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	<title>Crikey &#187; Asia-Pacific</title>
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		<title>Rio Tinto, BHP results cloud mining tax bottom line</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/rio-tinto-bhp-results-cloud-mining-tax-bottom-line/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/rio-tinto-bhp-results-cloud-mining-tax-bottom-line/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[BHP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iron ore prices]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio Tinto]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just how much money will the government’s revised mining tax end up raising from the big players, ask <b>Glenn Dyer</b> and <b>Bernard Keane</b>?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>How the &#8216;resource curse&#8217; eats at the heart of Bougainville</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/how-the-resource-curse-eats-at-the-heart-of-bougainville/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/how-the-resource-curse-eats-at-the-heart-of-bougainville/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antony Loewenstein</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bougainville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Somare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Papua New Guinea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[port moresby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio Tinto]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=272922</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bougainvilleans may have won the war but the peace has left years of inertia, and a province desperately needing rehabilitation.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Will constitutional recognition advance Australia fair?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/will-constitutional-recognition-advance-australia-fair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/10/will-constitutional-recognition-advance-australia-fair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aboriginal and torres strait islander]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racial discrimination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traditional aboriginal culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273606</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The report examining options to recognise indigenous people in the constitution lays out an important project of modernisation, says professor <b>Jon Altman</b> of ANU's Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letter from: Beijing &#8230; reading China like reading tea leaves</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/09/letter-from-beijing-reading-china-like-reading-tea-leaves/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/09/letter-from-beijing-reading-china-like-reading-tea-leaves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liu Xiaobo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president hu jintao]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiananmen anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tiananmen square]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=273140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Communist Party only has one option: it has to avoid a bust at all costs, and continue to make like the fireworks and boom, writes <b>Matthew Clayfield</b>, a freelance correspondent, in Beijing.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Russia goes its own way over Syria</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/06/russia-goes-its-own-way-over-syria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/02/06/russia-goes-its-own-way-over-syria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:09:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bashar al-Assad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hilary clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[middle east peace process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Muammar Gaddafi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[russian president vladimir putin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria protests]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=272766</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week there was some hope that Russia might be coming on board with the need to do something about the steadily increasing bloodshed in Syria.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Port Moresby hums, despite media-perceived crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/31/port-moresby-hums-despite-media-perceived-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/31/port-moresby-hums-despite-media-perceived-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Somare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[papua new guinea coup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[port moresby]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=271693</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Port Moresby, seen as the centre of a crisis by the world’s media, continues to function every day for themselves and others, no matter what, writes <b>Catherine Wilson</b>, a journalist in Port Moresby.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is the World Bank failing girls and kids with disabilities?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/31/is-the-world-bank-failing-girls-and-kids-with-disabilities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/31/is-the-world-bank-failing-girls-and-kids-with-disabilities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernard Keane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asian Development Bank]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ausaid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[development assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disabilities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World Bank]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=271798</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A report suggests the World Bank is getting it wrong on the role of girls and kids with disabilities in its development programs -- but AusAID comes out OK.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/31/is-the-world-bank-failing-girls-and-kids-with-disabilities/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why is Papua New Guinea so unstable?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/27/crikey-clarifier-why-is-papua-new-guinea-so-unstable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/27/crikey-clarifier-why-is-papua-new-guinea-so-unstable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey Intern</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crikey Clarifier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Somare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Papua New Guinea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[papua new guinea coup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter O'Neill]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=271203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday around 100 troops, led by former Colonel Yaura Sasa, took the commander of the Papua New Guinea armed forces, General Francis Angwi, hostage. How unstable is the country, asks <b>Adrian Dowie</b>?