<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Malaysia: News &amp; Videos about Malaysia - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Malaysia</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Malaysia from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 17:05:48 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Malaysia: News &amp; Videos about Malaysia - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cnn.net//cnn/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/06/malaysia.blogger.ap/tztop.blogger.ap.jpg</url><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Malaysia</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Malaysia from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Malaysian blogger faces jail for sedition </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/06/malaysia.blogger.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/06/malaysia.blogger.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A prominent Malaysian blogger was charged Tuesday with sedition for allegedly implying the deputy prime minister was involved in the sensational killing of a young Mongolian woman.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 10:46:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Asia rice exporters to discuss cartel</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/05/06/rice.cartel.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/05/06/rice.cartel.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Rice-exporting nations planned to discuss a proposed cartel to control the price of the staple food Tuesday, a day after a regional development bank called for sharper fiscal policies to help a billion poor people in Asia cope with skyrocketing food prices.</description><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 04:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Malaysia's king opens new Parliament</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/29/malaysia.parliament.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/29/malaysia.parliament.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Malaysia's king urged lawmakers to preserve racial peace, as he formally opened the multiethnic country's new Parliament on Tuesday, packed with a record number of opposition members.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:09:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Malaysia plans local rice subsidy</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/04/28/malaysia.rice.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/BUSINESS/04/28/malaysia.rice.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Malaysia's government is planning to subsidize locally-grown rice to prevent consumers from being hit by record high prices of the staple food in the world, a Cabinet minister said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Muslims threaten Malaysia Chelsea boycott</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/football/04/27/malaya.chelsea/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/football/04/27/malaya.chelsea/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Muslim leaders have urged Malaysians to boycott a planned visit from English Premier League club Chelsea after their government decided to allow the London side's Israeli manager Avram Grant and defender Tal Ben Haim to enter the country.</description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:13:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Malaysia drops bullet train to Singapore</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/23/malaysia.singapore.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/23/malaysia.singapore.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Malaysia has scrapped plans for a multi-billion-dollar high-speed bullet train connecting Kuala Lumpur and Singapore because of high costs, a government official said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:37:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Formula One dominated by uncertainty</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/03/24/seasonopen.form1/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/03/24/seasonopen.form1/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>"The more I see the less I know for sure." John Lennon's thoughts on life could easily be applied to this year's Formula One season.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:17:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Hamilton turns the heat on Malaysian rivals</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/03/20/malaysia.hamilton/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/03/20/malaysia.hamilton/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Lewis Hamilton will quite literally be feeling the heat as he goes into this weekend's Malaysian Grand Prix as the clear favorite after his dominating performance in the opening round of the Fomula One world championship in Australia.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:20:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rivals set sights on confident Hamilton</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/03/17/sepang.form1/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/03/17/sepang.form1/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Lewis Hamilton may rue being so dismissive of his competition after dominating the opening Australian Grand Prix.</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Malaysia's PM rejects calls to resign</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/09/malaysia.elections/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/03/09/malaysia.elections/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Malaysia's prime minister took the oath of office for a new five-year term Monday, rejecting calls to resign after an unprecedented electoral setback that has shaken the country's political landscape, the Associated Press reported.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Malaysia's Leaders Suffer Setback</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1720739,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1720739,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The ruling National Front still holds a majority, but opposition candidates scored stunning upsets in parliamentary elections</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Malaysia's Election May Be Done Deal</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1714196,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1714196,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi seems sure to remain in office, but opposition to the government is growing </description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Man jailed for burying baby alive</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/22/malaysia.baby/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/22/malaysia.baby/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A judge in Malaysia sentenced an Indonesian man to five years in prison for burying his day-old baby alive in a jungle, a local newspaper reported Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:16:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Report: Malaysia to cut foreign workers</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/20/malaysia.workers/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/20/malaysia.workers/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Malaysia expects to send home at least 200,000 foreign workers by next year to open up more jobs for its citizens, a local newspaper reported Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:08:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Disgraced minister quits in wake of sex scandal</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/02/malaysia.minister/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/01/02/malaysia.minister/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Malaysia's health minister has resigned after being caught on videotape having sex with a female friend the country's national news agency said Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:54:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Malaysian news site strives for dialogue</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/22/malaysiakini/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/22/malaysiakini/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Inside a nondescript building in the gritty Bangsar district of south Kuala Lumpur rests Malaysiakini.com (Malay for "Malaysia Now"), a newspaper covering Malaysia that exists solely in cyberspace. </description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Facing Malaysia's Racial Issues
