Finding News About China- Page 2

Introduction

This is the second page for Finding News About China containing sections 6, 7 and 8.

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On this page, you will find:

• 6. Singapore
• 7. World and Asian News (This section includes Mandarin and Cantonese radio broadcasts, some in RealAudio format) This also includes Asian Studies and Asian-American Information Sources
• 8. How to View Chinese Characters in the WWW

Index:

How to access blocked sites

• 1. China
• 2. Hong Kong Including links about the 1997 Transition. Also, check-out our links about Macau
• 3. Taiwan
• 4. Tibet and Xinjiang
• 5. Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan Stock Exchanges with Business and Economic Information links and news about the Asian financial crisis.
• 6. Singapore
• 7. World and Asian News (This section includes Mandarin and Cantonese radio broadcasts, some in RealAudio format) This also includes Asian Studies and Asian-American Information Sources
• 8. How to View Chinese Characters in the WWW

6. News About Singapore

This section is divided into the following subheadings:

• Government, Politics and Universities
• Newspapers, Magazines and Broadcasting
• Business and Economic Information
• Environment, Health and Education

Newsgroups

Singapore Government and University Sites:

 

An excellent source of official news and information about Singapore is the homepage of the Singapore Government. This page also includes a list of Government Ministries, and a list of Government Services

 

The National University of Singapore has a variety of useful information about Singapore.

 

Online Newspapers, Magazines and Broadcasting:

MediaCity provides an extensive list of Singapore's News and Media

• Singapore Press Holdings is a partially state-owned media group which controls several major Singapore newspapers and magazines, including:
• The Straits Times
• The Chinese-language newspaper Lianhe Zaobao with international news with a strong regional focus in Big5 format. The articles are also available in GB format. There is an archive of these articles from the previous seven days. The GB-coded archive can be found here.
• And the magazine Asia Business News posts daily updates on regional developments.
  

The Singapore Business Times Online provides articles focusing on business and economic news in Singapore.

 

The Singapore-based Asia Business News offers headlines, market data and special reports.

 

The Radio Corporation of Singapore owns 10 Radio Stations in Singapore with news and entertainment broadcasts in four languages. Its international broadcasting arm, Radio Singapore International. Click here to listen to broadcasts in English, Chinese and Malay in RealAudio Format.

 

Business and Economic Online Information Sources:

 

Links for this topic are also located in Section 5.

 

The Singapore Monetary Authority is also on-line with news about this nation's monetary policy.

 

The Singapore-based information center for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (APEC) is online. It includes an introduction to APEC, downloadable documents, news releases and detailed results from the latest summit. It also includes links to other related sites such as the World Bank and the World Trade Organization.

The Singapore-based World Chinese Business Network has an extensive searchable database containing information about Chinese businesses on every continent. It is intended to strengthen networking between Chinese businessmen as well as with other global business partners.

Singapore's Business Times publishes a daily page on economic developments in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. You can perform a keyword search of articles from the last week. This service is free of charge at present, but will eventually be restricted to subscribers only.

 

The searchable Singapore Internet Directory provides information on organizations in Singapore.

 

Made in Asia Is a guide to Asian manufacturing industries in Southeast Asia, including those in Singapore.

 

Singapore, Inc and Singapore Connect provide a searchable databases for companies and other organizations in Singapore.

 

US Commercial Service provides information useful to foreign investors planning to do business in Singapore.

 

Singapore Stock Exchange is online with the day's trading news.

 

Environment, Health and Education:

 

The webpage of Singapore's Ministry of Environmental Protection is online.

 

As is the webpage of the Singapore Medical Association.

 

Worldwide Classroom provides links to Singapore's schools on the net.

 

Newsgroups:

 

For those whose news servers provide it, the newsgroup soc.culture.singapore is an excellent source of news.

 

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7. World News and News About Asia

This section is divided into the following subheadings:

• Asian Studies and Asian-American Information Sources
• Southeast Asian Overseas Chinese news
• Pan-Asian News Sources
• Other International News Sources
• World News, Broadcasting

Asian Studies and Asian-American Information Sources:

 

The WWW Asia Info Library at the Australian National University in Canberra has an extensive and useful library of information relating to East Asian studies.

 

The WWW Asia Info Library includes:

• An up-to-date list of Asian Studies Conferences and Mailing lists.
• The What's New in WWW Asian Studies Newsletter, including the latest links to new web sites in and around Asia.
• And a list of Leading Asian and Pacific Studies Electronic Journals.

