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Note: specific keywords/phrases work better than general ones. 14 Jul 2009 Australia Indonesia Governance Research Partnership (AIGRP) Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Self-description: "The Australia Indonesia Governance Research Partnership (AIGRP) is a facility for sponsoring and promoting collaborative research between Australian and Indonesian scholars. AIGRP aims to link researchers from both countries in a coordinated effort to generate firmer intellectual foundations for tackling some of Indonesia's most basic developmental challenges and to disseminate the results to inform policy action as well as wider scholarly and public discussion in Indonesia and Australia. [...] AIGRP is an Australian Government Initiative, managed by the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University." Site contents: * About Us (Governance, Steering Committee Members, Secretariat, Contact us); * Research (Themes: Civil Society, Climate change, Decentralisation, Economic Governance, Private Sector, Public Services, State Institutions); * Publications [Policy Briefs are available to download free of charge in English and in Indonesian - ed.]; * Young Scholars (Young Scholars Workshop, Mentoring Program); * Networking (Researcher Register); * Funding; * Research Links. URL http://www.aigrp.anu.edu.au/ Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.] * 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 13 Jul 2009 Shakespeare Performance in Asia (SPIA) Shakespeare Electronic Archive, MIT Shakespeare Project, MIT, Cambridge, MA, US Self-description: "The center of creativity in Shakespeare performance is shifting from Europe and the U.S. to Asia, where directors such as Ninagawa Yukio, Suzuki Tadashi, Ong Keng Sen, Wu Hsing-kuo, and many others experiment with combinations of traditional and contemporary theatre, new strategies for working across languages and genres, new ways of reaching diverse audiences. [...] Shakespeare Performance in Asia (SPIA) chronicles this exciting new wave of East-West cultural exchange. [...] Showcased here on Shakespeare Performance in Asia (SPIA) are video highlights with English subtitles, photos, and texts from Asia, the U.S. and Europe. This database is intended to promote cross-cultural understanding and serve as a core resource for students, teachers, and researchers. * Current features of the archive include: * A catalogue of more than 200 productions compiled by Alex Huang, which will be continuously updated. * A collection of video clips from major productions. * Interactive maps and timelines. * Interviews and biographies of directors and actors. * Essays on Asian Shakespeare by major scholars. Regular updates will greatly expand the above resources, and introduce new features, including glossaries of key terms and full videos of many productions." Site contents: * About (About SPIA, About A S I A [Asian Shakespeare Interactive Archive, http://web.mit.edu/shakespeare/asia/about/asia.html] Collaborators MIT Team Contact); * Productions (Catalogue (241 titles) [films, stage productions, TV series, and cartoons produced on the Indian Subcontinent, in South Asia, SE Asia, East Asia, Pacific Islands, New Zealand (in Maori), Europe, and in the U.S. - ed.], Video clips (22)); * Commentary (Essays (# Shakespeare, Asian Actors and Intercultural Spectatorship by Li Lan Yong, National University of Singapore # Shakespeare, Performance, and Autobiographical Interventions by Alexander Huang, Pennsylvania State University, # Hamlet in China: Translation, Interpretation and Performance by Ruru Li, University of Leeds), Interviews [Directors, actors, and other theater artists speak about their work - ed.], Artist bios (DEGUCHI, Norio; KURITA, Yoshihiro; LIN, Zhaohua; MIYAGI, Satoshi; NINAGAWA, Yukio; NOMURA, Mansai; ONG, Keng Sen; SUZUKI, Tadashi; TSE, David Ka-Shing; WU, Hsing-kuo), Companies (Beijing People's Art Theatre, Contemporary Legend Theater, Lin Zhaohua Drama Studio, Ku Na'uka Theatre Company, Ryutopia Noh Theater Shakespeare, Subaru Theater Company, TheatreWorks), Bibliography (Sources on Asian and International Shakespeare, Key Online Resources). URL http://web.mit.edu/shakespeare/asia/ Link reported by: Alexander Huang (acyhuang05--at--gmail.com), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract] * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents/ Study/ Corporate info. * 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 13 Jul 2009 World Uyghur Congress (WUC) World Uyghur Congress, Munich, Germany. Self-description: "The World Uyghur Congress (WUC) is an international organization that represents the collective interest of the Uyghur people both in East Turkestan and abroad. WUC was established on April 16, 2004 in Munich Germany after the East Turkestan National Congress and the World Uyghur Youth Congress merged into one united organization. The main objective of WUC is to promote the right of the Uyghur people to use peaceful, nonviolent, and democratic means to determine the political future of East Turkestan. The Third General Assembly of the World Uyghur Congress was convened in Washington, DC on May 21-25, 2009. Delegates and observers from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Norway, Sweden, Turkey and the United States have attended the Assembly. Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, the leader of the international Uyghur human rights and democracy movement, once again elected as the president of the WUC unanimously by all delegates." Site contents: * East Turkistan (People, Uygur Language, History, Geography); * WUC (Leadership of WUC, Mission Statment, Former Leadership of WUC, Organization); * Human Rights; * Latest News [About East Turkistan ] for Monday, July 13, 2009: # Muslims decry violence against Uighurs - July 12, 2009 # China reimposes curfew in Urumqi - July 12, 2009 # A Strongman Is China's Rock in Ethnic Strife - July 11, 2009 # China's flood of fortune seekers unsettles Xinjiang - July 11, 2009 # China plans massive change in Uyghur cultural capital - July 11, 2009 # Urumqi: a Quiet "Open Prison" - July 11, 2009 # China's leaders reap instability - July 11, 2009 # Beijing's wages of intolerance - July 11, 2009 # A rude lesson on unity and stability for Muslims and Chinese Government - July 10, 2009 # Delahunt Urges Administration To Condemn China's Uighur Crackdown - July 10, 2009 # Uighur plight in China leads to protests, Muslim condemnation - July 10, 2009 # In Wake of Turmoil In China, Minorities Face Painful Options - July 9, 2009 # A Tibetan's Perception of the Uyghur Protests - July 9, 2009 # Tragedies in Xinjiang, in Tehran, in Darfur, in Gaza - July 9, 2009 # Why Urumqi Has Frightened the CCP - July 9, 2009 # China riot city 'under control' - July 8, 2009 # China Official Threatens Death Penalty After Riots - July 8, 2009 # Xinjiang Authorities Forcefully Suppress Demonstration, Restrict Free Flow of Information - July 8, 2009 # China's Hu says maintaining stability paramount - July 8, 2009 # Angry Uighurs defy Chinese police - July 7, 2009 # Deadly Ethnic Riots Pose Fresh Crisis for Beijing - July 7, 2009 # US must act to prevent Uighur Tiananmen - July 7, 2009 # Rebiya Kadeer: exiled champion of China's Uighurs - July 7, 2009 # U.N. urges China, ethnic groups to halt violence - July 7, 2009 # 140 killed in western China after Uighur riots and security crackdown - July 6, 2009 # China Locks Down Restive Region After Deadly Clashes - July 6, 2009 # Witnesses says China protest spreads to 2nd city - July 6, 2009 # China's Xinjiang hit by violence - July 5, 2009 # Violence erupts in China's Xinjiang region; 2 killed - July 5, 2009 # Massacre In East Turkistan - July 5, 2009 # Local Uighurs skeptical about Gul's China visit - June 30, 2009 # Rep. Dana Rohrabacher on the Uighurs - June 30, 2009 # 'No Rapes' in Riot Town - June 29, 2009 # Ethnic tensions spark brawl at China factory-report - June 27, 2009 [...]; * Press Releases (Press Releases About WUC, Press Releases About East Turkistan); * Events; * Media Files; * Links (East Turkistan (Uyghur) Organization, International Organization, Uyghur Radio-Televizor, Uyghur Shehsi Tor Betliri, Uyghur Tijaretchiler Betliri, Uyghurlargha Munasiwetlik Tor Betliri); * Contact. [A multilingual site in Uyghur, English, German, Chinese and Japanese] URL http://www.uyghurcongress.org/ Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.uyghurcongress.org/ * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./ News/ Study/ Online Guide * 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 1,000 11 Jul 2009 Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) Uyghur American Association, Washington, DC, US Self-description: "The Uyghur Human rights Project (UHRP) was founded by the Uyghur American Association (UAA) in 2004 with a supporting grant from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). UHRP's mission is to promote human rights and democracy for the Uyghur people, and to raise awareness of human rights abuses that occur in East Turkestan, referred to by the Chinese authorities since 1955 as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). UHRP is a part of the Uyghur American Association, which is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, tax-exempt community membership organization." Site contents: * About; * Featured Articles [over 120 pages of articles - ed.]; * Issues (Strike Hard Campaign, Cultural Assimilation/Economic Segregation, Refugees, Religious Persecution, Political Prisoners, Uyghurs in Guantanamo); * UHRP Reports [UHRP Reports, and Reports by other NGOs and governments - ed.]; * Press Releases; * Headlines [over 170 pages of headlines - ed.]; * Links (Uyghur Organizations and Sites, Tibetan Organizations, China Human Rights, Worldwide Human Rights Organizations); * Contact; * Employment; * Support. URL http://www.uhrp.org/ Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.uhrp.org/ * 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]: over 3,000 [in fact, over 8790] 11 Jul 2009 Blog Search of 8 July 2009 for "Urumqi" / "Urumchi" blogsearch.google.com, US. Self-description: "Blog Search is Google search technology focused on blogs. Google is a strong believer in the self-publishing phenomenon represented by blogging, and we hope Blog Search will help our users to explore the blogging universe more effectively, and perhaps inspire many to join the revolution themselves. Whether you're looking for Harry Potter reviews, political commentary, summer salad recipes or anything else, Blog Search enables you to find out what people are saying on any subject of your choice. Your results include all blogs, not just those published through Blogger; our blog index is continually updated, so you'll always get the most accurate and up-to-date results; and you can search not just for blogs written in English, but in French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, Swedish, Malay, Polish, Thai, Indonesian, Tagalog, Turkish, Vietnamese and other languages as well." Site contents [http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=urumqi on 8 July 2009, 11 am Eastern Australia Time Zone - ed.]: * Global Voices Advocacy - Information on riots in Urumqi slow to ... 