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...critical to absorbing rainfall: a former catchment area in Kemang, South Jakarta, now an expat enclave, saw its worst flooding in years last week. "If there is no change in policy, the problem is clearly going to get worse," says Marco Kusumawijaya, an independent city-planning consultant. "The people cannot wait that long...
...even be a historic imperative. Germany has so far been spared a direct attack by the new generation of Islamic terrorists, but it cannot avoid the universal struggle to balance civil liberties with security. Allegations surfaced recently, for instance, that the former Social Democratic government of Gerhard Schröder deliberately left German-born Turkish national Murat Kurnaz in U.S. custody at Guantánamo Bay despite the absence of evidence against him. Current Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who was Schröder's chief of staff at the time, says he acted appropriately with the knowledge available...
...That dispute serves as a vivid and contemporary reminder to Germans of how morally complex preventing terrorism can be. In such an environment, there is little room for the emotionalism that has suffused the debate over the RAF. Political scientist Kraushaar says Germany cannot effectively face new risks in the age of fundamentalist Islamic terror without first taming old demons. The best antidote to the ideological poison of terrorism, in short, may not be to confer special punishments on its practitioners, but simply to let the law take its course on a pair of aging murderers...
...into a keeping-up-with-the-Wangs mentality. Jin Jin, 27, a staff member at a local university, says he spends 10 times more each month than he did two years ago, especially on branded sportswear from Nike, Adidas and Reebok. "The reason I do this is because I cannot make my girlfriend think that I am poor," he says...
...Japan's TBS television broadcast footage of a man believed to be Kim Jong Nam walking to a cab. He was wearing a powder blue sport coat and pink shirt and drinking a green beverage from a bottle. "Are you staying at the Mandarin hotel?" the reporter asked. "I cannot tell you," the man replied. "My privacy...