Asian Law Centre Links
Countries
AsiaAsia
Harvard University Law School Library
Large collection of East Asian and Japanese materials, The Harvard Law Library’s collection of Japanese legal materials is one of the most well-established and extensive anywhere.
Banking & Finance
Global Banking Law Database
The GBLD consists of a collection of commercial banking, central bank, and deposit insurance laws of jurisdictions that are representative of the regions of the world as well as international financial centres. The laws are available in English in both MS Word and PDF (Adobe Acrobat) formats.
International Journal of Islamic Financial Services
South Asian and South Pacific Finance, Banking and Tax Locator
Provides links to various topics including tax rates, banking, financial markets, and investment opportunities for the South Asian and South Pacific countries.
Bankruptcy Law
Insolvency Asia
Collections of Sites
Aardvark - Asian Databases
Aardvark - Asian Digital Libraries
Aardvark - Asian University Libraries
Contain links to libraries worldwide.
ANU Library: East Asian Resources
Asia Resources and Links - Virginia University
Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
Asia-Pacific Economics: Structured Lists of Commonly-Used Websites
Collection of weblinks with respect to Asia-Pacific Economics
East and Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
FindLaw: International Resources
Regional Resources on East Asia and Southeast Asia (University of Redlands)
An annotated directory of Internet resources on the politics, societies, history and cultures of the regions of East Asia and Southeast Asia.
The University of Melbourne - East Asian Collection
University of Waikato Law Library: Asian law sites
Commercial Law
Asia Business Today
Collection of reference materials on the Asian economic crisis and recovery, Asia management and human resource issues, media, telecommunications, etc. Country listings include economic statistics, Internet portals, company listings and market information.
Asia Case
Provides abstracts on Asian business case studies from the world's key resources. Links to full-text available.
Company Law
Asia Case
Provides abstracts on Asian business case studies from the world's key resources. Links to full-text available.
Comparative Law
Asian Journal of Comparative Law
A definitive new peer-reviewed journal for Asian perspectives on the law and legal perspectives on Asia. The journal's editors and authors come from top institutions across the Asian-Pacific region and South Asia.
Country Profile
Asia in the World Economy
Provides a comprehensive list of links to various Asian countries from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Discussion Lists
Asian Studies Electronic Mailing Lists
Dispute Resolution
International Alternative Dispute Resolution
Provides a fully searchable database of primary and secondary materials in the field of International Commercial Arbitration.
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
Donors, International NGOs & Organisations
Association of Asian Election Authorities
LawAsia
E-commerce
Global E-commerce Law
Environmental Law
Asia Environmental Review
Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law - ASEAN Project
Arising out of a Research Project funded by the National University of Singapore from 1995 to 2000, APCEL researchers travelled to the 10 countries of ASEAN and conducted in-depth studies and investigations into the environmental laws and institutions of these countries. Some of the laws collected and the main reports prepared pursuant to the Research Project are reproduced.
Mining Laws of Asian Countries
Ethnicity and Law
Axis Information and Analysis (AIA)
AIA is an information agency that unites professionals with years of experience in collecting and analysing information about Asia and Eastern Europe. AIA staff includes journalists, ex-diplomats, and former officers of the special services of a number of Asian and Eastern-European countries. AIA's main attention is focused upon those states that represent a threat to regional and international security, as well as upon areas of ethnic and religious conflict. At the same time, AIA follows the events in those countries that are going through political and socio-economic cataclysms.
Foreign Investment
Asia Case
Provides abstracts on Asian business case studies from the world's key resources. Links to full-text available.
China-ASEAN Business Net
Investor Relations Asia Pacific
Provides information on Asia's financial markets
Mekong Express
Information on the Greater Mekong Subregion (China, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia). Includes legislation on investment, visa policies, links and general information on each country.
Gender
Journal of South Asia Women Studies (JSAWS)
For publicizing the scholarly study of women in terms of human rights, gender issues, religion, medicine and cultural or social products by women
Transgender Asia
General
Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia
Assembling a diverse group of scholars to write about the anthropology of borderlands in Southeast Asia
Government Institutions
Asian Governments on the WWW
Human Rights
Asia Pacific Centre for Human Rights and the Prevention of Ethnic Conflict
Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development
Asian Human Rights Commission
Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
a non-government organization active in promoting human rights and anti-torture movement in various countries in Asia
Derechos Human Rights in Southeast Asia
Derechos: Human Rights in North Asia
Human Rights Reports for East Asia and the Pacific
Human Rights Reports prepared by the US State Department.
The Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions
Intellectual Property
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
International Organisations
Asian Development Bank
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
Pacific Basin Economic Council
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
The regional arm of the United Nations Secretariat for the Asian and Pacific region is the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).
Internet Law
Internet Usage in Asia
The Internet in Asia
Islamic Law
International Islamic Digital Library
International Journal of Islamic Financial Services
Islamic World.net
Labour Law
Asia Monitor Resource Center
Legal Journals
Australian Journal of Asian Law
International Journal of Islamic Financial Services
NBR Asia Policy Journal
Legislation
AustLII - World: Regions: Asia
Global Legal Information Network
Provides English summaries of recent laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources, including citation information.
International Center for Not for Profit Law
The International Center for Not-For-Profit Law is an international not-for-profit organization that promotes an enabling legal environment for civil society, freedom of association, and public participation around the world. ICNL's Online Library is a searchable directory of key research including Country Laws, General Legal Documents, White Papers, Reports, Legal Opinions, IJNL and more. Free registration to Online Library.
Mining Laws of Asian Countries
Project DIAL
(Development of the Internet for Asian Law)
Magazines
Asia Law & Practice
Asian Wall Street Journal
This page is only available to subscribers.
Asiaweek
Far Eastern Economic Review
Media Law
Asia Pacific Media Network
Newspapers
Asian Focus
Lists news, newspapers, journals, magazines and forums with an Asian focus.
East Asia - English-language Newspapers
Financial Review - Asia
ResearchSEA
ResearchSEA is Asia's first research news portal, a one-stop centre where journalists and members of the public can gain access to news and local experts from the research world in Asia.
Non-governmental Organisations
International Center for Not for Profit Law
The International Center for Not-For-Profit Law is an international not-for-profit organization that promotes an enabling legal environment for civil society, freedom of association, and public participation around the world. ICNL's Online Library is a searchable directory of key research including Country Laws, General Legal Documents, White Papers, Reports, Legal Opinions, IJNL and more. Free registration to Online Library.
Politics
Association of Asian Election Authorities
The CA & CC Press
the joing home page of the Institute for Central Asian and Caucasian Studies in Sweden and the Institute of Strategic Studies of the Caucasus in the Republic of Azerbaijan
Tibetan Parliamentary & Policy Research Centre
Understanding and dissemination of information on various political aspects related to Tibetan people's struggle for freedom and democracy
Politics/Economics and Law
Asia Insights: Tsunami Disaster
Background information, analyses and research, news about recent Tsunami events and their implications and links to reliable sources of further information
Asia Recovery Information Center
Monitors the social and economic impacts of the Asian crisis and the recovery process. Provides information on the response of the international community, concerned governments, nongovernment organizations (NGOs), and civil society-at-large to the crisis; and monitors and contributes to ongoing discussions of policy reform in response to the crisis.
Axis Information and Analysis (AIA)
AIA is an information agency that unites professionals with years of experience in collecting and analysing information about Asia and Eastern Europe. AIA staff includes journalists, ex-diplomats, and former officers of the special services of a number of Asian and Eastern-European countries. AIA's main attention is focused upon those states that represent a threat to regional and international security, as well as upon areas of ethnic and religious conflict. At the same time, AIA follows the events in those countries that are going through political and socio-economic cataclysms.
E-Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast
A fully peer-reviewed annual electronic journal in Asian Studies. Technical support is provided by the Matsushita Cener for Electronic Learning at Pacific University.
Pacific Basin Economic Council
Strategic Asia
Ongoing, independent assessment of the strategic environment in the Asia-Pacific and independent source of information and analysis for the policymaking community, media, the business ector, and academe
The National Bureau of Asian Research
A nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution dedicated to informing and strengthening policy in the Asia-Pacific
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
The regional arm of the United Nations Secretariat for the Asian and Pacific region is the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Research
Acronyms Used by Asian / Pacific Studies' Scholars: A Dictionary
This document lists acronyms, names and web addresses of over 1,540 leading research associations, university departments, institutes, networks, NGOs, organisations, periodicals, programs, information resources, and research projects of relevance to Asian & Pacific Studies.
Asia Policy Point
Washington-based nonprofit, membership research center studying the US policy relationship in science, security, trade and global issues with Japan and Asia
Asia-Studies Full-text Online
Database which brings together thousands of full-text reports covering Asia Pacific countries on a multitude of business, government, economic and social issues
Internet Usage in Asia
ResearchSEA
ResearchSEA is Asia's first research news portal, a one-stop centre where journalists and members of the public can gain access to news and local experts from the research world in Asia.