4 hours ago - by Bhumika Ghimire - "Twitter and YouTube appeared to be blocked in China late on Monday afternoon, while leading Chinese search engines would not give results for "Urumqi", the city in Xinjiang where the riots occurred. Urumqi residents also said the ... http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/ * Shanghai Scrap - Tweeting Urumqi - 14 hours ago - by Adam - There are, of course, many correspondents in Urumqi who are not tweeting (several of whom are my friends), and who are doing important and brave work. Here's hoping everybody's safe. [UPDATE 7/7: For blog -based coverage of the unrest, ... http://shanghaiscrap.com/ * China Tries to Calm Urumqi as Mobs Take to Streets - 7 hours ago - Hundreds of Chinese from rival ethnic groups fought each other with machetes, metal pipes and bricks in the northwestern city of Urumqi, overcoming police attempts to quell the deadliest clashes in decades. http://www.prisonplanet.com/ * Amnesty Blogs: Countdown for China : Urumqi Massacre - 20 hours ago - The CCP produced another Massacre in Urumqi immediately after it incited bloody incident against Uighur in Guangdong. Meanwhile the Communist regime via official propaganda CCTV claimed that Rebiya Kadeer, exiled Uighur in the US, ... http://blogs.amnesty.org.uk/ * Hundreds of armed Han Chinese march in Urumqi - Democratic Underground - 13 hours ago - Police fired tear gas Tuesday to try to restore order as hundreds of Han Chinese armed with clubs marched through the Xinjiang capital of Urumqi, smashing shops and knocking over food stalls run by Muslims. ... http://www.democraticunderground.com/ * Hundreds Die In Urumqi. Does The World Care? - 19 hours ago - by Rebecca Byerly - According to the latest news reports from Urumqi, a far-flung city in western China, http://www.allfacebook.com/ * Harry Clarke - Urumqi fighting - 14 hours ago - by hc - Urumqi fighting. The current fighting in northwest China constitutes the biggest civil disturbances in China since Tiananmen in 1989 with at least 156 dead in the current violence - the most dead being Han Chinese. ... http://www.harryrclarke.com/ * Blood & Treasure: Urumqi MGI update - 9 hours ago - by jamie k - A couple more things on Xinjiang: During the Tibetan rioting last year, China Central television lead heavily on the fact that Han Chinese civilians had been targeted by Tibetans and some killed. This was acknowledged by foreigners who ... http://bloodandtreasure.typepad.com/blood_treasure/ * Neweurasia.Net - Riots in Urumqi - 18 hours ago - by Arseny - 156 people have been killed and 1080 wounded in Urumqi during massacre. Hundreds of vehicles and stores were burnt, and dozens of dwelling houses damaged. The government accuses foreign terrorists of inflicting the riots, ... neweurasia.net - http://www.neweurasia.net/ * The New Dominion - Images from Tuesday Urumqi Demonstrations - 2 hours ago - by OpkeHessip - Images from Tuesday Urumqi Demonstrations,china,culture,language,news,uighur,uighurs,uyghur,uyghurs,xinjiang. http://www.thenewdominion.net/ Site contents [http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=urumchi on 8 July 2009, 11 am Eastern Australia Time Zone - ed.]: * Update on Urumchi | UN Dispatch - 11 hours ago - by Alanna Shaikh - Urumchi is now under martial law. The death toll is at 156 and rising; no one has a clear breakdown on how many deaths were caused by police and how many by the rioters. 1400 people have been arrested. The UK's Telegraph newspaper has a ... http://www.undispatch.com/ * Statement of Rebiya Kadeer on unrest in Urumchi - EUROPE TURKMEN ... 6 Jul 2009 by merryabla64 - Yesterday, in the regional capital of Urumchi, Chinese police and paramilitary forces cracked down on thousands of Uyghur demonstrators, killing hundreds and injuring hundreds more in a massacre that is unprecedented in East Turkestan ... http://merryabla64.wordpress.com/ * Mass Arrests and More Demonstrations in Urumchi - Tibettruth's Blog - 15 hours ago - by tibettruth - Local witnessses, reported on the newswire, described Chinese security forces sweeping through areas of Urumchi making house-to-house arrest. One woman, Maliya, said: "My husband was taken away yesterday by police. They didn't say why. ... http://tibettruth.wordpress.com/ * Uyghur Blog: Protest in Urumchi violently suppressed by Chinese ... 5 Jul 2009 by Uyghur News - On Sunday, July 5, 2009, Uyghur students organized a protest in Urumchi to express discontent with the Chinese authorities' response to the mob killing and beating of Uyghur workers at a toy factory in Shaoguan, Guangdong on June 26, ... http://memettohti.blogspot.com/ * The New Dominion - Riots in Urumchi - Video - 5 Jul 2009 by OpkeHessip - Riots in Urumchi - Video,china,culture,language,news,uighur,uighurs,uyghur,uyghurs,xinjiang. The New Dominion - Commentary, News, and... - http://www.thenewdominion.net/ * Rebiya Kadeer's statement on the Urumqi unrest - Hot Doughnut's Blog - 4 hours ago - by hotdoughnut - At the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. today, Uyghur democracy leader Rebiya Kadeer delivered a statement to the press regarding recent unrest in Urumchi and other cities in East Turkestan: Statement of Rebiya Kadeer ... http://hotdoughnut.wordpress.com/ * At the back of the hill: Shoot Them All, G -d Will Know His Own - 6 Jul 2009 by The back of the hill - Urumchi is in no way a Dutch 'aangelegenheid'. Wy hebben niks met Oeroemdjie te doen, echt. In most cultures, except perhaps that of the eastern Turks, it is considered extremely bad form to throw stones at your hosts. ... http://atthebackofthehill.blogspot.com/ * Tension mounts in China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on Sunday - 5 Jul 2009 by BayBak, Azerbaijan - Urumchi, the capital of Uyghur Autonomous Region in China, has seen the clash of protesters with the police. Official news agency Xinhua said that angry demonstrators blocked the traffic and set the vehicles on fire at several spots in ... http://en.baybak.com/ URL http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?q=urumqi Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [the blog sites were 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]: News * Publisher [academic - business - government - library/museum - NGO - other]: NGO/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]: info. not available 08 Jul 2009 IDP [The International Dunhuang Project] Archives: Papers International Dunhuang Project, British Library, London, UK. Self-description: "IDP keeps a paper archive of its activities which will accessible in the future at the British Library. This is supplemented by various electronic archives, including details of the web site in various incarnations, early