---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for China Studies Newsletter http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 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. _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno Lecher ([log in to unmask]) INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINA STUDIES -- editor http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] containing the following message: SIGNOFF IGCS-L