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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 19
Entries rejected: 4
30 Jun 1999
International Association of Buddhist Studies Conference, Aug 1999
Dept. of Oriental Languages and Cultures University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Self description: "The XIIth Conference of the International
Association of Buddhist Studies, to be held in Lausanne from the 23rd
to the 28th of August 1999. [...] The Conference will be held at the
University of Lausanne, Switzerland."
URL http://www-orient.unil.ch/IABS/Third-Circular.html
Link suggested by: Toru Tomabechi (toru.tomabechi@orient.unil.ch)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
30 Jun 1999
Nepal Studies Association
Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN., USA.
Self description: "The Nepal Studies Association (NSA) joins people with wide-ranging
interests in the Himalayan region, adjacent highland areas and the
Tarai. Our goal is to raise the profile of the world's highest region,
increasing awareness of the unequaled diversity of human and natural
worlds within the Himalaya-Hindukush. NSA members include
scholars from various academic disciplines, students, resource and
development professionals, and a variety of other Himalayan residents
and enthusiasts. We sponsor a journal, 'Himalayan Research Bulletin',
intended to serve multiple functions for its diverse readers."
Site contents:
Membership Information; Himalayan Research Bulletin [site under
construction - ed.]; Resources for Research and Teaching [incl. South
Asia Area Centers and Programs - ed.]; Links to Nepal and other South
Asia Sites.
URL http://www.macalester.edu/~guneratne/index.html
Link suggested by: Linda Iltis (iltis@u.washington.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
30 Jun 1999
Australia-Japan Research Centre (AJRC)
Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management, The Australian
National University Canberra, Australia.
Self description: "AJRC is responsible for a bi-nationally funded
research program established to enhance understanding of both
countries' strategic interests in the Asia Pacific economy and Asia
Pacific economic cooperation. [...] The AJRC collaborates on research
activities and training with over 30 major institutions throughout the
Asia Pacific region, funding the participation of researchers from
around the region and providing facilities for a steady stream of
visitors."
Site contents:
Research; Teaching; Visitors; Awards; Publications; Grad. Students;
Staff & Assoc.; Conference; Seminars; Databases [Nikkei Database,
The International Economic Databank (IEDB) - ed.]; Secretariats; Order
Form.
URL http://ajrcnet.anu.edu.au
Link suggested by: Marilyn Popp (marilyn.popp@anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
29 Jun 1999
Manjushree Center of Tibetan Culture
www.kreisels.com, USA.
Self description: "A charitable trust that was established to
help preserve the culture of the Tibetan people. Manjushree Center of
Tibetan Culture [in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India - ed.] was founded
in 1988. It is registered and approved by the Department of Education
of the Central Tibetan Administration of H.H. the Dalai Lama."
Site contents:
Intensive [3-9 months] Tibetan Language Program For Written and Spoken
Tibetan (Course Overview, Course Fees); Common Questions; Getting to
Darjeeling; How to Contact Us; A Few Photos from Manjushree Center.
URL http://www.kreisels.com/manjushree
Link suggested by: Ray Kreisel (raykreisel@yahoo.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
29 Jun 1999
Asian Digital Libraries Conference, Nov 1999
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Self description: "The Asian Digital Libraries Conference (ADL) tries
to bring together researchers and developers from academia, industry
and government to advance the research of digital libraries in Asia.
The first ADL was held in Hong Kong in August, 1998. The second
conference will be held on November 8-9, 1999 at the newly inaugurated
University Library of the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
The conference will be immediately followed by IRAL'99 (Workshop on
Information Retrieval with Asian Languages, 1999), to further
facilitate interchange between the DL and IR communities."
URL http://www.lis.ntu.edu.tw/adl99/
Link suggested by: Andrew Gosling (agosling@nla.gov.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
29 Jun 1999
India Program at the Harvard Institution for International Development
Harvard University, USA
Self description: "The Harvard Institute for International
Development (HIID) has launched a major program of policy research on
the Indian economy. It is expected that the findings of HIID's
research studies will support India's policy-makers, academicians, and
the business community in the analysis of a wide range of economic
policy issues."
Site contents: Introduction; Online Working Papers; Useful Research Links
(Government, Private Sector, Universities and Other Research Programs).
URL http://www.hiid.harvard.edu/groups/macro/india/
Link suggested by: Weldon Morgan (Wmorgan@hiid.harvard.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
26 Jun 1999
Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta
Universitas Muhammadiyah Jakarta, Indonesia
Supplied note:
"Official Web Site Muhammadiyah University Jakarta."
Site contents: Sejarah Singkat; Penerimaan dan Pendaftaran Mahasiswa;
Sarana dan Prasarana Pendidikan; Peraturan Akademik; Organisasi
Universitas; Kemahasiswaan dan Alumni; Cover Page; Mendaftar; Forum
Diskusi; Buku Tamu; Telusur.
URL http://www.umj.ac.id
Link suggested by: Dexter (yudanto@cbn.net.id)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
26 Jun 1999
Guadalcanal Ethnic Tension
www.geocities.com,
Supplied note:
"Current news from/about the Solomon Islands."
