Database Name:	Asia-Pacific (or Asia-Pacific Business Journals)
Acronym:	ASBJ
Producer:	Aristarchus Knowledge Industries Inc.; The Dialog Corporation
Type of Information:	Bibliographic; Directory; Numeric (statistics) and Full-text
Group(s):	BUSINESS & ECONOMY, INDUSTRIES
Database Description:	Contains citations with some abstracts to news and other literature on business, economics and industry in the Pacific Rim nations, including East Asia, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, Australia, and the Pacific Island nations. Provides information on individual corporations, including : company finances; joint-ventures, mergers and acquisitions; diversification; mining and other operations; industrial development and new products; executive personnel changes; strategic planning; OPEC; political risk; terrorism; telecommunications; transportation. Company thesaurus records provide company name, location, parent company, number of subsidiaries, joint-ventures, and stock holdings for more than 1,800 corporations.
Information Sources:	U.S. and international newspapers (including Mainichi Daily News; Malaysia Business Times; New Straits Times; Straits Times; The Bangkok Post; The Cambodia Times; The Daily Yomiuri; The Hindu; The Jakarta Post; The Nikkei Weekly), business journals, government documents, newsletters, conference proceedings, press releases, and monographs.
Time Span:	Since 1995 (DIALOG) and last two years (InformaWorld)
Numer of Records:	More than 9.4 million
Language:	English
Updating Frequency:	Daily, Weekly or Monthly, according to the files
Distributors:	DIALOG (online) : Asia Intelligence Wire  and  Asia-Pacific News There are complementary databases which can be freely accessed via Internet :  Asia-Pacific Business Review  and  Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, both distributed by INFORMAWORLD / Taylor and Francis Group ; 5 other journal databases, distributed by the ASIA-PACIFIC company.