digitised images, newsletter and papers. This is intended as a record of the founding and development of an early digitisation and internet based project and it is hoped that it will be of use and interest to others working on such projects both now and in the future." Site contents: * Technical papers (# The IDP Database - Susan Whitfield, # Navigating Through Uncharted Territory - Susan Whitfield); * Research Papers (# Enjoy It While it Lasts: A Brief Golden Age of Freedom of Scholarly Information? - Susan Whitfield, # The Question of Forgeries - Susan Whitfield, # Suvarnaprabhasottamasutra - Radha Banerjee, # A Review of Tangut Buddhism, Art and Textual Studies - Saren Gaowa, # Introduction to Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Manuscripts from Tunhuang in the British Museum - Lionel Giles, # Medecine, societe et religion dans la Chine medievale Manuscrits de Dunhuang et pratiques de sante - Catherine Despeux, # Abstracts of the medical manuscripts from Dunhuang - Wang Shumin, # A Chinese Medieval Treatment for Angina - Anthony Butler and John Moffett, # Proceedings (Extract) of XII International Congress of Orientalists, Rome, October 1899 - Lia Genovese, # Otani Kozui's 1910 visit to London - Imre Galambos, # Orthography of Early Chinese Writing: Evidence from Newly Excavated Manuscripts - Imre Galambos, # A Tenth Century Manuscript from Dunhuang Concerning the Gantong Monastery at Liangzhou - Imre Galambos, # Current status and future prospects of the Hanzi Normative Glyphs (HNG) Database - ISHIZUKA Harumichi); * Conservation Papers (# When Objects are Beyond Conservation: Recovering Visual Information from Damaged Artifacts - Sanchita Balachandran and Glenn Gates, # Fibre Analyses of Dunhuang Documents in the British Library - Agnieska Helman-Wazny). URL http://idp.bl.uk/pages/archives_papers.a4d Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://idp.bl.uk/pages/archives_papers.a4d 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 - government - 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 08 Jul 2009 IDP [The International Dunhuang Project] News Archive International Dunhuang Project, British Library, London, UK. Self-description: "IDP keeps a paper archive of its activities which will accessible in the future at the British Library. This is supplemented by various electronic archives, including details of the web site in various incarnations, early digitised images, newsletter and papers. This is intended as a record of the founding and development of an early digitisation and internet based project and it is hoped that it will be of use and interest to others working on such projects both now and in the future." [The IDP Newsletter in its electronic incarnation is published in both HTML and PDF formats (the latter ranging in size from 52KB to 3.8 MB - ed.] Site contents: Issue 1 - May 1993 ('Cave 17' Conference Sussex University, UK October 13 -15, 1993; Establishment of the IDP Steering Group); Issue 2 - January 1995 (The Dunhuang Manuscripts in St.Petersburg; Khara-Khoto -- The Black City; The Star Chart); Issue 3 - July 1995 (Berlin's Re -united Collections; Conservation and Science; Qizil Caves); Issue 4 - January 1996 (Dunhuang at the Bibliotheque National in Paris; An Oasis in Europe Dunhuang Studies in France; The Year of the Rat); Issue 5 - Summer 1996 (The Conservation of Manuscripts from Dunhuang and Central Asia; Two Conservation Problems); Issue 6 - November 1996 (Dunhuang Manuscripts Collections in China); Issue 7 - Spring 1997 (Ye Changchi: Pioneer of Dunhuang Studies by Rong Xinjiang; Towards a New Understanding of Huahujing (The scripture of transforming the barbarians) from Dunhuang by Liu Yi); Issues 8 & 9 - Summer/Winter 1997 (Genuine, Copy or Forgery?; IDP Workshop on Dunhuang Mansuscript Forgeries; Chronological Classification of Dunhuang Buddhist Manuscripts; IDP Symposium: 'Dunhuang and Turfan'); Issue 10 - Spring 1998 (Count Otani's Central Asian Expeditions; Japanese Collections of Dunhuang and Silk Road Manuscripts; On the Photography of Magistrate Wang and His Family by Wang Jiqing; Meeting on the Centenary of the Discovery of the Dunhuang Manuscript Cave by Rong Xinjiang); Issue 11 - Summer 1998 (Preservation of Dunhuang and Central Asian Collections: Third International Conference; Conference Programme; The Silk Road Project: Reuniting Turfan's Scattered Treasures by Valerie Hansen; Conservation in Japan; The Tradition of Japanese Mounting and Some Methods Applied to Early Graphic Materials by W. Andrew Hare; Conservation of 3rd Century Loulan Paper Documents by Katsuhiko Masuda); Issue 12 - Winter 1998/9 (The Stein Collection in the British Library; Dunhuang Manuscripts in the Taipei National Central Library by Lou Kamtong; Dunhuang Manuscripts at Academia Sinica, Taipei by Tu Cheng -sheng); Issue 13 - Spring 1999 (Site and Wall Paintings' Conservation at the Mogao Grottoes by Neville Agnew; The Origin of Chess: The Initiative Group Koenigstein; Stylus-Impressed Writing on the Dunhuang Manuscripts by Yasukazu Yoshizawa and Yoshinori Kobayashi); Issue 14 - Autumn 1999 (The Preservation of Manuscripts, Artefacts and Paintings from Dunhuang and Central Asia; Transparent Plastic Film Materials for Document Conservation by Dr Barry Cope; Samuil Martynovich Dudin by Professor L. N. Menshikov); Issue 15 - Spring 2000 (Mannerheim's Central Asian Expedition of 1906-1908 by Alpo Ratia; Stein's Dunhuang Limes Revisited by C. W. Dyment); Issue 16 - Autumn 2000 (Celebrating the Centenary; 2000 International Conference on Dunhuang Studies by Roderick Whitfield; International Academic Conference on the Centenary of the Discovery of the Dunhuang Library Cave by Frances Wood; 'Respect, Understanding and Good Faith' - 'Reminiscence of Dunhuang Manuscripts in British Collections'); Issue 17 - Winter 2000/1 (Tibetan Manuscripts in Gansu Province, China by Sam van Schaik; Bibliography of Catalogues of Tibetan Central Asian Manuscript Collections; Summary of the January 2001 EPHE Veme