in Asia and the Pacific, including Australia. Based in the Faculty of Arts at Deakin University Melbourne, the Centre is closely connected with UNESCO, including its World Heritage Centre and especially its Asia Pacific Regional Office in Bangkok, Thailand. The Centre is also a member of Forum UNESCO, the Asian Academy for Heritage Management and AusHeritage."
Site contents: * Research & Consultancy; * CHCAP News (Public Seminars, Visiting Fellows, Current News 2006, News Archive 2005, News Archive 2004, News Archive 2003); * Studying at CHCAP; * Publications (Books by CHCAP staff: On Feminism and Nationalism: Kartini's Letters to Stella Zeehandelaar 1899-1903; Recalling the Indies - Colonail Culture & Postcolonial Identities; Streetwise Asia: A Practical Guide for the Conservation and Revitalisation of heritage Cities and Towns in Asia; Welsh Patagonians - The Australian Connection; Middle Class Culture in the Nineteenth Century America, Australia and Britain; The Disappearing 'Asian' City; Hanoi: Biography of a City; Cultural Identity and Urban Change in Southeast Asia; An Archaeology of West Polynesian Prehistory; Yarrawarra Places, Making Stories; Feminist Poetics of the Sacred, Creative Suspicions; Samurai in the Surf; Recalling the Indies); * Museum Studies; * External Links.
URL http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts/chcap/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.deakin.edu.au/arts/chcap/
Link reported by: Francesca Beddie (fbeddie--at--ozemail.com.au), forwarded by asian-currents--at--anu.edu.au
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - 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

20 May 2007

Darfur Shadow Over Beijing Olympics
Chennai Centre For China Studies, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Extract: "The campaign against Beijing on the Darfur issue and for the boycott of next year's Olympics if it does not change its policy has been spearheaded by Mia Farrow, the Hollywood actress who is a goodwill Ambassador for the UN's Children Fund. In an article in the 'Wall Street Journal' of March 28, 2007, Mia Farrow wrote: 'China is pouring billions of dollars into Sudan. [...]. And China has used its veto power in the U.N. Security Council to repeatedly obstruct efforts by the U.S. and the U.K. to introduce peacekeepers to curtail the slaughter. As one of the few players whose support is indispensable to Sudan, China has the power to, at the very least, insist that Khartoum accept a robust international peacekeeping force to protect defenseless civilians in Darfur. Beijing is uniquely positioned to put a stop to the slaughter, yet they have so far been unabashed in their refusal to do so. But there is now one thing that China may hold more dear than their unfettered access to Sudanese oil: their successful staging of the 2008 Summer Olympics. That desire may provide a lone point of leverage with a country that has otherwise been impervious to all criticism.'" - b.raman
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India. - ed.]
URL http://www.c3sindia.org/africa/88/darfur-shadow-over-beijing-olympics/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/*/www.c3sindia.org - ed.
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde--at--vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - 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

17 May 2007

Mongolian & Pashto Learning Materials Online
Center for the Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, US
Supplied note: "We would like to draw your attention to the launch of important new language resources for students of Pashto and Mongolian languages. The Center for the Languages of the Central Asian Region (CeLCAR) has developed online, web-based reading and listening materials for these languages, and beginning today, we will be placing these on our website alongside the Uyghur and Tajik materials. The modules can be accessed on our main website: The modules can be accessed on our main website: [see the URL below] Please note that we ask all users to register, so as to better track the usage and efficacy of the modules. Please feel free to share this announcement with your colleagues and all those interested in Central Asian languages. - Paul M. Foster, Jr. Director."
Self-description: "The goal of the Intermediate Reading/Listening Exercises is to produce listening and reading exercises for students of Central Asian languages at the intermediate level to help build their listening and reading skills, broaden their vocabulary, enrich their appreciation of grammar, and deepen their understanding of the cultures of the region. Each module features original or adapted written and spoken texts that present language structures in authentic cultural contexts. The texts are accompanied by a series of multimedia exercises developed by our native-speaker developers. Please feel free to explore the modules at your leisure."
URL http://www.indiana.edu/~celcar/intermediate.php
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center (iaau--at--indiana.edu), forwarded by central-eurasia-l--at--lists.fas.harvard.edu
* Resource type [news/comments - 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

17 May 2007

Japan Focus: An Asia-Pacific Journal - Issue May 17, 2007
japanfocus.org, Ithaca, NY, US
Supplied note: "The following articles were posted on May 17, 2007 at Japan Focus.
*Taylor Owen and Ben Kiernan, Bombs Over Cambodia: New Light on US Air War
*Anne Booth, Did It Really Help to be a Japanese Colony? East Asian Economic Performance in Historical Perspective
*Ikui Eikoh, Letters from Iwo Jima: Japanese Perspectives
*Defense News, Japan, the F-22 and History
Find them at http://japanfocus.org - m.selden."
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* BROWSE ALL ARTICLES; * BROWSE BY REGION (Japan and the World, The United States, The Asia Pacific, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, Russia, Europe, The Americas, Okinawa, Africa); * BROWSE BY ISSUES (Diplomacy and Security, The Military and Security, War and Peace, History, Politics and Ideology, Economics, Social Issues, Culture, Education, The Atomic Bomb, Atomic War, Hiroshima and Nagasaki); * SEARCH BY AUTHOR/TITLE/KEYWORD/DATE OF PUBLICATION
[Japan Focus is a refereed e-journal (est. 2003, ISSN 1557-4660) and archive on the Asia Pacific. In addition to Japan Focus exclusives, it provides translations from Japanese and other languages as well as reprints of important articles. Its website with more than 800 articles provides a permanent resource for students and researchers. The coordinators of Japan Focus are Andrew DeWit, Laura Hein, Gavan McCormack, David McNeill, Mark Selden, Yuki Tanaka and William Underwood. Contact Japan Focus by email at info--at--japanfocus.org - ed.]
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