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Volunteering Research in New Zealand-

This annotated bibliography, produced by the Office for the Community and Voluntary Sector, lists research completed on volunteering in Aotearoa New Zealand (OCVS, 2005).

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/volunteering-research.doc

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China Dialogue

In this bilingual online news magazine, China and the world discuss the environment.

http://www.chinadialogue.net/

(Added: 2007-01-26   Hits: 77)

EngageMedia.org

EngageMedia.org is a website distributing video about social and environmental justice issues in Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific. It's a space for critical documentary, fiction, artistic and experimental works that challenge the one-way communication of the mainstream media. EngageMedia aims to demystify and provide access to new video distribution technologies, create an online archive of independent video productions using Open Content licenses and form a peer network of video makers, educators and screening organisations. The website welcome contributions that give context to the actions and issues of our times, in a variety of styles and genres, whether it's documentary, fiction or experimental. The site is moderated but very much participant driven.

http://www.engagemedia.org/

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The Asia Pacific Network for Food Sovereignty (APNFS)

APNFS is a regional network of social movements, farmers' organizations, women's organizations and NGOs established to address the issues of increasing trade liberalization in agriculture, worsening food insecurity, massive dislocation of peasants, landlessness, erosion of agricultural biodiversity, and the suppression of peasants' democratic rights common to many countries in the region. The website includes its members, information on its workshops and activities, and an archive of documents and articles.

http://www.apnfs.org/

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SAMAR (South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection)

SAMAR (South Asian Magazine for Action and Reflection) is a magazine/website with a South Asian focus based in the United States. We choose to use the term "South Asian" because we feel it is important to bring attention to the fact that South Asians are a group of people with a shared history and that this history provides a common basis for understanding our place in the contemporary world. Whereas most other South Asian magazines are based on differences of region, religion and nationality within South Asia, we have chosen to base ours on a South Asian collectivity that is now spread out across the globe. At SAMAR, we hope to reflect the full complexity of "South Asian" in the composition of the editorial collective, contributors and readers. SAMAR responds to a need for a publication that fosters serious debates within the South Asian community and is meant for a general audience. It focuses on analyses of social processes rather than on direct reporting of news events. As suggested by the name of the magazine, SAMAR tends towards social analyses that draw their energy from activist involvement. We are living in an era of rightward political drift. In North America as in South Asia, SAMAR's fundamental commitment is to advancing the forces for social and economic justice. To that end, we at SAMAR work to nurture critical and dissenting voices and invite you to join us in debating the range and depth of radical alternatives to present social arrangements.

http://www.samarmagazine.org

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Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal

Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, also known as the Movements project, is a transborder collective undertaking to confront Inter-Asia cultural politics. The question of culture is among the most important yet difficult facing Inter-Asia today. Prolonged histories of feudal ideology, patriarchy, heterosexism, and, within as well as between countries, racism and discrimination against subjugated peoples continue to block struggles for popular democracy. Long term complex-antagonisms generated by the uneven histories of global capitalism, colonialism and imperialism, the imposed nation-state structure and regressive forms of nationalist identity politics have rendered meaningful dialogues within the region very difficult. At the same time, the globalization and regionalization of technology, economy, and cultural production, and the recent breakdown of the Cold War structure, have opened up a unique moment for dialogues within Asia and internationally.

http://www.inter-asia.org/journal/index.htm

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Countercurrents

An independent media website based in Kerala, India. "Countercurrents.org stands for all counter movements. Our sympathies are with all those who are engaged in struggles for economic, political, social, cultural, gender, environmental ..... justice. Our aim is to strengthen all these movements by spreading the information about their struggles, follow up and update the progress of the movements. Our conviction is that the driving force of social change is these small counter movements and struggles. In this era of media monopoly, internet offers to us an alternative channel of communication. We have to make use of this opportunity to the maximum for our global struggle. Through internet we can circulate news and events that the mainstream media ignores." - From the website.

http://www.countercurrents.org/

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Pyongyang Report

The objective of Pyongyang Report is to give a balanced insight into news about the Democratic Republic of North Korea. Its current and previous issues are collected on this website.

http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~caplabtb/dprk/pyr_index.html

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International Review for Environmental Strategies (IRES)

The International Review for Environmental Strategies (IRES) is a peer-reviewed biannual journal aimed at disseminating strategically oriented environmental research to the world. Its scope is global, although it gives priority to issues of special concern to the Asia-Pacific region. Guided by the principles of timeliness and accessibility, the journal publishes original, high-quality papers that take multidisciplinary, integrated approaches to sustainable development. In doing so, it seeks to promote and facilitate dialogue between stakeholders. The papers are evaluated, considering policy relevance, uniqueness, factual basis and methodology. The journal is published in English in order to reach a broad audience; however, papers are reviewed in terms of quality and utility, rather than for language proficiency.

http://www.iges.or.jp/en/pub/ires/ires.html

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Info Asia

Aotearoa New Zeland's one-stop resource for teachers, journalists, business people - anyone who wants to know more about Asia.

http://www.asia2000.org.nz/

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Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Fulltext Studies

The APEC database is an essential research resource for libraries maintaining a collection on current Asian affairs. The database consists of important studies APEC conducts on many facets of Asian economies - finance, trade, environment, human resources development, best practices in government, education and women's studies. It includes many industry specific APEC studies - Internet, technology, telecommunications, fisheries, and tourism to name a very few. All important content from the APEC studies is now available - including the fulltext, statistical tables, color graphs - even satellite photographs.

