The World-Wide Web Virtual Library [Alphabetical || Category Subtree || WWW VL database|| WWW VL Global Search]

Edited by: Dr T.Matthew Ciolek

"The Asian Studies WWW Monitor" (ISSN 1329-9778) was established 21 April 1994. It forms a key element of the global, cooperative project Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library. For further details of this Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS, ANU publication see About the Asian Studies WWW Monitor.

Daily announcements and contents' summaries published in the web edition of the Journal are disseminated also on the network via a mailing list. To join this free service send e-mail
to: majordomo@coombs.anu.edu.au
message: subscribe asia-www-monitor your-email-address

Number of accesses made to this issue since 1 May 99:

(plus the times when this graphics file was not loaded by a browser)

The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late May 1999
Vol. 6, No. 84

31 May 1999

Cox Report on Military/ Commercial Concerns with China
The United States House of Representatives, Washington, DC, USA
Self-description: "This three-volume report is an unclassified, redacted version of the Final Report of the Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the Peoples Republic of China issued on Jan 3, 1999."
Site contents: Chpt.1 PRC Acquisition of U.S. Technology; Chpt.2 PRC Theft of U.S. Thermonuclear Warhead Design Information; Chpt.3 High Performance Computers; Chpt.4 PRC Missile and Space Forces; Chpt.5 Satellite Launches in the PRC: Hughes; Chpt.6 Satellite Launches in the PRC: Loral; Chpt.7 Protecting Sensitive Information at PRC Launch Sites; Chpt. 8 The Role of Commercial Space Insurance in Technology Transfer to the PRC; Chpt.9 Statutory and Regulatory Controls: The Export of Our Militarily Sensitive Technology; Chpt.10 Manufacturing Proceses: PRC Efforts to Acquire Machine Tool and Jet Engine Technologies; Chpt.11 Recommendations; Appendices.
[All documents are in PDF (Adobe Acrobat) format - ed.]
URL http://www.house.gov/coxreport/
Link suggested by: Scout Report (scout-report@hypatia.cs.wisc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

29 May 1999

Doug Navarick's CyberSights
California State University, USA
Supplied note: "Experience exotic places like Bali, Torajaland, Bangkok, Seoul, and the Borobudur Buddhist Monument through dramatic photos, sound recordings, and live videos; includes background links."
[A collection of scantily annotated photographs - ed.]
URL http://psych.fullerton.edu/navarick
Link suggested by: Douglas Navarick (dnavarick@exchange.fullerton.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Marginal

27 May 1999

Gateway to Austronesian Studies
Personal, France
Supplied note: "A site dedicated to Austronesian studies (Anthropology, Archaeology, Linguistics)."
[A site under construction. The author is a researcher at the Departement Typologie et Changement Linguistique Langues et Civilisations a Tradition Orale (LACITO) du CNRS, Paris, France - ed.]
URL http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/8831
Link suggested by: Frederic Plessis (frederic.plessis@inalco.fr)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

27 May 1999

Rivers '99: Towards Sustainable Development, Oct 1999
School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
Supplied note: "I have great pleasure to announce our upcoming National Conference on 'Rivers '99: Towards Sustainable Management' Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia 14-17 Oct, 1999. You can download our brochure with application form from the [URL below]. I look forward to your participation. Please email me your abstract as soon as possible."
URL http://www.utusan.com.my/genius/water/default.htm
Link suggested by: Dr Chan Ngai Weng (nwchan@usm.my)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

27 May 1999

Asia, Sri Lanka, and Diasporic Communities, Dec 1999
School of Education Studies, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia
Supplied note: "Asia, Sri Lanka, and Diasporic Communities: Retrospect and Prospect - 7th Sri Lanka Studies Conference, Canberra, Australia, Dec 3-6, 1999. [...] The conference attempts to portray the social, economic, political and cultural changes that have taken place in Sri Lanka as a post colonial society, especially over the last five decades, in the regional and global contexts. [...] The conference has a three-dimensional focus: * the regional relationships (SAARC, ASEAN, APEC); * Sri Lanka; * the Sri Lankan Diaspora (expatriate Sri Lankan communities)."
[Deadlines: abstracts 30 Jun 1999, papers 30 Sep 1999 - ed.]
URL http://fehps.une.edu.au/F/r/edu/CallPapers.html
Link suggested by: Siri Gamage (sgamag2@metz.une.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

