The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late Feb 2009, Vol. 16, No. 4 (294)

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27 Feb 2009

[Overseas] Chinese Media Guide
Chinese Advertising Agencies, Inc., Alhambra, CA, US.
Self-description:
"Chinese Media Guide is a comprehensive guide on overseas Chinese media. It contains a complete list and descriptions of major overseas Chinese newspaper, Chinese TV stations, Chinese radio stations, and Chinese websites [in Australia, Cambodia, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, The Netherlands, The Philippines, The United Kingdom, and United States - ed]. As Los Angeles and New York have the most Chinese population and a variety of Chinese media, we decide to list them separately."
Site contents:
* Chinese Media Guide (Overview of Chinese Overseas Media); * Chinese Newspapers (Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Others); * Chinese TV Stations (Los Angeles, New York, Satellite TV, Cable TV, Others); * Chinese Radio Stations (Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver, Toronto, Others); * About Us (About Chinese Media Guide and Our Publisher); * Contact Us (Contact details, Marketing to Chinese Americans, Chinese Newspapers, Chinese Advertising Agencies, Chinese TV Stations, Chinese Classified Ads, Chinese Radio Stations, Chinese Demographics, Chinese Internet Marketing, Advertising on Chinese Websites).
URL http://www.chineseadvertisingagencies.com/mediaguide/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [existence/non-existence of archived copies of the site could not be confirmed at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Samuel (casadejoanna--at--gmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide/Study
* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Business
* 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

26 Feb 2009

Columbia Center for Japanese Religion (CCJR)
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, New York, NY, US.
Self-description:
"Founded in 2006 as a unit of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Columbia Center for Japanese Religion serves to coordinate, support, and develop the university's resources for Japanese Religion in three general areas: scholarly research, academic communication, and teaching. CCJR seeks to promote the study of Japanese Religion in a broader Asian context with an emphasis on both inter-disciplinary and cross-cultural approaches."
Site contents:
* About CCJR (CCJR Staff, Related Organizations); * Research * Academics (Undergraduate Courses, Graduate Courses); * Publications [details of publications and some full-text online papers by Wendi Adamek, Michael Como, Bernard Faure, and David (Max) Moerman] * Upcoming Events (Symposium 2009); * Past Events (Symposium 2008, Symposium 2007); * Contact Us.
URL http://www.columbia-cjr.org/
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 - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./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

25 Feb 2009

Korean Dreams: Paintings and Screens of the Joseon Dynasty
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Self-description:
"Korean Dreams: paintings and screens of the Joseon Dynasty, The Lee U-Fan Collection from the Musee Guimet, Paris, 5 March - 8 June 2009, Asian gallery, ground level.
This exhibition, the first showing of traditional Korean painting in the Gallery, will comprise Korean screens, hanging scrolls and album leaves dating from the 17th to 19th centuries. The paintings in this collection represent popular decorative traditions used in Korean homes, rather than the Chinese literati style favoured by officials in the Confucianism-dominated society. Themes covered will include calligraphy, landscape, bird-and-flower, mythical animals and portraits. A popular subject represented with some fine examples is the so-called book screen (Chaek'kori), a genre adopted with relish by Koreans, artist and patron alike."
Site contents:
* More information; * Education programs; * Exhibitions; * Events; * Collection; * Research; * Education; * Support Us; * Membership; * Press Office; * Shop; * For Kids; * About Us.
URL http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/coming/korean_dreams
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
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 - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Museum
* 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

25 Feb 2009

Chinese Conventional Place Names [converted from Wade-Giles to pinyin]
Cataloging Policy And Support Office, Library of Congress, Washington, DC, US.
Self-description:
"The Library of Congress is beginning the process of revising the Chinese place names currently established in a conventional English-language form to the form used by the United States Board on Geographic Names. This process began in August 1998 when the Library conducted a pilot project to test the feasibility of making these changes. The Library is now ready to proceed with the other names it has identified for change. This list will appear in Cataloging Service Bulletin, no. 83, Winter 1999. The list consists primarily of the provinces and the provincial capitals and other major cities.
In general the change will be made to the name authority record for the geographic name as the beginning point. [...] The intent is to post on this page those main headings that have been changed and the status of the changes made to other authority records that have used that heading. These changes are being made before the Library converts from the Wade-Giles system of romanization for Chinese to pinyin because many of the forms used for these geographic headings cannot be converted easily by machine manipulation since they are not systematically romanized from Wade-Giles."
Site contents:
[For all provinces in PRC, and for all major cities in each province, details of the:] * Former Heading; * Revised Heading; * Month Changed.
[The document, entirely in Latin script, was last updated on Jul 15 1999. It is a fragment of a larger constellation of files catalogued by the page Library of Congress Pinyin Conversion Project, http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pinyin/ - ed.]
URL http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/china.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/china.html
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* 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 100