Site contents: News; The Emergency Regulations; Companies in the
country; Contacts and links; Guestbook.
URL http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Harbor/2946/
Link suggested by: Max Broodryk (qbe@welkam.solomon.com.sb)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
25 Jun 1999
Universities and Armenia
Open Society Institute, Soros Foundations Network, New York, USA
Site contents: Armenia-Related Programs in America; Institutions in
Armenia - Online Resources (Email addresses for Armenian libraries,
Scientists of Armenia, Scientific Organizations of Armenia,
Non-electronic Addresses and Contacts); Universities and Central
Eurasia.
URL http://www.soros.org/armenia/armeunis.html
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
25 Jun 1999
Hong Kong Diary 1997-present
Sage Colleges, Albany, NY, USA
Self-description:
"Inspired by Derk Bodde's 'Peking Diary 1948-1949', 'The Hong Kong
Diary' was originally conceived by Steven Leibo, co-founder of H-ASIA
[H-Net list for Asian History and Culture (h-asia@h-net.msu.edu) -
ed.], as a way to document life in Hong Kong during the transition to
mainland control. During the early spring of 1997 Josephine Khu, an
historian living in Hong Kong [where she is a Visiting Scholar at the
Centre of Asian Studies, Hong Kong University - ed.], agreed to take
on the project."
Site contents: [as of Jun 1999]: Hong Kong Diary #1 May 12,1997:
Introduction; #2 May 18,1997: Real Estate Prices; #3 May 26,1997:
Overseas Ethnic Chinese in HK; #4 Jun 02,1997: Demonstration on June
First 1997; #5 Jun 05,1997: 4th Candlelight Vigil; #6 Jun 10,1997:
Expat Businesses: Wattis Fine; #7 Jun 17,1997: Expats Who Don't Speak
Chinese; #8 Jun 22,1997: HK Chinese Moving to China; #9 Jul 02,1997:
The Handover and the Day After; #10 Aug 03,1997: The Handover as
Propaganda; #11 Aug 25,1997: High Prices in HK; #12 Sep 01,1997:
Admitted to Practice Law; #13 Sep 08,1997: Ed Wong of Shau Kei Wan;
#14 Sep 19,1997: Richard Baum and David Chu; #15 Sep 26,1997: Omens;
#16 Oct 13,1997: October 10th ROC National Day; #17 Oct 23,1997:
Mainland Illegal Immigrants & Crime; #18 Oct 29,1997: Stock Market
Crash; #19 Nov 14,1997: Impoverished Elderly in HK; #20 Nov 26,1997:
My Friend, Mariko, HK Journalists; #21 Dec 12,1997: Mainland Chinese
Clothes-Horses; #22 Jan 01,1998: Year in Review & English
Language; #23 Jan 11,1998: Our Doorman, Moe: Low Income Earners; #24
Jan 18,1998: The Collapse of Peregrine & Confidence; #25 Feb
12,1998: Political Confidence - An Early Look; #26 Mar 24,1998:
'Alexander': A British Official Who Stayed; #27 Apr 24,1998:
Immigration Restrictions on Mainlanders; #28 May 28,1998: First
Post-Handover Leg Elections; #29 Jun 05,1998: First Post-Handover June
4th Commemoration; #30 Jul 13,1998: First Anniversary of the Handover;
#31 Sep 09,1998: Stock Market Intervention; #32 Oct 15,1998:
Investment Banks; #33 Nov 25,1998: Sending a Remittance to China; #34
Jan 03,1998: Itinerant Hawkers; #35 Feb 11,1999: Court of Final Appeal
Decision; #36 Mar 27,1998: Government Budget; #37 May 14,1998: Bombing
of Chinese Embassy in Belgrade; #38 May 30,1999: Reinterpreting the
Basic Law.
[A superb combination of scholarly discipline, insight, and style - ed.]
URL http://www.sage.edu/html/RSC/programs/globcomm/H-ASIA/diary.html
Link suggested by: Steven A. Leibo (leibo@cnsvax.albany.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. -
online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Essential
24 Jun 1999
Contemporary South Asia Journal
Carfax Publishing Ltd., Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK
Self-description:
The Journal "seeks to [...] present research and analysis on
contemporary issues affecting the region as a whole."
Site contents: Contents Pages [in Jun 99: vol 5(1) 1996 - vol
8(1) 1999]; Journal Personnel; Order Form; Inspection Copy Request
Form; Submission/Electronic Submission Information.
[Details of a paper publication - ed.]
URL http://www.carfax.co.uk/csa-ad.htm
Link suggested by: Apurba Kundu (a.kundu@bradford.ac.uk)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. -
online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Useful
23 Jun 1999
The History of Taoism, Aug 1999
Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note:
"'The History of Daoism, in honour of Professor Liu Ts'un-yan',
Humanities Research Centre Reading Room, ANU, Aug 6-8, 1999.
This conference [...] is concerned with the history of Daoism from the
Han dynasty until the Tang dynasty. [...] Discussions will range
across interactions with other philosophical and religious systems,
Daoist alchemy, Daoist biography, messianism and eschatology, and
ritual."
