Asia Resources on the World Wide Web
by Raymond Lum - 1998 (Print
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[Asia]
[East Asia
[Southeast Asia]
[South Asia]
Asia
http://www.asiasociety.org/publications/asianupdates.html
The Asian Updates reports provide background and analysis of
issues and events in Asia and on U.S.-Asia relations for
businessmen, scholars, policy makers, educators, journalists. Links to two
separate lists of publications for sale on education and art.
http://www.inesmedia.com
Links to 150 online newspapers from Asia and the Middle East.
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia-www-monitor.html
The Asian Studies WWW Monitor, an electronic journal that monitors
new developments in Asian studies cyberspace. "Compiles
summaries and evaluations of the latest networked sites relevant to social
sciences research of the Asia and Pacific region." Part of the Asian
Studies WWW Virtual Library.
http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/AsiaPages/VLBookshops.html
Web links to leading bookshops/publishers with online information
about their Asian studies publications. This register is a subsection of
the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library maintained by the Research
School of Pacific & Asian Studies, Australian National University.
http://www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies
A page that lists Asia-related web sites at the Australian National
University. Includes Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library, Australia
South Asia Research Centre, Australia-Japan Research Centre, East
Asian Collection of the ANU library, Indonesian Project of the
Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, Malay Concordance Project,
Centre for Middle East and Central Asia Studies, etc.
http://iias.leidenuniv.nl/gateway/institutional/booksell.html
Links to numerous book dealers in the U.S., Asia, and Europe who
specialize in Asia. List maintained by the International Institute for
Asian Studies, at Leiden University.
http://www.nwlink.com/~bokai/index.html
Information and ordering instructions for XenoType Technologies's
Asian language kits for the Mac. To date, includes Burmese,
Georgian, Khmer, Lao, Tibetan, Mongolian (to be released in summer 1998).
http://csf.colorado.edu/bcas/sympos/current.htm
Contains the complete text of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian
Scholars' symposium on "Asia, Asian Studies, and the National Security
Debate."
http://www.bids.ac.uk/ibss
The full back set of the 600,000 citations of the International
Bibliography of the Social Sciences from 1951 to 1980. An additional 30,000
records will be added annually. Restricted usage,- not yet available to
users outside the UK.
East Asia
http://www.psc.lsa.umich.edu/~jtrap/index.html
Discussion site of the East Asian Anthropology Interest Group. Links
to library resources, statistical data sources, booksellers, online maps.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/eastasiatoday
Access to current program information and archives of the BBC World
Service's news and current affairs program for East Asia. Audio and
movie access available on software that is downloadable from links.
http://www.afn.org/~afn20372/pol/bp.html
"China's Public Relations Strategy on Tibet: Classified Documents
from the Beijing Propaganda Conference in March 1993." The
documents were prepared for a meeting of Chinese government officials
to review an external propaganda strategy on Tibet, and were
acquired and translated by the International Campaign for Tibet, in
Washington, D.C.
http://www.redfish.com/USEmbassy-China/sandt/sandt.htm
Seven reports on AIDS in China, part of the web page of the
Environment, Science and Technology Section of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
http://pages.nyu.edu/~boc7379/
Created by Nixi Cura of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University,
this site on Chinese and Japanese art history news provides notices
of symposia, conferences, grants, and other information. Links to other
Asian art web sites (calendars of events, books, reference resources,
museums and exhibitions).
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/mrtv/index.html
Site of the Voice of Mongolia Broadcasting Service. The Service is
Mongolia's only overseas broadcasting service; operated by
Mongolian Radio & Television, a public service broadcaster of the Mongolian
government. Provides, in Mongolian, English, Russian, Chinese, and
Japanese, information about Monglia and the history, culture, and
traditions of the country.
http://www.mof.go.jp/english/index.htm
Site of the Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan, available in
English and Japanese versions. Statements by the Minister of
Finance, features, general administrative information, leading
financial and economic indicators, Bank of Japan, Japan
Development Bank, etc.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/japanese/
Site of the Japanese Text Initiative of the University of Virginia Library
Electronic Text Center and the University of Pittsburgh East Asian
Library~ Purpose is to make texts of classical Japanese literature
available on the web. Interactive search interface allows for searching of
any characters or words, in Japanese or English, in individual texts
and in all texts.
