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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor ISSN 1329-9778
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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: late Aug 1999
Vol. 6, No. 92
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THIS ISSUE
Entries accepted for publication: 23
Entries rejected: 7
31 Aug 1999
Discovering China
ThinkQuest Team, Japan
Supplied note:
"Information on China, its history of last 100 years [and esp. the
Cultural revolution - ed.], culture, cities, biography... etc."
Site contents: History; Cultural Revolution; Movers & Shakers;
CityScape; Contributions; Interactive.
URL http://library.advanced.org/26469/
Link suggested by: Yuki Satou (yuki-s@yhb.att.ne.jp)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
31 Aug 1999
ANU Language Centre
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Supplied note:
"[An] experimental server chiefly designed to trial
streamed media technologies for the ANU Language Centre.
It concentrates on public-domain or copyright-cleared materials from
international broadcasters but does have links to useful off-campus
sites.
As resources become available, we hope to include a greater
proportion of materials produced 'in-house' and to include news and discussion
pages dealing with a range of language issues.
Cooperative links with interested institutions and individuals are
most welcome."
Site contents:
Sound Files, Radio Broadcasts & Internet Links for the study of
Arabic; Chinese; French; German; Hindi; Indonesian; Italian; Japanese;
Korean; Linguistics; Russian; Spanish; Thai; Vietnamese
URL http://langcen3.anu.edu.au/index.html
Link suggested by: Bob Boag (bob.boag@anu.edu.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
30 Aug 1999
AsiaSource
Asia Society, New York, USA
Supplied note:
"An online resource developed by the Asia Society to meet the need for
timely, reliable, unbiased information and assistance regarding the
cultural, economic, social, historical, and political dimensions of
Asia. With a worldwide events calendar, a glossary of terms, annotated
links and opinion pieces, news services, country profiles, special
features [incl. excellent coverage of East Timor - ed.], and much
more."
Site contents:
AsiaToday: latest news stories; AsiaEvents: worldwide calendar;
AsiaViews: articles & speeches; AsiaLinks: related links;
AsiaExperts: specialists database; AsiaProfiles: maps & statistics;
AsiaReference: glossary of terms; AsiaSearch: search the web;
AsiaBulletin: email updates;
[An exquisite resource, which in addition to publishing its own unique
and valuable materials, unmistakeably aims to supersede (i.e. to
'crowd-out', as distinct from 'complement', or 'collaborate with') the
many tens of other online resources on Asia. In short, a digital
Napoleon in the early 1812 - ed.]
URL http://www.asiasource.org/
Link suggested by: Hylton Jolliffe (hyltonj@asiasoc.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential
30 Aug 1999
Bytes For All: an online newsletter from South Asia
bytesforall.org, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Supplied note:
"An online newsletter [est. Aug 1999 - ed.] which tries to update readers
about new and interesting IT ventures/initiatives in South Asia.
Attempts that focus on people before profits. This venture is being
jointly undertaken by Frederick Noronha (fred@vsnl.com) a freelance
journalist based in Goa-India interested in developmental issues, and
by Partha Pratim Sarker (partha@drik.net) a web designer and an online
activist based in Dhaka, Bangladesh."
[A promising initiative - ed.]
URL http://bytesforall.org
Link suggested by: Partha Sarker (partha@drik.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
30 Aug 1999
Afghan Politics: The Online Center for Afghan Studies
www.afghan-politics.org, US?
Site contents: Accords & Treaties; Bibliography; Constitutions; Conferences;
Drugs; Economy; Flags; History; Human Rights; Human Factor; Maps;
Mailing List; News Links; NGO; Reference; Book Reviews; Search;
Terrorism; Who is Who; Women Rights.
[An excellent, professional site - ed.]
URL http://www.afghan-politics.org/
Link suggested by: (editor@afghan-politics.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
29 Aug 1999
Everything About Syria
ramijarjour.8m.com, UK
Site contents: Arabic Links; Syrian Links (President of Syria: Hafez Assad; Daily
Weather Forecast in Syria; Syrian Newspapers; General information
About Syria; Tourism in Syria; People; Syrian Music; Syrian TV; Syrian
Official Sites; Golan Is Syrian; Syrian Universities; Others).
URL http://ramijarjour.8m.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
29 Aug 1999
Timor Today
East Timor International Support Center (ETISC), Darwin, Australia
Site contents: Timorese Leaders; Recent Timorese History; ETISC
Documents; Key Documents; National Council of Timorese; Resistance;
Images: Joyful and Tragic; Downloads (documents, images and other
resources); Bibliography; About ETISC; Links; RegEasttimor News;
Forum; How to Help.