The International Institute for Asian StudiesStudies in Leiden University, the Netherlands, is Europe's leading East Asian center.

 

The provides a Internet Guide to China Studies, (based at the Department of Chinese Studies in the University of Vienna) large number of links to scholarly information about China, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong.

 

For a news database of information and a searchable database about Asian-American topics, ABCFlash.com has a diverse links.

 

The Asian American Network is an interesting and well-designed Chinese-language site with horoscopes, proverbs, news China and the United States as well as links to newspapers.

 

Feng Hua Yuan (Maple Garden) -- A biweekly, Canada-based Chinese-language magazine with news, culture, entertainment and links sections.

 

ChinaUnique is a site with many useful resources regarding an introduction to Chinese culture.

 

Southeast Asian Overseas Chinese News:

 

The Chinese Commercial Newsonline. is located in Manila, Philippines. It is the first Philippine Chinese language daily to be (Requires Chinese character format).

 

The ethnic Malaysian Chinese Association Homepage is an excellent source of information about current events among the Chinese community of Malaysia.

 

FounderNet Malaysia is a Malaysian Chinese information directory. (Requires Chinese character format ) for the English-language version, click here. It includes a wide variety of links to Malaysian Chinese newspapers.

 

Kwong Wah Yit Poh is a Malaysian Chinese language Daily newspaper. (Requires Chinese character format ).

 

Nanyang Siang Pauis one is a Malaysian Chinese language newspaper with an emphasis on business and economic news. It of the leading media companies in Southeast Asia. (Requires Chinese character format).

 

The Sinchew JitPoh is a Malaysian Chinese language newspaper. (Requires either GB or Big 5 formats).

 

Pan-Asian News Sources:

 

Cnn.com's Asia-Pacific information page is on-line, providing the lates CNN coverage of Asia.

 

Articles from the Hong Kong-based weekly Asiaweek are available here. The site includes back issues for the last weeks.

 

TimesNet: Asia is an excellent Singapore-based site devoted to up-to-date news from all around Asia. Includes articles on business in the region and on-line discussion boards about current events.

 

The Far Eastern Economic Review is also on-line. The Far Eastern Economic Review is one of Asia's leading journals, known for its balanced political and business news.

 

Asia Times is also on-line, with a searchable database.

 

The information center for an introduction to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (APEC) is online. It includes an APECincludes links to other , downloadable documents, news releases and detailed results from the latest summit. It also related sites such as the World Bank and the World Trade Organization.

 

Here is the official web page for the looking Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Especially useful if you're for information about the recent acceptance of Laos and Burma into this organization or what is being done in the wake of the regional financial turmoil.

 

Asia Times Online is an English-language daily publication covering Asia-Pacific news with an empahasis on politics, economics and business.

 

The Cambodian Information Homepage provides a large number of useful and scholarly links about the history, culture and current events of that nation, including news and announcements.

 

Top News from Asia offers a large variety of up-to-date news resources from around Asia, including business, political, social and sporting news.

 

The Web Connection based in Hong Kong has a page of Asian business-related stories. It also has a page allowing you to search Reuters' dispatches on Asian business by keyword and by country.

 

London's Financial Times posts its main Asia/Pacific story of the day on the Web. The same page has links to main Asia-Pacific stories of the previous five days.

 

Articles on defense, security and diplomacy in East Asia are published monthly by the Kanwa Information Centre of Canada.

 

Asia, Inc., the Hong Kong-based monthly magazine, provides feature stories about business developments in Asia. You can perform of a keyword search of these articles.

 

For business and economic information relating to Japan, The Ministry of International Trade and Industry, The Ministry of Finance, The Japan Business Guide, The Japan External Trade Organization, and The Tokyo Stock Exchange all provide information about economic policy, financial data, and doing business in Japan

 

For business and economic information relating to Korea, The Korea Directory and The Korean Overseas Information Office provide useful links.

 

Mongolia's Magicnet, broadcast via satellite from Ulan Bataar, is the first internet connection in the Republic of Mongolia. It includes facts, news and information about this nation.

 

The Vietnam Business Journal is online, providing news and information about this nation.

 

A gopher maintained by the University of Michigan (not accessible from outside the U of M network) contains a searchable index of today's news. You can also get one month's free access to InfoSeek's wire service database. To sign on you need to fill out a registration form. If you have already registered, go to the query page and select the "Wire Services" option in the "Standard Collections" menu.

 

London's Daily Telegraph and Dublin's Irish Times give free access to their main news stories. The Irish Times has a database of its stories going back to September 1994. The Times of London is also available online.