25 Feb 2009

The Online Index of Chinese Buddhism (OICB)
Department of Religion, Columbia University, New York, NY, US.
Self-description:
"Online Index of Chinese Buddhism - An annotated list of online resources for the study of Buddhism in China. [...] [Links] which are potentially useful to scholars and researchers studying Buddhist religious traditions in China. If you find that any links are dead, resources have moved or want to suggest a resource please email [gas2122(use @ at)columbia.edu]. This page is maintained by Gregory Adam Scott, graduate student in the Department of Religion at Columbia University. [...] The OICB was first compiled on August 26th, 2006. It was last updated on February 22nd, 2009. "
Site contents:
1. Language and Fonts; 2. Texts [digitized source texts available online]; 3. Dictionaries [online dictionaries of Buddhist terms or dealing with a source language]; 4. Groups and Associations [religious and charitable organizations]; 5. Specific Topics; 6. Collected Links, Bibliographies, and Guides;
and Resources on Modern Chinese Buddhism (Timeline of Political Events in Late Qing and Early Republican China, Print Bibliography of Modern Chinese Buddhism, Biographical Index of Modern Chinese Buddhism, Introduction to a collection of Republican-era Buddhist Periodicals [PDF] by Erik Joseph Hammerstroem).
URL http://www.columbia.edu/~gas2122/oicb.html
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.columbia.edu/~gas2122/oicb.html
Link reported by: Gregory Scott (gas2122--at--columbia.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* 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

24 Feb 2009

Chinese Unicorn - all about the Zhi (a 2008 e-book by Jeannie Thomas Parker)
www.chinese-unicorn.com, Brea, CA, US.
Self-description:
"A Web site containing a full-length book about the Chinese unicorn throughout history, as well as a blog [...] This is the first book published in the English language to explore the origin and significance of the mythic Chinese unicorn and its influence on later unicorn myths. It proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the Chinese unicorn was *not* the 'qilin', but a one-horned female goat-like beast called the 'zhi'. It also examines the real animals upon which the myth was based. Its most significant finding, however, is that the unicorn 'zhi' was the ultimate symbol of justice under the law in ancient China."
Site contents:
* About; * Chronology of China; * China's Administrative Districts; * Selected Bibliography;
* Chapters (1. Introduction to the Mythic Chinese Unicorn, 2. Earliest Pictographic Evidence for the Zhi, 3. The Animal Represented in the Zhi Pictograph, 4. Later Evolution of Chinese Characters, 5. The Unicorn Zhi and the Law, 6. The 'Tibetan Unicorn', 7. Images of Zhi in the Shang Dynasty, 8. Earliest Pictorial Evidence for the Zhi, 9. The Confusion about the Lin, 10. Auspicious Animals in Han Art, 11. The Zhi Becomes a Tomb Door Guardian, 12. Three-Dimensional Images of Unicorn Zhi, 13. The Real Unicorn Elasmotherium, 14. Dragon's Bones and Dragon's Teeth, 15. The Transformation of the Unicorn, 16. The Rhinoceros in Ancient China, 17. The Ancient Uses of Rhinoceros Horn, 18. Rhinoceros Horn and the Poisonfeather Bird, 19. Early Maritime Trade in Rhino Horn, 20. The Cinnamon Route, 21. The Tastes of Paradise, 22. The Mythic Rhinoceros-Unicorn, 23. The Magic of the Horn, 24. Ge Hong's Ideas and Their Influence, 25. The Designs on the Horn, 26. The Spirit- Rhinoceros-Unicorn Xiniu, 27. The Ancient Trade in Narwhal Horn, 28. Narwhal Horn Becomes Magical, 29. Summary and Conclusion);
* Preface; * About this book; * Dedication; * Search.
URL http://www.chinese-unicorn.com/
[The final version of a study 'The Mythic Chinese Unicorn Zhi', originally published at the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada web site at the now defunct address http://www.rom.on.ca/ebuff/unicorn.htm - ed.]
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]
Link reported by: Jeannie T. Parker (jeanniep--at--sympatico.ca)
* 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]: Essential
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30

