<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Restive Rural China</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/issues/ruralchina?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><description>Restive Rural China</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[8 Slashed to Death in Chinese High School]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13728-2004Nov26.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13728-2004Nov26.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The unexplained attack is the latest and most serious in a series of such knifings that have alarmed the Chinese public and led police to reinforce security at schools and day-care centers.]]></description><author> Edward Cody</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ethnic Fighting Flares in China]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15032-2004Nov1.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15032-2004Nov1.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Government authorities declared martial law in a rural section of central China's Henan province last week after four days of ethnic clashes there involving thousands of villagers left as many as a dozen people dead and many more injured, witnesses said Monday.]]></description><author> Philip P. Pan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[N. Korea Sets Limits on Aid]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44991-2004Apr26.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44991-2004Apr26.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The international outpouring of sympathy for North Korea since a catastrophic explosion Thursday in the town of Ryongchon has created a predicament  for the government in Pyongyang: How far should it allow the helping hands of foreign charity to reach?]]></description><author> Anthony Faiola</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A New Use for Good Earth]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6653-2004Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6653-2004Apr12.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  QIHE, China -- The news came bluntly, with an announcement over the village public address system. The town government was taking most of the farmland and selling it to a developer. In place of the wheat covering these flatlands of northern China, a golf course would take shape, along with hundreds of new villas and a luxury hotel.]]></description><author> Peter S. Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iraqi Insurgents Down U.S. Copter, Killing 2 in Crew]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3056-2004Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3056-2004Apr11.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Insurgents shot down a U.S. Army attack helicopter Sunday near Baghdad, killing its two crew members, as American commanders maintained an uneasy pause in offensive operations against guerrillas in the flashpoint city of Fallujah.]]></description><author> Sewell Chan and Pamela Constable</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Some Chinese, a Dark Side of Change]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29890-2004Mar27.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29890-2004Mar27.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ SHIJIANGLIANG, China -- For Zhang Qingfei, education was the ticket out, a way to forge beyond this desolate village of 160 souls who scratch a meager living growing potatoes in the unyielding soil of Inner Mongolia.]]></description><author> Edward Cody</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In China, Miners Pay a High Toll]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13940-2004Mar21.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13940-2004Mar21.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Coal fuels an economic boom, but the dangerous way it is mined costs many lives.]]></description><author> Peter S. Goodman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Struggle for Spiritual Freedom in China]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44597-2004Mar9.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44597-2004Mar9.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Despite the governments crackdown on religion, Tibetan Buddhism flourishes in a mountain monastic encampment.]]></description><author> Philip P. Pan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chinese Premier Signals Need to Share the Wealth]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33117-2004Mar5.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33117-2004Mar5.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Premier Wen Jiabao promised Friday to make sure more citizens share in their country's meteoric economic growth, particularly farmers and migrant workers left behind by the boom.]]></description><author> Edward Cody</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[N. Korean Women Find Life of Abuse Waiting in China]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24348-2004Mar2.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24348-2004Mar2.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[SEOUL -- On Dec. 25, 2000, a young North Korean woman and her 5-year-old daughter approached the banks of the frozen Tumen River separating North Korea and China. The woman clutched her terrified daughter's hand and hustled across the frozen river, ducking armed patrols until the pair cleared the border.]]></description><author> Anthony Faiola</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quick-Trading Fee Proposed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7218-2004Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7218-2004Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a 2 percent redemption fee on short-term mutual fund trades to thwart market timing, a tactic at the center of trading abuses. The plan, given preliminary approval, would require funds to impose the fee on sales of shares owned for five business days or less, with some exceptions such as for investors facing emergencies. The plan would not apply to money market funds, funds that trade on exchanges and funds that encourage market timing, as long as they tell investors in the prospectus that the trading will add to costs to the fund.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Language by Women, for Women]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A552-2004Feb23.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A552-2004Feb23.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Scholars and local authorities in China have taken renewed interest in the unique women's script called nushu, trying to preserve it as the last women who are fluent reach the end of their lives.]]></description><author> Edward Cody</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agent Saves Life, Only to Lose Own]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22028-2004Feb7.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22028-2004Feb7.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It was after dusk in mid-December, and the dark waters of the Colorado River were below 50 degrees. Fan Tuan Gao, 19, an illegal immigrant from China, was in the river trying to sneak into the United States with four Chinese companions and two Mexican smugglers.]]></description><author> Kevin Sullivan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[China's Farms Hit Hard by Bird Flu]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17047-2004Feb5.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17047-2004Feb5.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The bird flu that has swept Asia in recent weeks, battering small farmers and agribusinesses alike, is raising alarm among Asian publics still nervous over memories of last year's devastating SARS epidemic.]]></description><author> Edward Cody</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[China Suspects More Outbreaks of Bird Flu]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3169-2004Feb1.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3169-2004Feb1.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Five more suspected outbreaks of the deadly avian influenza virus were reported Sunday, indicating that the disease was spreading across the country faster than expected.]]></description><author> Philip P. Pan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WORLD IN BRIEF]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4380-2004Feb1.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4380-2004Feb1.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Haitians Demonstrate  As Leader Vows Reform <br>   PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti --  Tens of thousands of government opponents marched peacefully Sunday to demand the resignation of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a day after the embattled leader rescinded restrictions on street protests and vowed to implement measures aimed at ending the country's unrest.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slaughter of Poultry Could Alter Virus]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52595-2004Jan27.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52595-2004Jan27.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Officials warned that the mass slaughter of chickens could help turn the virus into a form far more threatening to humans; death toll now eight.]]></description><author> Alan Sipress</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kicking Up the Dust of History]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36733-2004Jan21.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36733-2004Jan21.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Chinese academics taking part in a government-run project recently shocked both South and North Korean scholars by releasing documents that claim Goguryeo -- which ruled a broad swath of the Korean Peninsula and Manchuria for almost 700 years -- as an ethnic kingdom of ancient China. The result has been a heated dispute.]]></description><author> Anthony Faiola</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Easing of Penal System Part of Change in China]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26146-2004Jan17.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26146-2004Jan17.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Beijing is planning to implement judicial reforms that could sharply reduce its use of the death penalty.]]></description><author> Philip P. Pan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restaurant Searched For Link to SARS Case]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6916-2004Jan10.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6916-2004Jan10.html?nav=rss_world/issues/ruralchina</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:04:20 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[World Health Organization experts on Saturday searched a restaurant in southern China where a suspected SARS patient worked serving dishes of exotic wildlife.]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>