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...mission statement" printed in its inaugural edition in December 1975, ASIAWEEK magazine promised to "see the world from an Asian perspective, to be Asia's voice in the world." Through Asia's remarkable years of growth, Asiaweek told of the transformation of a continent before succumbing to Asia's current big story: economic hard times. (Owner Time Inc., publisher of TIME, said it couldn't sustain the magazine in a "brutal" ad market.) In its early days, it was often a quirky read: one cover story said the world should forget about saving the endangered tiger. But Asiaweek took...
Redman will be succeeded not by one person but two: Don Morrison and his wife Ann. Don, who was Chris' counterpart at our Asian edition, and Ann, editor of our sister publication Asiaweek, have been in Hong Kong for 6 1/2 years now, and in a couple of months would have qualified for permanent residency in Hong Kong. Since 1996, the Morrisons and their respective magazines have overseen some of the most historic developments on the continent, including the handover of Hong Kong to China, the Asian financial crisis and the fall of Suharto. Says Ann, who came to TIME...
Succeeding Ann Morrison at Asiaweek will be Dorinda Elliott, who was Asia editor of Newsweek's international edition, and also happens to be Adi Ignatius' wife. This does not establish a rule for conjugal succession at Time Inc.'s Hong Kong operations...
...recent years, Singapore officials have been vigorous in responding to what they considered unfair coverage of the country in foreign newspapers and magazines. In some cases, the government has moved to temporarily limit local circulation of foreign publications, including, at one time or another, those of the Economist, Asiaweek, Far Eastern Economic Review and Time. Some journals have had their circulation curtailed for refusing to print detailed government responses to critical articles about Singapore without editing them...
TIME too has had its problems. The magazine's circulation was cut from nearly 19,000 to 2,000 for seven months in 1987, after it failed to print promptly a government letter citing errors in a story about an opposition leader. The circulation of Asiaweek, a regional weekly owned by Time Warner, was cut from 11,000 copies to 500 in 1987 for similar reasons, then recently raised...
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