23 Feb 2009

Mon-Khmer Studies (MKS) Journal
Mahidol University at Salaya, Salaya, Thailand.
Self-description:
"Founded in 1964, the MKS Journal is the publication of record for research in Mon-Khmer linguistics. [...] Mon-Khmer Studies is a journal devoted to the study of Southeast Asian languages and cultures, especially those of the Mon-Khmer family. The journal is produced annually, and welcomes articles or notes on any aspect of Mon-Khmer languages and cultures, as well as other Southeast Asian cultures, languages, and language families. Topics may include linguistic description, cultural description, comparison, bibliography, historical development, sociolinguistics, stylistics, orthography, and paleography."
Site contents:
* About the latest issue; * Monographs [details of the MKS occasional monographs on Southeast Asian languages]; * History of MKS; * Editorial Board; * Send Manuscript; * Style Sheet; * Online Archives [articles from volumes 1-36 are freely available in PDF format - ed.]; * How to Order MKS; * Getting Back Issues; * Links; * Contact the Editor; * How to Order MKS; * Getting Back Issues of MKS.
URL http://www.mksjournal.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mksjournal.org/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study/Corporate Info./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

19 Feb 2009

Centre of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University
Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Self-description:
"The Centre of Oriental Studies is the major institution of Asian studies in Lithuania as well as an academic core unit of Vilnius University. The Centre focuses its studies on the regions of Asia and Near East and serves a link among the Lithuanian researchers of the East. The objective of the Centre is to prepare specialists in the field of Asian studies needed for scientific research, the development of cultural and business relations as well as to promote better understanding of the Eastern cultures in Lithuania, and to foster the collaboration between the East and the West.
[...] The Centre of Oriental Studies was founded in Vilnius in 1993 setting as its major goal promotion and learning of oriental languages, culture and history. [...] Since then the Program has given rise to specialists in Arabic / Islamic, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian studies. [...] In the near future the Master of Arts Program in the Contemporary Asian Studies should be introduced as well. Besides, the Centre works toward incorporating Iranian, Tibetian, Korean, and Mongol studies into its curriculum. In 2002, the Oriental Centre set up the Eastern Languages School which since then has invited everybody willing to study Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Farsi, Hindi, Sanskrit, Turkish, and Korean languages. As part of its activities, the Oriental Centre also offers wider public lectures given by famous visiting scholars from Lithuania and abroad.
The centre enjoys lively research of six research groups and issues an annual scholarly journal 'Acta Orientalia Vilnensia'. The Centre also organizes annual international scientific conferences of the series Asian Studies: Problems and Research and conducts translations of classical Asian texts [incl. The Second Vilnius Conference on Topics in the Study of Asia: Texts and Practices of South Asian Art. Venue: Centre of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University, June 4-6, 2009, Contact person: Valdas Jaskunas, Email: valdas.jaskunas--at--oc.vu.lt - ed.]. Supported by foreign libraries and the representation offices of Asian countries, the Centre possesses the richest collection of oriental sources in Lithuania, provides advice services to state institutions, fosters academic relations with European, American, and Asian colleagues, and actively participates in international research projects."
Site contents:
* Main (News); * Staff (Administration; Academic Staff; Visiting Staff); * Courses in English; * Research; (Programs, Conferences); * Acta Orientalia Vilnensia (Journal Contents [details plus abstracts of articles]: 2000 Vol. 1, 2001 Vol. 2, 2002 Vol. 3, 2003 Vol. 4, 2004 Vol. 5, 2005 Vol. 6 No 1, 2005 Vol. 6 No 2, 2006 Vol. 7 No 1-2, 2007 Vol. 8 No 1, Author Instructions, Contacts, Exchange); * Alumni; * Links.
[A bi-lingual (LT, EN) site - ed.]
URL http://www.oc.vu.lt/en
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract.]
Link reported by: Valdas Jaskunas (valdas.jaskunas--at--oc.vu.lt), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Online Guide
* 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 100

