Afghanistan
- Afghanistan
- Official website
- Links to ministries, National Priority Sub-Programmes, and Constitution Commission
- Afghanistan
Online
- Gateway to English-language information about Afghanistan
- Several versioins of the Afghan constitution, biographies of key
players, and links to political parties
- Weather, plans, animals
- Culture, Islam, weather
- Afghanistan
Government Gazette
- Afghanistan
Law Guide (UMich Law Library)
- Guide to printed sources of historical and current Afghan
constitutions, subject compilations, and comprehensive legal sources
- Includes translations to various languages
- Afghanistan
Website "Relief Web"
- Latest updates
- Key documents
- Country profile
- Central
Statistical Office
- Embassy to the United States
- Consulate service and government
- Country information
- Reconstruction development projects
- Afghan News
Network
- Brief English-language news from international sources about
Afghanistan
- Daily since April 2000
- Supreme
Court
American Samoa (U.S. Territory)
Australia
- Australian Government
- Official entry point with keyword search engine
- Links to the various federal ministries as well as state governments
- Governor General of the Commonwealth of Austalia
- Prime
Minister
- Duties of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
- A Word from the PM includes statements on
public policy arranged by subject
- National symbols, Australian Constitution
- Historic Documents
- Parliament
- Includes House of Representative, Senate, Bills and Committees
- Constitution
- Text of Australian constitution
- Australian Government Information
(National Library of Australia)
- Links to national, state, and local web sites
- National and state laws and legislation; court decisions
- Guide to Australia
(Charles Sturt University)
- Federal, state, and territorial governments
- Constitution
- Social, economic, cultural, and travel information
- Bureau of Statistics
- Summary national and state information, daily press releases, and
catalog of publications
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Embassy to the United
States
- Description of the government, Constitution, electoral system, role of
the Queen
- Links to the federal, state, and local governments
- Permanent Mission to the United Nations
- Australian
Federation Debates of the 1890s (University of Sydney)
- Searchable text of debates and reports on the Australian Federation
- Text of 1900 Constitution
- Issue papers on various aspects of the decision
- John Curtin
Prime Minsterial Library
- Documents, letters and photographs, 1941-45
Bangladesh
- Bangladesh
- Basic directory information of government officials and political parties
- Includes President, Prime Minister, Cabinet, and constitution
- Election results
- Parliament
- Legislative branch of government
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Description of the country and its political system
- Foreign policy
- History and country profile
- Opportunities for foreign aid
- Permanent Mission
to the United Nations
- Speeches in the General Assembly beginning with the 51st Session
- Bangladesh Website
- Maintained by the Library of Congress
- Study of the country
Brunei
- Brunei
- Main government web site
- Press releases on current foreign relations issues
- Summary of history, culture, and economics
- National development plan
- Prime Minister
- Role of department and organization chart
- Links to agencies under the Prime Minister's purview,
including crime control
- Monarchy
- His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah
- Constitution
- Text of 1959 constitution in English
- Ministry of Communications
- Page-by-page guide to development plans, including ports and
communications
- Ministry of Foreign
Relations
- Guiding tenets of foreign policy
- Links to diplomatic missions
Cambodia
Translations
- AltaVista's
Babelfish
- Translates Chinese web pages (with subsequent links) and pasted text
to English
- Also translates English to Chinese
Search
Engines
- China Internet Infromation Center
- Yahoo-type arrangement of Chinese cultural, government, and business
material
- English interface
- Links to general international search engines rather than providing
its own
Chinese
Government Agencies
- Central Government of
China
- English language version of the Chinese government portal
- Links to government agencies on the web and news
- ChinaLaw (University
of Maryland)
- Text of existing law in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau arranged by subject
and translated into English
- Text of very recent law from local newspapers
- Judiciary
- Supreme Court and other reported cases
- Text in English
- Constitution
- Constitution adopted in 1982 with updates through 1993
- Text in English
- Chinese
Embassy (Washington, D.C.)