26 May 1999

Armenian Parliamentary Elections '99
Patker Photo Agency and 'Cooperation & Democracy' NGO, Yerevan, Armenia
Supplied note: "To provide information about the May 30, 1999 Parliamentary elections in Armenia [we have created a Website at the URL below]. The site contents: * Information about Armenia, including description of political and economic situation; * Information about political parties and blocks; * Selected analytical stories about the Parliamentary elections from Armenian press; * Daily digest of Armenian press; * Archive pictures of past elections, pictures of current events; * Useful contacts in Yerevan, Armenia."
[Patker agency specialises in photojournalism covering the Caucasus, Central Asia, Southern Russia, and the Middle East - ed.]
URL http://www.patker.com/elections99/
Link suggested by: Ruben Mangasaryan (patker@arminco.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

25 May 1999

Asia Pacific Front Page: Media News and Views from Asia
Asia Pacific Media Network, University of California at Los Angeles, USA
Supplied note: "An online resource for journalists and researchers of Asian affairs. Our focus is on Asian media developments as well as public policy issues. Our 'Front Page' section provides up to date information on media related stories in Asia. [...] In addition, we are constructing an online database of academic articles and Asia scholars. This feature is intended to facilitate journalistic research by providing penetrating analysis of the region's most pressing issues."
URL http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/
Link suggested by: Leila Nosrati (leila@ucla.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

24 May 1999

Geoinformatics and Socioinformatics'99, Jun 1999
China Data Center, University of Michigan, USA
International Symposium of Geoinformatics and Socioinformatics and Geoinformatics, 18-21 Jun 1999, China Data Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Preliminary Program: "Sessions: National Spatial Information Infrastructure of China; Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative; Social Environment Development; Internet GIS; Transportation and Regional Growth; A Hierarchical Regional Space Model for Contemporary China: Concepts and Methods; GIS in Landuse; Remote Sensing and GIS; GIS in South Asian Studies; The Spatial Economy/Society of Contemporary China: Applications of the HRS Model; Spatial-Temporal Models; GIS in Southeast Asian Studies; New Advances in Spatial Statistics and GIS; Spatial Data Acquisition; GIS in Demographics; Applications of Spatial Statistics and GIS; Spatial Decision Support Systems; GIS in Hydrology; GIS in Natural Resources and Environment; GIS in Regional Development; Sustainable Environment; Spatial Data Visualization; GIS in Urban Studies; GIS in Agriculture; Spatial Data Mining."
URL http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/chinadata/geoim99/g99_program.htm
Link suggested by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

23 May 1999

Asian Studies WWW Monitor Database
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note: "Details of all 2473 new/improved networked resources relevant to social sciences research of Asia and Pacific region announced between Apr 1994 and Apr 1999 in the electronic journal 'The Asian Studies WWW Monitor' are now searchable online. The fast, public-access database is the latest of the networked research facilities developed by the Internet Publications Bureau, RSPAS, ANU. It complements the existing web (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html) and email (asia-www-monitor@coombs.anu.edu.au) operations of the Monitor, and is expected to expand by some 350-600 records a year. The database covers thousands of web sites and other Internet resources ranging from the mundane (Asia's economies, law, politics, communications, sociology, and demography) to quite esoteric (Chinese unicorns, Zen koans, Tibetan murals, and Arabic multimedia) ones. The database utilizes the WWW Virtual Library search engine technology recently built by Dr Gabriel Fenteany of the Harvard Medical School, Harvard U., USA."
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html#database
Link suggested by: T.Matthew Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

22 May 1999

NiueNet
Komutas International, Niue
Supplied note: Supplied note: "News and information on [the Pacific island of] Niue, Niuean Language School, Free Tourism Information Request and many more."
URL http://members.xoom.com/niue
Link suggested by: Frank Sioneholo (sioneholof@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

22 May 1999

Theravada Text Archives
John Bullitt, Access to Insight, Lincoln, MA, USA
Site contents: Suttas (English transl.) from the Pali Canon (Digha Nikaya, Majjhima Nikaya, Samyutta Nikaya, Anguttara Nikaya, Khuddaka Nikaya); Selected texts from the Vinaya pitaka; The Thai forest traditions; Texts from the Buddhist Publication Society (Wheel Publications, Bodhi Leaves, BPS Newsletter essays by Bhikkhu Bodhi, Miscellaneous BPS publications); Contemporary Western writers and teachers (Bhikkhu Bodhi [Jeffrey Block], Sr. Ayya Khema [Ilse Ledermann], Bhikkhu Thanissaro [Geoffrey DeGraff]); Miscellaneous Buddhist books.
URL http://world.std.com/~metta/lib/index.html
Link suggested by: Charles Muller (acmuller@human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