19 Feb 2009

Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis
Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Self-description:
"The Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis was established in 2000 [... It] is a research programme that aims to develop research initiatives on themes pertaining to population, sustainable development and health such as population forecasting, international migration, changing family structures and the Asian family, population-development-environment-health interactions, fertility, intergenerational relations, ageing, human capital projections, urbanization, environmental degradation and the consequences of these population dynamics on human well-being and health. In doing so, we aim to consolidate the Asian Population Network (APN), organise relevant workshops, provide training for skills development, engage in research projects, and subsequently publish research findings."
Site contents:
* About Us; * People; * Research; * CHAMPSEA - Child Health and Migrant Parents in South-East Asia; * Events;
* Publications (# Asian MetaCentre Research Paper Series (Papers [in PDF format] include: No. 21 (Jun 2006) - A Case Study of British Media Discourses of the Indian Ocean Tsunami: The December 2006 Coverage - Tracey L. Skelton; No. 20 (May 2006) - The Social Organization of Remittances: Channelling Remittances from East and Southeast Asia to Bangladesh - Md Mizanur Rahman and Brenda S.A. Yeoh; No.19: (Nov 2004) - Health Concerns of 'Invisible' Foreign Domestic Maids in Thailand - Mika Toyota; No.18: (Jul 2004) - Water Resources, Land Exploitation and Population Dynamics in Arid Areas: The Case of Tarim River Basin in Xinjiang of China - Jiang Leiwen, Tong Yufen, Zhao Zhijie, Li Tianhong and Liao Jianhua; No.17: (Feb 2004) - Migration and Health in China: Problems, Obstacles and Solutions - Xiang Biao), # Publications from Asian MetaCentre Activities and Staff Collaborations [details of the publications], # Short Features);
* Vacancies; * Links; * Contact Us; * Join our [APN] mailing list; * New Publications.
URL http://www.populationasia.org/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.populationasia.org/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - 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]: Useful
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 1,000

18 Feb 2009

Asia Research Institute (ARI)
National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Self-description:
"Established as a university-level institute in July 2001, the Asia Research Institute (ARI) is one of the strategic initiatives of the National University of Singapore, as it focuses its sights on being a world-leading hub for research and education on Asia. ARI engages the social sciences broadly defined, and especially interdisciplinary frontiers between and beyond disciplines. It seeks to be a space of encounters for scholars around the world working on Asia. Within NUS, it works particularly with the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, Business, Law, Design and Environment, and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, as well as the other Asia institutes to support research, conferences, lectures and graduate study at the highest level.
Its research clusters are organised around the following themes: # The Changing Family in Asia, # Asian Migration, # Cultural Studies in Asia, # Religion and Globalisation in Asian Contexts, # Southeast Asia-China Interactions, including a Project on Southeast Asian Archaeology, # Sustainable Cities, # Open Cluster."
Site contents:
* About ARI (Vision and Mission, ARI 5th Anniversary, People); * Research Clusters (Subsections of each cluster: Cluster Projects, Overview, Calendar of Events, Cluster Members, Publications, Resource Centre, Photo Albums);
* ARI Working Paper Series (in Feb 2008 there were archived 109 working papers, incl. # WPS 109 Islam and Family Legal Contests in Malaysia: Hegemonizing Ethnic over Gender and Civil Rights - MOHAMAD Maznah, Dec/2008. # WPS 108 Cross-Dressing Across Cultures: Genre and Gender in the Dances of Didik Nini Thowok - HUGHES-FREELAND Felicia, Nov/2008. # WPS 107 Syarikat and the Move to Make Amends for the Nahdlatul Ulama's Violent Past - McGREGOR Katharine, Sep/2008. # WPS 106 Japan-The Tiny Dwarf? Sino-Japanese Relations from the Kangxi to the Early Qianlong Reigns - Angela Schottenhammer, Aug/2008. # WPS 105 Trends in Age at Marriage in the Provinces of Indonesia - GUBHAJU Bina, JONES Gavin W, Jun/2008. - ed.]
* Books (details of 111 books); * Journals (details of the journal 'Asian Population Studies'); * ARI-NUS Press Publication Series * ARI People in the media; * ARI Aceh Working Papers; * Video (Webcast); * Audio (Podcast); * ARI Library Catalog (565 Records); * Southeast Asia and China: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives; * ARI Annual Report; * ARI Newsletters (No.1 Mar/2003 - No.18 Nov/2008); * [ARI] Highlights; * Events Photo; * Events Webcast; * Appointments; * New Publications; * Search (Publications, Events, People); * Links; * Contact Us.
URL http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Study/Online Guide/News
* 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

