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Dear Reader,

The ASIAN STUDIES WWW MONITOR
(including all its subsidiary (and/or sister) pages on "coombs.anu.edu.au" server) has permanently ceased its publishing operations on Friday 21st January 2011.

All of the online resources reported here have been thoroughly checked at the time of their listing. However, it is possible that, with the with the passage of time, many of the originally reported materials might have been removed from the Internet, or changed their online address, or varied the scope and quality of their contents.

Fortunately, in several cases it is possible to access many of the older versions of the resources listed in the MONITOR. This can be easily done via the free services of the "The Internet Archive" http://web.archive.org/, a remarkable brainchild of Brewster Kahle, San Francisco, CA.

- with warm regards -

Editor, Dr T. Matthew Ciolek.

Canberra, 21 January 2011.

31 October 2004

Google News China

http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=zh-CN&ned=cn

5star
google.com, Mountain View, CA, US

Self-description:
"Google News China presents information culled from approximately 1,000 [Chinese] news sources worldwide and automatically arranged to present the most relevant news first. Topics are updated continuously throughout the day, so you will see new stories each time you check the page."

Supplied note:
"For users inside the PR China only news sources that are approved by PRC government will be listed. This restriction is not in effect for users outside of China. Shortly after Google News China was launched in September 2004, a heated debate over this issue took place.

For more information on Google and China please visit the DACHS archive (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/cgi-bin/acwww25/allegro.pl?db=dachs&expand=yes&maxkrztitel=20&TI1=google&modus=trunkiert).
Google's own statement on this issue can be found in the Google Blog (http://www.google.com/googleblog/2004/09/china-google-news-and-source-inclusion.html)- hl."

URL
http://news.google.com/nwshp?hl=zh-CN&ned=cn

Internet Archive
(www.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract]

Link reported by:
Hanno Lecher - Internet Guide for Chinese Studies (http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/)

* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]:
News

* Publisher [academic - business - govt. - library/museum - NGO - other]:
Business

* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]:
Essential

* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]:
under 100

Please note that the above details were correct on 15 October 2005. To suggest an update, please email the site's editor at tmciolek@ciolek.com

posted by tmciolek at Sunday, October 31, 2004