22 May 1999

Kegon (Huayan) Information Page
Tsukuba University, Japan
Supplied note: "Information [in Japanese only - ed.] on scholarly works on Huayan [Buddhism], digitized Huayan canonical texts [...], information on Huayan studies, as well as the 'Kegon-kun' manga."
URL http://www.logos.tsukuba.ac.jp/~ootake/
Link suggested by: Charles Muller (acmuller@human.toyogakuen-u.ac.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

22 May 1999

ToolMan Editor (CJK software)
www.vector.co.jp, Japan
Supplied note: "I am happy to inform you that the first English version of ToolMan Editor has been released. [...] ToolMan is a shareware plain-text editor produced by Masahiko Maedera, that can handle any CJK characters, Unicodes (UCS-2, UTF-8 and 16), and over 90,000 characters with supporting the Konjaku-Mojikyo [K-M is a piece of software especially useful for handling Han characters - ed.]."
URL http://www.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002891/
Link suggested by: Shigeki Moro (moro@ya.sakura.ne.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

22 May 1999

Hans Kemp Photography
Hans Kemp, Vietnam
Supplied note: "Vietnam based photographer shows his work including a new photobook featuring life in present day Vietnam."
[Yet another site with a very clever interface (Java applets strike again!) but indifferent to searching and navigational requirements of the Net users - ed.]
URL http://hanskemp.com
Link suggested by: Hans Kemp (hanskemp@usa.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating unavailable

21 May 1999

4Arabs Search Engine
4Arabs.Com, USA?
Self-description: "This is an Arabic Search Engine, your source of all arabic: arts and culture, education and science, newspapers, radio and TV, music, universities, countries, software etc."
Coverage: resources about Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen.
[A Yahoo-style, user-fed database of links - ed.]
URL http://www.4arabs.com/
Link suggested by: Nikst (nikst@orc.ru)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

21 May 1999

Rama IX Art Museum
Rama IX Art Museum Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand
Supplied note: "Website of Thai Contemporary and Modern Art: museums, art galleries, artists bios and works, private and corporate art collections, art data base, electronic arts, etc."
[Excessive Java scripts and graphics-based navigation system waste the precious bandwidth and make the site a hostile environment. Unless drastically simplified, the site risks online irrelevancy - ed.]
URL http://www.rama9art.org
Link suggested by: Sivaporn Dardarananda (sivaporndardarananda@yahoo.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: rating not available

21 May 1999

Kyoto National Museum
Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan.
Self-description: "Masterworks: Detailed graphic and text introductions to over one hundred of the finest masterpieces [Archaeology; Ceramics; Sculpture; Paintings; Calligraphy; Textiles; Lacquerware; Metalwork - ed.] in the Kyoto National Museum Collection. [..]
On-Line Catalogue: Search [using keywords or categories - ed.] the collections of the Kyoto National Museum and view comprehensive images of works that interest you. This database currently contains over 10,000 images of over 2,000 objects or sets of objects from the museum collection. We hope that this service will be of use to art-lovers, students, teachers and scholars around the world."
URL http://www.kyohaku.go.jp/meihin/mase.htm
Link suggested by: Scout Report (scout-report@hypatia.cs.wisc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

21 May 1999

AsianCIS (Credit Information Services)
Asian Company Profiles Ltd, Taiwan
Supplied note: "AsianCIS is a corporate credit reporting service offering credit reports on over 1.2 million companies throughout 19 countries in Asia. The reports are offered at extremely competitive rates. Subscribers may also order offline reports from AsianCIS which only have a turn-around time of 5 working days. AsianCIS is an invaluable resource for anyone thinking of doing business in Asia."
URL http://www.asiancredit.com
Link suggested by: Charlotte Scarf (charlotte@asiancredit.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

---

http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html#database

Search past issues of The Asian Studies WWW Monitor

see also AWARDS, ACCOLADES and DISTINCTIONS received by this e-journal.

---

Copyright (c) 1999 by T.Matthew Ciolek. This Web page may be linked to any other Web pages. Contents may not be altered. The editor does not control or endorse the content of third party Web Sites.

This page has been tested for full accessibility

URL: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html

[Asian Studies WWW VL] [Coombsweb]