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Business: Locating country specific information http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/11b.html
procurement, company and industry developments, politics, exports, retail trade, and
regulatory issues. Covers 50 industry categories in over 20 countries.
Asia Intelligence Ltd, an online source for economic, political, and strategic
intelligence on Asia, brings daily briefings, a conflict monitoring service, and an election
watch.
AsiaSource provides information regarding the cultural, economic, social,
historical, and political dimensions of Asia. With a worldwide events calendar, a
glossary of terms, annotated links and opinion pieces, news services, country profiles,
special features, and more.
7KH $VLD 3DFLILF (FRQRPLF &RRSHUDWLRQ (APEC) brings information about the 18
current members' economies, calendar of APEC activities, press releases, and more.
The Asian Development Bank is at http://www.asiandevbank.org/, and Asian
Buying Consortium at http://www.abcflash.com.
The Far Eastern Economic Review Interactive Edition (Hong Kong) focuses on
Asian current affairs, business, economies and investment. Straits Times (Singapore) is
at http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/, and Singapore Business Times is at http://business
times.asia1.com.sg/.
Dun & Bradstreet has hard to find company information on developing markets
such as Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Malaysia.
Tradstat has import and export statistics on Hong Kong and Taiwan. Asia, Inc., the
Hong Kong published business magazine, contains articles of Asia's executives and their
enterprises, daily financial information, and more.
7KH +RQJ .RQJ 7UDGH 'HYHORSPHQW &RXQFLO offers comprehensive trade and
business information on Hong Kong and Mainland China, online trade enquiry, trade fair
registration, and more.
The ASIA PACIFIC DATABASE covers business and economics in Asia and the
Pacific.
Dun's Market Identifiers provide directory listings of businesses throughout the
Asian and Pacific Rim countries. AFX Asia delivers 400+ subscription based Asian
financial news stories from all of Asia each day. Operated by providers such as Financial
Times Group, AFP, Nikkei, and Australian Association Press.
The ELC file on LEXIS NEXIS contains financial and marketing information on
Southeast Asian corporations (1993). Kompass has information about companies in
Australia, Hong Kong, Israel, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea,
Thailand, Taiwan, etc. Investext also monitors the region closely.
Yet more Asian pointers
The Asian Studies area of the WWW Organization's international directory of
networked research and educational resources (WWW Virtual Library) tracks
information and research resources (ftp, gopher, wais, www) for Burma, China, Hong
Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines,
Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, and Vietnam. Check http://coombs.anu.edu.au/asia
www monitor.html to follow developments regularly, or search its full text database of
past issues.
Eurasia Research Center offers links to news and other resources on the Balkans,
Baltic States, Central Europe, the Caucasus, formerly Soviet Central Asia, Russia,
Belarus, Iran, Ukraine, Moldavia, Turkey, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
The EXPORT IMPORT INVEST Vietnam Business Directories pages are in
English, French, Spanish, and German.
Central and South America
Organizacion de los Estados Americanos' (OEA) "Programs and Issues" page gathers
information on current OAS activities in the areas of trade, democracy, environment,
human rights, drug abuse control, telecommunications and information infrastructure,
and others. Every country in the Americas is a member of the OAS (except Cuba). In
Spanish and English
Business News Americas brings daily news in English, Spanish, and Portuguese on
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