section lecture series by Matthew Kapstein; Ellsworth Huntington and the Central Asian Manuscripts at Yale by Sam van Schaik); Issue 18 - Summer 2001 (The Three Rabbits; Camel and Yak Hair on the Silk Road by M. L. Ryder; A Dash Across Asia; More Dogs and Other AnimalsÉ; Sir Auriel Stein's Grave in Kabul); Issue 19 - Winter 2001 (Chinggis Khan's Name Encrypted in a Tangut Song; Setting Standards -- IDP Photography and Digitisation; New IDP website: Buddhism on the Silk Road); Issue 20 - Spring 2002 (Manuscript Forgeries; Dunhuang Manuscript Forgeries; Islam Akhuns Forgeries 1895-7 (Two 'New' Islam Akhuns Forgeries & Forgeries Today; More Stein News; The UK-Hungarian Stein Project); Issue 21 - Summer 2002 (The IDP Database Goes International; Sven Hedin: Explorer and Collector; The Centenary of the First German Expedition to Turfan; The Sven Hedin Foundation); Issue 22/23 - Winter 2002/Spring 2003 (Launch of the Chinese Web Site; 5th Conservation Conference in Stockholm; Dunhuang Paintings Online; An Enduring Friendship: De Filippi and Stein; Memories of Ksenia Kepping); Issue 24 - Autumn 2004 (IDP 10 years on; The Silk Road Exhibition and associated events; IDP in Russia and Japan; Project Appeal); Issue 25 - Spring 2005 (St Petersburg Online; A Journey of Exploration: Objets d'Arts of the Museum of Indian Art, Berlin, in the State Hermitage, St Petersburg; Archaeological Finds from Khotan in the State Museum of Ethnography in Munich; Stein in the UK, Hungary and India; Obituary: Nadezhda Mironovna Brovenko (1946-2003)); Issue 26 - Winter 2005 (2005 - The New Year in Review; New Funding; A Guide to the IDP Website and Database; Uighur Studies in China: A Review; Professor L.N. Menshikov (1926-2005)); Issue 27 - Spring 2006 (The Berlin Turfan Collection -- Online; Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky and the Politics of Russian Imperialism; A Study of the Silk Braids on Stein Chinese Scrolls; Textile Exhibition and Publication; The Use of Melinex for Enclosing Manuscript Fragments; Kashgar: Cultural Monuments and Spaces); Issue 28 - Winter 2006 (Recent Japanese Research on Silk Road Manuscripts; The Zhufoyaojijing at the Lueshun Museum; Database of the Normative Glyphs in Hanzi Script (HNG); Codicological study of old Chinese Manuscripts; Exploiting the high dynamic range of images for study; Scientific Analysis of Paper from Ancient Central Asian Manuscripts; The British Library Sanskrit Fragments; Boris Il'ich Marshak; Ford Foundation Symposium); Issue 29 - Spring 2007 (A Century of Collection Care; The Conservation of Stein Tibetan Manuscripts; Recent IDP Conservation Initiatives; Turfan Conservation in Berlin, Dr Simone-Christiane Raschmann; Remembering Wang Xu (1930-1997), Sarah Allen); Issue 30 - Winter 2007 (Stein and Chinese Officials at Dunhuang; A Study in the Manufacture of Old Asian Inks; IDP Conservation News); Issue 31 - Spring/Summer 2008 (IDP -CREA Cultural Routes of Eurasia; IDP -CREA Partners and Activities; Western Eyes: An Exhibition of Historical Photographs of China taken by European Photographers, 1860-1930 (The Conservation of an Eighteenth Century Chinese Tao); Issue No. 32 - Winter 2008 -09 (Archaeology in Xinjiang; A Century On: Documenting Archaeological Sites in Xinjiang; Berlin Researchers in Turfan; New Discoveries and Research on Khotan; Celebrating the 2009 International Year of Astronomy; Understanding the Dunhuang Star Chart; Recent Publications on Xinjiang Archaeology and Travel; Exhibitions; IDP UK URL http://idp.bl.uk/pages/archives_newsletter.a4d Internet Archive (www.archive.org) http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://idp.bl.uk/pages/archives_newsletter.a4d Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./ News / Study * Publisher [academic - business - government - 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 07 Jul 2009 IDP-CREA: Cultural Routes of Eurasia International Dunhuang Project, British Library, London, UK. "IDP-CREA is a 15-month collaborative project (April 2008 to July 2009) between six EU partners (from the UK, Hungary, France, and Germany) and three associate partners from China. We are working on an innovative project that will draw together some of the remarkable stories of the European explorers, archaeologists and scholars who travelled to China in the early years of the twentieth century. Their stories will be used to illustrate a shared Eurasian culture that has existed for centuries - and which continues to this day." Site contents: * Activities (Workshop, Budapest (June 2008), Meeting in Paris (June 2008), Meeting in Germany (July 2008), Western Eyes: Historical Chinese Photographs by European Photographers (September-October 2008), Educational Day and Field Photography at Dunhuang (September 2008), Field Trip to Xinjiang (November 2008), Berlin Researchers in Turfan (October 2008); * Co-operating Organisations (Partners: The British Library (BL), UK, Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (LHAS), HU, Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF), FR, Musee Guimet (MG), FR, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW), DE, Museum fuer Asiatische Kunst, Berlin (AKu), DE. Associate Partners: The National Library of China, The Dunhuang Academy (DHA), Xinjiang Institute of Archaeology (XJIA)); * Contact Us; * Image Gallery. [The International Dunhuang Project (IDP) at the British Library was established 1994 by Dr Susan Whitfield to catalogue, conserve, digitize and analyse information and images from more than 100,000 manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and other Silk Road sites - ed.] URL http://idp.bl.uk/idp_crea/index.htm Internet Archive (www.archive.org) [archiving of the http://idp.bl.uk/idp_crea/index.htm has been blocked by the site owner via robots.txt] 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]: Library * 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 06 Jul 2009 Institute for Far Eastern Studies (IFES) IFES, Kyungnam University, Seoul, South