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/27/crikey-clarifier-why-is-papua-new-guinea-so-unstable/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8216;Unprepared for command&#8217;: elder Kim blasts Jong-un</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/17/elder-kim-slams-n-koreas-leader-military-and-futur/</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/17/elder-kim-slams-n-koreas-leader-military-and-futur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong Il]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong Un]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong-nam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=269561</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a new book about what it's like to be the son of Kim Jong-il, Kim Jong-nam, who lives in exile in China, has claimed North Korea's new leader is unprepared and the country will collapse without reforms, reports <b>Andrew Salmon</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/17/elder-kim-slams-n-koreas-leader-military-and-futur/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Julia Gillard can learn from the pages of Playboy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/this-blog-harms/2012/01/18/gillard%E2%80%99s-sexual-education/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/this-blog-harms/2012/01/18/gillard%E2%80%99s-sexual-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Julia Gillard]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=269545</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Julia Gillard would be well advised to seek out an edition of this month's <em>Playboy</em>. If approached with open eyes an article by Joshua Pollack has the capacity to recast the Australia-India relationship, writes <b>NAJ Taylor</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/this-blog-harms/2012/01/18/gillard%E2%80%99s-sexual-education/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>With China watching, Taiwanese vote for pragmatism</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/16/with-china-watching-taiwanese-vote-for-pragmatism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/16/with-china-watching-taiwanese-vote-for-pragmatism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles Richardson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China and Taiwan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taiwan]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=269134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday's presidential election in Taiwan saw incumbent Ma Ying-jeou of the Kuomintang (KMT) or Chinese Nationalist Party, in power since 2008, re-elected fairly comfortably with 51.6% of the vote]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/16/with-china-watching-taiwanese-vote-for-pragmatism/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Burma, the outcast, on the long road to reform</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/16/burma-the-outcast-on-the-long-road-to-reform/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/16/burma-the-outcast-on-the-long-road-to-reform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damien Kingsbury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=269050</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Burmese military-derived government has released hundreds of political prisoners, signed a ceasefire with the country’s largest ethnic rebel group and allowed the opposition National League for Democracy to re-form.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Burma sanctions just reinforce &#8216;siege mentality&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/13/burma-sanctions-just-reinforce-siege-mentality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/13/burma-sanctions-just-reinforce-siege-mentality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hilary clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Ludlam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Hague]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=268421</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a growing recognition in the international community that engagement, rather than sanctions and diplomatic isolation, is fast emerging as a more productive strategy in pressuring the Burmese government to reform, writes <b>David Hopkins</b>, a foreign relations masters graduate and Burma researcher.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/13/burma-sanctions-just-reinforce-siege-mentality/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Iranian numbers swelling on asylum seeker list</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/11/iranian-numbers-swelling-on-asylum-seeker-list/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/11/iranian-numbers-swelling-on-asylum-seeker-list/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indonesian politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Rudd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people smugglers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=267873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Iranians have emerged as a rapidly rising category of asylum seekers arriving by boat since the middle of last year, writes <b>Stuart Ranfurlie</b>, a freelance journalist in Jakarta.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/11/iranian-numbers-swelling-on-asylum-seeker-list/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ibrahim, not guilty, could shake up Malaysian politics</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/10/ibrahim-not-guilty-could-shake-up-malaysian-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/10/ibrahim-not-guilty-could-shake-up-malaysian-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damien Kingsbury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anwar ibrahim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malaysian Government]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=267678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The handing down of a "not guilty" verdict on sodomy charges against Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim indicates a tectonic shift in Malaysian politics.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2012/01/10/ibrahim-not-guilty-could-shake-up-malaysian-politics/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Red river &#8212; the blacklisting of Rio Tinto</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/this-blog-harms/2012/01/09/red-river-the-blacklisting-of-rio-tinto/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/this-blog-harms/2012/01/09/red-river-the-blacklisting-of-rio-tinto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio Rinto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Papua]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=267445</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The story of how Rio Tinto came to part-operate a mine in West Papua was merely syndicated “with agencies” in world news media. In this special essay <b>NAJ Taylor writes</b> explores the reasons and ramifications behind it. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Lest we forget: what lies beneath East Timor</title>
		<link>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/this-blog-harms/2012/01/01/leste-we-forget-what-lies-beneath-east-timor/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.crikey.com.au/this-blog-harms/2012/01/01/leste-we-forget-what-lies-beneath-east-timor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What lies beneath the haunted soil of Australia’s newest neighbour is not unique to East Timor. People in Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan and a host of other nations die and suffer daily from the effects of land mines and UXOs, writes <b>Mark Notaras</b>.
