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The Asian Studies WWW Monitor: mid Sep 1999
Vol. 6, No. 94

17 Sep 1999

'Media Caucasica': Media & Human Rights
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), London, UK
Self-description: "IWPR's South Caucasus [quarterly bulletin], 'Media Caucasica' presents regular reports on issues of human rights and the media, including press freedom and media development. The publications gather reports and analysis from journalists, human rights activists and analysts in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan."
[The IWPR, a media development charity, makes now (mid Sep 1999) preparations for launching 'Reporting Caucasia', a fortnightly "free e-mail news analysis service on the Southern Caucasus" - ed.]
URL http://www.iwpr.net/caucasus/mainpage.htm
Link suggested by: Alan Davis (alan@iwpr.net)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

17 Sep 1999

RFE/RL Watchlist
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Prague, Czech Republic
Self-description: "RFE/RL Watchlist [est. 14 Jan 1999] will provide a weekly checklist of developments in Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet states that either promote or threaten the creation and growth of civil societies there. It will reflect information gathered by RFE/RL from a broad range of sources."
[About 5% of the site, the whole of which is edited by Charles Fenyvesi (fenyvesic@rferl.org), succinctly reports latest political and socio/cultural developments in the Caucasus and Central Asia. An admirable and hardworking resource. The 'Watchlist' is also freely available via email list (watchlist@list.rferl.org) - ed.]
URL http://www.rferl.org/watchlist/
Link suggested by: RFE/RL List Manager (listmanager@list.rferl.org)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

16 Sep 1999

Institute of Asian Affairs, Hamburg/Germany
Institut fuer Asienkunde, Hamburg, Germany
Supplied note: The site with "information about the institute, its publications, staff, archive and library plus links to all universitity departments and other academic institutions involved in Asian studies in the Federal Republic of Germany."
[An elegant, bilingual (DE,EN) site - ed.]
URL http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/duei/ifa/index.html
Link suggested by: Dr Patrick Koellner (ifahh.koellner@uni-hamburg.de)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

16 Sep 1999

Kidon Media-Link
Kidon Media-Link, The Netherlands
Supplied note: "Worldwide Index of online news sites. Cross-linked separate pages for individual nations and continental [Europe; USA; Americas; Asia; Africa; Oceania] subdivisions."
Site contents for Asia section, with the current [Sep 1999] number of news sources is listed in round brackets: Afghanistan (4); Bahrain (3); Bangladesh (9); Bhutan (1); Brunei (1); Cambodia (2); China (13); Taiwan (8); Hong Kong (16); Macao (2); India (79); Indonesia (31); Iran (12); Iraq (1); Israel (24); Japan (52); Jordan (10); Kazachstan (6); Korea, DPR (Nth) (4); Korea, Rep. (th) (23); Kuwait (6); Kyrgyzia (5); Laos (1); Lebanon (7); Malaysia (13); Maldives (2); Mongolia (4); Myanmar (Burma) (1); Nepal (7); Oman (4); Pakistan (19); Palestinian Auth. (13); Philippines (21); Qatar (3); Saudi Arabia (7); Singapore (12); Sri Lanka (9); Syria (4); Tajikistan (2); Thailand (8); Turkmenistan (1); United Arab Em. (6); Uzbekistan (2); Vietnam (7); Yemen (3).
[A crisp, ergonomic and thoughtful resource - ed.]
URL http://www.kidon.com/media-link/
Link suggested by: Duncan Morrow (duncan_morrow@kidon.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

15 Sep 1999

First Korean Studies Association of Australasia (KSAA) Conference, Sep 1999
School of International Business, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
Supplied note: "The First Korean Studies Association of Australasia (KSAA) Conference [theme: 'Linking Korea and Australia for the New Century' will take place] at the University of New South Wales in Sydney [on 27th and 28th Sep 1999]."
URL http://www.fce.unsw.edu.au/IBUS/conpro.html
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

