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Lunar New Year Resources
- Chinese New Year Chinese Calendar
Information about the Chinese Lunar New Year and a year by year breakdown of the Chinese calendar.
- Chinese New Year
Information about the Chinese Lunar New Year, Animals representing each year, and dates of future Lunar New Years.
- Lunar New Year Across Asia
Information about the Lunar New Year, broken down by Asian country.
- FamilyCulture.com
General Information about Lunar New Year, with resource links.
- Seol-Nal (Lunar New Year)
Korean Lunar New Year site; general information and resources.
- Kids Domain - Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year - Holiday activities - learn about the Chinese New Year and Zodiac, crafts, mazes, word searches, coloring pages, and more! Kid Safe..
- Teacher Planet
Lessons, Units, Worksheets, and other classroom resources.
- Holidays of the Vietnamese
A K-12 related site; Classroom activities for teachers.
- Lunar New Year Vietnamese Style
Information about the Vietnamese celebration of the Lunar New Year.
General Asian Resources
- Infonation
A database of geographic, economic, social and population information provided by the United Nations. Choose which country and data you would like displayed in a table.
- The World
Factbook, 2001 from the CIA
Contains maps,flags, economic, geographic, government and population data for every country. Update for 1997 is much easier to use.
- The Corruption Perception Index
Ranks countries by how corrupt they are perceived by the international business community.
- Country Reports on Human Rights Abuses
U.S. State Department Reports.
- Country Commercial Guides
Written description of every country's economy by the Department of Commerce. Writing is on a high level.
- Country Studies Handbook
An extensive outline of the culture, history, and current situation of every country by the Library of Congress. Be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the page to get the list of countries.
- E-Conflict
A simplified version of the CIA Factbook, contains maps,flags, government, economic, geographic, and population data for every country.
- Ask Asia
A K-12 related site that includes many lessons for teachers, Asian news updates, links to other resources for students to study Asia and an "Adult-free Zone" for students.
- Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
- Asian Updates from the Asian Society
A scholarly journal.
- East Asian Studies Center
China Resources
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India Resources
Hong Kong Resources
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong's leading English language newspaper since 1903 now has an internet edition. Requires registration, but is free.
Japan Resources
Korea Resources
- Korean News
The offical news agency of North Korea. Get current and past "news reports" with a very different spin.
Southeast Asia Resources
- Hitchhiking Vietnam
As a companion site to the PBS series, this site offers diary acounts of one woman's recent journey across Vietnam. Excellent descriptions and photographs of daily life.
Australia Resources
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