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Amrozi met with Samudra several times in August and September this year to discuss Bali, according to his confession to Indonesian police. The last time they met, "we had a chat after praying together at the Great Mosque in Solo," he said to police. Samudra told Amrozi he would send some cash. Amrozi bought the van and the chemicals used in the bombing and ferried them to Bali. When he, Samudra and a number of the other planners met at the resort island, Amrozi was reminded of his place in the pecking order. "At one point I asked them where...
...regularly denies access to more than 19,000 websites. Yet, in a country still dominated by state-run media, chortals deliver what no one else in China does: edgy, cool?sometimes subversive?content. News, much of it reflecting poorly on the Party, tends to break first on the Net. Chat rooms buzz with risquE flirtations. Dirty jokes abound. And chortals have taken advantage, successfully selling themselves as the best way to reach the young, affluent, educated consumers that advertisers crave. In the midst of a global advertising depression, the three chortals posted ad-revenue gains of between...
...three sites are also finding new sources of nonadvertising revenue, such as short-messaging services (SMS) for mobile phones. When subscribers sign up for one of the portals, they submit their cell-phone number. They are then offered a range of extras, such as games, chat, ring tones and picture downloads. The phone operators reap a commission on the charge for each service and pass the rest of the revenue on to the portal. Chang argues that this business, already successful, has plenty of room to grow: "SMS penetration is only about 10 million out of 190 million mobile subscribers...
Listen to government officials in Washington and London, chat with members of the alphabet soup of Iraqi exile groups, and you can come away thinking that such conversations are a dime a dozen. And they may be. In small ways and big ones, the U.S. and its allies are working like termites to undermine the rickety foundations of Saddam's rule. As the U.N. weapons inspectors started their work inside Iraq and President George W. Bush conferred with possible coalition partners at meetings in Prague and Moscow, it was easy to miss a story taking place behind the scenes. Whatever...
...shouldn't have been surprised that the feisty democracy fighter who had once faced down South Korea's generals looked ready to turn in his sword. After all, his official birthday has him turning 77. (His friends say he is closer to 80.) As we settled down to chat, Kim suggested I remove my jacket given the warmth of the room: "They have set the temperature higher to suit...