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http://www.asiaportal.info/
The AsiaPortal is a Nordic information portal for researchers, students, government officers and journalists with an interest in Asia. Its content is primarily based in the Social Sciences and Humanities. It is a collaborative endeavor between the 23 universities and research institutions in the Nordic NIAS Council and NIAS/NIAS LINC.

http://europa.eu.int/comm/external_relations/asem/intro/ 
ASEM, the Asia-Europe Meeting is an informal process of dialogue and cooperation bringing together the fifteen EU Member States and the European Commission, with ten Asian countries (Brunei, China, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam). 

http://www.aseansec.org/
ASEAN, official homepage of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations -organization. Economic and business information as well as historical.

http://www.asef.org
ASEF, the Asia-Europe Foundation seeks to promote better mutual understanding between the peoples of Asia and Europe through greater intellectual, cultural and people-to-people exchanges between the two regions.
ASEF's activities are ranging over conventions, symposiums, seminars, public lectures, youth camps, art competitions, performances, exhibitions, and other promotions. 

http://www.adb.org/
ADP, Asian Development Bank, is a multilateral development finance institution, which has its headquarters in Manila with 22 other offices around the world. 

 

Newspapers, Magazines and Journals

http://www.actualidad.com/asia.html
Extensive list of links to the newspapers published in Asian countries e.g. in China, Japan, Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Malaysia, Vietnam, South-Korea, Mongolia, Myanmar etc.

www.feer.com
Far Eastern Economic Review is a Hong Kong-based weekly magazine, focusing on economics and societal issues. 

www.economist.com

Japan Focus 
Japan Focus presents writings about Japan, Japan in Asia and the world, as well as Japanese and international perspectives on contemporary Japanese politics, economics and society. It offers translations from Japanese and Japan Focus originals.

Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies
Journal in the social sciences that is dedicated to publishing academic research and scholarly writing on all issues related to contemporary Japanese society, economy, politics, and culture.

 

Databases

http://escholarship.cdlib.org/ucpress/subjects_public.html
The University of California Press provides a free database of nearly 400 online 
book editions. The book titles cover areas such as Asian Studies, Asian History,
Asian Literature, China, Japan etc.

http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/
East & Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
Annotated directory of resources for the political units of East Asia and 
Southeast AsiaAsian Americans, and current hot topics such as the North 
Korean nuclear crisis and the Avian Flu epidemic. Grouped by country and 
by political, social, cultural and economic categories. 

Suomi-Kiina -Seura ry:n listaamaa käännöskirjallisuutta kiinasta suomeen ja suomesta kiinaan

 

Associations and Institutions Focusing in Asian Studies

http://www.nacsorg.com/
NACS, Nordic Association for China Studies is an academic network for Nordic scholars, teachers and students specialising in China Studies with focus on humanities and social sciences. NACS has its own mailing list and it organises a seminar every two years.Next conferenece will be take place in Stockholm in 2007.

http://www.najs.jp/
NAJS, Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Society, was formed in 2002, with the aim to encourage Japanese studies in the Nordic countries. NAJS organises an annual spring conference.

http://www.najaks.org/
NAJAKS, Nordic Association for Japanese and Korean Studies focuses on Japan and Korea within the frameworks of the humanities and social sciences. As its main activity, NAJAKS has organised Nordic conferences. Its latest conference was held in 2004 in Sweden.

ttp://nias.ku.dk
NIAS, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, located in Copenhagen, Denmark, provides two-week long scholarships for students and scholars working on Asia-related projects (e.g. Master’s thesis). For more on the scholarships, see NIAS web site.

http://www.iias.nl/
IIAS, International Institute for Asian Studies is a research institute based in Leiden and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The geographical scope of the institute covers South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Central Asia. The IIAS focuses on the humanities and the social sciences, and organizes seminars, workshops, and conferences, plus publishes its own newsletter. 

http://www.aasianst.org/
AAS, Association for Asian Studies, Michigan, is an extensive Asian Studies related society, which  publishes, among other things, a quarterly titled The Journal of Asian Studies. 

http://www.iseas.edu.sg/
ISEAS, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore

http://www.soas.ac.uk/eacs/home.html
EACS, European Association of Chinese Studies organizes its next conference in Ljubljana in in the summer of 2006. 

http://www.eajs.org/ 
EAJS, European Association for Japanese Studies

http://www.akse.uni-kiel.de/ 
AKSE, Association for Korean Studies in Europe, is a scholarly society for Korean studies in Europe. 

http://www.euroseas.org/
European Association for Southeast Asian Studies 

ttp://www.lu.se/nc
The University of Helsinki is one of the member universities of the Nordic Centre at Fudan University, Shanghai. A summer course titled "Contemporary China" is organized at the Nordic Centre every summer. Students of the University of Helsinki are entitled to apply for a scholarship to cover their travel expenses. For more information contact International Student Services at the International Affairs office, University of Helsinki.

 

Asian Universities with exchange agreements with the University of Helsinki

http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/en/
Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

http://www.fudan.edu.cn/englishnew/
Fudan University in Shanghai, China

http://www.imu.edu.cn/english/english.htm
Inner Mongolia University in Hohhot, China

http://en.pku.edu.cn/
Peking University in Beijing, China

http://english.ruc.edu.cn/en/
Renmin University of China, China

http://202.113.16.33/english/
Nankai University in Tianjin, China

http://www.whu.edu.cn/en/
Wuhan University in Wuhan, China

http://www.waseda.ac.jp/
Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan

http://www.doshisha.ac.jp/english/
Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan

http://www.apu.ac.jp/home/
Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University, Beppu

http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/eng/
Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University, Kioto

http://www.useoul.edu/
Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea

http://www.nus.edu.sg/
National University of Singapore

http://www.ntu.edu.tw/new-version/english/main.html
National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan

http://www.chiangmai.ac.th/
Chiang Mai University in Chiang Mai, Thailand

http://www.ku.ac.th/aboutku/english/
Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand