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Asia Observer is your portal to Asia - with news, guide and forums

Asia Observer is a news portal to Asia. It is targeting anyone who in their professional or personal capacity try to keep track of the rapid developments in Asia.

The web site provides news, web guide, blog and forums. It also allows members to share interesting Asia articles with each other on the front page.

It was founded by the Norwegian journalist John Einar Sandvand in 1999. Mr. Sandvand was at that time Asia correspondent for Aftenposten, the leading newspaper in Norway. He decided to make a web site that could be his start page in his work as journalist covering the region. That included links to all major news sources, automatic updated news headlines and guides to useful sources about each country.

Asia Observer has changed quite a bit since then. But still it tries to be a portal for people with a particular interest in how the societies in the Asian region develop.

The web site is visited by almost 1000 people every day. Statistics show that the visitors are pretty much evenly divided between North America, Europe and Asia. However, far away as they may live, they all share a common interest in Asia. Many of the visitors are journalists, students or academic researchers.

Asia Observer was completely redesigned in January 2007. It is now a much more interactive site, depending on contributions from the members of its community of knowledgeable Asia hands. Members are encouraged to seek help from each others in understanding the Asian region.

Asia Observer home page
Top Asia news
Editor's blog
Discussion forums
Web guide
Meet the members
Book store

Additional Information

In addition to the ability to search AsiaObserver and the navigation described above, users can also read news based on the country it's from/about: Afghanistan, Burma, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, North Korea, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Languages

English

Address

Meyersvei 21, 1430 Aas

AS NORWAY

Contact

John Einar Sandvand

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Featured by AboutUs.org on: 13 Feb. 2007

"Chocked fulled of information about the world's most populous region."