The Online World resources handbook

Your electronic daily news http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/9.html
Japan
Japan Press Network provides the latest news covering Japan's high tech industries as
well as finance, economics and the Japanese press. Nikkei (on FP Profile) has an
English language service with news articles from Nikkei and other Japanese newspapers.
7KH -DSDQHVH -RXUQDOV ,QIRUPDWLRQ :HE offers Current Awareness using access
to tables of contents of current Japanese journals and magazines. In addition, it has The
Union List of Japanese Serials and Newspapers (ULJSN) currently includes information
on 4,844 titles held by twenty libraries or accessible over the web (1999).
To read many of the tables of contents, where these are not presented as
graphics files, you must have a computer that can display Japanese text.
The union list includes romanized information.
Middle East
The al Jazeera 24 hour news satellite channel in Qatar is the CNN of the Arabic
speaking world. It publishes in Arabic, explores taboo subjects, and welcomes criticism
of governments.
Arabic News delivers daily Arabic country by country news: Politics, culture,
recipes, book reviews, weather, sports, arts. Covers Egypt, Egyptian life, pyramids,
Lebanon, Iraq, the Gulf, its oil, Arabian horses and camel races.
The Middle East News Network publishes daily news, analysis and comments from
19 countries in the Middle East produced by Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish and Persian press.
You can read these news through Reuters, Down Jones News/Retrieval, and Information
Access.
Arabnet brings up to the minute Arabic news in Arabic characters. For uncensored
(by the Israeli) Palestinian news, check the Birzeit University site.
Other countries in Asia and the Pacific
For interesting links to sources of political, social and economic news about mainland
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Tibet, check http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~cb863
/china.html .
Asia Times Online is a daily publication covering the Asia Pacific region with an
emphasis on politics, economics and business. Covers China, Southeast Asia, Japan,
Koreas, India/Pakistan, Central Asia/Russia, Oceania. AsiaNow KDV VWRULHV IURP
Asiaweek, Time Asian Edition, those broadcasted by CNN International to Asia, and its
own columnists on Asian politics, Asian Business and Technology. It also has live news
feed from global news agencies like AP and Reuters, video and audio.
EurasiaNet provides daily news and analysis on Central Asia and the Caucasus,
and developments in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia that bear on this
region. Users can sign up to receive a weekly bulletin by email.
PeaceNet's World News Service KDV D 6RXWKHDVW $VLD GLJHVW ,W LQFOXGHV FRYHUDJH
from the Inter Press Service (IPS) on Vietnam, Thailand, Hong Kong, Japan, Cambodia,
Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, The People's Republic of China, Malaysia and the region as
a whole.
The Star, Malaysia's leading English language daily newspaper, brings its news at
http://www.jaring.my/~star/. Singapore's Straits Times is at
http://straitstimes.asia1.com/. Thailand News Web Directory has links to newspaper,
TV, radio, magazine and Thai goverment's reports.
Mailing lists:
Pakistan News Service, and Pakistan News Service Discussion (PNS L)
The Kashmir Journal
The Pakistan News Service is at http://www.paknews.org/, and IndoNews delivers
"Indonesian Daily News Online Berita dari Indonesia." IraqNet a multilingual virtual
11 of 14 23.11.2009 15:46