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...years, international health experts have pointed to Thailand as a rare success story in the global battle to contain the AIDS epidemic. The situation looked grim for the country in the 1980s, when doctors reported that sex workers in Bangkok's famous red-light district were beginning to test HIV positive. There were dire predictions that the virus would spread rapidly through the population, infecting as many as 4 million of the country's 65 million people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex, AIDS and Thailand | 7/12/2004 | See Source »

David Procopio, a spokesperson for the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office, said the office was pleased with the verdict...

Author: By Sarah E.F. Milov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Former Student Faces Six Years in Prison for Rape | 7/9/2004 | See Source »

Yada said his school district in Newport, Ore., was so poor that school was cancelled on Fridays his senior year in high school. But he said teachers made a big impact on him by volunteering their Fridays to teach out of their own homes...

Author: By Alan J. Tabak, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer Academy Opens | 7/9/2004 | See Source »

...ballot box, Hong Kong is firmly within today's Asian mainstream. This week sees the first chance that Indonesians?238 million of them?have had to elect their President directly, and they have taken to the opportunity with gusto. (In elections to the nation's federal, provincial and district assemblies in April, nearly 135 million votes were cast for some 165,000 candidates.) In May, about 350 million Indians cast votes in the parliamentary elections, leading to the peaceful transfer of power from one group of political parties to another. Those Asian nations that do not allow freely contested elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asian Values | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

...CONVICTED. TAKAYUKI NOGUCHI, 32, Japanese activist; of helping two North Koreans to flee their country via China; in China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. A district court sentenced Noguchi to eight months in prison, the most severe punishment China has handed down to a Japanese for helping North Koreans defect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

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