15 Sep 1999

1940 Japan-America Student Conference
Center for East Asian Studies, University of Kansas, USA
Supplied note: "The Center [...] is pleased to announce a new Electronic Publication Series. The first release in the series is James J. Halsema's 'Diary of the 1940 Japan America Student Conference,' edited and with an introduction by Grant Goodman. The diary vividly describes Halsema's experiences during the final prewar JASC and provides a unique perspective on conditions in Japan, Korea, Manchukuo and China on the eve of the Pacific War. James Halsema is a retired foreign service officer and former journalist; Grant Goodman is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Kansas [...]. The objective of the new Electronic Series (falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~ceas/) is to make available to a wide readership materials of academic, historical and cultural importance relating to China, Japan and Korea. The Center especially hopes to publish primary documents, translations and scholarly studies that are unlikely, largely for financial reasons, to be produced by commercial or university presses. All electronic publications will be expected to meet the same standards as the previous print publications of the Center and will be subject to peer review by KU faculty and other experts in East Asian studies."
[A timely, innovative and much-to-be-emulated initiative - ed.]
URL http://falcon.cc.ukans.edu/~ceas/Halsema%20Diary/jasc1.html
Link suggested by: William M. Tsutsui (btsutsui@falcon.cc.ukans.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

15 Sep 1999

Japanese Buddhist Books Database
Bukkyosho, Kyoto, Japan
Supplied note: "Those of you who have spent some time in Japan are probably familiar with the paperback catalogue of books in print on Buddhism in Japanese that is distributed annually by the Buddhist bookstores (Bukkyo sho soumokuroku). The publishers have recently set up a web site (in Japanese) that allows you to search for books by author, title, etc. They also include a list of links to the Japanese universities that have Buddhist Studies programs."
[A monolingual (JP) site, with no concern for keen, wired but unaccomplished customers - ed.]
URL http://www.bukkyosho.gr.jp/
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

14 Sep 1999

Brokers of Capital and Knowledge in Provincial Asia
Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, The Netherlands
Supplied note: "'Brokers of Capital and Knowledge' is a research programme dealing with producer services and social mobility in provincial Asia (1960-2000). Research projects will be conducted in Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia and India."
URL http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/host/brokers
Link suggested by: Mark Rutherglen (brokers@pscw.uva.nl)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

14 Sep 1999

'Geo' Industry Search Engine
GeoComm International Corporation, USA
Supplied note: "The GeoCommunity has recently added [...] 'Geo' Industry Search Engine to the website. It enables you to either search the GeoComm website's 80,000+ html documents or GIS and Geo related websites on the web. The Search Engine searches content not just keywords or meta tags and yields excellent results."
Self-description: "[The] portal allows you to do extensive searching within geographic-related Web sites, because we limit submissions to the geographic community."
Site contents: Submit your URL; Government (local/municipal, state/provincial, federal); Education/Research (Universities, Colleges, K12, libraries); Software (GIS software, add-ons, demos); Hardware (Tablet, Scanner, Monitors, CPU); Data (Free Data, Metadata, Conversion, Providers); Utilities (Scripts, add-ons, extensions, AML's); GPS (GPS hardware, software); Remote Sensing (Satellite Imagery, classification methods, News (Industry News, Current Events); Publications (Books, Journals, Magazines); Events (Conferences, Trade Shows); Organizations (User Groups, NGO's, Societies); Employment (Jobs Available/Wanted, Job Resources); Training (Courses, on-line help, tutorials); FAQ; Contact; Software; Data; News; Forum.
[The database currently retrieves links to 504 documents world-wide on 'Asian data' - ed.]
URL http://search.geocomm.com
Link suggested by: Glenn Letham (glenn@geocomm.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Online Guide
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Essential

13 Sep 1999

3rd South Asian Women's Conference, May 2000
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Supplied note: "The 3rd South Asian Women's Conference (SAWC) will be held in Los Angeles on May 6 and 7, 2000. The SAWC is dedicated to promoting an interactive forum for the discussion of issues relating to South Asian women globally. The 2000 SAWC format will also include workshops for the discussion of issues relevant to the immigrant and subsequent populations in the diaspora. There will also be a photographic exhibit and a film festival."
URL http://www.Indianmall.com/sawc
Link suggested by: Sangeeta Gupta (sgupta@ucla.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