 

A condensed version of today's New York Times is available in PDF format. International stories are on page two. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view this.

 

For Washington's view of events, you can perform a keyword search of the Department of State's daily press briefings. The archive goes back to January 1993.

 

Other International News Sources:

• Cnn.com's Asia-Pacific information page.
• Reuters Wire Service
• The International Herald Tribune
• The Asahi Shimbun, a major Japanese newspaper.
• The Chosun Daily, a major Korean Newspaper.
• Singapore Press Holdings which includes The Straits Times
• The Los Angeles Times. Articles can also be searched.
• The San Francisco Chroniclecan . There is an archive of this newspaper dating back several months on which you perform a keyword search.
• Interfax, the official Russian news agency, is online.
• The Nando Times World Report produced by the The News & Observer of North Carolina, USA.
• USA Today.
• The its Time Daily News Summary produced by Time Inc. Time also maintains a searchable database of some of news output.
• TRIBnet, run by The News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington. You need to register first to see these stories.
• The Halifax Herald of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
• Journal and Courier Online of Indiana, USA.

Brief Reuters updates on the top world news stories of the day can be found here. Less frequent but detailed Reuters briefs are provided by MCI Communications Corporation. The Press Association (PA) of Great Britain provides a similar service. To access PA's headline stories, you need to register first. Yahoo also carries Reuters dispatches.

 

Reports from the Associated Press can be accessed through a service provided by Howard Publications and Casper (Wyo.) Star-Tribune.

 

World News, Broadcasting:

 

This section is curently undergoing large-scale corrections due to changes at the VOA web site. The VOA News gopher frequently contains the latest news from China and the region. A Chinese-language version (GB code) is also available. You can listen to this news in Chinese by accessing the following RealAudio files (which means they can be heard at the same time as downloading). To configure your browser to handle to such files, read the RealAudio home page. To download the audio files in other formats, try here.

 

Mandarin 11:00 GMT (5 mins)

Mandarin 14: 00 GMT "China Focus" (30 mins)

Mandarin 21:00 GMT (10 mins)

Cantonese 15:00 GMT (10 mins)

You can also listen to the VOA news in English:

00:00 GMT (10 mins)

01:00 GMT (10 mins)

02:00 GMT (10 mins)

04:00 GMT (10 mins)

05:00 GMT (10 mins)

06:00 GMT (10 mins)

08:00 GMT (10 mins)

10:00 GMT (10 mins)

11:00 GMT (6 mins)

12:00 GMT (10 mins)

13:00 GMT (6 mins)

14:00 GMT (10 mins)

15:00 GMT (10 mins)

16:00 GMT (10 mins)

17:00 GMT (10 mins)

18:00 GMT (6 mins)

19:00 GMT (10 mins)

20:00 GMT (10 mins)

22:00 GMT (10 mins)

23:00 GMT (10 mins)

Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) provides its Cantonese and English news broadcasts via the internet in RealAudio format. There is a mirror site at InterPacific Online.

 

English broadcasts (the times given are local [GMT +8]):

13:00

18:00

23:00

Cantonese broadcasts (the times given are local [GMT +8]):

09:00

13:00

17:00

23:00

Hong Kong Today (Cantonese)

Or try China Radio International/Shortwave in English

RTHK also maintains an archive of the past 30 days of Cantonese audio files in various formats.

A 10 to 15-minute audio file of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's 13:00 GMT international news is available, in RealAudio format (see above), from the Internet Multicasting Service in Washington, USA.

CBC's news headlines, updated hourly, are available in hypertext form. You can perform a keyword search of these reports.

 

Summaries of the latest developments in China and the rest of the world can be found through INtv, Singapore's Teletext System. For those running Windows 3.1 with Mosaic/Netscape, INtv can also be browsed using a special external viewer, details of which can be found here.

 

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8. Reading Chinese in WWW

Several home pages provide links to information about reading Chinese characters on the World Wide Web. Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 downloads appropriate character format software automatically. If you're having trouble, try the following:

• Marjorie Chan's ChinaLinks 2
• CND's home page
• Viewing and Listening to Chinese on the WWW
• Chinese access to the World Wide Web
• Read Chinese in MS-Windows Net Applications
• Displaying Chinese inside WWW
• Reading Chinese in Netscape/Mosaic

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Accessing blocked sites

Users might find that some of the above sites are blocked by their internet access providers. To circumvent this, try E-mailing the web URL to: web@glr.com. You should receive the web page by reply mail.

 

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