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1687973,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1687973,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A massive protest turns violent as underprivileged ethnic Indians demonstrate against the country's longstanding pro-Malay affirmative action policy</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Hindus, police clash in Malaysia</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/25/malaysia.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/25/malaysia.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Thousands of Hindu protesters met water cannons and tear gas in Malaysia's capital on Sunday while demanding equal rights and consideration from the government.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:59:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Teargas used on rare Malaysia demo</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/10/malaysia.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/11/10/malaysia.protests/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The largest political protest in nearly a decade erupted in Malaysia's capital city, Kuala Lumpur, Saturday with riot police aiming water hoses and tear gas at thousands of protesters gathered to demand electoral reform.</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:18:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>I-Reporters capture video from Indonesian quake</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/09/12/quake.irpt/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/09/12/quake.irpt/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>An earthquake struck Wednesday off the western Indonesian coast, killing at least nine people, said a spokesman for the country's Social Affairs Department. 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05:32:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The foreign junket</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/18/delay.junket.tm/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/18/delay.junket.tm/index.html</guid><description>On August 30, 2001, then majority whip Tom DeLay, his wife, his staff and two Florida Republican House members arrived in Malaysia on what was billed as an educational trip.</description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Australia, Malaysia eye trade pact</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/06/australia.malaysia/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/06/australia.malaysia/index.html</guid><description>Negotiations to secure a free-trade agreement between Australia and Malaysia have begun in Canberra as the two countries mark a new step in their often troubled relationship.</description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2005 04:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Scientist, Dr. Sadeg Faris TalkAsia Interview Transcript</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/14/talkasia.faris.script/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/01/14/talkasia.faris.script/index.html</guid><description>Airdate: November 6th, 2004</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:20:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>E-mail appeals: Malaysia</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/email.appeals.malaysia/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/email.appeals.malaysia/index.html</guid><description>We received thousands of e-mails in the days after December's tsunamis from people seeking news of friends and relatives in areas affected by the disaster.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2004 23:07:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Best investments 2005: Bonds</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/08/magazines/moneymag/moves_invest5_0501/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2004/12/08/magazines/moneymag/moves_invest5_0501/index.htm</guid><description>Junk and foreign bonds beat going long. Risk: High-yield debt is more tied to economic ups and downs.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2004 22:40:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Malaysian Former Deputy PM Anwar Ibrahim TalkAsia Interview Transcript</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/30/talkasia.ibrahim.script/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/30/talkasia.ibrahim.script/index.html</guid><description>Airdate: September 25th 2004</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>TalkAsia Interview Transcript with Dr. Sadeg Faris</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/06/talkasia.faris.script/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/08/06/talkasia.faris.script/index.html</guid><description>Airdate July 24th, 2004</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2004 07:42:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>AirAsia's CEO flies humbly high </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/07/16/bt.airasia.ceo/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/07/16/bt.airasia.ceo/index.html</guid><description>As governments race to liberalize their airspace amid the explosive growth in Asian budget carriers, one man and his airline are ahead of the curve.</description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2004 19:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Malaysia supports Thai crackdown</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/04/12/thailand.malaysia/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/04/12/thailand.malaysia/index.html</guid><description>Malaysia has pledged full support for Thailand's crackdown on Islamic separatists along their border at a meeting between the leaders of the two countries.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2004 23:34:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Malaysia's mandate for moderation</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/03/22/malaysia.abdullah/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/03/22/malaysia.abdullah/index.html</guid><description>The stunning electoral victory by Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi last Sunday has given this unassuming politician a resounding mandate to steer his nation on a course of his own charting.</description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2004 03:19:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Landslide for Malaysia's moderates</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/03/20/malaysia.vote/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/03/20/malaysia.vote/index.html</guid><description>Malaysia's ruling moderates have won an unexpected landslide victory over the fundamentalist Islamic opposition in Sunday's elections.