Selected Internet Links

Malaysia

• The world Fact Book, Malaysia (CIA)
  This site provides facts and information about geography, people, government, economy, communications and statistics of Malaysia.
• Malaysian flag and anthem by the World Statement
  This site shows flag, anthem and genealogy of rulers of Malaysia.
• Embassy of Malaysia, Washington, DC
  This is the official website of the Embassy of Malaysia in the United States of America. It provides general information and facts of Malaysia, including traveling, economy, constitutions, visa issues and daily news from Malaysia.
• Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection: Malaysia Maps
  This is the website of The University of Texas at Austin. It contains various maps of Malaysia such as country maps and historical maps.
• Embassy of the United States in Malaysia
  This is an official website of the embassy of the United States in Malaysia. It contains information related to programs and events, scholarships, services to the US citizens, and visa.

• Ministry of Finance
  Site is dealing with national budget, taxation, and economy. Links for complaints and information on the web are also available.
• Ministry of Higher Education
  This website provides information about higher education in Malaysia, announcements, online services, publications and scholarships.
• Ministry of International Trade and Industry
  Site dealing with Malaysian trade and industry. Available in Bahasa Malay and English.
• Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development
  Aside from disseminating information about the ministry and issues related to women, family and the community more easily, speedily and accurately, this website is also a two-way medium of communication between the ministry and the public. This website allows the public to interact and channel their queries, suggestions and feedback via e-mail and the e–forum column. Other than this, an interesting feature of this website is that the public can interact with counsellors in the ministry via the chat room to obtain advisory and counselling services.
• Ministry of Works
  Site dealing with programs and activities in the ministry of works. Site is in Malay, English, Arabic, and Chinese.
• Parliament of Malaysia
  Malaysia The Parliament of Malaysia website is designed to facilitate access by members of Parliament, Ministries, Departments, organisation and the general public to information such as Order Papers, the calendar of events for Parliamentary Proceedings, Bills to be tabled, Acts of Parliament and verbatim reports of the daily proceedings (Hansard). Site is in Bahasa Malay and English.
• Prime Minister’s Department
  English version speech on the nationa budget of Malaysia. First : To move the economy up the value chain; Second : To raise the capacity for knowledge and innovation and nurture first class mentality; Third : To address persistent socio-economic inequalities constructively and productively; Fourth : To improve the standard and sustainability of quality of life; and Fifth : To strengthen the institutional and implementation capacity.
• The Royal Family Website
  This website provides information regarding the history and genealogy of royal family, palaces, royal gallery and album. Site is in Malay and English.

• Indonesian Language, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (Northern Illinois University)
  Malay and Indonesian are typically similar; this site provides Indonesian language studying materials, including grammars and vocabulary teaching. It contains also video clips, poetry, literatures and folklores.
• Languages of Malaysia by Ethnologue
  This site contains an overview of languages spoken in Malaysia.
• Malaysian Writing System by Omniglot
  This site contains scripts and explanation of the Malay writing system.
• The Malay scripts (the Library of Congress)
  This site provides basic explanation about the old Malay writing system and scripts.
• Online Indonesian language, the University of Victoria
  Malay and Indonesian are typically similar; this site provides online Indonesian teaching materials and exercises.

• Journal of Asian Studies
  This is a website of the Journal of Asian Studies. It contains a wide range of research topics about Asia, and some articles are free for download.
• Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia
  This website provides reviews of socio-political topics related to Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Type a related topic in search after connecting to the link.
• Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, University of Hawaii
  This website provides online journal articles about law and policy study in Asia-Pacific regions. Browse the journal or type a related topic in search after connecting to the link.

• Geographia, Malaysia
  This website contains online articles about Malaysian history, people, culture, and nature.
• Mandailing website
  This site provides online text about the history, migration, governance, cultural identity, arts, culture, music and heritage of the Mandailing people living in Malaysia and Indonesia.
• Musical Instrument of Malaysia
  This website provides information about the traditional musical instruments of Malaysia.

• Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) Malaysia
  This site contains publications of national and international economic affairs, social security and foreign affairs, policies and natural resource studies.
• HumanTrafficking.org
  This site provides information about human trafficking in East Asia and Pacific. It also contains publications and links related to human trafficking issues.
• Human Rights Watch
  This website contains news, reports, and publications related to human rights in Malaysia.

• Berita Harian
  This is a local online daily newspaper, in Malay.
• Bernama, the Malaysian National News Agency
  This is an official news website of the Malaysian government. It publishes general and economic news across the country, in English, Malay, Chinese and Arabic.
• Daily Express, an Independent National Newspaper of East Malaysia
  This is an online daily newspaper published in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, covering news in Eastern Malaysia, in English.
• Harian Metro
  This is an online daily newspaper, in Malay.
• The New Sabah Times
  This is an online news of Sabah, in Malay and English.
• Sun2Surf
  This is a complimentary online publication of the Sun, in English.
• Malaysia Today
  This is an online news about Malaysian politics and social events, in Malay and English.
• The Star Online
  This is an online daily news of Malaysia from Kuala Lumpur, in English.
• Malaysia Post
  This website provides both local and international news in English.

