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What's New in WWW Asian Studies Newsletter
Editor:
Dr T.Matthew
Ciolek (tmciolek@coombs.anu.edu.au),
Coombs Computing Unit, Research Schools
of Social Sciences & Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National
University, Canberra.
The "What's New in WWW Asian Studies" online newsletter (ISSN 1323-9368) is a
part of the Asian
Studies WWW Virtual Library. This facility is provided by the Australian
National University (ANU) as a service to
the World Wide Web community.
On-line resources listed in this newsletter are also recorded in the
ANU-Asia-WWW-Gopher-News-L dbase
Past issues of "What's New in WWW Asian Studies" are kept in the
Archives of What's New - WWW Asian Studies
Past issues of "What's New in WWW Social Sciences" are kept in the
Archives of What's New - WWW Social Sciences
What's New in WWW Asian Studies Online Newsletter ISSN 1323-9368
URL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/WhatsNewWWW/asian-www-news.html
Details of new or significantly improved networked resources are
added to
this newsletter on a request basis.
WWW Asian Studies Announcements: February 1995
22 February 1995
Annotated List of Singapore Web Servers
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Lists all web servers located in Singapore. The list is sorted by
category (educational, government, miscellaneous) and is maintained at SunSITE
Singapore. If you operate a web server in Singapore, please let us know by e-mail to
sunsite@sunsite.nus.sg.
URL: http://sunsite.nus.sg/inet/sgp_webs.html
22 February 1995
Review
of Bitnet/Internet Lists for South Asia
Coombs Computing Unit, Australian National University
David Bedell's (bedell@cse.bridgeport.edu), Univ. of Bridgeport, USA,
annotated (Feb 1995) register of 38 email-based resources dealing dealing with South Asia,
Iran, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Tibet and the Religious lists is now
available in the HTML format from:
URL: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AsianPages/Bedell-SthAsia.html
22 February 1995
Review
of Bitnet/Internet Lists for Southeast Asia
Coombs Computing Unit, Australian National University
David Bedell's (bedell@cse.bridgeport.edu), Univ. of Bridgeport, USA,
annotated (Feb 1995) register of 61 email-based resources dealing with
annotated register of email-based resources dealing with Southeast
Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, Hmong, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia,
Philippines, Pacific (includes Australia) and the Religious lists is
now available in the HTML format from:
URL: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AsianPages/Bedell-SEAsia.html
21 February 1995
Review of Bitnet/Internet Lists For Northeast Asia
Coombs Computing Unit, Australian National University
David Bedell's (bedell@cse.bridgeport.edu), Univ. of Bridgeport, USA,
annotated (Feb 1995) register of 87 email-based resources dealing
with Northeast Asia, China (incl.Hong Kong, Taiwan & Tibet), Japan and
Korea is now available in the HTML format from
URL: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AsianPages/Bedell-NEAsia.html
20 February 1995
Asia-Pacific Electronic Lists WWW Register
Coombs Computing Unit, Australian National University.
The register keeps track of leading scholarly electronic forums
pertaining to Asia-Pacific countries. It complements its twin page,
namely the Asian Studies Meta-Resources Register
(http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AsianPages/WWWVL-AsianMetaRsrcs.html)
Additions to both registers as well as suggestions for their
enhancement are warmly welcome.
URL: http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVLPages/AsianPages/AsianE-Lists.html
19 February 1995
Kurdish Information Network
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, US
The Kurdish Information Network provides information about Kurdish culture, history,
and language. This server is updated very frequently.
URL: http://nucst11.neep.wisc.edu
Department of Statistics, Singapore
National Computer Board, Singapore,
The Statistics Singapore Home Page is launched by the Department of Statistics, Singapore
since January 1995. The Department is the national statistical authority responsible for
disseminating official statistics on Singapore.
URL: http://www.ncb.gov.sg/stats/
19 February 1995
Tibet WWW Page
www.manymedia.com, USA
This WWW site is being developed to act as a central location of
information on Tibet to help inform and involve readers.
Topics include:
Tibetan Support Organizations and their programs: Contact and
Membership Information;
Legal, Diplomatic, and Economic Actions to Free Tibet;
Tibetan Reading and Resource List;
Abuses by the People's Republic of China to Tibet, Tibetans, and
Tibetan Culture;
The Dalai Lama's efforts on behalf of Tibet;
Buddhism;
How to experience Tibet and Tibetan/Himalayan culture firsthand
through travel;
Tibetan and Himalayan events outside of Tibet.
Please contact us:
tibet@manymedia.com
URL: http://www.manymedia.com/tibet/index.html
7 February 1995
Asian Institute Of Technology Web Server
AIT,Bangkok, Thailand
Detailed info is available for the following which may be of special
interest to external users:
o Up-to-date links for Infoservers and Libraries in Asian Countries
o Information Pages for various Asia-Pacific Countries
o Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO)
o A clickable map of Thailand with detailed demographic data (1990 &
1993) and links to tourist info by province
o A clickable figure with details about Thailand's Internet gateways
o Searchable abstracts of completed and ongoing research related to the
region
o A clickable location map and campus map for AIT
Additional information regarding the AIT Web Server is available from
staff@emailhost.ait.ac.th
URL: http://emailhost.ait.ac.th
7 February 1995
Mark Twain on
the Philippines
WWW site with information about the Philippine-American
War. It combines contemporary photos and political cartoons
with texts to introduce Twain's opposition to the war and his
involvement with the Anti-Imperialist League.
URL: http://mothra.syr.edu:8000/~fjzwick/mtpage1.html
Information supplied by: Jim Zwick (fjzwick@mailbox.syr.edu)
3 February 1995
Online
Tour Guide to Bangladesh
U Rochester, USA
An online tour guide to Bangladesh. It contains
general facts about Bangladesh, Short term tour descriptions, information on
historical sites and monuments, and tourist attractions. Each site contains
detailed information, and in some case a little historical background. The
short tours are intended for transit passengers, who have some time in their
hand, and want to look around.
Soon to be added:
* List of Bangladesh Embassies in different country and their
address/phone number
* Visa/Passport requirements.
URL: http://www.cif.rochester.edu/users/outcast/bangladesh/tour-guide.html
Information supplied by: Rajib Rashid (outcast@enigma.cif.rochester.edu)
2 February 1995
Sikhism Home Page
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
A progressive religion well ahead of its time when it was founded over 500 years ago,
Sikhism today has a worldwide following of over 20 million people. Sikhism preaches a
message of love of one God, truthful living, equality of mankind and denounces
superstitions and blind rituals. It is open to all through the teachings of its gurus enshrined
in the Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib.
URL: http://www.io.org/~sandeep/sikhism.htm
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