</description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2004 04:40:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Singapore buys into Malaysia telco</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/03/01/malaysia.telekom/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/BUSINESS/03/01/malaysia.telekom/index.html</guid><description>Malaysia says it has sold a nine percent stake in dominant telephone firm Telekom Malaysia for $766 million to a group of offshore investors that includes Singapore's Temasek.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2004 03:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Official: CIA chief 'wrong' about Malaysia plant</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/02/07/malaysia.tenet/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/02/07/malaysia.tenet/index.html</guid><description>CIA Director George Tenet was wrong when he said this week that Malaysia had closed a plant that made a critical component for Libya's nuclear weapons program, a U.S. official has said.</description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2004 03:32:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Nationality Matters More Than Ever. That's No Joke</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/11/13/291551/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/11/13/291551/index.htm</guid><description>Stop me if you've heard this one before: In Heaven, the cooks are French, the police are English, the mechanics are German, the lovers are Italian, and the bankers are Swiss. But in Hell, the cooks...</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2000 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Ready, Set, Quit Why wait till you're 65? To help ten FORTUNE readers retire early, we matched them up with the country's top fi</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/08/14/285563/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/08/14/285563/index.htm</guid><description>No pat advice. No "five easy steps." No quick-hit worksheets that tell you what you already know. Forget them all. </description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Aug 2000 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Capital Controls Done Right SOUND MONETARY POLICY, MADE IN TAIWAN</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/11/09/250868/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/11/09/250868/index.htm</guid><description>It is true that in general, capital controls don't work. But one Asian country suggests that under special circumstances they can. We refer, of course, to Taiwan. </description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 1998 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Malaysian Contagion When Malaysia slapped on currency controls, political calculation triumphed over economic logic. If that</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/10/12/249250/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/10/12/249250/index.htm</guid><description>By imposing stringent capital controls on Malaysia's econo my on Sept. 1, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad launched an assault on the foreign "speculators" and the international financial orthodoxy ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 1998 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Letter to Malaysia's Prime Minister</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/09/28/248734/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/09/28/248734/index.htm</guid><description>Dear Dr. Mahathir Mohamad: </description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 1998 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>The Great Emerging Markets Rip-Off Before you even think about investing in emerging markets again, look closely at what's just </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/05/11/242058/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1998/05/11/242058/index.htm</guid><description>Every weekday morning back in 1993, the most delirious year of the giddy 1990s Asia investing boom, stockbrokers from all over Southeast Asia called up mutual fund manager Robert Howe in Hong Kong ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 1998 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>MORE MALAISE IN MALAYSIA DESPITE GROWING WARNING SIGNS, THE MAN WHO BUILT UP MODERN MALAYSIA IS STICKING TO A RISKY POLICY PATH </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/11/24/234383/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/11/24/234383/index.htm</guid><description>It's no secret that international investors, whom Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has derided as "criminals" and "morons" for making a run on his currency, would draw deep satisfaction fr...</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 1997 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>WHERE ASIA GOES FROM HERE THE GREAT ASIAN STOCK             MARKET CRASH--OVER $400 BILLION IN LOSSES SO FAR THIS             YE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/11/24/234381/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/11/24/234381/index.htm</guid><description>As far as the citizens of Hong Kong were concerned, Wednesday, Oct. 23, couldn't have been a more inauspicious day. In the city's financial center, a plumbing fault suddenly drained an ornamental p...</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 1997 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>WHAT'S NEXT FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA? THE ANSWER CAN VARY DRASTICALLY, DEPENDING ON WHOM YOU ASK. HERE'S THE CASE FOR THE REGION, THE </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/11/10/233793/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/11/10/233793/index.htm</guid><description>In the wake of devastating currency declines, the Southeast Asian stock markets are shuddering. Since early 1997, equity prices in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand have...</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 1997 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>A BLUNT TALK WITH SINGAPORE'S LEE KUAN YEW HE'S A             MODEL FOR CHINA AND THE NEW HONG KONG, BUT HE INSISTS THAT        </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/08/04/229722/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1997/08/04/229722/index.htm</guid><description>Lee Kuan Yew is not one to shy away from controversy, whether by expounding on the superiority of Asian values or hounding his critics in court. But lately Singapore's senior minister and the succe...</description><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 1997 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE RIGHT WAY TO INVEST ABROAD RECENT SETBACKS ASIDE,             FOREIGN FUNDS CAN GENERATE SPECTACULAR GAINS. HERE ARE THE    </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1995/05/08/203326/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1995/05/08/203326/index.htm</guid><description>SPOOKED BY THE TURMOIL IN INTERNATIONAL stock markets, Americans are increasingly reluctant to invest abroad. In the first two months of 1995, only $829 million of fresh cash flowed into funds that...</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 May 1995 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>NESTLE'S BRAND BUILDING MACHINE The Swiss powerhouse is racing across the developing world building brands, roads, farms, factor</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/09/19/79744/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/09/19/79744/index.htm</guid><description>PRICE CHECK, Aisle Four! Frozen squid tentacles and Nescafe Cappuccino." If selling in the developing world sounds like a job for a man and a donkey, it's time to have a look at what's happening at...