Heavily Guarded Olympic Torch Is Conveyed Through Tibetan Capital- June 22, 2008 BEIJING, June 21 -- Under tight security Saturday, the Olympic torch relay wound through the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, where deadly rioting in March has left a climate of fear and a heavy police presence.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/317029240/AR20080621... Frustrated Burmese Organize Aid Forays- June 21, 2008 RANGOON -- Seven weeks after huge swaths of Burma were savaged by a cyclone and tidal wave, a new and remarkable citizen movement is delivering emergency supplies to survivors neglected by the military government's haphazard relief effort.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/316668611/AR20080620... Star Pakistani Cricket Bowler Draws the Invective of His Fans- June 21, 2008 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Mohammad Asif might be one of the world's most brilliant cricket bowlers, but his star is fast losing luster in Pakistan.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/316613615/AR20080620... New Data Found On North Korea's Nuclear Capacity- June 21, 2008 The United States in recent weeks has obtained new intelligence -- fresh traces of highly enriched uranium discovered among 18,000 pages of North Korean documents -- that are raising new questions about whether Pyongyang pursued an alternative route to producing a nuclear weapon, according to...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/316613616/AR20080620... S. Korea's Lee Offers New Beef Apology- June 20, 2008 SEOUL, June 19 -- South Korean President Lee Myung-bak apologized again Thursday for failing to grasp the militant mad cow fears of his people and promised them that any U.S. beef sold here would only be from younger cattle deemed to be less at risk of the disease.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/315794115/AR20080619... Afghans Assert Victory Over Taliban in South- June 20, 2008 KABUL, June 19 -- Hundreds of Afghan and Canadian troops moved to clear Taliban fighters from villages in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, as military officials asserted they had made strong gains in the operation.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/315598116/AR20080619... For Rural Tibetans, the Future Is in Town- June 20, 2008 GEZA, China -- Her elder sister is the first to rise, bringing in wood to light the cooking fire and setting water to boil for yak butter tea. Her mother is next, grabbing clumps of freshly picked dandelion greens from a metal tub to mix with barley powder and water to feed the pigs.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/315888065/AR20080619... N. Korea's Abduction of U.S. Permanent Resident Fades From Official View- June 19, 2008 Kim Dong-shik, a U.S. permanent resident and Christian missionary with family living in Illinois, was abducted in 2000 by North Korean agents in northeastern China and taken to North Korea for interrogation and imprisonment, according to testimony in South Korean courts. Kim, whose wife and two c...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/314991506/AR20080618... Three More Charged In Journalist's Killing- June 19, 2008 MOSCOW, June 18 -- Three men were charged Wednesday with involvement in the October 2006 killing of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, but investigators said nothing about who ordered the assassination or why. A man formally identified by authorities last month as the shooter remains at...http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/314945894/AR20080618... GAO Criticizes U.S. Strategy on Afghan Forces- June 19, 2008 After six years and $16.5 billion in spending, the Defense and State departments still lack a "sustainable strategy" for developing Afghanistan's army and police force, government auditors said yesterday.http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/world/asia/index_xml/~3/315061278/AR20080618... |