http://www.mofa.go.jp/mail/index.html
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan, website; daily bulletins are
available automatically by registering your email address.
http://www2.dgsys.com/~jusfc/
Web pages of the Japan-US Friendship Commission and the U.S.
half of CULCON. The Commission is an independent federal agency
promoting mutual understanding; its homepage contains its history,
program guidelines, reports, topics of current priority and concern,
newsletter, etc. CULCON is a binational advisory panel to the U.S.
and Japanese governments on educational and cultural exchange;
its homepage includes information on current activities and a media
directory of Japan specialists.
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jjs/
Web page of the Journal of Japanese Studies, published twice yearly.
Includes guidelines for submissions, stylesheet, subscription
information, table of contents (no text) of current issue, list of other
publications of The Society for Japanese Studies.
http://www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/korealaw
Site for the Center for Korean Legal Studies, Columbia University
School of Law. Covers numerous topics on Korean law and legal
education; North-South Korean relations, information on
Center-sponsored talks and conferences.
http://www.justice.gov.hk
The Hong Kong Bilingual Laws Information System of Hong Kong's
Dept. of Justice. It is the official database of the statutory laws of
Hong Kong and selected constitutional documents, and will include a
bilingual glossary of terms used in the laws. Includes Sino-British Joint
Declaration, Basic Laws of Hong Kong SAR, national [Chinese] laws
applying to Hong Kong.
Southeast Asia
ftp://asia.anu.edu.au/pub/seac.sit
Southeast Asian calendrical software; site for a Macintosh program
designed by Chris Eade and Lars Gislen "to generate the calendrical
and astronomical data required to verify the historical records of
mainland Southeast Asia." The reference manual for the software is at
ftp://asia.anu.edu.au/pub/mannov97.sit
http://www.nationmultimedia.com
Site for downloading Thailand's sixteenth (and most recent)
Constitution. To read it without downloading, use:
http://www.nationmultimedia/nation/constitution/draft.html
http://tukang.access.net.id
Comprehensive data on the Indonesian Internet Network.
http://www.ecpat.or.id
Information for anyone planning on taking up residence in Indonesia.
http://www.caa.org.au/world/asia/indonesia/index.html
Articles, publications, and links on development and human rights in
Indonesia.
http://www.technofind.com.sg
Largest resource and search engine on Singapore web sites, updated
daily. Searchable; arranged by categories: business, education,
entertainment, government, internet, organizations, services, tourism.
South Asia
http://bhutan.org
Homepage of the Bhutan WWW Virtual Library. Numerous links to
information on Bhutan on web search engines, USAID in Bhutan,
newspapers, refugees, photographs, travel agencies, stamps, art,
government, bibliographies on Bhutan, sources of publications, language
resources, religion, history, science
http://www.kuensel.com
Site for the online edition (and archives) of Kuensel, Bhutan's weekly
English-language newspaper.
http://www.bengali.org/mailing-list.html
A mailing list to discuss anything and everything about Bengal;
moderated and managed by Sanhita Mallick, Univ. of Tokyo.
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/ijhs/
Homepage of the International Journal of Hindu Studies, a refereed
journal on Hindu religion and culture, published three times a year. Site
includes tables of contents of each issue and abstracts of articles.
http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/countries/bangla/
Keeps track of leading information facilities of the Bangladesh section
of the Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library and the South Asia WWW
Virtual Library. General information, virtual tour, geography, economy,
environment, history and politics, oral history project, ethnic issues,
conference papers, search index, clubs, organizations, newsgroups, etc.
http://www.bjp.org/
Homepage of the Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party);
includes Media Watch, current news related to the BJP.
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Election Commission]
[India
Elections 1998 and Political Parties]
http://www.meadev.gov.in
Government of India homepage, with a cross-section of information
on the workings of government.
http://alfa.nic.in
Web site of the Indian Parliament, with transcripts of parliament
debates, email address of members, text of the Constitution, etc.
http://www.india-today.com/jain/index.html
Full text of the interim report of the Jain Commission formed to
investigate the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi; searchable by keyword.
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