http://www.asia-studies.com/apec.html

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Eldis Country Profiles

Quick-links guide to country level information: news, statistics, organisations and sectoral information.

http://www.eldis.org/country/index.htm

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EurasiaNet

EurasiaNet provides information and analysis about political, economic, environmental and social developments in the countries of Central Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and Southwest Asia. The web site also offers additional features, including newsmaker interviews, book reviews and a discussion forum.

http://www.eurasianet.org

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One World

The full range of OneWorld content from its partner network, in 12 languages and organised by eight main topics (with 80 sub-topics) and by country/region... use as your library, resource or just browse.

http://www.oneworld.net/section/indepth

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Asia Pacific Viewpoint  pop

Aiming to continue the high standards of scholarship set by Pacific Viewpoint since 1960, Asia Pacific Viewpoint seeks to expand its scope and clarity by publishing papers which sit at the interface of three major areas: geography and allied disciplines, development, and the Asia Pacific Region. Visual work in the form of maps and other cartographic aids will be encouraged.

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journals/apv

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Asia-Pacific Population Journal

This refereed professional journal contains articles, papers and notes that cover a broad range of population issues of interest to readers in the Asian and Pacific region in a form that is relatively easy for educated readers to understand. As much as possible, priority is given to the publication of articles and papers written by authors from the region or familiar with it in order to give them a forum to present their findings on population and development which other journals might not accept because of authors' weakness in English or the publication's limited interest in Asia and the Pacific. This strategy also stimulates professional scholarship and improved technical reporting in ESCAP developing countries.

http://www.un.org/Depts/escap/pop/journal.htm

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Environment & Urbanization

This twice-yearly journal provides researchers, NGO staff and professionals in Africa, Asia and Latin America with the chance to write about their work, present their ideas and debate on issues. It promotes the work of French, Spanish and Portuguese-speaking authors by arranging for the translation of their work into English. It is one of the few journals on Africa, Asia and Latin America where a majority of the authors come from these regions. Now in its 13th year of publication, it is one of the most widely read and distributed journals in its field. Each issue has a special theme.

http://www.iied.org/human/eandu/eandu_submit.html

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The Irrawaddy Newsmagazine - Interactive Edition

The Irrawaddy, an independent news publication, raises awareness about Burma-related issues through unbiased reporting from a Burmese perspective.

http://www.irrawaddy.org

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DPRK - North Korea

This site is a contribution to the understanding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and to peace and reconciliation on the Korean peninsula via the provision of information from various viewpoints.

http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~caplabtb/dprk/

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Third World Quarterly

A leading journal of scholarship and policy in the field of international studies. Third World Quarterly examines the issues that affect the many Third Worlds. TWQ provides an alternative and over-arching reflective analysis of micro-economic and grass-root efforts of development practitioners and planners. TWQ links the academic terrains of the various contemporary area studies - Africa, Asia, Latin American and the Middle East.

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/01436597.html

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Finance for the Poor: The Quarterly Newsletter of Microfinance Activities in Asia and the Pacific

Interest in Microfinance is burgeoning as a result of success stories, a better understanding of how the poor use money and how their diverse needs for financial services can be met more effectively. ADB publishes a quarterly newsletter Finance for the Poor aimed at improving access to information about Microfinance.

http://www.adb.org/Documents/Periodicals/Microfinance/

(Added: 2000-12-04   Modified: 2006-06-29   Hits: 350)

Intersections: gender, history and culture in the Asian context

Intersections is a refereed electronic journal conceived as an interactive forum for new research and teaching in the area of Gender Studies in the Asian region. It stems from Murdoch University's School of Asian Studies. Placed at the junction of historical and contemporary concerns, Intersections emphasises the paramount importance of research into the region's multiple historical and cultural gender patterns-patterns which are crucial for the understanding of contemporary globalised societies.

http://wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au/intersections/

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Bytes for all

An online newsletter from South Asia.

http://www.bytesforall.org/

(Added: 1999-10-15   Modified: 2006-06-01   Hits: 139)

Asianow

A site that combines the former resources of Asian Edition of Time magazine, CNN International's Asia-Pacific site and Hong Kong based regional newsmagazine Asiaweek (all of which are part of US conglomerate Time Warner Inc.)

http://www.time.com/time/asia/

(Added: 1999-09-27   Modified: 2006-06-01   Hits: 185)

Asia Times Online

A daily publication covering the Asia-Pacific region with an emphasis on politics, economics and business. Articles include exclusive editorials and columns, as well as links to a wide range of other publications.

http://atimes.com/

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Online Center for Afghan Studies

These pages have been put together to promote a deeper and broader understanding of the Afghan realities from a mostly Afghan, but also non-Afghan point of view.

http://www.afghan-politics.org/

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Philippine European Solidarity Centre (PESC-KSP)

The PESC-KSP website has a growing number of articles of Philippine peoples organizations, NGOs and Overseas Filipino organizations. PESC-KSP is the secretariat of the Philippine Solidarity Network in Europe.

http://www.philsol.nl/

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India Development Information Network

Gateway to development information on India. Site includes databases on organisations, projects, documents and statistics

http://www.indev.org/

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Central Asia Studies World Wide: Resources for the Study of Central Asia

Central Asia Studies World Wide is meant to provide a global perspective on Central Asia studies, and to provide a key point of access to highly dispersed resources in this field.

http://cesww.fas.harvard.edu/

(Added: 1999-03-15   Modified: 2006-09-15   Hits: 242)

Library of Congress Country Studies/Area Handbooks Program

The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/

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