This special issue of Language Resources and Evaluation, entitled “New Frontiers in Asian Language Resources”, complements the earlier special double issue on Asian Language Processing: State of the Art Resources and Processing (Huang et al. 2006) by presenting eight papers describing specific Asian language resources. As Bird and Simons (2003) explain, research on language resources must deal with how the resources can be acquired and documented as well as how the resources can be accessed and used. Among the eight papers in this issue, the first four papers focus on resources, while the latter four target specific application tasks and describe resource building in the contexts of these applications.