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Acronyms, Dictionaries and Thesaurus  A Chinese-Cantonese Syllabary  Abbreviations.com  Acronym Finder  An English-Chinese Glossary of IT Terms  Anthropology Explorer  Art & Architecture Thesaurus Online  ARTFL Project: ROGET'S Thesaurus  Brewer's Phrase and Fable  Cambridge Dictionaries online  Chinese Character Genealogy  Chinese Dictionary  Chinese-English Online Dictionary  Chinese-English-Japanese Dictionary  Dictionaries by subjects (Yahoo)  Dictionary of Visual Art (ArtLex )  Dictionary.com  English-Chinese Glossaries of Terms Commonly Used in Government Departments  English-Chinese Glossary of Computer & Network Communications Terms  English-Chinese Online Dictionary  FindLaw Dictionary  FOLDOC - Computing Dictionary  Foreign Languages for Travelers  Foreignword.com: the Language Site  Glossary of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology  Health encyclopedia (HealthCentral - Health Library)  Internet Acronym Server  IPL Ready Reference Collection: Dictionaries  Language Tools (iTools)  Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage  Loanwords in Hong Kong  Merriam-Webster Online  NetLingo: The Internet Language Dictionary  Nomenclatural Glossary for Zoology  ODLIS - Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science  On-line Chinese Tools (Chinese Character Dictionary)  On-line Medical Dictionary  OneLook Dictionaries, The Faster Finder  Online Symbolism Dictionary  Oxford Dictionaries Online  Statistics Glossary  Thesaurus.com  Travlang's Translating Dictionaries (mainly European Languages)  Webopaedia  WordNet  Yahoo! - Babel Fish  YourDictionary.com  Almanacs / Fact Books  Celebrity Almanac, The  CIA World Factbook  Information Please Home Page  Ready Reference: Almanacs/Fact Books  Taiwan Yearbook  Biographies and Quotations  4000 Years of Women in Science  A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations  Asiaweek Power 50  Bartlett Familiar Quotations  Biographical Dictionary  Biography.com  Chinese Artists Net  Creative Quotations  Distinguished Women of Past and Present  Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary  IPL Ready Reference Collection: Biographies  IPL Ready Reference Collection: Quotations  Nobel Prize Internet Archive, the  Quoteland.com - Quotations on every topic, by every author, and in every fashion possible  Resources for Finding Speeches and Quotations  Rulers of the World  The Quotations Page  Time 100 - The World's Most Influential people  Union List of Artist Names Online  Wisdom of the World, The  World's Billionair (Forbes)  Converters and Calculators  Calculator.com  Calendar Zone  Conversion Tables / Unit Conversion Online  Convertworld.com, unit conversion online  Currency Converter  Find the time anywhere in the world  How far is it?  Interactive Statistical Calculation Pages  The Universal Currency Converter  World Clock, The - Time Zones  Directories  Business/Trade Directories  Canadian Trade Index  Carol World (Company Annual Reports On-Line)  Corporate Information (worldwide)  Europages - The European Business Directory  Hoover's Online - Company information  Inc. - The Daily Resource for Entreprenurs  IndustryWeek 1000: The World's Biggest Manufacturers  Kompass Directories  MacRAE's Blue Book  Solusource  ThomasNet  WHOIS Search - Domain Registration Information  Yellow Book  Yellow Pages: Superpages Yellow Pages  Telephone/Fax /Email  Inforbel - Telephone Directories  International Calling Codes Directory  Lycos Search  Yellow Pages - Worldwide Telephone Directories  Encyclopedias  Britannica.com  Canadian Encyclopedia  Catholic Encyclopedia, the  Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers on Botany.com  Encyclopedia Smithsonian  HighBeam Encyclopedia  HyperStat Online  Information Please  IPL Ready Reference Collection: Encyclopedias  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy  TechEncyclopedia  The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy  Wikipedia  WordIQ  Flags, Maps, Weather and Cities  Aerial and Satellite Images of the World - Terraserver.com  Atlapedia Online  Bing Maps  Centamap (Hong Kong)  CIA - The World Fact Book  Cities.com  City Maps On-line  Country and Cities of the World  Country Facts and Profiles (Index Mundi)  CountryReports.org  Directory and Search Engine of Every Nations Embassies and Consulates  Flags of all Countries  Flags of the World  Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names  Hong Kong Maps  How far is it?  Intellicast's Global Weather Maps  IPL Ready Reference Collection: Maps and Atlases  Japan Atlas  Looklex / Encyclopaedia  Map Machine @ nationalgeographic.com  MapQuest! Driving Direction, Maps & Live Traffic Reports  Maps of India  Microsoft Research Maps  One World - Nations Online  PCL Map Collection  Weather Underground  Whereis.com  World Climate: Weather rainfall and temperature data  World Flag Database: The Flag Institute  WORLDTIME: interactive atlas, time info, public holidays  Yahoo! Get Local Maps  搜狗地圖 Sogou Map  International Organizations  Amnesty International on-line  Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)  Asian Development Bank (ADB)  Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)  Associations on the Net (IPL)  Commonwealth Secretariat, the  Human Rights Watch - Home Page  International Labour Organization (ILO)  International Monetary Fund (IMF)  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)  Office of the European Union to Hong Kong and Macao  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)  Union of International Associations (UIA)  United Nations (UN)  United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)  United Nations: system pathfinder  World Bank, The  World Health Organization (WHO)  World Trade Organization (WTO)  World Wildlife Fund (WWF)  Worldwatch Institute  Other Useful Reference Tools  Ask.com  Best Information on the Net - Online Reference Sources  CyberStacks(sm)  Eserver Reference  Internet Library for Librarians  Internet Public Library  Internet Resources, HKUST  iTools  Langenberg -- Search and Get There Faster  LibrarySpot - encyclopedias, maps, online libraries, quotations, dictionaries and more  Martindale's 'The Reference Desk'  National Bureau of Statistics of China  Reference in the Yahoo! Directory  Reference, Facts, News - refdesk.com  Subject Guide on Find Facts  Subject Guide on Style Manuals  Virtual Reference (WebJunction)  Rankings and Awards  Academy Awards - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences  Best College/ Best Graduate Schools (US News)  College and Undergraduate Rankings (University of Illinois)  Forbes Lists  GRAMMY Awards, The  Literary Prizes and Book Awards  Nobelprize.org  Pulitzer Prizes, The  Rankings and Awards (Best Information on the Net)  Standards, Patents and Copyright  American National Standards Institute  ASTM International  British Standards Institution  Canadian Patents Database  Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)  China Intellectual Property Net (CNIPR)  China Inventions  European Patent Office  IEEE Standards Home Page  International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)  International Organization for Standardization (ISO)  International Telecommunication Union (ITU)  Japan Patent Office  Standardization of Administraion of the People's Republic of China  Standards Australia  Underwriters Laboratories  US Patent and Trademark Office  World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)  World Standards Services Network (WSSN)