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Online resources for students and faculty interested in Southeast Asian languages, cultures, and environmental topics.


Southeast Asian Language Resources

  • from University of Hawaii

  • at the University of Washington

  • at Northern Illinois University

Southeast Asian Library Collections

Southeast Asia Exhibitions Online


  • Auguste Pavie (1847—1925) was a French explorer and diplomat who played a major role in bringing the kingdoms of Laos under French control. This fascinating online exhibit includes quotes from Pavie and his contemporaries, describing situations that they encountered in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Contemporary photographs are included as well.

  • This online exhibit of historical photographs with textual explanations documents diplomatic visits between Thailand and Singapore, from the nineteenth century to the present.

  • This beautifully-illustrated site presents 19th-century drawings of tropical fruits and spices commissioned by Sir Stamford Raffles, along with contemporary photographs of the same plants in their natural habitat. The concise text describes how Southeast Asians use these plant materials in cooking, weaving, adding scent to household products, and in curing illness. Embedded links take the user to recipes and information about the preservation of the Raffles Family Collection.

  • An educational resource of the Southeast Asian Archive at the UC Irvine Libraries focusing on post-1975 refugees and immigrants from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam and the communities they have developed in the United States. Contains 1,500 visual images and 4,000 pages of searchable text.

  • Introduces Buddhist concepts and symbols through art and architecture, from a wide variety of Buddhist traditions throughout Asia.

Southeast Asia Internet Resources


  • Includes links to information on Hmong culture, photos of cultural artifacts, and contact information for the Hmong Cultural Center Library.

  • Provides links to the Hmong Studies Journal, the Hmong Studies Newsletter, research bibliographies, research papers, and advice on accessing census data.

  • "Hosted by the Australian National University (ANU), it provides anecdote, analysis and new perspectives on mainland Southeast Asia. Since its inception [in 2006] the site has devoted its attention to the politics and societies of this region, and especially Thailand and Burma."

  • Search on "Southeast Asia" or on individual countries to see if this open access database contains recent books on your topic.

  • An excellent interactive learning resource for Southeast Asian languages, literatures, and cultures, featured by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University.

  • A collection of 350 European travel accounts of pre-modern Southeast Asia from Cornell University Library's John M. Echols Collection. In French and English, these works present high-quality, first-hand observations. Together they provide a comprehensive representation of pre-modern Southeast Asia. In addition to their narratives, these accounts include some 10,000 images, drawings, photographs, prints and maps, many of them in color.

  • Offers links to current events and announcements , news reports, and general information pertaining to the Hmong community and their culture.

Guides and Collections

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  • – colonial-era photographs and drawings from Dutch collections
  • UC Irvine – documenting the Southeast Asian immigrant experience
  • , Cornell University - an online collection of colonial-era European travel accounts in Southeast Asia
  • University of Texas. Perry-Castañeda Library. Map Collection.
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Media Resources

  • - online magazine in English and Indonesian, published by US Pacific Command
  • , blog on current events in mainland Southeast Asia hosted by Australian National University
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Southeast Asia Environment Resources


  • Provides on-line information regarding several aspects of Wildlife related to countries of ASEAN. It also includes links to other sites.


  • The focus of the Center's work is applied research in economic and political development, with particular attention to investment and trade in the China-Hong Kong-Southeast Asia triangle, labour practices, ethnicity and environment.
  • (Singapore)
    MEWR aims to move from maintaining good environmental performance in the short term to achieving environmental sustainability in the long term. Together with its two statutory boards, the National Environment Agency (NEA) and the Public Utilities Board (PUB), this can be accomplished through continued innovation in managing Singapore's limited resources, and vibrant partnerships and co-operations across the 3P sectors - private, public and people - crucial in meeting Singapore's environmental sustainability challenges.

  • APCEL is a center to promote the environment law and practice in Singapore and in Southeast Asia region. This website contains annual reports, environment-related-publications, law on environment and information of workshops.

  • This website contains online research articles and publications about natural environment, including wild life and plant within and around Brunei.

  • This site provides online bulletins and reports about reconciliation, environment, health, justice, human rights, agriculture, economy and government of East Timor.

  • This is a website of WWF that provides information about the forests of Borneo and their wildlife.

  • This website provides online information about traveling and guides for a protection of environment and nature.
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  • (Myanmar)
    In view of the importance of the Myanmar forestry sector in enhancing national socio-economic development, and ensuring ecological balance and environmental stability, the Myanmar Forest Policy has been formulated in a holistic and balanced manner within the overall context of the environment and sustainable development taking full cognizance of the forestry principles adopted at the United Nations Conference on Environment Development (UNCED), 1992.
  • (Philippines)
    The Department is mandated to be the primary agency responsible for the conservation, management, development, and proper use of the country’s environment and natural resources.

  • This is a website of a non-government organization dedicating to research and publication about human resources and social development, international economic relations, macroeconomic policy, natural resources and environment, science and technology development, and sectoral economics.