Asian-Nation : (http://www.asian-nation.org/index.shtml)
This web site provides information on the historical, political, demographic,
and cultural issues affecting the Asian American community.
Background
Notes: East Asia and the Pacific (http://www.state.gov/www/background%5Fnotes/eapbgnhp.html)
A country profile prepared by the U.S. State Department containing basic information
on the history, government, political conditions, people, and foreign relations
of East Asia and the Pacific.
Countries of the World (http://infoplease.com/countries.html)
This web site provides a concise general information on geography, maps, flag,
history, current ruler, area, population, capital, largest cities, languages,
enthnicity/race, religion, literacy rate, economy, and goverment for the selected
Asian country.
Country studies (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/)
Presents information on countries of Asia, provided by the U.S. Library of
Congress. Includes information on individual countries' geography, economy,
society, transportation, communications, government, politics, and national
security. Discusses the country's history, ethnic groups, religion, international
trade, land use, foreign affairs, and armed forces.
CountryReports.org (http://www.countryreports.org/)
This web site provides links to sites with information on many countries. Categories
for each country includes country profile, national anthems, flags, weather,
history and maps.
Development
Gateway Country Overview (http://www.developmentgateway.org/countryprofile/intermediary)
"The Development Gateway helps communities, organizations, and individuals
build partnerships, share ideas, and work together to reduce poverty." Search
by development projects as well as by country to identify additional web sites
and documents.
Encyclopedia.com (http://www.encyclopedia.com)
From the Electronic Library, searching the Encyclopedia.com by country provides
numerous narrative articles on its history, culture, politics.
Google Directory - Regional: Asia (http://directory.google.com/Top/Regional/Asia/)
The Google Search Engine's directory of websites related to Asia. The site
divides information by category. The number of sites in each category is listed
as well.
Islamic Calendar
Converter (http://wwwcgi.umr.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/msaumr/hijri)
This English language website not only converts the present Gregorian date,
in common use in the West, to its modern Hijra equivalent (in common use in
the Islamic World), it also provides a mechanism, based on software developed
by Waleed A. Muhanna, to convert all past dates from Gregorian-Hijra or Hijra-Gregorian.
Library of Congresss.
Virtual Reference Shelf (http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/virtualref.html)
The Library of Congress has mounted this useful site on its home page to give
scholars and researchers access to common online sources which are excellent
for initial stages of research. These online tools are organized by subject
and format, e.g., "Almanacs and Fast Facts," "Directories," "Libraries," etc.
Lifestyle Opportunity Organization (http://www.lifestyleopportunity.org/index)
Searchable by country and subject, the site offers access to many interesting
sites.
Lonely Planet - Destination Asia (http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/loc-asi.htm)
This Lonely Planet guide includes facts for the traveler to Asia, information
on events, money and costs, attractions, activities, history, culture, getting
there and further reading. It also includes related weblinks.
MSN
Learning & Research - Asia (http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761574726)
Provides country profile and statistical information on Asia, such as history,
introduction, natural environment, people of asia, and patterns of economic
development.
OneWorld Country Guides (http://uk.oneworld.net/guides/countries/)
Searchable by country, regions and topics. Includes current headlines and special
reports.
ReliefWeb: By Country (http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/WCT?OpenForm)
“ReliefWeb is a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)... serving the information needs of the humanitarian
relief community” Offers news updates to crisis situations around the world
and includes information about refugee camps and other relief efforts.
Société Asiatique (http://www.aibl.fr/fr/asie/home.html)
Society on Asian culture, literature, and civilization. In French.
United Nations (http://www.un.org)
The official site of the United Nations provides articles, reports, etc. in
several languages on all aspects of the initiatives and mission of that organization
as well as on the contemporary life, culture, society, international relations,
etc. of all the countries and peoples of the world.
United States. Agency for International Development.
Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC) (http://www.dec.org/)
"The purpose of the DEC is to strengthen USAID's development projects, activities,
and programs by making ... development experience documents available to USAID
offices and mission staff, PVO's, NGO's, universities and research institutions,
developing countries, and the public worldwide."
World Desk Reference (http://uk.dk.com/)
Searchable by country, this is the online version of the handbook with more
than 5000 illustrations and maps.
World Factbook (http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html)
Provides information on the geography, people, government, economy, communications,
transportation, military, and transnational issues relating to Asia. Updated
annually.
Yahoo!
Directory on Asia (http://asia.dir.yahoo.com/regional/regions/asia/Countries/)
The Yahoo Search Engine's directory of websites related to Asia. The site divides
information by countries, category, including information by region, arts,
business, computers, education, government, health, science and more. The number
of websites in the directory is listed next to each category.
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