NEWS ONLINE

CONTENTS:

• AllAfrica.com
• Samacher: The Bookmark for the Global Indian
• Latin America Data Base

ALLAFRICA.COM

AllAfrica.com, part of AllAfrica Global Media, aggregates news from all of Africa. It posts over 800 stories daily in English and French, maintains over 750,000 articles dating from 1997 in its searchable archive, and has content agreements with over 100 African news organizations.

Visit the home page for scrolling headlines on the day´s developments. Top News features news from across the continent and is grouped by date. On the day of the review, there were 875 Top News stories, with 25 stories huddled on each page.

Latest News includes all the stories posted to the Web site. Like Top News, it is arranged by date and sorted into groups of 25 stories. Selecting Latest News uncovered over 2,500 stories.

Another way to find news is to use the drop-down menus for Regions/Countries and Topic, or go to the Topics menu on the left side of the page. Still can't find that perfect story on your prospect? Use the search engine at the top of each page to query its archives of more than 300,000 articles.

Available in French and English, AllAfrica.com is a key news source.

http://allafrica.com/

SAMACHER: THE BOOKMARK FOR THE GLOBAL INDIAN

The Samacher home page, once you scroll by the ads, focuses on the National News throughout India. Stories are arranged by news source, such as Sify News, Indian Express, Deccan Herald and so on. Click on the headline to read the whole story or click through to the news source itself. At the top of the Samacher home page, go to Asian News for more from the region.

http://www.samachar.com/newsasia/

The news is arranged by country or region within Asia, such as Pakistan, South Asia, Dubai, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand and Indonesia. Here you'll find more than the usual sources like CNN and the BBC. Pull the news from local sources: Dawn, thestar.com, the Bangkok Post, the Manila Bulletin and many others. Find more news in Sports, Business, Religion and the like.

The Asian News Feature maintains an archive back to February 2004. There are links to additional resources and more news under headings for specific countries, including Afghanistan, Bhutan & Brunei, Maldives, Mongolia, Sri Lanka and Vietnam.

http://www.samachar.com/

LATIN AMERICA DATA BASE

The Latin America Data Base (LADB) is the first Internet news service in English to cover Latin America. Available since 1986, the LADB publishes three weekly electronic news bulletins about Mexico (SourceMex), Central America and the Caribbean including Cuba (NotiCen) and South America (NotiSur).

The searchable archives of over 24,000 articles dates back to its inception in 1986. Updated weekly, the archive search is free but access is by subscription only. Capabilities allow queries by article, text or both, within select news sources and limited by date. Also, its Economic Journals can be searched in a similar manner.

http://ladb.unm.edu/econ/search

Similarly, you can read the headlines of the news bulletins, but you must subscribe to access the full-text articles published online every Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

http://ladb.unm.edu/

Pamela J. Smith

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