18 Feb 2009

South and South East Asian Art and Archaeology Index (ABIA)
International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden, The Netherlands.
Self-description:
"The ABIA Index is a bibliographic database on South and Southeast Asian art and archaeology compiled by an international team of specialists. ABIA index supplies annotated and indexed entries on scholarly publications in Asian and European languages relating to prehistory, (proto)historical archaeology, art history (including modern art), material culture, epigraphy, palaeography, numismatics and sigillography. The ABIA Index continues the old Annual Bibliography of Indian Archaeology (ABIA). [...] The ABIA Index covers publications on pre- and proto-historical archaeology, historical archaeology, ancient and modern art history, material culture, epigraphy, paleography, numismatics and sigillography of South and Southeast Asia and of culturally related regions: Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Tibet, the 'Silk Road', South China and the Pacific."
URL http://www.abia.net/
Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.abia.net/
Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au)
* 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 300

17 Feb 2009

Indonesian Census data website
The Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute (ADSRI), The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Self-description:
"# Background - The [Indonesian Census data] website, http://www.datastatistik-indonesia.com/, has been developed in a collaborative fashion by staff from BPS-Statistics Indonesia, The Australian National University and the Demographic Institute, Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia with funding from the Australian Overseas Aid Program (AusAID) as part of the first round of the Public Sector Linkages Program (PSLP) 2005."
Site contents:
* Background; * Purpose; * Objective; * [Comments on the] Population data; * A link to http://www.datastatistik-indonesia.com/, which is a Data Statistik Indonesia site with the following sub-sections: # Training Module; # Data Statistics; # Documentation; # Population projections; # SUPAS; # Articles; # Software Links; # Search; # SDKI; # Versions (Indonesian, English, Japanese, and Arabic).
URL http://adsri.anu.edu.au/datainfo/indo.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 - 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

17 Feb 2009

Timor-Leste [East Timor] Studies Association (TLSA)
Timor-Leste Studies Association, Canberra, Australia.
Self-description:
"The Timor-Leste Studies Association was established in June 2005 (following the "Cooperating with Timor-Leste" Conference at Victoria University) to connect researchers with information, other researchers and research on Timor-Leste. If you have a thirst to know more about Timor-Leste this website can link you to people and websites which may be useful if you are planning your first or your 50th field trip to Timor. The Timor-Leste Studies Association is now affiliated with the Asian Studies Association of Australia [http://asaa.asn.au/ - ed.]."
Site contents:
* Subscribe [to the Timor-Leste Studies Association's List - easttimorstudies@anu.edu.au]; * Researchers [page under construction]; * Conferences and Seminars; * Research Organisations (Research sites, Linguistic Projects, Marine resources, References); * Links for Planning your Fieldwork; * Archive [of the "easttimorstudies@anu.edu.au" mailing list, posts since Mar 2006]; * Contact; * TLSA CONFERENCE 2009 [Understanding Timor-Leste: A Research Conference, Liceu Campus, National University of Timor-Lorosae (UNTL), Avenida Cidade de Lisboa Dili, Timor-Leste, 2-3 July 2009, This two-day conference for researchers is the second conference to be organised by the Timor-Leste Studies Association. The Conference will be co-hosted by National University of Timor-Lorosae, Swinburne University of Technology, Victoria University, and the Technical University of Lisbon].
[The site was initially operating at http://www.etstudies-aust.org/ - ed.]
URL http://tlstudies.org/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the tlstudies.org site was not archived at the time of this abstract. For earlier materials see http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.etstudies-aust.org/]
Link reported by: Michael Leach (mleach--at--groupwise.swin.edu.au), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info./Online Guide
* 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

17 Feb 2009

Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning (ASAIHL)
Asian Institute of Technology, Pathumthani, Thailand
Self-description:
"In 1956, the Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning (ASAIHL) was established as an initiative of a small group of universities in Southeast Asia who envisioned an organization that will support universities in the promotion of excellence in teaching, learning and national and regional public service. Originally based in Thailand, ASAIHL has since expanded beyond Southeast Asia to include 166 member universities in 17 countries across Asia-Pacific. For its role, ASAIHL was granted UNESCO status in 1973."
Site contents:
* About Us; * Our Network (in: Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Canada, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Philipines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, USA, and Vietnam); * Functions (Capacity Building, ASAIHL Conferences, Recent Conferences, ASAIHL YS Awards, Support Functions); * Events (General Conference, ASAIHL YS Awards, ASAIHL Seminar, QS-Apple, T & L Workshop, Bogor Seminar); * Contact Us.
URL http://www.asaihl.asia/
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 - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: Academic
* 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 100

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