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Trade Compass, Shanghai Government, and Foreign Investment

www.tradecompass.com Trade Compass is a Washington-based e-commerce company offering a wide range of publications and services, including notification of trade contacts and leads, sales and marketing tools, market research and analysis, and logistics. While a surprising amount of material is available at no cost, other services are available for a monthly fee. The Free Plan allows access to several briefs and newsletters on issues affecting international trade, sailing and air cargo schedules, and access to–and a basic listing in–the National Export Offer Service, which helps exporters find international buyers. The Silver Plan, at $24.95 per month, includes everything in the Free Plan, as well access to STAT-USA Plus–which contains market research information, trade opportunities, and economic statistics from over 50 US government agencies, US laws and regulations, and an export readiness assessment. The Gold Plan costs $49.95 a month and includes everything in the Silver Plan plus access to Basic World Trade Analyzer–a database of import and export transactions worldwide–and a National Export Offer Service premium listing.

www.mogpa.com Minnesota Organization for Global Professional Assignments is a nonprofit organization that links US college students and recent graduates with companies in Japan and China. Participating students are assigned full-time, entry-level positions for 6-12 months. The site posts information for students and companies interested in the program.

www.cninfo.com.cn/main_eng.html Great Trend Internet Services, created by Shenzhen Securities Information Co. Ltd., offers information on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, daily market statistics, real-time quotes, and profiles of both A- and B-share listed companies. To access most of this information, visitors must pay up front ¥100 ($12) per month, for a minimum of three months.

www.shanghai.gov.cn At the official site of the Shanghai government, visitors can find information about foreign business, trade, industry, and commerce in Shanghai. The site also features material on the city's government, laws, and economy, as well as its legal, housing, and education systems.

www.apecsec.org.sg The official Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation website contains information about the organization, its member economies, and its activities. The site's business center provides a wide range of information and services, including an APEC Tariff Database, an investment guide, and labor market information. Visitors will also find a virtual library, publications, databases, and links. Most of the site's services are free.

http://newton.uor.edu/Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/macau.html The Macau WWW Virtual Library features information about Macao's upcoming handover, government, business, economy, newsmedia, politics, society, history, and culture. Hosted by the Asian Studies Department of the University of Redlands in California, the site is part of the East Asian WWW Virtual Library.

www.asiasource.org The Asia Society's latest site is a good resource for news and information on arts, culture, business, economics, policy, government, society, and history for all of Asia. The most unusual feature of this site is its database of experts, searchable by country, language, and area of expertise.

www.worldbank.org/prospects/gdf99/vol1.htm www.iif.com/publicpdf/cf_0499.pdf
The World Bank and the Institute for In ternational Finance have released Global Development Finance 1999 and Capital Flows to Emerging Market Economies, respectively. The World Bank report contains a section on East Asia and the Pacific. Both reports are in Adobe's portable document format (.pdf) for viewing and downloading. Visitors can also find more Asia-specific information at http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/eap/eap.nsf, where they can access 1999 Annual Report on East Asia and Pacific and East Asia: Recovery Begins, a quarterly regional update.

Chinese sites

www.chinainfobank.com PRC-based China Infobank, an online business information services company, features a database with seven years' worth of business articles, real-time news, and a worldwide financial information service. The site has excellent search engines, allowing the visitor quick access to information. The databases contain both English- and Chinese-language publications, but the Chinese databases are much more extensive. Interested viewers must contact the company to receive details on an annual subscription.

www.beijing.gov.cn/chinese The Chinese version of the Beijing Municipal Government site contains a wealth of information for residents and visitors. Weather and ai r quality forecasts, local news, and general information about the city can be found on the site. Links to various institutions in the city and district governments are also featured. Best of all, citizens of Beijing can now e-mail their mayor directly, but they must be sure to leave their telephone number or e-mail address if they want a reply.

www.cpn.org.cn At Capital Price Net, visitors can find prices for a wide range of items, from public transportation and water-use charges to highway tolls and entrance fees for Beijing parks. The site also shows local consumer and retail price indices by year from 1985 to the present, and for each month of the current year.

–Virginia Hulme