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Internet Guide for China Studies Newsletter
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30.12.1998

New in IGCS - News Media - Analysis and Reports:

PRC Net Info-Benefit: Full Text Newspaper Searches

Ed./Corp.: U.S. Embassy, Beijing, China
URL: http://www.usembassy-china.gov/english/sandt/netnews.html
Language: English.
Self description: "Summary: Search engines on the websites of central
government Chinese-language publications such as the Peoples Daily and of
lesser-known provincial newspapers such as Henan Ribao make it easy to
obtain dozens of recent articles in which keywords such as "economy",
"North Korea", or "environmental protection" occur. The full Chinese text
of a recent interview by the People's Daily Pyonyang correspondent with
North Korean rocket scientists, for example, can be retrieved in just a few
moments. U.S. mirror sites of People’s Daily and the English-language China
Daily considerably speed access for users in the United States [...]".
The article carries the following headings: (1) Chinese Newspapers Online
Searches: An Important Resource; (2) Major PRC Newspaper Websites With
Search Engines; (3) Affiliated Specialized Papers, Weeklies; (4) Chinese
Provincial Newspapers on the Internet; (5) The Usefulness of Newspaper
Searches: Several Examples; (6) Use Boolean Opeators "OR" and "AND" to
Narrow Down Searches; (7) Increasing Mention of the Y2K Bug in PRC Official
Media; (8) U.S. Mirror Sites Facilitate Searches.

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With kind regards,

Hanno Lecher ([log in to unmask])

INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINA STUDIES -- editor
http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/

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