Korea Self-description: "[... IFES is] a research-oriented think tank with a unique approach. This comprehensive institution, founded in 1972, promotes peace and the unification of Korea through scholarly contributions focusing on the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia. Although the Institute fundamentally deals with international relations, and its effects on Korea, we are also concerned about advancing the quality of life. Thus, we are eclectic in our research activities, also investing in such issues as the rule of law in Korea, the welfare of North Korean defectors living in South Korea, as well as fostering an entrepreneurial spirit toward North Korea." Site contents: * Organization; * What We Do ("# Research projects on issues concerning North Korea, the unification of the Korean peninsula, and East Asian affairs. # Organizing and sponsoring seminars, workshops, conferences, and lectures by Korean and foreign scholars. # Publishing original and translated works in Korean and foreign languages. # Providing research and library facilities for scholars and students working in Asian and international affairs. # For almost thirty years, the IFES has been a highly regarded institution through its unprecedented contributions to domestic and international issues."); * News & Events (2009 Winter Internship [Jun 30, 2009], International Conference: "China-US Relations and the Northeast Asian Security in the Obama Era" [Jun 9, 2009] International Conference: "2009 ECNU-UNKS-IFES-WWIC(NKIDP) Spring Workshop" [Jun 9, 2009]); * NK Brief (Monthly Recap: June [Jul 2, 2009], North Korea Begins Closing General Markets [Jun 26, 2009], Outcome of the June 19 Inter-Korean Working-Level Talks [Jun 23, 2009]); * IFES Forum (The Obama Administration and North Korea: Pyongyang's Aims and Washington's Dilemmas [Jun 22, 2009], Kim Jong Il's Impatience & Obama's Indifference After North Korea's Second Nuclear Test [Jun 3, 2009], DPRK Succession Issue And Regime Transformation [May 27, 2009]); * INCK [=The Center for International Cooperation for North Korean Development] Forum (Frozen Inter-Korean Relations & The Impact on the Kaesong Industrial Complex [Feb 11, 2009], Assessment of the 2008 DPRK Economy, Outlook For 2009 [Feb 2, 2009], 'Muddling Through' or A North Korean Model Of Economic Reform? [Jul 8, 2008]). * Resources; * Asian Perspective Quarterly Journal [est. 1995, http://www.asianperspective.org/] * New Books; * Sitemap; * Contact Us; * Map & Directions; [A bi-lingual site (KR, EN) - ed.] URL http://ifes.kyungnam.ac.kr/eng/default.asp Link reported by: Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://ifes.kyungnam.ac.kr/eng/default.asp * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info./News/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 3,000 03 Jul 2009 [Asia materials in] Smithsonian Institution Collection Search Center Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, US Self-description: "[T]he Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum complex and research organization composed of 19 museums, 9 research centers, and the National Zoo. [...] The Collections Search Center allows you to search descriptive records from dozens of Smithsonian museums, archives and libraries. Search over 2 million records with 210,500 images, video and sound files, electronic journals and other resources from all across the Smithsonian." Site contents: [The following are results of 4 illustrative keyword searches - ed.] 1,137 records matching keyword: "Tibet": ONLINE MEDIA Images (51) Finding aids (11) Electronic resource (8) Video clips (1) TYPE Books (570) Archival materials (353) Photographs (338) Exhibitions (events) (96) Catalogs (47) Pictorial works (26) Collection descriptions (22) Biographies (14) Conferences (8) Manuscripts (8) TOPIC Art, Tibetan (116) Buddhism (110) Description and travel (108) Art, Buddhist (86) History (84) Buddhist art and symbolism (53) Art (40) Civilization (35) Religion (34) Antiquities (32) NAME NMNH (56) Tsybikoff, G. T (50) Rockhill, William Woodville (42) Elwin, Verrier (36) Hrdli?ka, Ale? (33) Graham, David Crockett (26) Rockhill Expedition (26) Isham, Charles S.? (21) Rock, Joseph F (13) Zhongguo ke xue yuan (13) CULTURE Tibet (190) Tibetans (67) Tibet ? (25) Chinese ? (17) Akha ? (10) Buddhism (6) Abor (5) Mishmi (4) Mongols (4) Newar (Nepalese people) (4) LANGUAGE English (548) Chinese (209) Tibetan (73) German (65) French (64) Japanese (15) Italian (14) Latin (9) Dutch (7) Sanskrit (7) PLACE China (508) Tibet (483) Tibet (China) (268) India (39) Asia (29) Nepal (22) Asia, Central (18) Mongolia (17) Himalaya Mountains (16) Himalaya Mountains Region (11) DATE 1990s (193) 2000s (180) 1980s (161) 1960s (114) 1900s (107) 1950s (92) 1920s (81) 1970s (61) 1910s (56) 1890s (49) 11,387 records matching keyword: "India": ONLINE MEDIA Images (2508) Electronic resource (124) Finding aids (40) Transcripts (7) Video clips (4) Online publications (1) Sound recordings (1) TYPE Books (5506) Archival materials (3176) Photographs (3013) Drawings (484) Albumen prints (479) Exhibition catalogs (339) Exhibitions (events) (329) Transparencies (265) Periodicals (264) Catalogs (246) TOPIC History (930) Architecture (566) Ethnography (484) Indigenous Peoples (484) Antiquities (395) Botany (326) Portrait (321) Description and travel (304) Civilization (286) Art, Indic (237) NAME Underwood & Underwood (897) H. C. White Co (413) Ponting, Herbert George (344) Gridwood (318) Sorenson, E. Richard (254) Zoological Survey of India (214) India (125) Larrabee, Constance Stuart (102) Bourne and Shepherd (81) Hrdli?ka, Ale? (77) CULTURE India (764) Tibetans (261) Hindus (178) Muslims (145) Tamil (56) Portraits (30) Assamese (29) Indian (29) Britain ? (27) British ? (27) LANGUAGE English (6594) French (223) German (172) Spanish (163) Sanskrit (73) Latin (66) Japanese (49) Hindi (48) Portuguese (42) Italian (35) PLACE India (6847) South Asia (568) Ladakh (India) (266) Africa (186) Asia (165) China (124) South