</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 1994 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>MATSUSHITA SHOWS HOW TO GO GLOBAL In building more than 150 plants in 38 countries, the electronics and appliance giant has lear</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/07/11/79500/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/07/11/79500/index.htm</guid><description>IT'S A FEW MINUTES before the morning shift at a Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. semiconductor plant. Workers are shuffling toward locker rooms to don ''bunny suits'' and other sanitized apparel...</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 1994 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>FIVE GREAT EMERGING-MARKET FUNDS FOR TOMORROW</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/03/01/88700/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1994/03/01/88700/index.htm</guid><description>Until recently, the case for emerging-market funds sounded so persuasive that it was almost rude to ask whether there was a catch. After all, developing economies such as Argentina, China, Indonesi...</description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 1994 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>PORTFOLIO TALK LOOK TO THE FAR EAST AND LATIN AMERICA</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/11/15/78618/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/11/15/78618/index.htm</guid><description>As befits a man born in Holland, the first foreign stock Maurits E. Edersheim bought when he was a young investor on Wall Street was Royal Dutch/Shell. That was in the late 1940s, when only the int...</description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 1993 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>FIVE HOT MARKETS AROUND THE GLOBE Investors have             reaped big returns from overseas. The risks are big too.           </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/10/25/78515/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/10/25/78515/index.htm</guid><description>FOREIGN TRAVEL may broaden your outlook, but foreign investing can fatten your wallet. Consider some of the returns from abroad so far this year: The Turkish stock market more than doubled; Finland...</description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 1993 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>ASIA'S HOT NEW GROWTH TRIANGLE Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia are racing feverishly to become major exporters in the 21st ce</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/10/05/76921/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/10/05/76921/index.htm</guid><description>I TELL American friends to stop worrying about layoffs at home and come to this region,'' says Laksamana Sukardi, 37, managing director of the Lippo Group, a financial services company in Indonesia...</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 1992 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE GLOBAL 500 PERFORMANCE </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/07/27/76667/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1992/07/27/76667/index.htm</guid><description>To get big profits, it helps to be a big company, but if you can't be that, be a drug company. In fact, fully one-fourth of the companies boasting the highest returns on sales and on assets were in...</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 1992 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>THE NEW EAST ASIA CO-PROSPERITY SPHERE</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/07/01/75235/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/07/01/75235/index.htm</guid><description>Increasingly, Thailand, Malaysia, and other industrializing countries in Southeast Asia have come to seem like part of an integrated manufacturing and trading zone dominated by Japan Inc. Since 197...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>PORTFOLIO TALK A GLOBAL SEARCH FOR FLOURISHING STOCKS</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/05/06/74980/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/05/06/74980/index.htm</guid><description>His birthplace is Sweden, his home is Boston, and his money is all over the world. Through his Boston Overseas Investors company, Hakan Castegren runs $800 million in assets for six pension funds, ...</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 1991 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>WHY INVESTORS SHOULD GO GLOBAL HAVING PART OF YOUR             STAKE INVESTED ABROAD LESSENS RISK AND MAY INCREASE RETURNS TOO.</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/29/74264/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/29/74264/index.htm</guid><description>PREVALENT among U.S. investors not so very long ago was the illusion that putting money into foreign securities was only for daring risk takers. But in recent years more and more Americans have com...</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 1990 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>TEN TO WATCH OUTSIDE JAPAN Aggressive conglomerates             from Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Thailand, and Taiwan     </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/01/74132/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/01/74132/index.htm</guid><description>FROM THE burgeoning Asian economies outside Japan -- from South Korea and Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and beyond -- a new breed of corporate giant is rising to challenge top businesses in both t...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A NEW MASS MARKET EMERGES Rising income is creating a             generation of eager consumers. But rapidly changing social    </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/01/74131/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1990/10/01/74131/index.htm</guid><description>JOE BACZKO is a toy salesman, not a demographer. But listen to sound bites from his spiel about why his company, Toys ''R'' Us, is going to knock them dead in Asia, and you get a good picture of th...</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 1990 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>ASIA'S RISING EXPORT POWERS Thailand and Malaysia             lead the next generation of little Japans. Their rapid            </title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/11/13/72747/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/11/13/72747/index.htm</guid><description>JAPAN blazed the export trail. But soon a new group of champions came roaring down that path -- Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea. Now a second pack of Asian nations is carving out a gr...</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 1989 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>HOW TO WIN IN PAC RIM STOCKS Shares on Asia's             exchanges are behaving like runaway bulls, but the gains             a</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/11/13/72744/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/11/13/72744/index.htm</guid><description>NOTHING proclaims the success of a bustling economy better than a thriving stock market, and these days the Pacific Rim has more than its share. Powered by a cascade of cash from surging trade surp...</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 1989 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>ASIA'S RELUCTANT GROWTH CHAMPS Thailand and Malaysia are coming up fast. But don't call them NICs. They think it's a bad three-l</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/04/24/71881/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/04/24/71881/index.htm</guid><description>IF THERE WERE OSCARS for nations, the ceremonies for newly industrializing countries might go like this: A corporate type from Singapore makes a formal speech about what an honor it is. Taiwan's ma...</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 1989 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>