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The Amnesty International library contains an archive of most reports, news releases and urgent actions published from 1996 to date. The archive is searchable by region, sub-region, country and theme.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/engindex
Keywords: Central Asia, China, East Asia, Hong Kong, Human rights, In Focus, In Focus 2008, In Focus 2008 Week 11, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,

This series of profiles offer brief, summarized information on a country’s historical background, geography, society, economy, transportation and telecommunications, government and politics, and national security.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/list.html
Keywords: Agriculture, Business. Management, Central Asia, China, East Asia, Economic issues, Education, Geography, History, In Focus, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 53, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Law and legislation, Macau, Mongolia, North Korea, Politics and society, Science and technology. Innovation, Social conditions, South Korea, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,

Dansk Mongolsk Selskabs formål er at: - fremme og udbrede kendskabet i Danmark til mongolerne og deres kultur, især i mongolernes kerneområde i Mongoliet, Kina og Rusland - udgive skrifter om Mongoliet, især selskabets medlemsblad Ger - være samlingsorgan for personer, der interesserer sig for mongoler og deres forhold - fremme og udvikle forbindelserne mellem befolkningen i Danmark og mongolerne - at støtte kulturelt arbejde blandt mongoler og skabe forbindelser mellem videnskabelige, kulturelle, faglige og folkelige organisationer i de respektive lande.
http://www.danskmongolskselskab.dk/
Keywords: Denmark, East Asia, Institution, Mongolia, Nordic Perspective,

Self description: The Arts Council of Mongolia carried out the Mongolian Monastery Documentation Project as part of its mandate for cultural restoration. A national survey, conducted from 2005 to 2007, covered all twenty-two aimags (provinces) and the capital Ulaanbaatar, formally known as Ikh Khuree. It aimed to locate all the active monasteries and temples in Mongolia in the first part of the twentieth century. The survey provides a documentary record for each monastery / temple located including precise geographical location (GPS coordinates of the site) and a digital photographic record. Site identification largely depended on the memory of those Mongolians still alive at the time of the survey who were young at the time of the destruction – most of whom were in their seventies and eighties. Oral histories were collected from many of these old people most particularly from those who had been monks at the time of the destruction. For the first time there is a complete record of all the monasteries and temples in the country along with valuable historical memories from a generation who were living in the monasteries in 1939. Access to more detailed information on the sites will be granted to bone fide scholars.
http://www.mongoliantemples.net/english.php
Keywords: Cultural history, Cultural policy, Culture, East Asia, Lamaism, Mongolia, Philosophy. Religion,

The Knowledge Base includes details of over 6,310 development researchers worldwide, including information on their research specializations, contact details, and links to online research produced, as well as researchers' cvs and photos. Inclusion on the database is open to all researchers undertaking policy-relevant social science research. This page features a selection of researcher profiles, as well as giving information on how to register by creating a profile.
http://www.gdnet.org/middle.php?primary_link_id=4&secondary_link_id=14
Keywords: Bangladesh, Biographies, Burma - Myanmar, Cambodia, China, East Asia, General references, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Research, Singapore, South Asia, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam,

East Asia Barometer was a comparative survey of democratization and value changes in nine nations of South East Asia which was directed by the National Taiwan University during 2000-2003. Nations covered included Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, China, Mongolia, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan. It surveyed levels of support for democracy and democratic reform in the nations concerned, levels of political participation (including voter turnout) and trust in political institutions. The website provides information on the purpose and methodology of the survey, including some of its sample questions.
http://eacsurvey.law.ntu.edu.tw/
Keywords: China, East Asia, Elections, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, Philippines, Politics and society, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Thailand,

The Environmental Public Awareness Handbook was published in 1999 and features the case studies and lessons learned by UNDP's Mongolian Environmental Public Awareness Programme (EPAP). The handbook draws on the close to 100 small environmental projects the Programme oversaw during a two-year period. These projects stretched across Mongolia, and operated in a time of great upheaval and social, economic and environmental distress. The handbook is intended for training purposes and the practice of public participation in environmental protection.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/28648889/Environmental-Public-Awareness-Handbook-Case-...
Keywords: East Asia, Environment, Mongolia,

An excellent resource on how to create green jobs in a crisis. The Environmental Public Awareness Handbook was published in 1999 and features the case studies and lessons learned by UNDP's Mongolian Environmental Public Awareness Programme (EPAP). The handbook draws on the close to 100 small environmental projects the Programme oversaw during a two-year period. These projects stretched across Mongolia, and operated in a time of great upheaval and social, economic and environmental distress. The handbook is intended for training purposes and the practice of public participation in environmental protection.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/28637162/Environmental-Public-Awareness-Handbook-Case-...
Keywords: East Asia, Environment, Mongolia,

The Environmental Public Awareness Handbook was published in 1999 and features the case studies and lessons learned by UNDP's Mongolian Environmental Public Awareness Programme (EPAP). The handbook draws on the close to 100 small environmental projects the Programme oversaw during a two-year period. These projects stretched across Mongolia, and operated in a time of great upheaval and social, economic and environmental distress. The handbook is intended for training purposes and the practice of public participation in environmental protection.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/28633063/Environmental-Public-Awareness-Handbook-Case-...
Keywords: East Asia, Environment, Mongolia,

God on the steppe : Christian missionaries in Mongolia after 1990 / Aleksandra Maria Wazgird. - Oslo : Institutt for kulturstudier og orientalske språk, Universitetet i Oslo, 2011. - 128 p. (Master's thesis) A pervasive image of Mongolia found in Western popular culture is of a wide steppe untouched by civilization and people living simple pastoral life in a way they have been doing for centuries, but Mongolia is a country of enormous contrasts. Life in the capital, Ulaanbaatar, where close to half of the population resides, is as far from the image of the steppe as one can go. Mongolia underwent tremendous social and cultural transformations in the last two decades. The purpose of this thesis is to tell the story of Christianity in Mongolia after 1990 and to provide framework for understanding it. What we are witnessing in contemporary Mongolia is a third wave of missionary efforts of Western Christianity to “conquer the steppe”. The previous attempts, the Catholic envoys to the Great Khans in the Mongol Empire and the missionaries in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century failed. The steppes of Outer Mongolia turned out to be hostile and inaccessible, the nomadic settlements were not permanent and sparse and the work brought few converts. The only successful Christian missionaries in the Mongol lands were the Syriac-rite Nestorians, deemed as heretics by Western Christianity, who managed to gain significant influence among some of the Mongol tribes. The third wave of Christian missionary efforts to Mongolia began after Mongolians cast off the restrains of communism and embraced democracy in 1990. After seventy years of socialist atheism, freedom of religion and belief was introduced. However, the new freedom of religion meant not only the freedom to openly practice the religion of their ancestors, but also the freedom to choose religion from the infinite pool of options in the modern pluralist religious market. Different faiths, religious organizations, churches and denominations began to penetrate Mongolia in order to seek new converts. Among them the most prominent were the Christian missionaries. My study focuses on how the Christian missionaries maneuver the legal, social, political and religious landscape of rapidly changing Mongolia and explores how they deal with its possibilities and limitations in the attempt to propagate their beliefs. Furthermore, the thesis attempts to provide the reader with tools for understanding of the interplay between the external influences and local adaptations as Christianity is trying to gain a foothold in this predominantly Buddhist country. The thesis is largely based on a fieldwork conducted in Mongolia in spring of 2009.
http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/work.html?WORKID=129915&fid=74813
Keywords: Christianity, East Asia, Mongolia, Nordic Perspective, Norway, Philosophy. Religion, Publications,