Africa (112) Cape Town (South Africa) (102) Japan (100) Bo-Kaap (Cape Town, South Africa) (97) DATE 1980s (1699) 1990s (1501) 1900s (1375) 1910s (1213) 1970s (1117) 1870s (1039) 2000s (971) 1960s (784) 1880s (717) 1860s (710) 3,258 records matching keyword: "Indonesia" ONLINE MEDIA Images (361) Electronic resource (40) Finding aids (17) Transcripts (1) TYPE Books (2332) Archival materials (439) Photographs (419) Exhibitions (events) (107) Periodicals (87) Collection descriptions (59) Conferences (49) Dictionaries (46) Microforms (40) Catalogs (39) TOPIC History (241) Ethnology (184) Social life and customs (163) Description and travel (139) Indonesian language (133) Antiquities (81) Civilization (78) Politics and government (76) Dictionaries (72) Botany (70) NAME Abbott, William Louis (149) Indonesia (122) Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah (61) Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa (59) Cornell University (43) Proyek Penerbitan Buku Bacaan dan Sastra Indonesia dan Daerah (38) United States (35) Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands) (31) Borobudur (Temple : Magelang, Indonesia) (25) Lembaga Kebudajaan Indonesia (25) CULTURE Javanese (Indonesian people) (105) Dayak (Indonesian people) (64) Land Dyak (57) Borneo (22) Batjan (18) Ambon (16) Buru (14) Moluccans (14) Ternate (14) Toraja (Indonesian people) (13) LANGUAGE English (1539) Indonesian (766) Dutch (519) German (166) French (103) Austronesian (Other) (44) Javanese (40) Japanese (31) Latin (27) Undetermined (17) PLACE Indonesia (1955) Java (256) Java (Indonesia) (126) Sumatra (82) Bali Island (Indonesia) (80) Bali Island (63) Papua (Indonesia) (63) Netherlands (48) Asia (46) Sumatra (Indonesia) (44) DATE 1990s (540) 1980s (528) 1970s (409) 1950s (331) 1960s (301) 1920s (195) 1940s (193) 2000s (193) 1930s (184) 1900s (174) 2,903 records matching keyword: "Korea" ONLINE MEDIA Images (491) Electronic resource (45) Finding aids (6) Transcripts (6) TYPE Books (1476) Exhibitions (events) (587) Archival materials (533) Photographs (374) Works of art (160) Catalogs (111) Periodicals (88) Pictorial works (53) Biographies (48) Sculptures (34) TOPIC History (392) Antiquities (197) Art, Korean (194) Civilization (144) Painting, Korean (107) Social life and customs (97) Korean War, 1950-1953 (95) Porcelain, Korean (66) Description and travel (60) Pottery, Korean (54) NAME Kungnip Chungang Pangmulgwan (Korea) (92) Kisan (84) United States (80) NMNH (77) Korea (South) (59) Jenings, F. H (51) JAC Project (47) Kungnip Minsok Pangmulgwan (Korea) (47) ?? ?? ??? (Korea) (36) ??????? (Korea) (32) CULTURE Koreans (384) Korean (77) Americans (9) Japanese (6) Korea (3) Chinese (2) Hupa (2) Indians of North America (2) Mohave (2) Prehistoric peoples (2) LANGUAGE English (1606) Korean (1122) Japanese (332) German (48) French (46) Chinese (41) Latin (15) Dutch (5) Russian (5) Undetermined (4) PLACE Korea (1365) Korea (South) (392) Japan (154) China (95) United States (93) East Asia (42) Seoul (40) Korea (North) (32) Asia (30) Taiwan (18) DATE 1990s (828) 1980s (474) 2000s (471) 1900s (409) 1880s (283) 1910s (193) 1970s (191) 1950s (173) 1890s (170) 1390s (167). URL http://collections.si.edu/search/ Link reported by: Pam Wintle (wintlep--at--si.edu) Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [The page "collections.si.edu/search/" was not archived at the time of this abstract] * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Museum/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 03 Jul 2009 Tigre de Papier [publishing house] Tigre de Papier, Lyon, France Self-description: "Maison d'edition et librairie en ligne specialisee dans les livres sur l'Asie et ses langues / Online bookshop and publishing house specialising in books about Asia and Asian Languages." Site contents: * Librairie / Bookshop [the latests books from 'Tigre de Papier'] * Livres choisis/Selected titles [books from other publishing houses] (Livres Anciens, Histoire, Philosophie, Art, Litterature, Theorie Critique, Langues - Dictionnaires, Manuels). [A site in French, with some information in English and Chinese - ed.] URL http://www.tigredepapier.org/ Link reported by: Florent Villard (florentvillard--at--hotmail.com), forwarded by h-asia--at--h-net.msu.edu Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.tigredepapier.org/ * 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 10 02 Jul 2009 Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet) ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Self-description: "RegNet [est. 2000] is a large research group within the College of Asia and Pacific. It is also a network of institutions, practitioners and academics involved in exploring and understanding critical domains of regulation. Members of the network differ in their approaches to regulation but their work is interconnected. The key motivation driving RegNet is to advance current understanding and approaches to issues such as human security, policing, environment, cyber crime, illicit organisations and markets, intellectual property and the governance of knowledge, development, peacebuilding, human rights, international law, micro foundations of democratic governance, health and occupational health and safety through a regulatory framework that develops evidence-based theory, policy and practice." Site contents: * About Us; * People; * Centres and Groups (ARC Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (CEPS), Centre for Governance of Knowledge and Development (CGKD), Centre for International Governance & Justice (CIGJ), Centre for Restorative Justice (CRJ), Micro Foundations of Democratic Governance, National Research Centre for OHS Regulation (NRCOHSR), RegHealth); * Reports/Reviews (Annnual reports 2007, 2008. Reviews 2004, 2006); * Publications (Publications by Year [2001-2007], Publications by Author [77 names]); * Teaching Program; * Membership; * RegNet in the News; * Newsletter [Regnet.News 1-3 issues a year, since 2000 till present]; * Current events; * Links [Australian and Overseas] (Network Centres, Academic Institutions, Organisations); * Contact * RegNet Membership Form * Current Events * Search. URL http://regnet.anu.edu.au Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://regnet.