URL http://www.easttimor.com/
Link suggested by: The Scout Report (scout-report@hypatia.cs.wisc.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
28 Aug 1999
Kompas
Kompas, Jakarta, Indonesia
Site contents: Special Topics (Aceh, Business Consultation, Currency
Rates, East Timor, Education, Election 1999, Internet, MUDA, Political
Parties, Polling Kompas, SWARA, TV & Movie, Y2K Problem);
Newspapers (Banjarmasin Post, Pos Kupang, Bernas, Sriwijaya Post,
Serambi, The Jakarta Post); Magazines (Bola, Info Komputer, Intisari,
Tiara, Kontan, Angkasa, Associated Press); About Kompas (Profile,
Products).
[A tri-lingual (ID, EN, NL) online newspaper - ed.]
URL http://www.kompas.com
Link suggested by: tdxh (tdxh@publica.bj.cninfo.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
V.Useful
26 Aug 1999
Indonesia and Malaysia poems
welcome.to, Indonesia
Supplied note:
"Anthology of Indonesia and Malaysia poems."
[A monolingual (ID) site - ed.]
URL http://welcome.to/antologi
Link suggested by: Nanang Suryadi (nanangs@mail.fe.unibraw.ac.id)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Interesting
26 Aug 1999
Indonesian Poetry
www.thepentagon.com, Indonesia
Supplied note:
"Indonesian poems, poets, essays and literature"
[A monolingual (ID) site - ed.]
URL http://www.thepentagon.com/penyair
Link suggested by: Nanang Suryadi (nanangs@mail.fe.unibraw.ac.id)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Interesting
26 Aug 1999
India Book Fair online
India Book Fair, India
Supplied note:
"A [...] site for Indian Book Lovers across the world. You can meet
several Indian Publishers and can buy their books online. Search your
books from a database of more than 1,000,000 Book Titles."
[A commercial site - ed.]
URL http://www.indiabookfair.com
Link suggested by: Rajeev (sales@indiabookfair.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
25 Aug 1999
Palpap Online: India's sites pointer
Palpap Ichinichi Software International, India
Supplied note:
"India's largest sites pointer and Mega Internet E-shop."
[Yet another (...a sigh of boredom...) portal - ed.]
URL http://www.palpaponline.com
Link suggested by: Prasanna (prasanna@palpaponline.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
25 Aug 1999
China and
Sustainable Development, Sep 1999
Internet Shopping Network, Inc., Prospect Park, PA, USA
Supplied information: The Symposium on '21st Century China and the
Challenge of Sustainable Development,' co-sponsored by more than
thirty Chinese American professional organizations and China's Western
Returned Scholars Association (WRSA) [http://www.wrsa.net.cn/ - ed.],
will be held on Sep 3-5, 1999, in Washington, DC's Bethesda
Marriott Hotel.
URL http://www.i-shop.net/wrsa/
Link suggested by: (zhangj@buffalostate.edu),
forwarded by Christiane Reinhold (reinholdc@mail.utexas.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
25 Aug 1999
ESCAS Newsletter
Department of Oriental Studies
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
A twice-yearly publication of the The European Society for Central Asian
Studies (ESCAS) (http://www.let.uu.nl/~escas/), edited by Dr.
Gabriela Rasuly-Paleschek, Vienna University, Austria. Issue no.1 was
published in Jun 1999.
URL http://www.let.uu.nl/~escas/newslett.htm
Link suggested by: Birgit N. Schlyter (birgit.schlyter@orient.su.se)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
25 Aug 1999
The Stockholm Forum for Central Asian Studies (FoCAS)
Institute of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University, Sweden
Self-description:
"Research projects connected to the Forum [analyse] cultural patterns
in Central Asian societies [...] from a linguistic and literary as
well as a religio-ethnological and art historical point of view. [...]
The role of Silk Road communication is [also] investigated for new
insights into the spread of ideas and art features across the Central
Asian region."
Site contents: Projects, Seminars, Lectures (abstracts), Publications.
URL http://www.orient.su.se/scas/focas/focas.htm
Link suggested by: Birgit N. Schlyter (birgit.schlyter@orient.su.se)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
25 Aug 1999
External and Internal in Ge Hong's Alchemy
www.levity.com, NY, USA
Supplied note:
"You can find [at this URL] my paper 'External and Internal in Ge Hong's Alchemy' presented
to 9th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia
(Singapore, August 23rd-27th, 1999)."
