<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Singapore</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/asia/southeastasia/singapore?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</link><description>Singapore</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[Hope Fades and Arrives In Indonesia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14336-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14336-2005Mar30.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 6:02:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[For some on Indonesia's Nias island devastated by Monday's  mammoth undersea earthquake, hope returned as supplies and rescue workers began arriving in quantity.]]></description><author> Ellen Nakashima</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Private Views of a Public Man]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12203-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12203-2005Feb9.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 6:02:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The keepers of the Churchill Museum invited the press in Wednesday to show off their ultramodern museum, packed with interactive features, film and photo displays, and dozens of artifacts.]]></description><author> Glenn Frankel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humbled by Tragedy, Heartened by Response]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55025-2005Jan6.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55025-2005Jan6.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 6:02:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  On Christmas day, the Indonesian ambassador,    Soemadi D.M. Brotodiningrat , celebrated with 200 Indonesian Christians. Then he headed to the residence of Singapore's ambassador, arriving for dinner a little late.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hot Hand, Cold Hand]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34417-2004Dec4.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34417-2004Dec4.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 6:02:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    D.C. Mayor Anthony A.     Williams,  who won preliminary approval from the D.C. Council to build a publicly funded baseball stadium in Southeast, plus a vote by the board of the Washington Convention Center Authority to put the city's largest hotel on a site the mayor favors.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calpers President Voted Out]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26867-2004Dec1.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26867-2004Dec1.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 6:02:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Sean Harrigan was ousted from his post as president of the $177 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System. In a 3 to 2 vote in San Francisco, the California state Personnel Board pulled Harrigan from Calpers, where he had served for five years. Elected as Calpers board president in February 2003, Harrigan is a longtime union official and an advocate for corporate governance reform. He persuaded institutional investors to withhold votes for Walt Disney's Michael D. Eisner as board chairman, and he led a drive to withhold votes for Safeway chief executive Steven A. Burd while the union was on strike against the company. Ron Alvarado will succeed Harrigan beginning Jan. 1, a board spokeswoman said.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[UTAH Jon Huntsman Jr. (R)]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23648-2004Nov3.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23648-2004Nov3.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 6:02:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jon Huntsman Jr., 44, a former U.S. ambassador to Singapore who runs his family's $10 billion holding company, won the gubernatorial race in Utah by defeating Democrat Scott M. Matheson Jr., a Utah law school dean.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cambodia's New King Comes Home]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49663-2004Oct20.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49663-2004Oct20.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 6:02:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Norodom Sihamoni returned home to Cambodia on Wednesday, appointed as the country's new king to replace his father, Norodom Sihanouk, who abdicated this month.]]></description><author> Alan Sipress</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Birthrate Falling, Singapore Targets 'Lifestyle Impotency']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12826-2004Sep10.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12826-2004Sep10.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 6:02:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ SINGAPORE -- Sarah Wee and James Ng are the quintessential career couple. Married only a year, the sparkly Wee is a media executive at a large ad agency. Ng, clean-cut in a blue button-down, is an asset manager with a property investment firm. They own a condo, a $42,000 car and two dogs, a Maltese and a Shih Tzu.]]></description><author> Ellen Nakashima</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61503-2004Aug12.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61503-2004Aug12.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 6:02:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  China Typhoon Kills 63, Injures Hundreds More <br>   SHANGHAI --  The death toll from a typhoon rose to 63 early Friday with more than 1,800 injured after the strongest storm of the season slammed into China's southeastern coast, official news reports said.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singapore Goes It Alone In Security Drill]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7880-2004Jun1.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7880-2004Jun1.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 6:02:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Singapore's first effort at a joint response by its security forces to a potential terrorist attack off the world's second-busiest port pointed up the limited ability of countries in the region to cooperate in countering the threat.]]></description><author> Ellen Nakashima  and Alan Sipress</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not All Travelers Are Checked]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57595-2004Jan5.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57595-2004Jan5.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 6:02:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<em> Citizens from these countries are exempt from fingerprinting and photographing required by the U.S. Visit program:</em>]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Imports]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33474-2003Dec26.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33474-2003Dec26.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 6:02:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<em>The following countries have banned imports of U.S. beef because of the case of mad cow disease: </em>]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health Officials Remain Calm About Single SARS Case in Taiwan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13274-2003Dec18.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13274-2003Dec18.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 6:02:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The new emergence of SARS this week includes key elements of the global outbreak last winter and spring, but world and U.S. health authorities say they are not alarmed.]]></description><author> William Foreman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[11 Men With Suspected Ties to Al Qaeda Arrested in Southeast Asia]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13309-2003Dec18.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13309-2003Dec18.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 6:02:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Authorities in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia said they have in custody 11 alleged Islamic militants  who were  being groomed as the next generation of leaders of a regional terrorist group linked to al Qaeda.]]></description><author> Ellen Nakashima</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lab Rules Ignored in New SARS Case]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9688-2003Dec17.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9688-2003Dec17.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 6:02:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Taiwan's first SARS case in five months raised serious questions Wednesday about how carefully laboratories are handling the virus. The infected person, a 44 -year-old scientist, ignored safety guidelines and waited six days before going to a hospital even though he had a fever.]]></description><author> William Foreman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[SARS Case Confirmed In Taiwan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6962-2003Dec17.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6962-2003Dec17.html?nav=rss_world/asia/southeastasia/singapore</guid><pubDate>Tue, 3 May 2005 6:02:52 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[TAIPEI, Taiwan, Dec. 17 -- Taiwanese officials said Wednesday that a medical researcher had tested positive for SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome -- the island's first case since it was dropped from a global list of infected areas in July.]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>