• Hamilton Library’s Asia Digital collection (University of Hawaii)
  This is a digital collection of old photographs of Malaysia and Southeast Asia by the University Hawaii.
• The Digital Library of the Commons
  This site provides full download of articles about Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Type a related topic in search after connecting to the link.
• Dutch East India Company Archives and Research, Towards a New Age of Partnership (TANAP)
  This site provides archives of the Dutch East Indian Company activities in the 17th- and 18th-century in Asia, Africa and the West.
• The National Library of Australia
  This website provides a digital photograph collection of Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Type a related topic in search after connecting to the link.
• SEAsite, Southeast Asia Picture Database (Northern Illinois University)
  This site provides a digital photograph collection of a contemporary Malaysia.
• Southeast Asia Vision Collection (Cornell University Library)
  This site provides full download of old texts and rare books collection about Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Type a related topic in search after connecting to the link.
• Southeast Asia Digital Library-SEADL (Northern Illinois University)
  This site contains collections of photograph, video, rare text and languages of Malaysia and Southeast Asia.
• Digital Collections, University of Washington Libraries
  This websites contains old photograph collection and scanned- introductory paragraphs of Journal article in Thai scripts and other countries in Southeast Asia. Select a type of search, then type a related topic in search after connecting to the link.
• Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hawaii, Picture Archive
  This website contains a collection of 199 contemporary pictures of Malaysia.

• Asian Development Bank (ADB), Malaysia
  This website contains reports and information of development projects of the Asian Development Bank in Malaysia.
• Asia Foundation for Malaysia
  This is a website of the Asia Foundation, specifically for Malaysia. It contains information of the Asia Foundation’s projects related to economic reform, land management, law and justice, and governance.
• Asia Research Institute-ARI (National University of Singapore)
  This site provides a wide range of research information about Southeast Asia, including Malaysia.
• Association of Southeast Asia Nation (ASEAN)
  This websites contains information about Malaysian government activities with other ASEAN countries and region.
• Center for Southeast Asian Studies, (Northern Illinois University)
  This website contains photograph collections and research papers about Malaysia and Southeast Asia.
• Department of Statistics Malaysia
  This is an official website of Malaysia statistics agency. It collects and publishes statistical information of the government’s sectors.
• The Economist, Malaysia
  This website provides online articles covering analyzes of the Malaysian economy, statistic information, and facts of the Malaysian government.
• Institute of Southeast Asian Studies-ISEAS, Singapore
  This site contains research articles and working papers about Malaysia and other Southeast Asia countries. Type a related topic in search after connecting to the link.
• International Monetary Fund (IMF), in Malaysia
  This site provides online working papers and reports of the IMF in Malaysia.
• International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
  This website contains online newsletter, publication, research, training and conferences events related to Asian studies. Type a related topic in search after connecting to the link.
• Malay Concordance Project, the Malay Manuscript (Australian National University)
  This site contains resources for the study of Classical Malay Literature from scholars of Malay studies.
• Orang Asli Archive, Keene State College-Mason Library
  This site contains study information of the Orang Asli, the indigenous people of Malaysia.
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
  This site provides online research articles about the socio-political issues of Malaysia and other countries in the world. Type a related topic in search after connecting to the link.
• Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong
  This is a website of Center University of Hong Kong. It contains information about seminar and courses of studies about East and Southeast Studies. It provides free-download publications and working papers related to Thailand and countries Asia and other related topic for Southeast Asian studies.
• Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and EAST Asia (ERIA)
  ERIA is an international organization that supports the ASEAN Secretariat by making policy recommendations at regional governmental meetings. This website contains the information about the latest news, activities, research and publications.
• Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Southeast Asia
  CSIS is an organization that provides strategic insights and policy solutions to decision makers in government, international institutions, the private sector, and civil society. This website provides information regarding programs of CSIS in Southeast Asia, interviews, publications, events, and news.
• The United Nations in Malaysia
  This website provides information of projects run by the United Nations in Malaysia.
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
  This website provides online reports and programs that Malaysia and other members of APEC work to promote trade and investment liberalization, business facility, and economy and technical cooperation.
• The World Bank, in Malaysia
  This is the World Bank website, specifically for projects in Malaysia. It contains data and statistic, publications, reports and updated news about the World Bank projects in Malaysia.
• WWF: Heart of Borneo Forests
  This is a website of WWF that provides information about the forests of Borneo and their wildlife.

• All Malaysia
  This website provides tourist attraction information and special celebrations in Malaysia.
• AsianInfo
  This site offers information on geography, people, economy, politics, languages, education, religions, arts, customs, tourism, transportation, and wildlife of Malaysia.
• See Malaysia Now
  This site provides information of tourist attractions and traveling guides in Malaysia.
• Lonely Planet, Malaysia
  The information of tourist attractions and traveling guides in Malaysia can be found in this site.
• Malaysia-Trulyasia
  This is an official website for tourism in Malaysia. It provides information about the important tourist attractions and traveling information.

• National Bureau of Asian Research, database of researchers
  This site provides a list and contact detail of researchers working in a specific country for a particular field. Select a country and/or a field of interest and click ‘submit’.
• East and Southeast Asia: An Annotated Directory of Internet Resources
  This site provides information regarding internet resources for the political, social, cultural, and economic issues of East Asia and Southeast Asia.
• Southeast Asia Women Studies Bibliography
  This website provides reference documents related to research on women studies in Southeast Asia, compiled by the University of California at Berkeley.
• Malaysia WWW Virtual Library
  This is the internet guide to Malaysia online resources of the World-Wide Web Virtual Library.