- Substantial information on Chinese foreign relations and
public policy issues (human rights, Taiwan, Hong Kong)
- Economic statistics, education information, and travel
- One China
Principle and the Taiwan Issue (Chinese Government)
- White paper by the Chinese government asserting Taiwan is part of China
- Urges U.S. government to only maintain non-governmental (e.g.
commercial and cultural relations with Taiwan)
- Issued on February 21, 2000
- Ministry of Commerce
- Text of Chinese foreign trade laws and regulations
- Bulletin board of sales opportunities and list of products for sale
- Basic import/export data
- National
Statistics
Bureau
- Monthly and quarterly data on general economic indicators
- Statistical standards
- May require Internet Explorer
- Government Online Project www.
About China
- Chinese
Biographical Database
- Indexes biographies of over 900 Chinese biographical figures
- Search engines by name, birth year, career, education, family,
positions, and historical events
- Includes government, military, and Communist Party figures as
well as cultural figures
- China Data
Center (UMich Only)
- Extensive socioeconomic and geographic data sets on China, its provinces,
counties, cities, and townships since 1997
- Includes 2000 Census plus provincial statistical yearbooks
- Numerous maps
- China Economic
Information Network
- Numerous economic indicators and business products information
- Initial screen in English; remainder of web site in Chinese
- Chinascape
- Government, law, military, and political web sites as available for
Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
- Cultural, news, travel, and business information
- China Statistics
(CIESIN)
- Regional and local agricultural, economic, health, natural resource
and population data for China's administrative regions and local areas
joined to Geographic Information Systems
- Most files available through file transfer protocol (ftp)
- Telnet interface to the 1% Public Use Microdata Samples of the
1982 Chinese Census
- Declassified U.S. Documents
- ISI Emerging Markets
(UMich Only)
- Macroeconomic statistics for China and economic forecasts
- Analysis of companies and industrial sectors
- Detailed import and export statistics by commodity and country
- Extensive list of Chinese laws in all subjects
- Text in English
- Joint Study of
the Sino-Japanese War, 1931-45
- Bibliography of overviews and archival sources
- Chinese, Japanese, and English
- Picturing
Power: Images of the Cultural Revolution (Indiana/Ohio
State)
- Chinese posters of the Cultural Revolution, 1963-79
- Includes translated text
- Selected
Works of Deng Xiaoping
- Excerpts of speeches, diaries, and orders, 1938-1992
- Text in English
- Tracking
the Dragon: National Intelligence Estimates on China During the Era of
Mao, 1948-1976
- Excerpts of 38 declassified CIA intelligence estimates on China
- Considerable data on China's military and economy
- Foreign policy toward the Soviet Union
- Additional full text documents are available on the CIA web
site at http://www.foia.cia.gov/nic_china_collection.asp
- See also China's 50th
Anniversary
News
Sources
- China
News
Digest
- English summary of news around the
world about China
- Issued on daily basis with
archives since 1995
- Search engine does not cover
entire archive but can be
useful
- Foreign
Broadcast Information Service, 1975-96 (UMich only)
- Indexes foreign radio broadcasts and newswires translated into English
- Approach by keyword, title, subject, and region
- Once the translations are identified, you can find the text in the
Serials/Microforms Room
- The call number for China is Micro-F X208
- Inside China Today
- News, business, culture, and travel information
- News service archived to December 1, 1996
- World News Connection (UMich only)
- Text of foreign radio broadcasts and newswires translated into English
since November 1994
- Searchable by keyword, date, and region
- Translations from countries with a U.S. trade embargo (e.g. Iran,
Iraq, Sudan and Libya) were removed beginning October 1999
- Replaces the Foreign Broadcast Information
Service
beginning in 1996
- South China Morning
Post
- Daily English-language newspaper published in Hong Kong
