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...debut on disc. All these acts are representative of an underground scene that is creating a new market while stomping on the tradition of bland love songs, which dominates the country's radio playlists and karaoke machines. "Bands have more references now from outside," explains Arian Arifin, lead singer of Seringai, which means "grim" in Indonesian. "Bands are beginning to understand the music industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bandung's Headbangers | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

...bombings to coincide with the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, when the heads of state, including U.S. President George W. Bush, were supposed to gather in Thailand. But the plan was aborted, police say, following the May 16 arrest in Bangkok of the cell's suspected chief planner, Singaporean Arifin bin Ali, who also goes by the alias John Wong Ah Hung. Arifin, it is now known, was one of the accomplices who entered southern Thailand with Mas Selamat in December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hard Cell? | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

...According to Thailand's deputy police commissioner, General Sunthorn Saikwan, Arifin had links to a terror cell busted in Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh, in May. During that sweep, police arrested two Thais?both from the south?and an Egyptian, and followed that up on June 11 with the capture of a Cambodian believed to be a member of the same cell. The Thai and Egyptian men were teachers at an Islamic school funded by the Saudi charity Om al-Qura. The charity is believed to have been used by al-Qaeda to fund its own activities and those...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hard Cell? | 6/16/2003 | See Source »

...ARIFIN BEY Jamaica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 12, 1956 | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

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