<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Asia/Pacific</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/asia?nav=rss_world/asia</link><description>Asia/Pacific</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[In a Jail in Cuba Beat the Heart of a Poet]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12399-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12399-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ PESHAWAR, Pakistan  --  Among the old leather volumes in the library of Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost is a black plastic binder full of rumpled  letters he wrote, sent from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.]]></description><author> N.C. Aizenmann</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospital  Services Performed Overseas]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12392-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12392-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A movement toward greater use of telemedicine is widening the spectrum of care doctors can provide from afar and enabling more outsourcing of services overseas.<br><FONT face="verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica" size="-2" color="#666666"><B>-The Washington Post</B></FONT>]]></description><author> Rob Stein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hu Jintao Tightens Party's Grip on Power]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12427-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12427-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Chinese president is emerging as an unyielding leader determined to preserve the Communist Party's monopoly on power and willing to impose new limits on speech and other civil liberties to do it.]]></description><author> Philip P. Pan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[30 Years Later, Immigrants Shed Vietnam War's Burden]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12415-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12415-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Thirty is now the median age of the 1.2 million people of Vietnamese heritage living in the United States. Thirty is young enough to be haunted by Vietnam, old enough to have created new lives.]]></description><author> Phuong Ly</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Koizumi, Hu Meet to Address Tensions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12397-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12397-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  JAKARTA, Indonesia, April 23  --  Chinese President Hu Jintao urged Japan to translate its remorse over wartime atrocities into "actual action" during a much-anticipated meeting here Saturday that both sides said they hoped would ease dangerously heightened tensions between the two countries.]]></description><author> Ellen Nakashima</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Dark Side to Good News on Bird Flu]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10548-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10548-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Vietnamese doctors are reporting that the mortality rate in their country has dropped substantially, but it could mean the outbreak of bird flu in Southeast Asia is taking an ominous turn.]]></description><author> Alan Sipress</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Koizumi, Hu to Meet at Weekend Summit]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8493-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8493-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After apologizing for his country's aggressive role in World War II, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won agreement from Chinese President Hu Jintao to meet at the Asian-African summit.]]></description><author> Ellen Nakashima</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japan's Observance Opens Wounds]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10450-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10450-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The observance was central to the roiling dispute over history that has engulfed Japan and its primary wartime victims, China and South Korea.]]></description><author> Anthony Faiola</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stocks Fall,  But Gains For Week Hold Up]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10811-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10811-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NEW YORK, April 22  --  A fresh wave of worries pushed stocks lower Friday as investors dealt with disappointing earnings in the consumer sector, rising oil prices and the possibility of a nuclear weapon test by North Korea. Stocks finished the week higher, however.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In His Own Defense, Terror Suspect Takes Offense as 9/11 Trial Opens in Madrid]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10429-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10429-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Spanish man facing terror charges scolded prosecutors and judges from the witness chair Friday as Europe's biggest al Qaeda trial opened in a heavily guarded courtroom here following eight years of investigation.]]></description><author> Craig Whitlock</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Signs Stir Concern North Korea Might Test Nuclear Bomb]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10477-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10477-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  U.S. officials are increasingly concerned that North Korea may be preparing its first test of a nuclear weapon, though they warn that the information is sketchy and not definitive.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senate Approves Spending Bill]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7684-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7684-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Senate unanimously approved yesterday an $81 billion bill to finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, provide relief to Asian tsunami victims and construct a massive embassy in Baghdad.]]></description><author> Jonathan Weisman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trade Nominee Vows Action on China]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8103-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8103-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Rob Portman, the White House nominee for U.S. trade representative, vowed yesterday to adopt a "more aggressive approach" with China, the latest sign that the Bush administration is responding to pressure from Congress and business for action against Beijing's allegedly unfair trading practices.]]></description><author> Paul Blustein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Japanese Leader Apologizes For the Past]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8001-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8001-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ JAKARTA, Indonesia, April 22  --  Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reiterated an apology for Japan's wartime acts in an attempt to mend fences with Beijing and persuade China's president, Hu Jintao, to meet with him on the sidelines of an Asia-Africa summit in Indonesia Friday.]]></description><author> Ellen Nakashima  and Anthony Faiola</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Envoy To N. Korea Steps Aside For Probe]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6233-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6233-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The United Nations' special envoy to North Korea, Maurice F. Strong, decided Wednesday to step aside until U.N.-appointed investigators and federal prosecutors finish examining his financial ties to a South Korean lobbyist accused of trying to bribe U.N. officials.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Complexity of Taiwan's Ties With Lobbyists]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6120-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6120-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Taiwan's relationships with its Washington lobbyists are sometimes as complicated and tortuous as its relationship with the U.S. government.]]></description><author> Judy Sarasohn</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Region's Leaders Ask China, Japan to End Feud]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6232-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6232-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ JAKARTA, Indonesia, April 20  --  Asian foreign ministers on Wednesday called on China and Japan to resolve a dispute the ministers said was sparking concern across the region.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In China, Roots of Anger Run Deep]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2430-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2430-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The lasting sting of wartime atrocities is fueling protests over Tokyo's policies.]]></description><author> Edward Cody</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wall Street Ends Streak Of Steep Declines]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64244-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64244-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A handful of bargain hunters emerged to pick through the wreckage of last week and snap up a few carefully chosen shares.]]></description><author> Ben White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.N. Envoy Says Park Invested in His Firm, Advised Him on N. Korea]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64601-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/asia</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64601-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_world/asia</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:12:50 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ UNITED NATIONS, April  18 --  A senior  U.N. official said Monday that he "was associated" with a company that received investments from a South Korean businessman who was charged last week with lobbying U.N. officials as an unregistered agent for Saddam Hussein's government.]]></description><author> Colum Lynch</author></item></channel></rss>