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Crying Game &#8212; North Korean style</title>
		<link>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079237/Kim-Jong-Il-funeral-Millions-crying-North-Koreans-line-Pyongyangs-snow-bound-streets.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079237/Kim-Jong-Il-funeral-Millions-crying-North-Koreans-line-Pyongyangs-snow-bound-streets.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[King Jong-il]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PHOTO GALLERY]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They wept and wept and wept: those who attended Kim Jong-il's funeral were careful not to be out-wailed by their companions. <em>Daily Mail</em> has compiled striking photographs from the tightly stage managed event and the disparate reactions from across the border.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Kim Jong-il and Vaclav Havel: a study in contrasts</title>
		<link>http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/12/21/f-vp-schlesinger.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/12/21/f-vp-schlesinger.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Rest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong Il]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vaclav havel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[They died within hours of each other, but North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il and Czech playwright Vaclav Havel were opposites. The key difference: "Kim stood for power without principle; Havel for principle over power," writes <b>Joe Schlesinger</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Relief and fear: the mixed emotions of North Korean refugees</title>
		<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/12/20/north-korean-refugees-have-mixed-emotions-about-kim-jong-il-s-death.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/12/20/north-korean-refugees-have-mixed-emotions-about-kim-jong-il-s-death.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong Il]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong Un]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consensus among the more than 20,000 North Korean refugees situated in South Korea appears to be relief that Kim Jong-il is dead, mixed with fear about what the young and inexperienced Kim Jong-un will do, reports <b>B. J. Lee</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Church leaders turn to offshore processing</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/21/church-leaders-turn-to-offshore-processing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/21/church-leaders-turn-to-offshore-processing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asylum seekers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boat people tragedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malaysia Solution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week three Christian leaders publicly expressed distress at the deaths of more asylum seekers trying to reach Australian shores, writes <b>Caz Coleman</b>, a member of the Council for Immigration Services and Status Resolution.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Report on Sri Lanka war crimes exonerates SL government</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/21/report-on-sri-lanka-war-crimes-exonerates-sl-government/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/21/report-on-sri-lanka-war-crimes-exonerates-sl-government/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Damien Kingsbury</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Balibo Five]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahinda Rajapaksa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sri Lanka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tamil Tigers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=266334</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sri Lankan government of Mahinda Rajapaksa has worked out how to get away with murder.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/21/report-on-sri-lanka-war-crimes-exonerates-sl-government/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The church that is a &#8216;festering&#8217; sore for Indonesia</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/21/the-church-that-is-a-festering-sore-for-indonesia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/21/the-church-that-is-a-festering-sore-for-indonesia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 01:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[churches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government of indonesia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics and religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This Christmas appears likely to be a gloomy one for the congregation of GKI Yasmin, writes <b>Stuart Ranfurlie</b>, a freelance journalist in Jakarta.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/21/the-church-that-is-a-festering-sore-for-indonesia/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rundle in Nth Korea: Stalinist hermit kingdom meets dystopian science-fiction</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/20/rundle-in-nth-korea-stalinist-hermit-kingdom-meets-dystopian-science-fiction-political-fetish-object/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/20/rundle-in-nth-korea-stalinist-hermit-kingdom-meets-dystopian-science-fiction-political-fetish-object/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Rundle</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong Il]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong Un]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=266203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has been to North Korea will hope to Christ that some process, from the great Kim Jong-un liberalisation to a military coup against the family, will loosen the stays sufficiently so that people might be able to feed themselves.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Post-Kim Jong-il, fear will prevail in the &#8216;hermit kingdom&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/20/post-kim-jong-il-fear-will-prevail-in-the-hermit-kingdom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/20/post-kim-jong-il-fear-will-prevail-in-the-hermit-kingdom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 02:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong Il]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Jong Un]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Next year was always going to be big for north-east Asia. The death of Kim Jong-Il has merely ensured that the political manoeuvring will begin a little earlier than expected, writes <b>Dr Danielle Chubb</b>, a Vasey Research Fellow at the Pacific Forum CSIS.]]></description>
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