13 Sep 1999

World Sindhi Congress
WSC, Bradford, UK
Self-description: "WSC wants to create awareness about the disadvantaged status of Sindhis in Pakistan to the international community."
Site content: Aims and Objectives; National Manifesto; Some Historical Facts about Sindh and Sindhis; Proceedings of Various Conferences Organized by WSC - A Valuable Archive of Speeches, Reports, and Papers; Human Rights International Report on Sindh (1997); Organizational Changes in WSC - Executive Committee Elects New Chairperson; Sain G. M. Syed - The National Hero of Sindhis; WSC - Updates/Press Releases; WSC - Activities.
URL http://wsc.findhere.com/
Link suggested by: Azad (azadsindhi@iname.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

12 Sep 1999

15th Annual South Asia Conference, Feb 2000
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Supplied note: "15th Annual South Asia Conference, Feb 19 - 20, 2000. International and Area Studies University of California, Berkeley. [Title:] 'Technologies of Representation: Media, Communities and Consumption on South Asia.' Panel proposals on contemporary and historical topics are invited from scholars working in areas such as Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Political Science, History, Economics and Development Studies, Literature, History of Art and Architecture, Geography, Film and Communications, Religious Studies. Interdisciplinary and multinational panels are especially welcome."
URL http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/southasia/conference.html
Link suggested by: Steven M. Poulos (steve@socrates.berkeley.edu)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

12 Sep 1999

Asianow Web site
CNN, USA
Supplied note: "A new site that combines the former resources of Asian Edition of Time magazine, CNN International's Asia-Pacific site and Hong Kong based regional newsmagazine Asiaweek (all of which are part of US conglomerate Time Warner Inc.) The site not only has all the stories from current edition of Asiaweek and Time Asian Edition as well as those broadcast by CNN International to Asia but it also has its own columnists on Asian politics, Asian Business and Technology. It also has live news feed from global news agencies like AP and Reuters."
URL http://www.cnn.com/asianow
Link suggested by: Sheree Minehan (shereeminehan@hotmail.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: V.Useful

11 Sep 1999

Madurese Maritime Art
Australian National Maritime Museum, Sydney, Australia
Supplied note: "A sample of images from a survey of the folk-art of maritime communities of Madura and East Java in Indonesia, in Feb 1999 by Jeffrey Mellefont, Australian National Maritime Museum. It is proposed to develop this site into an annotated on-line exhibition of these maritime folk-arts."
[A set of seven (7) briefly annotated images - ed.]
URL http://www.anmm.gov.au/boatart1.htm
Link suggested by: Jeffrey Mellefont (jmellefont@anmm.gov.au)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Documents
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting

11 Sep 1999

Environmental Resources Management Online
ERM China, Beijing, China
Supplied note: "Regularly updated topical reports on contemporary environmental, health and safety issues in China such as Water Pricing Reform, Environmental Considerations in China, Hazardous waste, and Air Pollution Emissions and a CDM. In addition, news, regulations and trends are profiled in the monthly newsletter, the EHS Review, free to all who request it."
[Online research papers are provided in Adobe Acrobat PDF format - ed.]
URL http://www.ermchina.com
Link suggested by: Jim Stover (jstover@ermchina.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Corporate Info.
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

11 Sep 1999

Zhuinan Ribao: Chinese newspaper from Indonesia
zhinanpost.pacific.net.id, Jakarta, Indonesia
Supplied note: "Indonesia's first online Mandarin daily newspaper, 'Zhi Nan Ri Bao', was launched [on 09 Sep 1999]."
URL http://zhinanpost.pacific.net.id/
Link suggested by: Oliver Mann (oliver.mann@dfat.gov.au)
[Mr Mann is the National Library of Australia Regional Officer Asia, Australian Embassy, Jakarta, Indonesia - ed.]
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: News
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Useful

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