Internet Prospector

ASIAN RESOURCES

Last Update: January 6, 1999

CONTENTS

Asia Regional

AsiaGateway
Asia, Inc. Online
Asia Society
Nikkei Net
South Asian Internet Resources
Timesnet Asia (Far East news stories by country)
Women-Connect-Asia
World Trade Data Base

China

China On-Web
China Vista
The Chinese Web
Finding News About China
Great China Telecom
NCSU-TSA China Sites
Page for Chinese
World Chinese Business Network (WCBN)

India

India Network World Wide Web
Web India

Japan

Gateway to Japan

Korea

Korea Directory

Thailand

Thailand, The Big Picture
The Royal Thai Embassy in Washington, D.C.

ASIA

ASIAGATEWAY
Internet Prospector, December '98
AsiaGateway has collected news and information pages for
22 Asian countries. Click on a country and check out its
currency rates and news headline links. Scroll down the
page to reach links to business directories, lifestyle and
other pages relating to that country. The collection of
news stories on AsiaGateway's Frontpage (the homepage) is
impressive.
http://www.asiagateway.com/

ASIA, INC. ONLINE
Internet Prospector, December '96
Asia, Inc.'s mission is "to tell the extraordinary story of Asia's top executives and their enterprises in their own words and images, and to serve in this manner as the voice of Asian business as it prepares for the Pacific Century." The magazine is billed as Asia's leading business monthly and the online version offers many of the print version's features. This site includes links to past issues, financial news and an Asia Internet Directory.
http://www.asia-inc.com/

THE ASIA SOCIETY
Internet Prospector, July '97
The Asia Society and its supporters have created a quick and easy-to-use web site. It offers educational and cultural programs, an events calendar, information and news plus a gateway to Asia. Walk through the Gateway to Live From Asia; clicking on the bicycle starts you on a trek across Asia. Jump to "For Educators" for professional development as well as grant and funding information. For fun and great resources, turn to:
http://www.askasia.org

NIKKEI NET: ASIA MARKET TURMOIL
Internet Prospector, April '98
Nikkei Net, a Japanese business information service which publishes The Nikkei Weekly business newspaper, established a special feature to take the pulse of the Asian economic crisis. Brief news stories on this subject and on bank failures with the Bank-Brokerage Failures feature may be of special interest to researchers. The Asia Market Turmoil is hotlinked on the front page of the site or go directly to it at
http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/

Nikkei Net's other gems include an annual list of company rankings, links to company Web sites and a special Hit List, the "best" business Web sites from the Asia Pacific area. Use Nikkei Net's search engine to find companies by name, industry category or by keyword. And finally, Nikkei Net's Asia Newstand has links to online news throughout the region including business news services in Australia, Hong Kong, India, Sri Lanka, Korea, Thailand, Japan and other countries.
http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/enews/

SOUTH ASIAN INTERNET RESOURCES
Internet Prospector, July '97
From the Arts to Business to News to Travel, this site provides searchable links to directories, stock exchanges, banks and more for India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal.
http://www.samilan.com/framesbu.html

Or search the host's Canadian business directory at
http://www.samilan.com/bus.html

TIMESNET ASIA
Internet Prospector, July '96
Headline news, archived news stories, key industry news and other feature stories for Asia are presented by Far East Trade Press and Times Information System Ltd. This site includes a feature called Newsmap: click on a country to go to relevant stories from that area of the world. Other categories are linked to a variety of publications, providing economic, banking, corporate, technology news and more.
http://web3.asia1.com.sg/timesnet/fetpindx.html

WOMEN-CONNECT-ASIA
Internet Prospector, July '98
With a goal of creating a network of resources for women living and working in Asia, this site features events, women-owned businesses and, best of all, Women to Watch in Asia. Check the Organizations section to find other links to women in Asia such as ARROW, the Asian Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women. Women-Connect-Asia is a relatively new site so watch it grow.
http://www.women-connect-asia.com/

WORLD TRADE DATA BASE
A resource for companies doing business in Asia, this web site has links to over 4,000 foreign trade companies, Chinese government offices, over 400 China offices of U.S. companies and more. The business directory is divided into resources in Mainland China or in Taiwan and further organized by type of business including computer firms, law firms, and foreign trade companies.
http://www.wtdb.com/

CHINA

CHINA-ON-WEB
Internet Prospector, January '97
The Torch Program promotes development of technology business in China. This site provides links to a few technology companies in China as well as cultural, investment and other information. The China Hope Project, a literacy effort for the 200 million Chinese who cannot read, is also outlined at this site.
http://china-on-web.com/

CHINA VISTA
Internet Prospector, December '96
Hyper-C powers this site and "uses an intuitive, frames-based interface to provide one stop access to anything...." related to China. Business Vistas links you to Chinese sites across the Web and City Vista gives you all the information you will need about locations in China. Travel Vista and Culture Vista are also accessed here.
http://www.chinavista.com/

THE CHINESE WEB
Internet Prospector, January '97
The Taipei Economic and Cultural Office (TECO) in New York established this link to Republic of China (R.O.C.) government sites and other information about China.
http://www.taipei.org

The R.O.C. government information office can be accessed at
http://www.gio.gov.tw/

