AsiaSource: AsiaEXPERTS - A resource of the Asia Society (http://www.asiasource.org/experts/)
The AsiaExperts database gives information on specialists in Asian culture, arts, history, and society. Profiles list individual's areas of expertise, publications, contact information, and more.
Asian Educational Media Service (AEMS) (http://www.aems.uiuc.edu/index.las)
AEMS is a program of the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. AEMS helps educators find and use media materials for teaching about the cultures and peoples of Asia.
Asian Studies. (http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html)
Provides access to a clearinghouse of information on Asian studies, edited by T. Matthew Ciolek of the Coombs Computing Unit of the Australian National University (ANU) for the World-Wide Web Virtual Library. Contains an overview of the site, which keeps track of leading information facilities in the field of Asian studies. Gives a breakdown by country for facilities. Includes instructions on submitting information to the archive.
Hmong Studies Journal (http://members.aol.com/hmongstudies/)
Hmong Studies Journal Hmong Studies Journal is an Internet-based publication devoted to the scholarly discussion of Hmong history, Hmong culture, Hmong people, and other facets of the Hmong experience in the U.S., Asia and around the world.
Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia (http://kyotoreview.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/issue/issue4/index.html)
Provides information in NGOs, journalism, and cultural about Southeast Asia from Kyoto Review.
Land Mine Awareness Education (LMAE). (http://www.pitt.edu/%7Eginie/lm/welcome.html)
Presents information about land mine awareness, provided as part of the Global Information Network in Education (GINIE), a project of the Institute for International Studies in Education (IISE) at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Explains that GINIE assists governments and international organizations in providing educational services to citizens and refugees of nations in emergency or post-emergency transition. Offers access to educational materials developed for people in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Somalia, Afghanistan, Angola, Croatia, El Salvador, Laos, Mozambiquie, Yemen, and Zaire. Offers access to an online forum. Includes personal stories related to land mine awareness. Contains information about child amputees, developmental disabilities, and psychological disorders. Links to the home page of GENIE and sites related to mines.
Mennonite Central Committee. (http://resolver.library.cornell.edu/misc/4163554)
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a relief, service, community development and peace agency of the North American Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches. This section of the MCC website describes the committee's work addressing the problems of unexploded cluster bombs and other unexploded ordnance in Afghanistan, Laos, Serbia/Kosovo, Chechnya and Sudan.
National University of Laos (http://www.canpub.com/nuol/)
Home page for the National University of Laos.
UXO LAO (http://www.uxolao.org/)
National agency established in 1996 by Prime Ministerial decree responsible for "unexploded ordnance (UXO) clearance and education in the Lao PDR." Provides information about problems surrounding unexploded ordnance and government efforts at clearance in the program, history of the organization, case studies, map of UXO LAO operations, and photo galleries.
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