- Most of website requires password
- Newspaper archived since July 28, 1992 on Academic Universe (UMich
Only) under News/Major Newspapers
- Xinhua
News Agency
- Official newswire service of the Chinese government
- Daily news in English on politics, economics, business, and culture
- Archived since 1977 on Academic Universe (UMich
Only) under News/Wire Services
East Timor
Fiji
French Polynesia
(French Territory)
Guam (U.S. Territory)
Hong Kong (China Special Administrative Region)
- Government Information Center
- Links to government agencies, services, and news
- Office of the Chief Executive
- Policy address, speeches, statements, press releases, and biography
- Text in English
- Legislative
- Legislative Council of Hong Kong
- Bilingual Laws
Information System
- Text of Hong Kong letters patent, standing orders of the Legislative
Council
- Sino-British Joint Declaration, Basic Law of Hong Kong, Chinese laws
applying to Hong Kong
- Separate files for laws before and after transfer of power from
Britain to China
- English and Chinese
- Census
and Statistics Department
- Basic population, labor, trade, and business data in HTML or Excel format
- Hong Kong in Figures and press releases
- Some time series beginning 1992
- English and Chinese
- Hong Kong Directory
- Includes business, economy, culture, government, and education
India
- Government of
India "GOI Directory"
- Links to businesses, discussion groups, and news digests
- President
- Prime Minister
- India
Parliament
- Description of the Parliament
- Full text of Parliamentary debates beginning November 27, 1995
- English and Hindi
- Directory of national and state government agencies with internet
sites
- The printed Lok Sabha (House of the People) debates are available in Buhr,
1952-98 and the Graduate
Library, 1999+ (J 500 .K25); the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) debates
in Buhr, 1961-79 and Graduate Library, 1980+ (J 500 .J23)
- Judiciary
- India
Code
- Text of Indian laws in force
- Searchable by keyword, year, and law number
- India Embassy to
the United States
- Foreign policy issues and news
- Links to the Indian President and Cabinet
- Election statistics since 1952 as well as current election information
- Search engine
- India
Ministry of External Affairs
- Economic statistics, social policy, and trade policy
- Describes foreign policy by country but not overall policy
- India Ministry of
Finance
- Highlights and press releases about the current national budget
- Review of the national economy for the previous year
- India Network Foundation
- SAMACHAR provides links to Indian newspapers
- A Research Resources section has links to
census and other data about the Indian states
- Census of
India
- Brief national data from the 1991 Census on population, economics and
religion
- Updated population data and vital statistics for the Indian states
- Catalog of 1991 Census data in paper and electronic format
- Population clock and plans for the 2001 Census
- IndiaStat
(UMich Only)
- Demographic, economic, weather, and environmental statistics beginning at
various years but essentially the 1990s
- National data with some state and city material
- Jain
Commission Report
- Report on the assassination of Shri Rajiv Gandhi, former
prime minister, on May 21, 1991
- Permanent Mission
to the United Nations
- Description of India and basic statistics
- Reserve Bank of India
- India Website
- Library of Congres "Portals to the World"
Indonesia
Japan
- Prime
Minister
- List of all Japanese government web servers
- Speeches of the Prime Minister
- Legislative
- Judiciary
- Constitution
- Text of 1946 constitution in English
- Bank of Japan
- Economic statistics and foreign exchange rates
- Text in English
- Summary of Bills
- Embassy to the United States
- Profile of Japanese government organization
- Speeches of the ambassador
- Links to cabinet agencies
- Little foreign policy information
- Government Publications
- Japanese Statistics Bureau
- Japanese and English
- Press releases of monthly economic indicators (prices, labor force, population estimates
- Japan In Figures covers social, economic, government finance, and environmental data
- Japan Statistical Yearbook (PDF)
- Links to Japanese Law (Tohoku U.)