Shingetsu Institute for the Study of Japnaese-Islamic Relations
To study Japan's relations with the countries of the Islamic world
Research, Local NGOs & Civil Society Organisations
Asia Monitor Resource Center
Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University
Asia Society
International Centre of Excellence in Asia-Pacific Studies
The Center for Khmer Studies
an international, non-governmental, not-for-profit membership-based consortium of universities, organizations and individuals dedicated to study, teaching and research on Khmer civilization and the cultures of the Mekong region
The National Bureau of Asian Research
A nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution dedicated to informing and strengthening policy in the Asia-Pacific
Safety and Security
Asia Insights: Tsunami Disaster
Background information, analyses and research, news about recent Tsunami events and their implications and links to reliable sources of further information
Axis Information and Analysis (AIA)
AIA is an information agency that unites professionals with years of experience in collecting and analysing information about Asia and Eastern Europe. AIA staff includes journalists, ex-diplomats, and former officers of the special services of a number of Asian and Eastern-European countries. AIA's main attention is focused upon those states that represent a threat to regional and international security, as well as upon areas of ethnic and religious conflict. At the same time, AIA follows the events in those countries that are going through political and socio-economic cataclysms.
Impact of Tsunami 2004 on Sri Lanka
Demographic Impact of Tsunami 2004 on Sri Lanka
Search Engines
Asiaco - Asia Search Engine
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Mapping Asia in UK Libraries
Statistics
Asia and Oceania: Short-term Economic Indicators Links
Compiled by Project LINK Research Centre, University of Toronto.
Asian Development Bank: Statistical Database System
Searchable database of essential social, economic, and financial indicators relating to the ADB’s developing member countries.
Internet Usage in Asia
Taxation Law
South Asian and South Pacific Finance, Banking and Tax Locator
Provides links to various topics including tax rates, banking, financial markets, and investment opportunities for the South Asian and South Pacific countries.
Terrorism
Axis Information and Analysis (AIA)
AIA is an information agency that unites professionals with years of experience in collecting and analysing information about Asia and Eastern Europe. AIA staff includes journalists, ex-diplomats, and former officers of the special services of a number of Asian and Eastern-European countries. AIA's main attention is focused upon those states that represent a threat to regional and international security, as well as upon areas of ethnic and religious conflict. At the same time, AIA follows the events in those countries that are going through political and socio-economic cataclysms.
Useful Links
Mansfield Asian Opinion Poll Database
a reference for researchers to help monitor key public opinion trends in Northeast Asia
Databases
AsiaAsia
Law Library of Congress
One of the largest and most comprehensive collections in the USA
UC Berkeley Library Asian Studies Collection
University of California, Berkeley Library Asian Studies general collection with a strong collection on Japanese law.
University of Michigan Asia Library, Mirlyn Catalog
University of Washington, Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library East Asian Law Department
Extensive collection of East Asian Law materials.
Research
Asian Development Bank: Statistical Database System
Searchable database of essential social, economic, and financial indicators relating to the ADB’s developing member countries.
Search Engines
AsiaAsiaco - Asia Search Engine
WorldLII - World Legal Information Institute
Useful Links
AsiaAcronyms Used by Asian / Pacific Studies' Scholars
This document lists acronyms, names and web addresses of leading associations, institutes, networks, NGOs, organisations, periodicals, programs and research projects of relevance to Asian & Pacific Studies.
WorldLII - World Legal Information Institute
Collections of Sites
Aardvark - Asian Databases
Aardvark - Asian Digital Libraries
Aardvark - Asian University Libraries
Contain links to libraries worldwide.
Australian National University - Coombsweb: Asian Studies Server
Council on East Asian Law Libraries
The Guide to Asian Media
Commercial Law
Legal500.com
Comparative Law
Thailand Law Forum
a nonprofit law organization publishing a virtual law journal biannually since 1998 and contributors to the journal are both Thai and foreign professors and graduate students at Thailand's law schools.
Environmental Law
Asia Environmental Review
Government Institutions
Asian Governments on the WWW
Human Rights
Asian Human Rights Commission
Islamic Law
Islamic World.net
Politics/Economics and Law
Strategic Asia
Ongoing, independent assessment of the strategic environment in the Asia-Pacific and independent source of information and analysis for the policymaking community, media, the business ector, and academe