China
Hong Kong
Japan
Mongolia
North Korea
South Korea
Taiwan
Taipei

CHINA

• Officially distrustful of the bourgeois web-surfing lifestyle, China comes over a tad shy on the internet - except in the business arena, where it's all systems go. For the overall Chinese whisper, check out Lonely Planet's Destination China. Zooming in, you'll find Beijing, Shanghai, Tibet & Qinghai and Hong Kong.
• China News Digest is a vast, regularly updated scrapbook of history, politics and culture.
• Chinapages is the heavyweight in the facts and figures division, with the emphasis on business travellers and investors.
• SurfChina has links to just about everything Sino on the web.
• Inside China Today has the latest breaking news on all things Chinese.
• China the Beautiful makes a refreshing change from all the wheeling-and-dealing China websites. Its art, poetry and language pages are both stunning and informative.
• Chinese Character Genealogy is an interesting guide to the history of Chinese characters and also has information on pronunciation.
• Gate of Heavenly Peace is a chilling look at the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing. Includes excellent background information, essays, book excerpts and a gallery of stills.
• The Karakoram Highway and Beyond is an inspirational account of a fifty-something couple's cycle trip through the farthest corner of China. Hot tips, cold hard reality, and heaps of adventure.
• Tibet Online Resource Gathering covers the sadness, the scandal and the solidarity that surrounds this disputed holy land. Includes news, culture, activism information and links.
• The photos on Wee Keng's Homepage are so beautifully framed and shot you'll be putting Yunnan on your travel itinerary.
• Peter Geiser's internet travel guide to Tibet provides practicalities and what-to-watch-out-fors when your travelling around The Roof of the World.

• Lonely Planet's Destination Hong Kong should help steer you through the harbour and beyond the wall of skyscrapers.
• The Hong Kong WWW Starting Point has a comprehensive set of links to just about everything Hong Kong-related: travel, culture, news, business, job opportunities, media, shopping, urban myths - even details of the latest Jackie Chan movie.
• Visit the Chinese University of Hong Kong's virtual tour of Hong Kong - see the city by night and experience life on the streets. There's definitely a Chinese flavour to the site, and the visit to Tibet is particularly interesting - claiming Tibet as `part of mainland China', existing for centuries under the domination of Buddhist lamas until the departure of the Dalai Lama in 1959.
• The Hong Kong Tourist Association's Wonder Net is a flashy yet friendly site which will tailor tours to Hong Kong according to your interests and inclinations.
• Hong Kong 1997 is a slick site with everything you're allowed to know about the changes going on in the newly declared Special Administrative Region.
• The web guide to Guangzhou, Clueless, is anything but. It is, however, funny, irreverent, and ironic. As an added bonus it actually has information that you wont find anywhere else but really needs thinking about.
• Search HK is a search engine with a bit of grunt. Use it to track down the IT press, public services, the business press and the news.

JAPAN

• First subWWWay stop is Lonely Planet's Destination Japan.
• Gary's Japan Pages show 'Japan from the gutter up'. Itsy-bitsy insights, good photos.
• Allay confusion with handy hints from Navigating Life in Japan and Rob's Japan FAQ.
• The Japan National Tourist Organization points to extensive regional information, 'special experiences worth having' and lots more - it's a good site.

MONGOLIA

• First subWWWay stop is Lonely Planet's Destination Mongolia.
• Rogier Gruys is a computer technician living in Ulaan Baatar. His Impressions from Mongolia has heaps of expat insight, including updates to LP's Mongolia guidebook.
• The United Nations in Mongolia has a stack of background info, as well as an on-line version of the 'Mongolia Update'.
• If it's links you're after, try the Open Society Institute's Resources on Mongolia for dense social and economic background, or the more general Mongolia.
• Find out more about the Mongols at National Geographic's incredibly slick The Land of Genghis Khan or the charmingly homemade Oyunbilig's Great Mongol Home Page.
• Choose your own adventure at The Mountains of Mongolia interactive web game.
• All the Mongol news that's fit to print is at Mongolia Online.
• Everything you've ever wanted to know about felt tents is at Yurt FAQ, or check out the pretty pics at YurtQuest.

NORTH KOREA

• Looking for Kim? Try Lonely Planet's Destination North Korea.
• The Secret of Korean Food has everything you ever need to know about kimchi, that 'burns-twice' addition to most Korean dishes.
• Read all about the cult of personality at Kim Il Sung.
• Get it straight from the horse's mouth (and what a fine set of dentures) at Thoughts and Words of the Great President Kim Il Sung.
• It gets very weird at Kim Il Sung's care for dental treatment. Again, very nice teeth.
• Delusional fantasies, portents, denials, big talk and serious stuff - it's all there at The World as it Appears from Pyongyang.
• Get a feel for some more real North Korean propaganda at The Great President's Life and Ideology.
• It's more than an alphabet, it's an art form. Learn Korean the fun way at Introduction to Korean.

SOUTH KOREA

• Looking for ... er, Kim? Try Lonely Planet's Destination South Korea. (Didn't we just say that?)
• Travellers' Korea has all the usual tourist information, including accommodation, tours, and convention planning.
• News is updated every week at Korea Web Weekly, where you'll also find links to other news services.
• Korea's mountainous national parks are legendary. Pick a peak and pull on your pack at National Parks of Korea.
• Feel the cutting edge of new wave art at Virtual Gallery.
• Say bye-bye antibiotics and hello herbs at Dr Park's Oriental Medicine of Korea.
• It's more than an alphabet, it's an art form. Learn Korean the fun way at Introduction to Korean.

TAIWAN

• Get off and look around at Lonely Planet's Destination Taiwan.
• Taiwan Cyberpedia is functional, funky and oh so sexy.
• For an interesting but pretty dense look at Taiwanese history, try The History of Taiwan.
• Gotta twitch? It's not the prettiest site on the web, but Birds of Taiwan has plenty to keep the birder happy.
• Yam Web is chock full of links on everything from chess to opera, horoscopes to human rights.
• If you're planning to trek around Taiwan by train, you could do a lot worse than check out Taiwan Railway Administration
• One for the photographers out there. Check out the fab photos on Wee Keng Hor's Homepage .

TAIPEI

• Take a squiz at Lonely Planet's Destination Taipei.
• Welcome to Taipei has good information about tourist attractions in and around the city.
• Get your arts into gear at the website of The Taipei Gallery.
• For a window on Taipei life, with cultural and social commentary, dining tips and toilet reviews, you can't go past Stone Monkey.