URL http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/activities/conferences_1999/daoism.html
Link suggested by: Benjamin Penny (benjamin.penny@anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. -
online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Useful
23 Jun 1999
Institut Sains dan Teknologi Al-Kamal Jakarta
IInstitut Sains dan Teknologi Al-Kamal Jakarta, Indonesia
Supplied note:
"Perguruan Tinggi Swasta dengan biaya kuliah paling terjangkau di
Jakarta pada masa krisis seperti sekarang ini."
[A monolingual site (IN) with an uncessarily complicated interface - ed.]
URL http://www.ista.ac.id
Link suggested by: Dudi Mulyadi (djonokoff@usa.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. -
online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Useful
22 Jun 1999
Mojikyo Net
Mojikyo Institute, Yokohama, Japan
Supplied note:
Mojikyo (aka Konjaku Mojikyo, the 'Mirror of characters of old and new
days'), is a new approach to handling Chinese characters on personal
computers. "Mojikyo [utilises] TrueType fonts for the Japanese version
of Windows (95/98 or NT) [as well as Macintosh OS, and (shortly) for TeX - ed.] containing up
to 80,000 characters (all the Chinese characters in the Dictionary of
Morohashi are there; there are also many Vietnamese, Korean, 'Oracle
Bone' (kookotsu-bun) and Siddham characters), and [...a] finding
program, which allows to retrieve easily characters [... with unknown]
pronounciation, etc. [...]. Mojikyo is also an open system, meaning
that it is possible to add any number of new characters [...]. The
users [...] can report new characters; [and] new TrueType fonts for
these [supplementary] characters will be provided by the Mojikyo
Institute.
Site contents:
Mojikyo Institute - for new fonts;
Mojikyo Font Center (MFC) - for Free Download;
Mojikyo Institute Bulletin Vol. 2.
[A multilingual (JP,EN,CN,FR,KR) site - ed.]
URL http://www.mojikyo.gr.jp/
Link suggested by: Nobumi Iyanaga (n-iyanag@ppp.bekkoame.ne.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info.
- online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting
- marginal]: V.Useful
22 Jun 1999
Question of East Timor
United Nations Mission in East Timor (UNAMET), UN, New York, USA
Site contents:
Agreement Between the Republic of Indonesia and the Portugese Republic
on the Question of East Timor and its Appendix: Constitutional
framework for a special autonomy; Agreement Regarding the Modalities
for the Popular Consultation of the East Timorese Through a Direct
Ballot; East Timorese Popular Consultation; UN Documents (Reports of
the Secretary-General, Resolutions of the General Assembly, Security
Council and Economic and Social Council [incl. resolution 1246
(1999)], Reports to the Commission on Human Rights); Press Briefings
and Press Releases; Biographies [of UN officials - ed.]; Audiovisual; Map.
URL http://www.un.org/peace/etimor/etimor.htm
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]: Essential
22 Jun 1999
Katmandu Bazaar
Leoram, Hong Kong, PRC
Supplied note:
"Nepalese and Tibetan traditional handicraft resources."
[An online shop - ed.]
URL http://www.1-nepal-handicraft.com/
Link suggested by: Caroline Litfe (kk14@caramail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info.
- online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting
- marginal]: Interesting
21 Jun 1999
Dainik Jagran - Hindi Newspaper Online
Jagran Prakashan Ltd., UP, India
Supplied note:
"The first ever web site of a Hindi Newspaper known as 'Dainik Jagran'
[Daily Awakening]."
Self-description: "With a readership of over 8 millions, Jagran is the
largest read Hindi daily of India. It has become as inextricable a
part of UP as the Taj Mahal, the sacred Ganga, and the Ghats of
Banaras."
[The site has freely downloadable Hindi Fonts for Win 3.1 and Win 95/NT - ed.]
URL http://www.dainikjagran.com/
Link suggested by: Arun-Kumar Tripathi (tripathi@amadeus.statistik.uni-dortmund.de)
and forwarded by Bob Pyke Jr (repyke@akron.infi.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Useful
21 Jun 1999
Asia Pacific Press
Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management,
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Site contents: New Releases; Publications; Online Publications; Asia
Pacific Profiles 1998 [by Asia Pacific Economics Group - ed.]; 1997-98
catalogue [400+ titles - ed.]; Style guide for authors.
URL http://ncdsnet.anu.edu.au/AsiaPPress/appress.htm
Link suggested by: Debra Grogan (debra.grogan@anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Useful
21 Jun 1999
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
IGNOU, New Delhi, India
Self-description: "Pioneer in Distance Education [...] This university
[est. 1985] has the major responsibility of developing an alternative
to the conventional system of education by its emphasis on innovation,
cost-effectiveness, absence of rigidity, [...] and, above all, social
relevance. [...] The headquarters of the university are [...in] New
Delhi. It has established 19 Regional Centres and 315 Study Centres in
various parts of the country."
URL http://www.ignou.edu/
Link suggested by: Nikst (nikst@orc.ru)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online
guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting -
marginal]: Useful
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