- Text in English and Japanese
- Law journals
- Law schools
- E-GOV
- Statutes and regulations database
- Links to prefecture ministries
- Text in Japanese
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Extensive information on Japanese foreign policy, speeches, bluebooks
- Foreign embassy information
- Text in English
- Ministry of International Trade and Industry
- Current Japanese trade and economic policy
- Detailed statistics on industrial production and
business conditions
- Permanent
Mission to the United Nations (New York)
- Speeches by subject before the General Assembly and Security Council
since 1997
- Text in English
- AltaVista's
Babelfish
- Translates Japanese web pages (with subsequent links) and pasted text
to English
- Also translates English to Japanese
- Japan Website
- Study of the country
- Maintained by the Library of Congress
Historic
Documents
Kazakhstan
- Official Kazakhstan
- History of country, geography, economic development information
- Tourism as well as a list of cultural and archaeological sites
- Constitution and structure of government
- Constitution
- 1995 constitution in English
- Permanent Mission to
the United Nations
- Speeches of the UN Ambassador, President, and Foreign Minister since 1997
- Description of country and list of government officials
- UN resolutions about Kazakhstan
- Kazakhstan Website
- Library of Congress "Portals to the World"
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Macau
(China Special Administrative Region)
Malaysia
Maldives
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Mongolia
Myanmar (Burma)
Nepal
New Zealand
Niue
North Korea
- Official Homepage
- Searchable text in English and Korean
- AltaVista's
Babelfish
- Translates Korea web pages (with subsequent links) and pasted text
to English
- Also translates English to Korean
- Korean History
Project
- History of North and South Korea from prehistory to present
- Description of both governments, travel, weather, time
- North Korea
- Daily news from the Korea Central News Agency beginning December 2, 1996
- News represents opinions of Kim Jong II and North Korean foreign
policy
- People's Korea
- English-language web site with North Korea policies
- Includes military affairs, economics, and foreign relations with the
U.S. and
South Korea
- Most documents dated 2000+
- Socialist
Constitution
Northern Mariana (U.S. Territory)
Pakistan
Papua-New Guinea
Philippines
- Official Government Portal of the Republic of the Phillipines
- Government
Agencies
- Links to the President, Cabinet, Senate, court system, and individual
executive branch agencies
- President
- Current decrees, laws, and legislation
- House of
Representatives
- Description of the legislative process
- House members and committee assignments
- Future legislative calendars
- Constitution and court rules
- Decisions since August 1999 under the heading
Jurisprudence
- Supreme
Court
- Constitutions
- Text of four constitutions, 1899-1987, in English
- Department of Finance
- Department of Foreign
Affairs
- Speeches and press releases
- Organization of the department
- Consular services and links to missions abroad
- National
Statistical Coordination Board
- Statistical tables cover population, vital statistics, education,
national accounts, labor, poverty, and transportation
- Describes various government surveys, frequency, dissemination, and
agencies responsible
- Includes description of various classification systems
-
National Statistical Office
- Press releases and summaries of population, manufacturing,
and trade data
- Catalog of printed publications
- Permanent
Mission to the United Nations
- Philippines Website
- Library of Congress "Portals to the World"
Samoa
- Formerly known as Western Samoa
- Government of Samoa
- Includes Prime Minister, Cabinet, Ministries, Government Corporations, and Overseas operations
- Judiciary
- Constitution
Text of 1960 constitution in English
- Government Website
- Includes executive, legislative, and judicial branches
- Samoa Website
- Llibrary of Congress "Portals to the World"
Singapore
Solomon Islands
South Korea
- AltaVista's
Babelfish
- Translates Korea web pages (with subsequent links) and pasted text
to English
- Also translates English to Korean
- Executive
- National Assembly
- Members, powers, and procedures
- Korean and English
- Judiciary
- Constitution
- Text of 1987 constitution in English
- City of
Seoul
- City government, description, arts, culture, recreation,
transportation, and travel information
- Links to national government web pages and those of sister cities
- English and Korean
- Korean History
Project
- History of North and South Korea from prehistory to present
- Description of both governments, travel, weather, time
- National
Statistical Office
- Permanent Mission
to the United Nations
- Samsung
Economic Research Institute
- National accounts, money supply, employment and social indicators
