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NON-PROFITS:
Animals Asia Foundation
A leading Asian based non-profit organization dedicated to save and preserving endangered species in Asia. To make your donation, click on this link.
**Engrish - Some things are just distinctly Japanese; take for example this "Engrish" web site which features fun and creative, Japanese only interpretations of English pronuniciations. This site is good humor for anyone looking for a little comic relief.
**Asian Connections - Leading site linking the Asian global community; includes community, shopping, food, entertainment, lifestyle, etc.
**Asia Travel - Over 500 hotels and resorts in 70 destinations for your preview and online reservation. Here you will find factual information profiles on a wide selection of hotels & resorts.
*Asian Art - Asian Art Gallery, with emphasis on paintings of Chinese and Japanese women dressed in traditional clothing and paintings of historial and ancient cultural icons.
Asia Times
- daily updates on key Asian events; useful local and regional news.
Asian Art
Japan - too much nooll block prints, not enough other Japanese art
Morikami Museum and Japanese Tea Garden
China, Filipino, Indonesia Art Galleries and Printings - Modern Asian
artists by Feng Hua Yuan
Education: Asian Studies (Coombs Computing Unit, Australian National University)
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
- One of the first, most comprehensive, and useful web sites on the Asia Pacific region. The www server is provide by the Coombs Computing Unit, Research Schools of Social Science and Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra. The site is wealth of information on Asia (links), especially to http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html; the site takes you to Asian Studies virtual library, a global collection of collaborative project which provide access in bibliographic and in hypertext terms to network scholarly documents, resources and Asia information. Mirror sites from: Association of Asian Studies USA, International Institute of Asian Studies Netherland, Stanford University USA, Pennsylvania State University USA, Univesity of Anglia UK, University of Genenva Switzerland. Lots of information, so dive in; you’ll stay for awhile.
AsianWeb.net
- useful links to many sources on Asia; useful general information on countries; see right side bar.
Asian Library, University of Michigan
- Regarded as one of the top Asian libraries and university programs in the country; has useful database relating to Asian studies.
Far East Economic Review
- emphasis on political issues; useful reviews
Road to East Asia
- Chinese, Japanese, and Korean literary journal
AsiaPoint
- Founded by Dirk Kamm, a consultant and journalist, directed toward people interested in political, economic and social issues affecting the Asia Pacific region. The site is designed for commercial and non commercial activities. This link also is linked to German-Thailand connections. The site is seems to be a bit busy with hyperlinks to other sites. The floating globe on the sidebar is distracting.
Asian Cyber Clock
What time is it in ASIA? While searching the web, we came across a Asian Cyber Clock. The site air.com.hk/is an internet company. Go to the clock the New York Time is West Coast and the AM and PM is swithched around! Get them to fix it and you’ll have something neat. Also the date is listed day/month/year.
The World Socialist
- Site for the World Socialist is an interesting site on social, political, economic and current events. Though their coverage is global there is information on Asia that you’ll find of interest. The site needs to be updated more often.
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