URL http://www.levity.com/alchemy/ge_hong2.html
Link suggested by: Evgeny Torchinov (blade@comset.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
25 Aug 1999
Vanuatu - A Canadian's Perspective
members.home.net, Canada
Site contents: About Vanuatu (Home Page, The Many Vanuatus, Will Television Really
Spoil the South Pacific? Bislama: Vanuatu's National Language, 'The
Holidays': South Pacific Style, Detailed Information About Malekula
Island: Introduction, Geography, People, Economy, Infrastructure,
Government On and Affecting Malekula, Kastom Vanuatu, Defending
Vanuatu In World War Two, Links To Other WWW Pacific Island Sites);
Experiencing Vanuatu (Travel In Rural Vanuatu, Kava In Vanuatu, James
Michener's Vanuatu); About the Canadians (Why and How We Went to
Vanuatu, Summary of Our First Year In Vanuatu).
URL http://members.home.net/scombs/vanuatu.html
Link suggested by: Stan Combs (scombs@home.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
24 Aug 1999
Internet and Chinese Studies Resources
Library, East Asian Collection, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Self-description:
"'Internet and Chinese Studies Resources' by Bick-har Yeung, University
of Melbourne. A paper [2880 words - ed.] prepared for the biennial conference of the
Chinese Studies Association of Australia, 7-10 July, 1999."
Site contents: What is Internet? Internet development in China; Coding
Systems for Chinese documents; CJK Software; Search engines; Internet
and Chinese Studies Resources (Internet Guides for Chinese/China
Studies, Bibliographic databases, Online libraries, Document Delivery
and Research Assistance Services, Full text databases, Book news);
Conclusion, Bibliography.
URL http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/asian/Internet-ChiResources.html
Link suggested by: Andrew Gosling (agosling@nla.gov.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
24 Aug 1999
Internews Central Asia
Internews, USA.
Self-description:
"Internews' activities in Central Asia encourage the growth of new
democratic institutions, in particular free media, in Kazakhstan, the
Kyrghyz Republic, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Television and radio
stations in this region face many obstacles, including changes in
licensing requirements, poor cash flow, a crumbling transportation
infrastructure, irregular electricity, and civil war. Internews'
offices in Almaty, Bishkek, Tashkent, and Dushanbe are a major source
of support for fledgling non-governmental broadcast stations in each
country."
Site contents:
Internews Home; Offices/Contact; Newsletter; Internews Kazakhstan
(www.internews.ru/kz); Internews Uzbekistan (www.internews.uz);
Internews Kyrghyz Republic (www.internews.ru/kg); Internews
Tajikistan (www.internews.ru/tj).
URL http://www.internews.org/PROJECTS/CentAsia.html
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
24 Aug 1999
Adventurocity Nepal
Adventurocity Inc., USA.
Supplied note:
"[An] online resource for the active traveler to Nepal -
discussion groups, photo gallery, travel booking, travel guide,
travelogs, travel store."
URL http://www.adventurocity.com/np
Link suggested by: Rick Green (rick@adventurocity.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Interesting
22 Aug 1999
Voice from Thailand
Thai studies group of Japanese students in Thailand, Chulalongkorn Univ.,
Thailand
Supplied note:
"This page is written for someone who want to study in Thailand, which
has a lot of contents about Thai politics, Thai society and
universities' information. But it is written in Japanese only so far.
I will make English pages as soon as possible."
URL http://www.geocities.co.jp/WallStreet/9168
Link suggested by: KUZE, Nobutaka (42811500@student.chula.ac.th)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
rating not available
22 Aug 1999
Indonesian Law Reform Sites
Safitri & Co, Indonesia
Supplied note:
"Online electronic information about Indonesian law reform and law development."
[A monolingual (ID) site, with navigation markers in English - ed.]
URL http://business.fortunecity.com/bren/844
Link suggested by: Indra Safitri (safitri@dnet.net.id)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Useful
21 Aug 1999
SaigonCD.com: Vietnamese Music CDs, DVDs, VCDs, VHS's
Saigon Music, Inc., USA.
Supplied note:
"We offer the most complete selection of Vietnamese music: Vietnamese
CDs, Vietnamese DVDs, Vietnamese Laser Discs, Vietnamese Videos. Our
Site is completely safe and secure."
[A commercial site - ed.]
URL http://www.saigoncd.com
Link suggested by: Hung mai (hungmaica@yahoo.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Interesting
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