annually for South Korea since the 1950s
- Comparative data for Asia countries, the U.S., U.K. and Germany since
1980
- South Korea Ministry of Information and
Communications
- White paper, laws, and reports on information and telecommunications
policy
- Korea.net
- Information on government, culture, and news
Sri Lanka
- Sri Lanka Government Web Portal
- Links to President, Prime Minister, and Parliament
- Includes information on government agencies and ministries
- Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
- Foreign policy statements since 1998 and current press
releases
- Text in English
- Central
Bank
- Socioeconomic data since 1990 (employment, births, etc)
- Current weekly and monthly economic indicators (prices, interest
rates)
- Sri Lanka Website
- Library of Congress "Portals to the World"
Taiwan (Republic of China)
- Government Information Office
- Includes links to government
- News publications
- Taiwan Journal and Taiwan Review
- Taiwan Provincial Government
- President
- Text in English and Chinese
- National Assembly
- Judiciary
- The Judicial Yuan of the Republic of China
- Includes reforms, justices, laws, and regulations
- Constitution
of 1994
- Central Bank of China
- Directorate
General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics
- Economic and labor statistics updated monthly
- Economic and social data can also be found in a searchable database
and in the current version of the Taiwan Statistical Abstract
- Central government budget information
- Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
- Foreign policy statements by subject
- Chinese and English
- Primary Documents
- Formosa:
Nineteenth Century Images (Reed College)
- Maps, images, digitized books and articles, and a timeline of Formosa
(Taiwan) in the 19th Century
- Madame
Chiang Kai-Shek's Speech to Senate
- Brief speech to Senate of the United States on February 18, 1943
- Scanned from Congressional Record into jpg format
- Taiwanese Nuclear
Intentions, 1966-76 (National Security Archives)
- Short report outlines U.S. attempts to discourage Taiwan from
developing nuclear capability and Taiwan's continuing interest in doing
- About 30 declassified U.S. documents on the situation in gif format
- Bibliography of additional sources
- Taiwan Documents
Project
- Historic treaties beginning 1662 on Taiwan's legal status
- Full text includes Japanese surrender documents at the end of World
War II, United Nations declarations, and statements by the Presbyterian
Church in Taiwan
- Taiwan Website
- Library of Congress "Portals to the World"
Tajikistan
Thailand
Tibet
- The Government of Tibet in Exile
- Links to government, the country's status, and news
- Constitution
- Text in English
- 1991 version
- Tibet Information
Network
- Reports on Tibetan education, economics, religion, policies, and
leaders
- News stories
- Tibet File provides maps of counties and
names transliteration; population by city and ethnic origin; links to
Chinese and Tibetan-related web sites
Tonga
Turkmenistan
- Embassy to the
United States
- Description of political, social, and cultural situation
- Biographies of officials and press releases of political speeches
- Business and travel information
- Turkmenistan Website
- Library of Congress "Portals to the World"
Tuvalu
Uzbekistan
- Government
- Portal of the State Authority
- Includes president, courts, administration, and statistics
- Embassy to the
United States
- Press releases since 1997
- Some foreign policy statements
- Tourism and visa regulations
- Cyber Uzbekistan
- Business and travel news
- Brief political and embassy information
Vanuatu
Vietnam
Related Web
Sites
- Asia in the World
Economy
- Annotated regional and country links
- Subjects include business, economy, government, the press, and
society
- Asia Library
(University of Michigan)
- First multilingual web site in North America with Chinese, Japanese,
Korean, and English text
- Current on-line news in all languages, reference tools and
dictionaries,
and economic data
- Asia Now
(CNN)
- Asian counterpart of CNN web site in the United States
- Daily political, cultural, business and sports news
- Links to Asia Week, a Time equivalent
- Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation
- Organization of Pacific Rim nations promoting business development
- News releases and the full text of major publications
- Member nation profiles include brief descriptive information and
extensive links to economic and business web sites
- Asia-Pacific Network
(MSU)
- Links to area studies web sites, journals, newspapers, and film
collections on Asian studies
- Includes discussion of academic teaching materials
- Asian
Governments on the Web (Gunnar Anzinger)
- Comprehensive and updated list of government agencies and embassies
- Tabular index by country indicates number of entries and
last update
- Asia
Society
