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		<title>North Korea’s new young leader gets rock star treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Foster Klug The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea’s young new leader gets rock star treatment when he visits his troops — just as his father did. But while the late Kim Jong Il mostly stayed aloof in dark shades, his son holds hands and hugs his soldiers. Kim Jong Un [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan’s population to shrink by one-third by 2060</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mari Yamaguchi The Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s population of 128 million will shrink by one-third and seniors will account for 40 percent of people by 2060, placing a greater burden on a smaller working-age population to support the social security and tax systems. The grim estimate of how rapid aging will shrink [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asia urges football lawmakers to lift hijab ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The Asian Football Confederation on Monday urged football’s top lawmaking body to approve a headscarf with safety features for use by Islamic female players. Football governing body FIFA banned the hijab or headscarf in 2007 for safety reasons, a move condemned by Islamic leaders and sports officials. Iran’s team forfeited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>North Korea to issue special pardons for convicts around Lunar New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hyung-jin Kim The Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea will issue special pardons for convicts to commemorate milestone birthdays of its two late leaders, state media said, in the first such dispensations in more than six years. The pardons come as North Korea’s new leader, Kim Jong Un, moves to solidify [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China’s dragon stamp deemed too ferocious and . . . ugly</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING (AP) — A stamp designed to mark China’s upcoming Year of the Dragon is drawing unusual criticism for its fang-bearing monster. The stamp went on sale earlier in the month, drawing the heavy crowds that normally flock to buy the annual Lunar New Year stamps. But the dragon’s attacking pose on this year’s stamp [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan Cabinet being reshuffled after rape gaffes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Yuri Kageyama The Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — A Cabinet reshuffle in Japan is coming. It is likely to include the removal of a defense minister who outraged the public with gaffes about a rape by U.S. servicemen. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda told reporters Sunday, Jan. 8, that a change in his Cabinet was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Octomom’ case stuns one-child public in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alexa Olesen The Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The photo was undeniably cute. A studio portrait of eight babies in identical onesies and perky white cotton hats, sports an array of expressions from giggly to goofy, baffled to bawling. Intended as an advertisement for the studio, the photo grabbed a different kind of attention. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Samoa and Tokelau jump ahead a day on New Year’s Eve</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Keni Lesa The Associated Press   APIA, Samoa (AP) — Sirens wailed and fireworks exploded in the skies over Samoa, as the tiny South Pacific nation jumped forward in time, crossing westward over the international date line and effectively erasing Friday, Dec. 30, 2011, from the country’s calendar. Samoans who had gathered around the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charges of United States bias as Taiwan election nears</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Enav The Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Washington has been lavishing attention on Taiwan, stepping up official visits and saying it will likely allow visa-free travel to the United States. The moves are raising suspicions that America is trying to influence a tight presidential election here in January. President Ma Ying-jeou has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secretary Geithner to travel to China and Japan Jan. 10-12</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced that Secretary Tim Geithner will travel to Beijing, China, and Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 10-12, for meetings with senior government officials in both countries to discuss the state of the global economy, policies to strengthen global growth, and other economic issues of mutual importance. Secretary Geithner will also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WWU prof sheds light on drastic climate change in Alaska, Sri Lanka, and Mongolia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jeffrey Osborn Northwest Asian Weekly The human race has been considered a race of hunter–gatherers. Groups that lived inland hunted wild animals and when the opportunity presented itself, they fished in lakes and rivers. Alternatively, groups that lived by a coast relied far more heavily on fish from the ocean, naturally leading to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kim Jong Il’s heir meets with South Korean delegation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea’s next leader burnished his diplomatic skills Monday, welcoming a private South Korean mourning delegation as state media revealed a new title that gives Kim Jong Un authority over political matters. Kim Jong Un has rapidly gained prominence since the death of his father Kim Jong Il on Dec. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In family horror, some see an East–West culture clash</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 14:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Charmaine Noronha The Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — On a summer morning in 2009, in canal locks east of Toronto, police made a grisly discovery. In a submerged Nissan car were the bodies of three teenage sisters and a 52-year-old woman. A joyride gone tragically wrong, claimed the father, Mohammad Shafia, 58, who reported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian millionaire an outcast, has nowhere to put his money</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tim Sullivan The Associated Press AGRA, India (AP) — As far back as he can remember, people told Hari Kishan Pippal that he was unclean, with a filthiness that had tainted his family for centuries. Teachers forced him to sit apart from other students. Employers sometimes didn’t bother to pay him. Pippal is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The top 10 outstanding Asian and Asian American achievements of 2011</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nina Huang Northwest Asian Weekly Each year, there are certain people who have been recognized for the extraordinary things they have done for Asians and Asian Americans.  This list showcases this year’s individuals. 10. This year, President Obama nominated Judge Jacqueline Nguyen to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Two years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 wacky-but-true Asian news stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly Throughout the year, we encounter some news stories that make us go, HUH? These are stories that are strange, weird, unique — or just really funny. 10. Barbie too sexy for China? In March, the Barbie store in Shanghai shut down after only two years in business. Critics and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All wait with bated breath for a post-Kim Jong-il world</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Stacy Nguyen Northwest Asian Weekly In the early 1990s, when North Korea opened its borders a tiny bit to Americans, Seong Suk Kim, also known as Joan, sought the opportunity to visit her siblings — two brothers — and their children, Kim’s nieces and nephews, whom she had never met. During the Korean War, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery surrounds son set to succeed Kim Jong Il</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JEAN H. LEE The Associated Press PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — With the sudden death of his father, Kim Jong Un went from being North Korea&#8217;s &#8220;Respected General&#8221; to &#8220;Great Successor&#8221; — a heady and uncertain promotion for a young man virtually unknown even to the North Korean people just a year ago. Word [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Gates developing nuclear reactor with China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 51 | 12/17-12/23]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BEIJING (AP) — Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates says he is in discussions with China to jointly develop a new kind of nuclear reactor. During a talk at China’s Ministry of Science &#38; Technology on Wednesday, the billionaire said, &#8220;The idea is to be very low cost, very safe, and generate very little waste.&#8221; Gates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-leader in court says Khmer Rouge not ‘bad people,’ blames Vietnam</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Vol 30 No 50 | 12/10-12/16]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sopheng Cheang The Associated Press PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A former leader of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime told a court that he and his comrades were not “bad people,” denying responsibility last Monday, Dec. 5, for the deaths of 1.7 million people during their 1970s rule and blaming Vietnam for any atrocities. [...]]]></description>
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