Pioneering Chinese City Offers a Peek at Political Ferment- June 30, 2008 SHENZHEN, China -- When China decided to liberalize its economy back in the late 1970s, Shenzhen was chosen as the vanguard, the first "special economic zone" allowed to do business free of Communist-era restrictions.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/323184447/AR20080629... Beijing Officials Announce a New Round of Talks With Dalai Lama's Envoys- June 30, 2008 BEIJING, June 29 -- Chinese officials will hold a second round of meetings early next month with envoys of the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, state media reported Sunday.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/322889624/AR20080629... Anger Over Rape-Murder Case Sparks Riot in China- June 30, 2008 BEIJING, June 29 -- Thousands of people thronged a police station in southwestern China to protest the alleged coverup of a teenage girl's rape and murder, witnesses and officials reported Sunday. The crowd set fire to a government complex and several police vehicles.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/322682530/AR20080629... Assurances From Rice Fail to Sway S. Koreans- June 29, 2008 SEOUL, June 28 -- Flying toward the Korean Peninsula on Saturday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was compelled by events on the ground to refocus her threat-assessment radar.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/322119625/AR20080628... Pakistani Forces Move In On Taliban- June 29, 2008 KABUL, June 28 Hundreds of Pakistani military and police forces moved into the key northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday to head off a possible attack by the Taliban and other Islamist insurgents, marking the first major military operation in Pakistan's fractured border region since a new gov...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/322029724/AR20080628... N. Korea Razes Cooling Tower In Show of Nuclear Accord- June 28, 2008 KYOTO, Japan, June 27 -- North Korea dynamited the dirty gray cooling tower at its deactivated Yongbyon nuclear facility on Friday, a made-for-TV event intended to show the United States and the world that it is serious about abandoning its nuclear weapons program.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/321238567/AR20080627... Fuel Prices Boost Cause of S. Asia's Maligned Rickshaw- June 28, 2008 NEW DELHI -- The bicycle rickshaws that weave through New Delhi's narrow lanes have long been scorned by authorities here for congesting the city's already fierce traffic. The creaking carriages crawl alongside luxury sedans, book hawkers, horse-drawn carts, hulking buses and cows.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/321767871/AR20080627... Beijing's Water Policies Add to Crisis, Report Says- June 27, 2008 BEIJING, June 26 -- Beijing says it will host a green Olympics this August, but to keep taps flowing and parks beautiful, the city will rely on "shortsighted" measures and large-scale engineering projects rather than conservation-oriented laws and incentives, according to a new report.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/320906648/AR20080626... U.S. to Delist North Korea As Sponsor Of Terrorism- June 27, 2008 KYOTO, Japan, June 26 -- President Bush moved Thursday to drop North Korea from a list of countries that sponsor terrorism and to lift some trading sanctions, after the isolated totalitarian state turned over a long-delayed report that includes details of plutonium production in its nuclear program.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/320454516/AR20080626... U.N. Finds Afghan Opium Trade Rising- June 27, 2008 UNITED NATIONS, June 26 -- Afghan opium poppy cultivation grew 17 percent last year, continuing a six-year expansion of the country's drug trade and increasing its share of global opium production to more than 92 percent, according to the 2008 World Drug Report, released Thursday by the United Na...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/320674784/AR20080626... |