- American based organization for promoting good relations with Asia
- Annotated links to the best web sites of Asian arts, education,
population, culture, economics and government
- Asia Source
- Reprints English-language articles on Asian countries for the current
week
- Special reports on issues
- Demographic, social, economic, and military data for individual
countries with an alternative comparative approach
- Asian Studies
Virtual Library
- Most comprehensive Internet source for culture, politics, economics,
geography, news, and archaeology of Asian countries
- Inclusion of official government web sites varies
- Scope includes Asian continent, Caucasus, Middle East, and the
Pacific
- Asian
Studies WWW VL Search Engine
- Keyword search of web sites in individual Asian countries
- Association of
South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
- Speeches and documents of the ASEAN summits
- Economic agreements, foreign policy and regional cooperation
- Foreign trade statistics beginning 1993
- Official web sites of ASEAN members
- Bibliography
of Asian Studies (UMich Only)
- Index to journal articles and monographs on Asian culture, economics,
and politics since 1971
- Searchable and browsable by subject, country, and journal title
- Once titles identifed, search MIRLYN-Web
for call number of text
- Camena Country Profiles
(IFC)
- Economic and social indicators for countries in the Middle East,
North Africa, and Central Asia
- Includes GDP and GNP, poverty rates, illiteracy, and child
malnutrition
- Central
Asian Studies World Wide
- Contains a wide range of information relevant to the study of Central
Asia, ranging from recent dissertations to links to disscusion lists about
Central Asia
- Central
Asian and Caucasian Studies
- Separate pages country guides to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan,
Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekisan
- When possible, links to each country include the main government web sites,
national libraries or their addresses, and
main newspapers
- Other resources may include dictionaries, culture, travel, architecture, city
web sites
- Created by Janet Crayne at the University of Michigan
- Central
Eurasia Project
- Profiles of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan
- Country sections include background, travel, economic, environmental,
demographic and political information
- Central Eurasian Elections includes the latest election news,
political party information, and links to related sources
- Commonwealth of
Nations
- Background on British Commonwealth countries
- History, geography, social, economic, and statisticial
information
- Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN)
- Summary statistical data for each country
- Includes demographics,
vital statistics, protein consumption, government finance, landuse,
employment, transportation, literacy
- ASCII and LOTUS formats
- Eurasia
Research Center
- Geographic coverage: Russia and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Middle
East, Central and South Asia
- Links to country home pages (some produced outside the country) and
news sources, including the Clarinet News
- Links to international and human rights organizations with interests
in the area
- Middle
East/North Africa Resource Guide
- Comprehensive guide to internet resources for the Middle East,
North Africa, Central Asia, and Pakistan
- Resources arranged by country and by academic discipline
(anthropology, economics, history, religion, sociology)
- Links include country home pages, discussion lists, and homepages of
foreign students residing in the U.S.
- National Bureau of Asian
Research
- Scholarly articles and analyses on Asian culture, politics, and economics
- Extensive data base of Asian specialists, searchable by country and
discipline
- Links to Asian research organizations
- Oceanian
Governments on the Web (Gunnar Anzinger)
- Lists web sites of national institutions and embassies
- Table by country gives number of entries and date last updated
- Pacific Regional
Information System (SPC)
- Extensive comparative tables of economic, social, demographic, and
weather data from the individual South Pacific islands
- Links to their corresponding national data web sites
- Coordinated by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community
- PacLII: Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (U. of the South Pacific)
- compilation of laws and court cases from the pacific region
- Southeast Asia Division (UMich)
- Comprehensive links to Southeast Asian government and non-government
web sites and news sources
- World
Area Studies
- Extensive list of area studies web sites for each region of
the world
- Multidisciplinary with links to history resources as well as
culture, politics, and sociology
- Cites sources which may be difficult to find elsewhere
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