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 1,000 02 Jul 2009 Society for South-East Asian Studies / Gesellschaft fuer Sueddostasienwissenschaften (SEAS) SEAS, Vienna, Austria Self-description: "Welcome to the homepage of the Society for South-East Asian Studies (SEAS) Austria. We aim to provide educational and networking services, within the scope of South-East Asian studies, to researchers, students and the interested general public. On this webpage you will find information on events, job postings, call for papers etc. concerning South-East Asia in Austria and elsewhere as well as about the activities of the Society for South-East Asian Studies." Site contents: * SEAS (Activities, Team, Mitgliedschaft / Membership, Mission Statement, Get involved, Newsletter, Kooperationspartner / Cooperations, * ASEAS [Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies] (Current Issue (ASEAS VOL 1(2) 2008), Previous Issues (ASEAS VOL 1(1) 2008), Submissions, Order, Editorial Contacts); * Study & Go Abroad; * viennasian [a photographic competition runninmg from December 2008 to Autumn 2009, which deals with themes of migration, integration, fine arts and cultural representation, and which involves Viennese adolescents with or without an "Asian background" - ed.]; * Downloads [SEAS annual reports, selected research papers on Cambodia, China, Indonesia, and Thailand - ed.]; * Links [SouthEast Asia studies in Austria, Germany, andf other countries]; * Kontakt / Info; * Conference 09; * SEAS Service (Aktuelles / News, Artikel / Articles, Call for Papers, Konferenzen / Workshops, Praktika / Internships, SOA Lehrangebot / Courses, Stellenangebote / Jobs, Stipendien / Grants) [A bi-lingual web site in English and German (i.e. 'Austrian', as per President B. Obama press conference of 4 April 2009, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr7zhnctF4c ) - ed.] URL http://www.seas.at/ Link reported by: Christian Bothe (christian.bothe--at--seas.at) Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.seas.at/ * 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 100 01 Jul 2009 South Asia Research Unit (SARU) Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia Self-description: "The South Asia Research Unit (SARU), which was established in 1991, coordinates and provides a focus for teaching and research on South Asia in the humanities and social sciences, within the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. Its broad interests include cultural, economic, political and social change in those countries that comprise the South Asian region." Site contents: * Function and Research Activities [incl. maintenance of the essential, five star online database of South Asian materials in Australian libraries with over 120,000 records and 150,000 of known non-Australian records, namely the "South Asia Resources Database (SARD)" at http://recall.curtin.edu.au/ics-wpd/docssaru/sard.htm - ed]; * Courses; * Conferences; * Grants & Publications; * Exchange & Cooperation; * Contact Us; * Search. URL http://saru.curtin.edu.au/ Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://saru.curtin.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]: V.Useful * External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 300 01 Jul 2009 The Australia-India Council (AIC) Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Canberra, ACT, Australia Self-description: "The Australia-India Council (AIC) was established on 21 May 1992, in response to a recommendation by the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, following an inquiry into Australia's relations with India. The Council's purpose is to broaden the relationship between Australia and India by encouraging and supporting contacts and increasing levels of knowledge and understanding between the peoples and institutions of the two countries. The Council initiates or supports a range of activities designed to promote a greater awareness of Australia in India and a greater awareness of India in Australia, including visits and exchanges between the two countries, development of institutional links, and support of studies in each country of the other. The Council offers support, in the form of funding, for projects likely to contribute to the development of the relationship, within the context of AIC objectives and guidelines." Site contents: * About the Australia-India Council; * Australia-India Council - Board Members; * Australia-India Council - Annual Activity Reports; * Australia-India Council - Discretionary Grants; * Australia-India Focus Newsletter [in PDF format, published 3 times a year, from May 2003 till present]; * AIC Grant Funding (The Australia-India Council (AIC) welcomes funding applications from Australian individuals and organisations for projects which are likely to promote long-term contact and cooperation between Australia and India. The Australia-India Council is now inviting applications for 2009-2010 financial year. The closing date for applications is COB Monday 3rd August [2009]); * Understanding Australia [information in English and Hindi for international students and visitors]; * Australia India Business Council (AIBC). URL http://www.dfat.gov.au/aic/ Link reported by: T. Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek--at--coombs.anu.edu.au) Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.dfat.gov.au/aic/ * Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info. * Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]: Government * 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 Copyright (c) 2009 by T. Matthew Ciolek URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html Internet Archive http://web.archive.org/web/*/coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html