The Online World resources handbook

Business: Locating country specific information http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/11b.html
entertainment information with links to India Daily, khoj daily, The Indian Express and
The Financial Express, Madhya Pradesh Chronicle, India Trade Daily, and more.
The Economic Times is the largest selling business daily in India. Kompass has
information about Indian companies.
Japan
The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), provides Japanese government
procurement information from Kampo, the governments official journal, alongside
economic information about Japan. One hyperlink points at "Japan Economic Trends,
Industry, Markets, Business Practices." This page contain such things as First Steps in
Exporting to Japan, Doing Business in Japan, and The Japanese Consumer.
The Mizuho Securities RESEARCH & LINKS page provides links to English
language resources on Japanese economy, finance and politics.
The Japan Information Center of Science and Technology (JIST) offers a range
of commercial English language databases in the broad spectrum of science, technology
and medicine.
Orbit has an English language database of Japanese technology. It contains
abstracts of articles, patents and standards from more than 500 Japanese magazines.
Reuters offers the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's best selling daily newspaper. Tradstat
offers Japanese import and export statistics.
Dow Jones Interactive brings full text stories from the Japan Economic Newswire
(Kyodo News International), which covers Japanese company, industry and financial
markets; government, defence and science news. It also brings full text stories from
many other international publications including New Era Japan, New Food Products in
Japan, New Materials Japan, and PDS's Japan Auto Industry Survey, Power Asia.
The Investext database has English language profiles of thousands of Japanese
companies sourced from Teikou, Japan's largest business credit agency.
Kompass has information about Japanese companies. LEXIS NEXIS, Dialog,
NiftyServe, PC VAN, and G Search have the Teikoku Databank, with directory and
income information about over one million Japanese firms.
Middle East
ArabNet focuses on the Arab world in the Middle East and North Africa, and offers
links and information about Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan,
Kuwait Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia,
Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen.
The Israel Industry R&D Information System (MOP) have an information server
at http://www.matimop.org.il/. There's a weekly newsletter called "The Arab Press on
Israel."
The Israel Information Service is at http://www.israel.org/ (some documents are
in French and Spanish). Choices include Basic Statistics, The Economy, Culture,
Communications and Media, and Basic Laws and Legal Issues.
Kompass has information about companies in the region.
Other countries in Asia and the Pacific
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
offers "Asia Pacific in Figures". The online version has HTML and Excel files with
socio economic statistics for: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan,
Brunei, Cambodia, China, Georgia, HK, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Macao, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar (Burma), Nepal,
Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, North Korea, South Korea, Russian
Federation, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. Also, it includes statistics for a number Pacific countries.
Asia Pulse, a real time commercial intelligence wire designed for corporate users,
delivers information about Asian infrastructure, private investments, government
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