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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,

The website of the APEC Virtual Center for Environmental Technology Exchange. APEC assists municipalities, corporations and environment related institutions in the Asia-Pacific region to share environmental information via the Internet. The APEC-VC home page is designed and constructed to provide access to vast environmental information on the World Wide Web. Currently, Japan, Australia, Chinese Taipei, New Zealand, China, The Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Chile, Indonesia and Malaysia have APEC-VC up and running. The website categories are unified so that information can be retrieved in the same manner from any of the Virtual Centres in the region.
http://www.apec-vc.or.jp/index_e.asp
Keywords: China, East Asia, Environment, In Focus, In Focus 2008, In Focus 2008 Week 32, In Focus 2009, In Focus 2009 Week 16, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam,

A free weekly service offering forecasts of 10 Asian stock markets Hongkong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, including Dow Jones and the NASDAQ-index
http://www.asiachart.com
Keywords: China, East Asia, Economic issues, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, International economic relations, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Asia, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Thailand,

BlogYourFavMusic.com : a case study of Nordic indie music in Taiwan / Li-Wei Liu. - Jönköping : Jönköping University. Jönköping International Business School, 2010. - 42 p. (Master's thesis) The purpose of this study is to conceive how the niche music market is spurred by the user-generated content, blogs from the perspectives of music fans/blog readers and recordshop managers. Also, it discusses the role of music blogs in the global independent music scene by looking into the case of Nordic indie music in Taiwan. This study tends to present a new angle to conceive the transform of music industry in the era of web 2.0. In other words, to depict the process of musical globalization stems from user-generated contents in the internet. Both quantitative and qualitative approaches are adopted to achieve the purpose. In the quantitative part, an online survey is performed to obtain the opinions on music blog from fans. Besides, to observe the viewpoint from the industry, interviews are conducted with one well-known music blogger and two music shop managers who import Nordic music to Taiwan. The study finds out that the involvement of music blogosphere has a stronger correlation to the purchase of Nordic indie music, which is considered niche, than of the mainstream music in Taiwan. However, the influence is not as great as it appears due to the facts that music blogosphere in Taiwan is still not comprehensive and people still download rather than buy the music they get to know from blogs. In the larger picture, Taiwanese music scene has been enriched by the information music blogs yield since numerous small-sized music labels are established for this emerging niche music market. These labels specialize in importing niche music. Also, at least four promoters founded in recent two years featuring in inviting foreign indie bands to Taiwan for the growing fans of niche music.
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-12508
Keywords: Culture, East Asia, Music, Nordic Perspective, Popular music, Publications, Sweden, Taiwan,

Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen
Camilla T. N. Soerensen is a research fellow at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. Her research focus is Northeast Asian security, and in July 2008 she has handed in her PhD thesis titled “The contingent rise of China. The development in Chinese post-Cold War security policy”. Prior to her current position at University of Copenhagen, Camilla T. N. Soerensen has been a research assistant at NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies in Copenhagen. Camilla T. N. Soerensen's research interests are Chinese foreign and security policy, the security situation in the Taiwan Strait, Japanese foreign and security policy, security relations between China, Japan and the U.S., the North Korean nuclear issue, and domestic politics on Taiwan.
http://www.polsci.ku.dk/english/staff/detaljer/?id=284217
Keywords: China, Conflicts. Terrorism, Denmark, East Asia, Foreign policy, International relations, Japan, Nordic Perspective, North Korea, Peace-building, Person, Politics and society, Security, Taiwan,

Information about the latest elections and about elections in general in Taiwan. In Chinese, some information in English.
http://www.cec.gov.tw
Keywords: East Asia, Elections, In Focus, In Focus 2008, In Focus 2008 Week 03, Politics and society, Taiwan,

Self description: CDT is a collaborative news website covering China’s social and political transition and its emerging role in the world. We aim to aggregate the most up-to-the-minute news and analysis about China from around the Web, while providing independent reporting, translations from Chinese cyberspace, and perspectives from across the geographical, political and social spectrum. CDT is run by the Berkeley China Internet Project (BCIP) out of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
http://chinadigitaltimes.net
Keywords: China, East Asia, Hong Kong, In Focus, In Focus 2011, In Focus 2011 Week 09, News, News. Media, Taiwan,

China section of the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. Includes country maps, city maps, detailed maps o fspecific areas, thematic maps e g ethnolinguistic, industry and military maps, and historical maps. Mainly maps of P.R. of China, but also a section of Taiwan maps.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/china.html
Keywords: China, East Asia, Geography, Hong Kong, Maps, Taiwan,

This Internet library consists of Vincent K. Pollard's sample of 120 websites and single web pages which share and discuss the experience and influence of immigrant and post-immigrant Chinese diaspora and transnational communities. Eleven languages are used in these websites: English, Chinese, Bahasa, Japanese, Filipino/Tagalog, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Polish and Hungarian — in descending order of frequency. Many of these websites are bilingual, and several are trilingual. Highlighteed subjects: Overseas Chinese social services; newspapers, TV stations; youth, women, clan, family; preserving community traditions, history; business networks, professional associations; political advocacy, anti-discrimination struggles; and philosophy, religion, health, self-cultivation, and fine arts.
http://www2.hawaii.edu/%7Epollard/chculture.html
Keywords: Business enterprises, Business. Management, China, Conflicts. Terrorism, Culture, Culture conflict, Diaspora, East Asia, Ethnic conflict, History, Japan, News. Media, Overseas Chinese, Philosophy. Religion, Social conditions, Social groups, Southeast Asia, Taiwan,

A directory compiled and maintained by Philip Clart, University of Leipzig Self-description: "This listing aims to facilitate communication between Western and Asian China-scholars. As anyone who has attended a bi- or multilingual conference can attest, some amount of confusion is occasioned by the fact that Western sinologists are usually known in Chinese-speaking academia primarily by their Chinese names. As the latter, however, are not in common use in Western academic circles, it often takes a while to figure out that, for example, the professor Du Zanqi, whom a Chinese conference participant keeps citing, is in fact better known in the English-speaking world as Prasenjit Duara. With a view towards tackling this particular barrier to scholarly communication, I have compiled a preliminary list of several hundred Chinese names of Western scholars. "Western" here does not refer to any sort of ethnic identity, but merely indicates that the person in question publishes (or published) on some aspect of Chinese culture in a Western language. Thus, the list also includes, for example, Chinese, Taiwanese, Singaporean, Malaysian, Japanese, and Korean scholars whose names typically only appear in transcription in their publications. No particular search criteria were applied in compiling this list so that the result is a somewhat heterogeneous mix of scholars from all over the world, most of them alive, some already deceased. It is hoped that the publication of the list will result in submission of additional entries by scholars the world over. I expect to expand and update the listings on a regular basis. Of course, other comments as well as corrections are always welcome and should be directed by email to clart [at] uni-leipzig.de."
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~clartp/ChineseNamesWesternScholars.htm
Keywords: China, Chinese, Dictionaries, East Asia, General references, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Taiwan,