The Asia Foundation (http://www.asiafoundation.org/)
The Asia Foundation, based in San Francisco, is a private non-profit, non-governmental
organization working to promote the mutual interests of the USA and the countries
of Asia and the Asia Pacific region. The website contains perspective papers
and project reports on the countries where the Asia Foundation is active.
Asia Pacific Research Network (http://www.aprnet.org/)
Network of research NGOs in the region aiming at exchanging information on international
issues, technologies, and methods in research. Also provides newsletters and
publications.
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) (http://www.aasianst.org/)
The AAS is the largest society of its kind in the world. It is a scholarly, non-political,
non-profit professional association open to all persons interested in Asia. It
seeks through publications, meetings, and seminars to facilitate contact and
an exchange of information among scholars to increase their understanding of
East, South, and Southeast Asia. Its members include scholars, business people,
diplomats, and journalists.
Development
Gateway Country Overview (http://www.developmentgateway.org/countryprofile/intermediary)
"The Development Gateway helps communities, organizations, and individuals
build partnerships, share ideas, and work together to reduce poverty." Search
by development projects as well as by country to identify additional web sites
and documents.
Directory of development organizations (http://www.devdir.org/)
"The Directory is a compilation of contact data of the main sources of assistance
available for private sector development (micro, small an medium-sized enterprises)
and poverty reduction. A wide range of organizations is included in the Directory:
international organizations, government ministries, private sector institutions,
development agencies, universities, research and training institutes, NGOs/PDOs,
grantmakers, banks, microfinance institutions, and development consulting firms." Searchable
by keyword.
Gospel for Asia Radio Broadcasts the Word
of Christ to the Most Unreached in
Asia (http://www.gfaradio.org/)
Site that produces and airs Christian ministry radio broadcasts in many Asian
languages using air time purchased from other radio ministries.
H-Asia Discussion Network (http://www.h-net.org/%7Easia/)
H-Asia Discussion Network is a member of H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences.
The primary purpose of H-ASIA is to enable historians and other scholars of Asia
to easily communicate their current research. The site includes recent reviews
published and recent messages posted by H-Asia.
International Committee of the Red Cross (http://www.icrc.org/eng=+url)
A search of this English language version of the ICRC site provides reports on
the current humanitarian initiatives of this organization in any given country.
Radio Free Asia (http://www.rfa.org/front/)
Radio Free Asia website broadcasts materials in several different languages including:
Mandarin, Tibetan, Cantonese, Uyghur, Burmese, Vietnamese, Lao, Khmer and Korean.
U.S. Committee for Refugees (http://www.refugees.org/index.cfm)
Founded in 1958 to complement the UN's initiative to aid refugees, the USCR's
site offers brief and detailed reports on refugee status in and from the various
countries of the world.
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