CHINESE WEB DIRECTORY INDEX
Internet Prospector, May '96
Danny Yu created this site which has a news and media section with links to sites in English (use item #8 to link to CNS which has free and fee-based news in English).
http://www.lynx.bc.ca/~satotech/cwebdir/china.html

FINDING NEWS ABOUT CHINA
Internet Prospector, May '96
James Miles' created an annotated index with &quotlinks to sources of political, social and economic news about mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Tibet" that includes links to radio sites. A great place to start. Some of the sites that have text in English are The Canton Daily, CND-Global, Singapore's Business Times (at AsiaOne; searchable archives; some fee-based), (China News Digest; which is down sometimes; searchable archives), Taiwan's Central News Agency, Taiwan Headline News (SinaNet with back issues), etc.
http://freenet.buffalo.edu/~cb863/china.html/

GREAT CHINA TELECOM
Internet Prospector, December '96
Access Hong Kong yellow pages at
http://www.great-china.net/yellow/

And access China yellow pages at
http://www.great-china.net/yellow/cindex.html

NCSU-TSA CHINA SITES
Internet Prospector, January '97
The Taiwanese Student Association at North Carolina State University built hotlinks to Taiwan-related sites with this Web page. Categories include culture, news and other Chinese Web resources. Find Sinanet, CNA Today and China Times in the news section. R.O.C. Online, China Web and the TECO page are also hotlinked at this comprehensive site.

http://152.1.1.230/eos/project/tsa/htdoc/taiwan.html

A PAGE FOR CHINESE
Internet Prospector, May '96
Kevin Tu's Page for Chinese has over 172 hyper-links. Some of the news/business sites are duplicated in these two sites. Some links in English include Asia Inc.; a HongKong business magazine site that is searchable; links to Asian Internet Resources).
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/1250/index2.html

WORLD CHINESE BUSINESS NETWORK (WCBN)
Internet Prospector, September '96
The WCBN was established in 1995 and gives users access to the organization's 33,000 records of Chinese business, trade organizations and chambers of commerce throughout the world. The search feature has an alpha sort, a sort by country or region and a spider that permits searches by company name and by the name of the individual you wish to find. There is also a link to stock exchanges throughout the world at this site under "Other Resources."
http://wcbn.com.sg/frame-en.htm

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INDIA

INDIA NETWORK WORLD WIDE WEB
Perhaps the first hurdle in international fund raising is language followed closely by culture and cultural values. Fortunately for prospect researchers in the Internet Age, the global network or networks now gives us windows into other lands and cultures. One good example is the India Network World Wide Web. Maintained by Dr. K.V. Rao at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, the India Network serves about 30,000 members worldwide. At the India Web you will find:

Research Resources About India: this directory includes Major News Headlines, Clickable Image Map of India, information on specific Indian states, the CIA FactBook Info on India, as well as tourist information and links to other resources about this country.
Info on India Business Services: contains data on Software Technology Parks in India and Internet Connectivity.

Other features include a gopher link to Embassy of India and a hyperlink to VARIOUS FORUMS, which contains the:

Such diversity and strength in discussion lists makes this a rare international resource.
http://india.bgsu.edu/

WEB INDIA
Find hot links to the world of commerce in India at this site. Web India includes a business directory of India, Indian Services directory and an international business directory. The Indian business directory is organized by industry but there are plans to create directories organized by region and by company size in the future. There is even a small section entitled Non-Profit Information & Organizations.
http://www.webindia.com/

JAPAN

GATEWAY TO JAPAN
This mother lode of Japanese corporations on the Internet should satisfy and bemuse even the most yen-hungry among you. In fact, this is such a rich vein that the IP could legitimately devote the next three issues to just these Japanese companies or US firms in Nihon. So rather than dribble information out, here is a selected list of the companies, and the gateway address. The site supports both English and Japanese.

Japanese Corporations

KOREA

KOREA DIRECTORY
This site includes hot links to a Korean business directory, government home pages, news pages, university sites and more. 'More' includes a an opportunity to learn Korean, or just pick up a few phrases useful to cyber as well as actual travelers such as O-tto-shim-ni-kka?(How are you?)
http://www.oomph.net/cgi-bin/oomph/

THAILAND

THAILAND, THE BIG PICTURE
Internet Prospector, December '98
Welcome to "a complete guide to Thailand," a meta-site
created through an academic project by the National
Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC) and
designed to provide a central location to Thai Internet
sites. You will find links to a Thai business telephone
directory, associations, government sites and more. Go to
the Government page and follow the link to the Thai
Securities and Exchange Commission, where you'll find a link
to The Stock Exchange of Thailand or go directly to
http://www.set.or.th
This page has links to companies that are publicly traded on
the Exchange. Company profiles include a description of the
business, contact information and news. By clicking on the
stock symbol, you will get a 30-day stock price report.
http://www.nectec.or.th/

THE ROYAL THAI EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
Internet Prospector, December '98
Use this site to find general information about Thailand and
the monarchy and to link to other Thai sites. Visit the
Press Center for biographies on the ambassador, the prime
minister, cabinet members and others.
http://www.thaiembdc.org/index.htm

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