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...general who led Thailand's first coup in 15 years, Sonthi Boonyaratglin is projecting a deliberately civilian image. Dressed in a dapper dark suit and yellow tie, Sonthi eschewed his usual army uniform for his Feb. 27 meeting with TIME's Hannah Beech and Robert Horn. But a suit, no matter how handsome, cannot suspend the reality that a military junta, called the Council for National Security (CNS), now runs the country. The CNS ousted elected Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra last Sept. 19. At first, the overthrow of the billionaire P.M. was greeted with much public acclaim. Today, however...
...colleague Hannah Beech wrote when Chen's sentence of four years and three months was announced last September, Chen is a "self-schooled legal activist [who] came to Shanghai to publicize the plight of women who had been forced to undergo abortions or sterilizations as part of the nation's family-planning campaign. China has tried for more than two decades to lower its population through its 'one-child' policy, but the coercive measures used in Shandong's Linyi region are now illegal. By publicizing abuses committed by local bureaucrats, Chen believed he could persuade higher-level officials to step...
Since he was toppled from power last September, Thaksin Shinawatra has been crisscrossing the globe. TIME's Southeast Asia Bureau Chief Hannah Beech caught up with Thailand's former Prime Minister on Jan. 25 in Tokyo, where they spoke about the military coup against him, the new regime in Bangkok, and what he intends to do with his life. Excerpts...
...born in Hong Kong, has degrees in Chinese history and language, and has written two novels about China. Bill Powell, who lives in Shanghai with his wife, a native Shanghainese, was formerly Newsweek's bureau chief in Moscow, Berlin and Tokyo and FORTUNE's man in Beijing. Hannah Beech, another fluent Chinese speaker who was born in Hong Kong, recently moved from Shanghai to Bangkok but will continue to report on China's influence throughout Asia. Adi Ignatius, a TIME executive editor who helped produce this week's package, is a Chinese speaker and a former Wall Street Journal bureau...
...cold hillside at the edge of western Wales' Cambrian Mountains, more than a thousand saplings, all planted in the last couple of months, are taking root. The trees are local - beech, ash, oak, alder and willow, among others - but the money behind them isn't. Green-minded airline passengers from as far away as the U.S. and New Zealand are stumping up $20 per plant, hoping the trees will absorb from the atmosphere an amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent to their share spewed out during a flight. To Ru Hartwell, project director of Treeflights.com, which offers the service...