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...established contacts with the anti-terror officials of France when I covered that country's crackdown on Algerian-based Islamic radicals. In 1994, that group had hijacked a passenger plane that it intended to crash into the center of Paris. The French thwarted that dress rehearsal for 9/11. Since then, the same counter-terrorism officials have provided me and the magazine with much exclusive information, including their pre-emptive sweeps of al-Qaeda networks and their warnings that al-Qaeda was establishing bases in North America. They've been invaluable to TIME's coverage of al-Qaeda terror...
...ARRESTED. ANIRUDDHA BAHAL, Indian journalist with the prominent Tehelka website, which last year exposed a government bribery scandal; by the Central Bureau of Investigation on charges of assaulting a federal officer; in New Delhi. Released on bail after several hours, Bahal's arrest comes amid allegations of a media crackdown by the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, in which several journalists have been detained or harassed...
...China's citizens say graft and corruption are their top concerns, according to a study by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. But despite a highly publicized national crackdown?Chinese newspapers are constantly filled with stories of big-name arrests and executions?Beijing appears unable to stem a flood tide. Individually, ordinary Chinese can do little to protect themselves. In the city of Yiyang in central Hunan province, a middle-school teacher was killed recently by a hit man, according to the police, after he told local journalists that 600 teachers had not been paid in months because...
Chen figures his new life is safe. "No matter how many cafes you try to close, new ones will always appear," he says. "The government should just accept that the Internet is here to stay." Chen suggests that if the crackdown continues, university students across the country should sign an online petition to demand their Web rights back. That kind of mass organization is just what frightens Beijing, which is leery of any gathering free of government supervision. Until then, Chen is happily playing computer games, interacting only with his avatar, a 19th century warlord. The name of Chen...
...Given the tough crackdown, you would expect Singlish to be a harmful substance that might corrupt our youth, like heroin or pornography. But it's one of Singapore's best-loved quirks, used daily by everyone from cabbies to CEOs. Singlish is simply Singaporean slang, whereby English follows Chinese grammar and is liberally sprinkled with words from the local Chinese, Malay and Indian dialects. Take jiat gentang, which combines the Hokkien word for "eat" (jiat), with the Malay word for "potato" (gentang). Jiat gentang describes someone who speaks with a pretentious Western accent (since potatoes are considered a European food...